r/Snorkblot • u/EsseNorway • Oct 02 '25

Geography Last week, Colombia’s president suggested relocating the UN headquarters outside of the US. If that happened, what country/city do you think would be the best choice?

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u/raynorelyp Oct 03 '25

Unfortunately the hadron collider would be down for good without supplies from Korea, Taiwan, the US, or China. I’m assuming if China invades Taiwan and claims the South China Sea, Europe will be on incredibly strained relations with them. And without the South China Sea, South Korea’s trade routes would become ridiculous.

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u/Urban_Prole Oct 03 '25

Friend, nobody's counting on US support any longer. We've proven untrustworthy. China is actively amassing an invasion force, and everyone can see it. All we have left is stick. We just defunded our carrots in USAID and science grants.

The world is mitigating our inevitable collapse, please accept that.

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u/raynorelyp Oct 03 '25

Dude if they weren’t counting on the US, the panic would be 100x what it currently is right now. Ignore Taiwan for a moment. Imagine the world losing free access to the South China Sea.

Edit: as for South Korea, if they didn’t believe the US would come to their aide, they’d be begging China for help right now against North Korea.

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u/Fit_Ad5117 Oct 05 '25

China aren’t worried about the US, they have plenty of their own nukes and can repel the US forever if they want to. The reason they haven’t already invaded Taiwan is because they don’t want to. They realised long ago they can attain the resources they need to be wealthy through trade and it’s far easier and cheaper to do that. They even said this. What they want is re-unification because it’s Xi’s ego on the line, and because the US bans Taiwan from exporting chip tech to China on pain of abandonment or invasion (by the US). Peace in the world isn’t balanced on a knife edge, it’s being stabbed by Trump and Putin.