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China tells US it would prevail in a Taiwan conflict without using nukes (www.euractiv.com)

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[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The US isn't at "war" with Yemen.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

All the bombing of Yemen US has been doing sure fooled me.

[–] rando895@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No you see they haven't announced they are at war. They are there on a peace keeping mission. Those are bombs of peace

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

It's just a policing action bro.

[–] MajorSauce@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

No no no, you got it all wrong. Using drones/planes to kill military (and pretty often civilian) targets on another country's territory is an act of war only if you are not the US.

Otherwise how could they keep track of all the countries they would be at war with...

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

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