Taiwan is very vehement in their commitment to freedom. Vietnam was not like that. Taiwan you may as well say is 100% on board with being free.
Turkey bordered the U.S.S.R. and had a long history of hostility to the Russians. And I don't trust anything that portrays Assad in a positive light as you try to do.
Maybe you haven't his soldiers rescuing civilians from ISIS and then one gets his leg blown off by an ISIS boobytrap. Things over there are not how the AP portrays them. The AP always paints things so as to raise money for the MIC.
Another person who whines about the mythical military industrial complex. Hey the 1950s is calling, it wants you back.
There are logistical issues to be sure, but all of that pales compared to the problem of the country not even agreeing on whether to go to war.
If China attacks Taiwan then that would certainly result in the deaths of hundreds, possibly thousands of American civilians. So I see little trouble getting Americans to unite behind the idea of going to war with the Chinese.
There are more than 4,500 American civilians living in Taiwan now (last figures available). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ameri...in Taiwan are residents,in Taiwan, as of 2014 Is it really inconceivable to you that in the event of a Chinese attack on the island that hundreds would be killed?
It's not inconceivable, but you seem to think it's Reagan's America if you think that would elicit an automatic US military response.
Well we don't have to argue about it. Eventually China will take back Taiwan and we will see whether your view or my view prevails.
While I'm sure the reasons the western elite political establishment has such a hard on for Russia are complicated and varied, I'm equally sure that the root goal is to get the worlds two most potent sources of civic nationalism to bring eachother to their knees to reduce resistance to the implementation of political globalism (aka one world govt). Both the US and Russia are powerful enough on their own to be a serious impediment, and should our two nations ever actually align in resistance to globalism, we would render it effectively inoperable. Far better to get the two 'tough guys on the block' to take eachother out.