alphacyberranger@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoThe US is quietly arming Taiwan to the teethwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square211fedilinkarrow-up1724arrow-down116cross-posted to: news@lemmy.worldworldnews@lemmit.online
arrow-up1708arrow-down1external-linkThe US is quietly arming Taiwan to the teethwww.bbc.comalphacyberranger@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square211fedilinkcross-posted to: news@lemmy.worldworldnews@lemmit.online
minus-squarecuriousaur@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up84·8 months agoIt was never meant to be covert. That doesn’t work as a deterrent. The headline means quiet as in not announced, not as In nobody knows. Like, if you quietly left a party. It just means you didn’t say goodbye, it does not mean that you’re still hiding in the building.
minus-squareMudSkipperKisser@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37arrow-down1·8 months agoOh but I DO hide in the building after I “quietly” leave. Then I just like sit at the breakfast table in my “borrowed” jammies and ask what’s for breakfast as my gracious host rounds the corner in the morning
minus-squarecuriousaur@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·8 months agoAh, that explains your confusion.
It was never meant to be covert. That doesn’t work as a deterrent. The headline means quiet as in not announced, not as In nobody knows.
Like, if you quietly left a party. It just means you didn’t say goodbye, it does not mean that you’re still hiding in the building.
Oh but I DO hide in the building after I “quietly” leave. Then I just like sit at the breakfast table in my “borrowed” jammies and ask what’s for breakfast as my gracious host rounds the corner in the morning
Ah, that explains your confusion.