Hi Adam, I agree with you that it's important to talk about costs & worst-case scenarios. I'm not someone who thinks that it's vital to US interests to defend Taiwan at any cost; or that the PRC is bent on territorial takeover aside from Taiwan. All I can say is that...

this is a cause I'd give my life to but couldn't ask anyone else to do the same. I will say that "Abandon Taiwan now/once some threshold is crossed" articles are quite common - that while your apprehension seems to be that few are considering the potential costs of foreign...

defence of Taiwan, there are lots of writers & analysts who have preemptively decided any military aid is not worth it (to the US, to world peace, etc.) My focus personally - as a non-specialist - is discussing steps ordinary people & their governments can take now that will...