Taiwan doesn't recognise Taiwanese independence. Let that sink in.

And occasionally the "We make the rules, you take the orders" rules-based order.

Bro, this war is totally different to every other war, bro!

Trust me, bro! I know we got duped into supporting:

The Korean War

The Vietnam War

The war in Iraq

The other war in Iraq

The war in Afghanistan

The war in the Philippines

The war in Guatemala

The war on Cuba

The war in Laos

The war in Cambodia

The war in Somalia

The war in Yemen

The war in Libya

The war in Grenada

The war in Yugoslavia

...but this time it's an existential threat!! Trust me, bro!

What ethnic cleansing?

Whoop, there it is! I'm quoting that for posterity before you delete this comment.

You're literally denying an attempted genocide right now, y'know that?

It was a low-key civil war, make no mistake about it.

Your government doesn't just allow armed, organised (largely ultranationalist) paramilitary groups to conduct ethnically-motivated attacks on its own soil without their tacit approval, especially not when those same paramilitary groups tended to get absorbed into the state military forces later on.

This isn't the wild west were talking here.

Fuck, if a protest action in your own country can deploy the pointy end of the state against you immediately then the civil war against the easternmost part of Ukraine could have had a police/military response within days rather than leaving it to play out over literal years.

Just posting an image of a man who stood in front of an actively moving tank, crawled all over it, then walked away unscathed doesn't prove anything that you think it proves.

Go do that on one of your own military's tanks today. You'd be doing me, yourself, and frankly the entire world a favour if you had the courage to try it.

Go to Albania!!

T-Tankies bad!! Updoots to the left, tyvm.

Ah yes, that's very true. You must be something a field anthropologist.

People in the East wouldn't ever protest and get away with it.

Meanwhile, westerners who hate their government would never be brought up on charges for the crime of "posessing books, black clothes, fabric, and paint" and then get disappeared into solitary confinement for exercising their constitutional rights.

That's a very valid contribution that you made to the discussion. Nice work.

Westerners hate their government so much that they cannot see beyond their own parochial worldview to even entertain the idea that some people would feel generally supportive of their government.

Those sneaky Orientals must be lying in order to trick is good, honest, non-perfidious enlightened westerners again.

Fallacy fallacy

Get Stashynskyied, Banderite