Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.green/@X31Andy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>X31Andy</span></a></span> </p><p>part of me thinks <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>china</span></a> is getting <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/outerManchuria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>outerManchuria</span></a> and not <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/taiwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>taiwan</span></a></p><p>and part of me thinks some in china know that</p><p>but it would be a quiet game. and maybe that quiet game is happening</p><p>fuck <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>imperialism</span></a> in general</p><p>but i'm going to play the world's tiniest violin if rabidly <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ethnofascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ethnofascist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/imperialist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>imperialist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> loses on the terms it started</p>