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I would teleport myself to Taipei and immediately engage the entirety of the Chinese invasion force in furious hand-to-hand combat. Then I would stick around for the victory parade before heading back home to tell my boss why I missed work.
Make a cup of coffee, open up Lemmy and start scrolling for the news articles.
Go back to bed.
Feel for the people of Taiwan, including people I know and work closely with, who are very worried about this exact thing.
Assume Iโm not getting paid for a TON of work, plus work people who work for me did, as we have a large client in Taiwan who work directly for the Taiwanese govt.
Reach out to the people I know there to see if they need / want help getting out / getting friends or family out / anything else they need.
Tell people in my life and on the internet โFuck bullies, fuck all these aggressive state level actors beating up on ethnic groups, smaller countries and small regions that just want peace, autonomy and self determination. And fuck us for letting them. Like seriously, fuck all you all.โ
Go back to work.
Well, doing nothing isn't really an option. I live right next to China.
Stock up on essentials before everyone else does, learn some Mandarin, and keep my head down while trying to move my family further away from the conflict.
Otherwise, keep going to work. Like many software developers, I'm of no use with an assault rifle, but at least I could keep earning money and paying taxes instead of panicking.
uh hoard silicon chips?
Roll a joint and look for mushrooms....
Buy more Raytheon stock.
This would likely mean my country's (Australia) biggest trading partner going to war with our biggest ally (USA). We're also close to this conflict geographically speaking so would likely play a key role in it. Honestly this conflict would really fuck our economy and make the entire region more unstable than it already is.
So I'd be quite concerned if this happened. It would destroy my country and be yet another reminder of how we are tied to the USA and will literally follow it to our own destruction.
I contact my Taiwanese friends and ask how they're doing.
At some point we'll have repeated our mistakes so many times over that the history book will become too heavy and hit the floor with a loud BANG.
Well that's what the book I'm currently reading says, so it must be true.