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Painting the eyes of war on the Buddha.

In many traditions, when you paint or sculpt a Buddha, the eyes are the very last to be painted. It’s only after the eyes have been completed that the sculpture is fully alive and empowered.

The US has just approved a $75 million weapons package to Taiwan province involving the sale of the Link 16 communications system.

The acquisition of Link 16 is analogous to “painting the eyes on the Buddha”: a last touch, it makes Taiwan’s military systems and weapons platforms live and far-seeing. It confers deadly powers, or more prosaically, in the words of the US military, it completes Taiwan as the final, lethal link of the multilateral coalition kill chain against China.

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[–] Ooops@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"it would signal that the Biden administration is as serious and unwavering in its desire to provoke and wage large-scale war with China"

Sure... because -as we all know- giving countries threatened the tools to defend themselves is the real aggression.

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