https://voxday.net/2025/07/19/on-self-determination-and-failed-rhetoric/
We are told that Taiwan is an international flash point and the USA is honor-bound to defend Tawian against reuinification with the mainland because, and I quote: “Taiwan’s 23 million people deserve self-determination”.
Why didn’t the 9,103,332 people of the Confederate States of America deserve self-determination?
Why don’t the 4,543,126 people of Palestine deserve self-determination?
Why didn’t the 10.3 million people of the separatist oblasts of Ukraine deserve self-determination?
Why don’t the 8,012,231 people of Catalunya deserve self-determination?
Self-determination is just another Enlightenment inversion. It means that Clown World will claim it is a casus belli whenever it wants a war, and use military force to deny whenever it fears losing control. Unless the USA is going to go to war with Israel, Ukraine, and Spain, and permit the former-Confederate states to depart the Union in peace, it has absolutely no business claiming any right or responsibility to “defend” one part of China from the rest of it.
