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What is a peaceful solution?

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A dramatic and sudden coup that overthrows the communist party of China, and elects a free and democratic government.

As if democratic governments don't start wars. Yeah right.

If they are not declared are they wars?

> If they are not declared are they wars?

I'm not sure if this is sarcasm, but yes of course they are.

If history is the guide, the most "democratic" governemnt on the planet has so far started the most wars.

It seems like, the more democratic you are, the more wars youstart.

Except, the USA is trully a Republic. Figures, same as Rome.

What wars has canada started, eh?

Are coups typically peaceful?

Almost never.

Quite a number of nonviolent revolutions have occured. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_revolution

Relatively so. The Romanian Revolution in 1989 killed less than two thousand people (including Ceaușescu and his wife, who's well deserved executions were the last executions in Romanian history.)

And what was the cost of peace? Ceaușescu and his wife killed far more than 2000 Romanians every year with their brutal communist regime.

Actually I don't think that's a good scenario for the US as, if anything, that'd ultimately make China a more formidable adversary and reunification with Taiwan more likely (which the US and Japan do not want for strategic reasons).

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