What makes the r/Military posting episode worth examining is not the question itself — China-Taiwan invasion probability is a perennial community topic — but the mechanical repetition from a single account. Three identical or near-identical threads in a short window produce a volume spike that moderation systems and human readers both interpret as significance. The posts' removal forecloses the community debate that might have distinguished genuine alarm from astroturfing. That ambiguity is, functionally, the point: whether the posts were anxious or manufactured, they achieved the same outcome — a…