[ExI] US ‘failed miserably’ in wargame reportedly against China attack on Taiwan

[William Flynn Wallace]

What are you willing to bet, Spike, that we won't have some sort of
military response, just to show that we honor our commitments, however
stupidly made?  But going to war over Taiwan would be the dumbest thing we
ever did.  We need to find some way to just let China have it, which they
say they already do  bill w

On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 12:29 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *….* *On Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] US ‘failed miserably’ in wargame reportedly against
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> spike  Of course you know the answer:  outgo has to equal income.   bill w
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> Ja.  But how does that happen please sir?  The US national debt is
> well-known, the deficit is well-known.  The fact that the US fed hasn’t
> balanced a budget in decades demonstrates that it will not and cannot.
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> This leads to a clear message being sent to Taiwan: if China attacks, the
> US military will not come to your aid.  It will not because it cannot.  We
> do not have the resources and cannot risk China refusing to lend the fed
> the funds it needs just to meet normal operating budgets in peacetime.
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> What part of that argument is not perfectly clear please?  Anyone?
> Anyone?  Beuuuullerrrr…
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