The Israel-Gaza war is “taking away the focus” from the conflict in Ukraine, the country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has admitted.

He said this was “one of the goals” of Russia, which launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

And he denied that fighting in Ukraine had reached a stalemate, despite a recent assessment to this effect by the country’s top military general.

Ukraine’s counter-offensive in the south has so far made little headway.

This has prompted fears of war fatigue among Kyiv’s Western allies, with suggestions of growing reluctance in some capitals to continue giving Ukraine advanced weapons and funds.

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      The number of opportunities they have to actually pull it off are so few and far between just from demographics, geography, and meteorology alone, that you can count with two hands the exact number of days between now and when the window will basically close permanently when they could even hypothetically make an attempt at it without cursing their entire invasion force to the bottom of the sea before they even encounter a defensive line.

      Not to mention the rumours that Taiwan has developed a non-nuclear MAD doctrine which would allow them to instantly turn 400,000,000 Chinese citizens into refugees by blowing the 3 gorges dam. A scenario that would require China to turn any deployed forces right around to institute martial law.

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        Their best bets are;

        a) when Trump is convicted

        b) when Trump wins

        c) when Trump loses

        All three of those provide a large enough window where the US will be too busy to stop them

        While it’s not telling what the US will do afterwards the question is would they rather have a defensive or offensive position

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      How about you try to prove a positive instead of asking for a source to prove something isn’t going to happen, debatelord

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        U.S. top millitary advisor mark milly

        We are taking the Chinese military threat very seriously. And that is the reason why we are making more investment in our own defense capabilities. But we have not been focusing on one timeline only. For example, a lot of people are talking about 2025, some people are talking about 2027, some people talk about 2035, and etc. We take all kinds of assessments in a very serious way. And what we want to be prepared for is no matter when the Chinese are going to launch its military attack against Taiwan, we are prepared. But i think that 2027 is the year that we need to be serious about.”

        source: https://www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/episodes/7DrfQik/

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        China is not going to go for Taiwan.

        source?

        How about you try to prove a positive instead of asking for a source to prove something isn’t going to happen, debatelord

        True, you can’t prove a negative, but at the same time that person made a firm statement, so someone else’s totally in the right to ask for citation to backup what they said.

        They could have supplied quotes from Chinese leaders stating that they were never going to invade, etc.

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            Anyone who asks someone to prove a prediction is categorically an idiot

            Nobody asked for “proof of a prediction”, but to back up their opinions that they are expressing as facts with some actual facts.

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      Let us know by what time you think China will invade Taiwan.

      When that year comes and the invasion doesn’t happen, either admit you’re wrong or double-down.

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        By 2080 either China will invade Taiwan or have a completely different government. There is no way the CCP doesn’t invade Taiwan by then

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        he said source.

        as in, reason us why? china has clearly expressed this desire over Taiwan, why wouldn’t it invade ever at all on a timeline?

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          I don’t care what he said.

          How much time needs to pass before you admit you’re wrong?

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            he said source.

            as in, reason us why? china has clearly expressed this desire over Taiwan, why wouldn’t it invade ever at all on a timeline?

            I don’t care what he said.

            How much time needs to pass before you admit you’re wrong?

            Wow, you didn’t just move the goal posts, you shipped them cross state.

            And that ratio, yikes!

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              Dang, you’re really dedicated to this.

              Lol, gonna block you now. Getting annoying seeing you reply to all my posts.

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                Dang, you’re really dedicated to this.

                Do you really lack self-awareness? lol

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                  I don’t click on people’s profiles then respond to all their posts, lol.

                  Gonna block you too, though. Thanks for the reply.

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                    I don’t click on people’s profiles then respond to all their posts, lol.

                    There’s this thing, it’s called, “scrolling down”, when reading a conversation topic.

                    Nice attempt to ‘Kill the Messenger’ though.

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                  I really think they do - looking at their comment history (after they commented on one of mine) Im not sure if they are trump-level clueless or a troll… think they are the most downvoted user I’ve seen on here.

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                Dang, you’re really dedicated to this.

                It’s called normal scrolling, and seeing your next comment.

                Lol, gonna block you now. Getting annoying seeing you reply to all my posts.

                Actually, this is not the first time you told me you were blocking me. Please try to get it right this time.

                If you can’t handle disagreement with your opinions, move on, or stick your head in the sand, aka block.

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                  Alright. Let me know when China invades Taiwan and then I can admit when I’m wrong.

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                    Alright. Let me know when China invades Taiwan and then I can admit when I’m wrong.

                    When that happens, we’ll all be worrying about other very more important things than your fragile ego, to take the time to let you know.

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              these reditgrants are sure pain in the ass.

              i just asked for proof and they started blabbing. at the same time these hypocrites also dislike religions.

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                Generally speaking, you should consider that some of them are actually bots/shills sowing unrest to shape a narrative.

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                Okay. 10 years. 20? How much time needs to pass before you admit when you’re wrong?

                When do you think China is going to invade Taiwan? 1000 years from now? Lol.

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                  Okay. 10 years. 20? How much time needs to pass before you admit when you’re wrong?

                  While they been talking about it for a long time, true, what’s change is that in recent times they’ve been building up their military forces a lot, and doing very political/military moves in the waters between them. They’re definitely ramping up on their actions and/or responses, signaling, probing. And this is new.

                  How far that escalation goes, nobody knows, but usually if somebody says they’re going to do something, you should take them at their word that they’re going to do what they said they were going to do, at some point in time.