Anonymous ID: 624a00 March 13, 2023, 1:40 p.m. No.18500450   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0468 >>0645 >>0759

13 Mar, 2023 18:59

Taiwan braces for ‘total blockade’ – media

Defense officials have reportedly designed their new budget to prepare for a possible siege by China

 

Taiwanese military leaders have reportedly warned that Chinese forces are preparing for a “total blockade” of the Taiwan Strait to prevent foreign troops from gaining access to the self-governing island in the event of a war.

Defense spending this year must focus on the blockade threat, earmarking funds to stockpile spare parts for F-16 fighter jets and other weaponry, the

 

Taiwanese Defense Ministry said on Monday, in a report seeking parliamentary budget approval. Since last year, the ministry has been reviewing its strategic fuel reserves and its capacity to repair equipment, said Reuters, which obtained a copy of the report.

 

The Taiwanese military will also need to replenish its stores of artillery shells and rockets “to strengthen combat continuity,” the ministry said. China’s military has been conducting joint force operations “with an eye to controlling strategic choke points and denying access to foreign forces.”

 

“Recently, the communist military’s exercise and training model has been adjusted from a single military type to joint operations of land, sea, air and rocket forces,” the report added.

 

Tensions over the breakaway republic, which China considers to be part of its territory, have escalated since then-US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi traveled to Taipei last August. Beijing, which had warned that such a visit would encourage Taiwanese separatists and undermine its sovereignty, responded by ramping up military exercises around Taiwan and cutting off defense and climate ties with Washington.

 

The Taiwanese Defense Ministry said its budget for this year should prioritize funding for US-made weapons, including Stinger anti-aircraft missiles and the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS).

 

Chinese President Xi Jinping called on Monday for building China’s military into a “great wall of steel” to protect Beijing’s interests and provide greater stability and security. He has refused to rule out reunifying with Taiwan by force, if necessary.

 

China’s defense spending will rise to $230 billion this year, up 7.2% from 2022’s budget. Then-Chinese Premier Li Keqiang vowed earlier this month to “take resolute steps to oppose Taiwan independence.”

 

A US-China war over Taiwan would result in devastating losses for both sides, according to a recent study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington think tank. A Chinese invasion of

Taiwan would ultimately fail, CSIS said, but US and Japanese forces would lose dozens of warships, hundreds of planes and thousands of troops.

 

Taiwan would be left in ruins, “without electricity and basic services.”

 

https://www.rt.com/news/572919-taiwan-prepares-for-blockade-by-china/

 

The Bidan Effect, not the Butterfly effect! War and more war!

Anonymous ID: 624a00 March 13, 2023, 1:46 p.m. No.18500484   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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I was thinking what an insane thought, this is saber rattling, when if no one mentioned Taiwan it would have been left alone. But the US had to fucking interfere. I don't understand how Bannon says we should militarily defend Taiwan, by all standards we can't even defend ourselves.

Anonymous ID: 624a00 March 13, 2023, 2:22 p.m. No.18500731   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Banks and Money in the bible

• John 2:15

And He made a scourge of cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables;

• Luke 19:23

Then why did you not put my money in the bank, and having come, I would have collected it with interest?’

• Matthew 25:27

Then you ought to have put my money in the bank, and on my arrival I would have received my money back with interest.

• Nehemiah 5:3

There were others who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards and our houses that we might get grain because of the famine.”

• Proverbs 22:7

The rich rules over the poor, And the borrower becomes the lender’s slave.

• Ezekiel 45:12

The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your maneh.

• Matthew 6:19-20

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal;

• Matthew 21:12

And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves.

• Mark 11:15

Then they *came to Jerusalem. And He entered the temple and began to drive out those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves;

• Exodus 22:25

If you lend money to My people, to the poor among you, you are not to act as a creditor to him; you shall not charge him interest.

• Deuteronomy 23:19

You shall not charge interest to your countrymen: interest on money, food, or anything that may be loaned at interest.

 

Source: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Banks