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Guam is the closest US naval base of operations for Taiwan’s defense. This isn’t a new revelation.

https://fsi.stanford.edu/news/frontline-guam-strategic-deter...

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/military-guam-china-war-taiw...

Unfortunately while Guam has missile defenses, it’s close enough to China where the CCP can technically just overwhelm the island with enough missiles.

> Possible, but will require a majority conservative government, which today seems unlikely

No it won’t. It just needs enough moderates to support it like in the EU. Canada’s budget won’t be able to support socialized healthcare unless

1. The number of retirees drastically decreases in relation to the number of working adults. This is hard due to the increasing xenophobia in Canada,

2. Benefits gets cut for everyone or just gets cut for retirees. Taxes are already too high, or

3. Take some of the load off the public system while giving people an option for private healthcare, while still subsidizing public healthcare for everyone else



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