{"id":158686,"date":"2025-01-22T11:48:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T19:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=158686"},"modified":"2025-01-22T11:48:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T19:48:48","slug":"taiwan-acts-entitled-to-americas-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=158686","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan Acts Entitled To America&#8217;s Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan is unwilling to make the sacrifices necessary to defend itself. I hope Trump wakes Taiwan up. We shouldn&#8217;t sacrifice to defend Taiwan when it can&#8217;t be bothered to fight for itself.<\/p>\n<p>If America fights to protect Taiwan, it will cost us hundreds of billions of dollars. Taiwan is pathetic, like some of my ex-GFs who were so hot that they felt entitled to a man taking care of everything for them.<\/p>\n<p>Asians are right &#8211; common interests are more important for cooperation than common values.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A_VdSKSCkAw?si=nxkNaYcxKcTzz0_O\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan is unwilling to make the sacrifices necessary to defend itself. I hope Trump wakes Taiwan up. We shouldn&#8217;t sacrifice to defend Taiwan when it can&#8217;t be bothered to fight for itself. If America fights to protect Taiwan, it will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=158686\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42925],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158688,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158686\/revisions\/158688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}