TeethOrCoat [none/use name]

Eh, even if it wasn’t destroyed, the atmosphere of fear these types of news creates is still desirable, especially if it leads to record lines at airports for flights booking it to NYC

Could be that after the airbases were attacked they just don’t have the means to do that ATM besides scrambling a bunch of fighters from Cyprus to raid Beirut. I guess we’ll see.

FWIW, their SG was also assassinated in 1992 and occupation papers were saying that Hezbollah was finished.

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Wha-? No, it didn’t. DPP support collapsed because people wanted a non-DPP party but also cared who it was. Why do you think KMT and TPP even agreed on a joint ticket (even though it didn’t come to fruition ultimately), in the first place? TPP’s call was pointless as one of their goals was bringing down DPP. In the end, the votes actually show the KMT made significant gains in the legislature, that isn’t indicative of people wanting a non-KMT party.

Ha, that actually depends on who you ask. In the view of mainland Chinese hawks, it’s a positive because this hastens reunification in their mind. In the view of pro-engagement with mainland voters (the 60% of voters in the opposition), it’s no doubt a negative because they have to deal with DPP’s shit economic management and the dread of a possible unfrozen civil war. Western media will think it’s positive because they come to the opposite conclusion as you and think that the goal of independence has strengthened.

While it’s true that they’re more appealing to the younger crowd, that only applies to KMT. Young voters are actually overwhelmingly for TPP nowadays and I think that’s due to how shit DPP have been at managing the economy and the whole extending military service thing. In any case while DPP can be happy, they can’t be too happy since they lost their majority in the legislature and also a large chunk of votes outright.

Eh, KMT are also US compradors though, just less obvious about it. Takeaway should be that while DPP won the presidency, they lost their majority in the legislature. When it comes to mainland relations, TPP and KMT are a lot less hostile toward the mainland, so I expect they’ll be quite united when it comes to addressing that issue.

The guy was already retired for over 7 months so assassinating him was pretty pointless. If Xi was worried about him restraining power why not do it during the 10 years where he actually had influence? Yeah, there’s conspiracies about his death floating about in the country but that just means the assassination hypothesis is even more absurd. Why would anyone risk a public backlash for essentially no gain?