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Must be truly desperate to bargain with such a fledgling state.
Or maybe have empathy for the fact the poor people of that country have little electricity or food because of the behavior of the US. Maybe it's a humanitarian thing to do instead of letting people suffer.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3e2w43lkvzo
Countries don't have empathy, or at least ones with hundreds of millions or even billions of citizens for sure don't.
China has realized what the US used to know: Providing aid gives you soft power around the world. They've been doing this for over a decade now. The US, meanwhile, handicapped USAID.
Having some power in that region would certainly benefit China if it ever needs to keep the US at bay while invading Taiwan, for an example. How is any future POTUS, or even the current piece of shit, going to explain positioning a large amount of ships near Taiwan when China has a bunch of equipment ready in Cuba to shell the everloving fuck out of Florida?
I have to admit, the idea of Mar-a-Lago being reduced to a crater tickles me pink. Too bad that comes with Taiwan getting fucked over...
Well, they could also bomb much of the rest of south Florida, essentially the entire Miami metro area.
And to be fair I doubt it'll ever come to that. Just the knowledge of that being a possibility might be enough that the US literally wouldn't intervene in a war between China and Taiwan. As long as there's a more rational president in charge than Trump, at least. Which may happen in a few years, or it... may not.
I suspect that Vance and friends are just as crazy as Trump, just better at hiding their spots. Their brains haven't turned to mush from age, but Thiel and the like still want to do the apocalyptic things.
Funnily enough, Vance used to be pretty sensible. Until the Thiel money started rolling in, that is.
sure but Cuba is also a perfect strategic “partner” (read: location) for any nation that has a war plan against the US
Funny that you're getting downvoted, because that's already happened at least once... Good ol' Ollie North!
A country with empathy, lol, that there is a fabrication of truths.
China is buying in all the good will that USA has lost through Trump being a general dick to everyone, for example by discontinuing USAID. Doing these sort of small things all over the world gives China a lot of soft power because those nations will obviously favor China over USA in the future.
But this is not Chinas fault, nor Trumps fault, because the US people put Trump in its place though everybody knew from his first period and through his announcements (Project 2025) what this highly potentially will mean.
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