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The Taiwanese Are Worried That the U.S. Will Abandon Ukraine (www.wsj.com)
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This was hands down my favorite bit from the article:

Some even maintain that every dollar spent on Ukraine is a waste of taxpayer money that could be better used on domestic priorities, such as combating the spread of fentanyl.

These arguments are misguided and dangerous.

How dare they suggest that money would be better spent addressing domestic problems than on a proxy war half way across the world. That's misguided and dangerous thinking.

I also love how the article takes it for granted that US must prop up puppet regimes in Asia as if that's somehow in the interest of the people living in US.

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[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Losing control over the colonies will put a lot more power into the hands of the workers in US. The whole scheme with globalization is that you move production out of the country and then people in that country have no say over the working conditions and pay where things are produced. However, when production happens domestically then workers can strike, protest, and so on.