Morphic Tide
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Yeah, the political calculus there is "burn every last shred of soft power in Asia for ultimately non-critical economic kickbacks and see the US viciously booted from World Police standing" versus "uphold long-standing treaties that are a remarkably mild investment because we have quite near literally the entire rest of Asia lining up to be the boots on the ground".We will defend Taiwan.
That is one of the most certain things I know
This is the sort of bombshell that starts seeing the assassins dusted off, because the pain of a US regime change invasion is lesser than the regional strongmen being allowed to run free. We can see the Uighurs, a Communist Bandit takeover is very definitely worse than seeing the United States decide on regime change.