NEVER SAYS THIS, BUT IT’S ABSOLUTELY TRUE. CHINA IS A MILITARIZED ETHNO STATE. IT’S RUN ALONG TRADITIONAL FASCIST LINES FOR THE BENEFIT OF A SPECIFIC ETHNIC GROUP. THE HAN CHINESE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ALLOWED, BUT THEY’RE DOING IT. SO TO CHINESE LEADERS, THE CONCEPT OF DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION, THOSE
CONCEPTS MAKE NO SENSE AT ALL. IN FACT, THEY’RE BIZARRE. IT’S ONE OF THOSE INCOMPREHENSIBLE JOKES THAT WESTERN LIBERALS TELL THE CHINESE DON’T GET IT AT ALL. SO WHEN NANCY PELOSI TOOK OFF FOR TAIWAN TODAY ABOARD A US MILITARY JET, THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT DID NOT ISSUE A STATEMENT APPLAUDING HER REMARKABLE DISPLAY OF SPUNKY
GIRL POWER. NO ONE IN BEIJING CONGRATULATED NANCY PELOSI FOR BREAKING GLASS CEILINGS. IS THE VERY FIRST SPEAKER IN HISTORY TO IDENTIFY AS A WOMAN. NO ONE IN CHINA EVEN MENTIONED THAT. INSTEAD, CHINESE LEADERS TREATED PELOSI’S ARRIVAL LIKE AN INVASION. AIR RAID SIRENS SOUNDED IN COASTAL TOWNS IN CHINA AS HER PLANE APPROACHED.
WHEN SHE FINALLY LANDED, THE CHINESE MILITARY ANNOUNCED LIVE FIRE EXERCISES IN THE AIRSPACE AROUND TAIWAN FOR THE NEXT FOUR DAYS, CHINA’S FOREIGN MINISTRY DECLARED THAT NANCY PELOSI’S MERE PRESENCE, QUOTE, GRAVELY UNDERMINES PEACE AND STABILITY ACROSS THE TAIWAN STRAIT AND QUOTE, PROVING THAT IN ASIA AS AT HOME, THINGS RARELY IMPROVE WHEN NANCY
PELOSI SHOWS. SO THE QUESTION REALLY IS WHY DOES SHE GO IN THE FIRST PLACE? THAT’S THE REAL QUESTION. AND THE PUNCHLINE IN WASHINGTON, AS ALWAYS, IS TOTALLY IMPLAUSIBLE IS THAT PELOSI’S TRIP WAS DESIGNED TO, QUOTE, REAFFIRM TAIWAN STATUS AS A US ALLY. OKAY, EXCEPT THE PROBLEM IS TAIWAN IS NOT A US ALLY.
IN FACT, TAIWAN MAY BE THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION BELIEVES DOES NOT HAVE A RIGHT OF SELF-DETERMINATION. WE DO NOT SUPPORT TAIWAN’S INDEPENDENCE. WAIT A SECOND. THEY’RE AGAINST DEMOCRACY. THEY WERE FOR DEMOCRACY RIGHTS, ALWAYS TAIWAN DEMOCRACY. IT TURNS. THEY DON’T MEAN IT. NOT THAT YOU EVER FELT THEY DID.
SO THE ONE THING YOU CAN BE CERTAIN OF IS THAT NANCY PELOSI DID NOT FLY ALL THE WAY TO TAIWAN TO SIGNAL THAT THE UNITED STATES IS GOING TO DEFEND THAT ISLAND FROM A CHINESE INVASION. WE’RE NOT GOING TO DO THAT. WE’RE NOT IN A POSITION TO DO THAT.
EVEN IF WE WANTED TO DO THAT, WE’VE ALREADY SENT TOO MANY OF OUR SURFACE TO AIR MISSILES, FOR EXAMPLE, TO UKRAINE WHERE OUR OLIGARCH FRIENDS ARE BUSY SELLING THEM TO VARIOUS DARK ACTORS ON THE INTERNATIONAL ARMS MARKET. SO IF THERE’S A MAJOR WAR IN ASIA ANY TIME SOON, WE WILL NOT
BE WINNING IT. EVERY SOBER PERSON KNOWS THAT. SAD BUT TRUE. SO WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON HERE? WELL, IN THE INTERNET, YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED QUITE A BIT OF SPECULATION, SOME OF IT GENERATED BY CHINESE STATE MEDIA THAT PELOSI WENT TO TAIWAN TO CHECK ON INVESTMENTS THAT HER HUSBAND PAUL MADE USING INSIDER INFORMATION.
HE DID MAKE THOSE INVESTMENTS IN THE U.S. INSIDER INFORMATION. THAT’S WHY HE’S SUCH A FANTASTIC STOCK PICKER WORTH MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS IN THIS CASE, PAUL PELOSI BOUGHT SEMICONDUCTOR STOCK. TAIWAN MAKES SEMICONDUCTORS RISING TENSIONS IN THE REGION WOULD CREATE MORE DEMAND FOR SEMICONDUCTORS. THAT’S THE THEORY. IS IT TRUE?
WELL, NANCY PELOSI IS FROM BALTIMORE. SHE WOULDN’T PUT ANYTHING PAST HER, BUT IT DOESN’T QUITE SATISFY AS AN EXPLANATION. THAT IS A LONG AND HIGHLY PUBLIC TRIP TO TAKE FOR A RELATIVELY SMALL INVESTMENT. IT’S GOT TO BE SOMETHING ELSE GOING ON . WHAT IS IT? WELL, IT IS ENTIRELY POSSIBLE
THAT MOST OBVIOUS EXPLANATION FOR THIS DEBACLE IS THE RIGHT ONE . IT’S POSSIBLE THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION ARE SO COMPLETELY INCOMPETENT. THE PEOPLE WHO RUN THE WHITE HOUSE ARE SO UTTERLY BLINDED BY THEIR OWN ARROGANCE AND THEIR INEPTITUDE. THEY JUST DON’T APPRECIATE OR EVEN UNDERSTAND THE IMPLICATIONS OF WHAT THEY ARE DOING.
SO NANCY PELOSI GOT BORED OF SPENDING THE SUMMER NAP AND SHE WANTS TO TAKE A FREE TRIP TO ASIA WHERE SHE CAN PRETEND TO BE A STATESMAN FOR A WEEK. GIRL POWER LET HER GO . IT’S POSSIBLE. THAT’S ALL THE THINKING THEY DID BEFORE SIGNING OFF ON PELOSI’S TRIP HERE.
FOR EXAMPLE, JOHN KIRBY, WHO’S SUPPOSED TO TAKE SERIOUSLY PROVING THE POINT EFFECTIVELY THIS MORNING ON FOX IS THE AGGRESSIVENESS, THE COERCION, THE INCREASING TENSIONS IN THE LAST WEEKS AND MONTHS HAVE ALL COME FROM THE CHINESE SIDE. WHAT WE HAVE SAID IS THAT THERE’S NO REASON THAT THIS VISIT SHOULD ESCALATE TENSIONS
IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER. ALSO, THERE’S NO REASON THAT THIS VISIT SHOULD ESCALATE TENSIONS IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER. THANKS, JOHN KIRBY, FOR DESCRIBING THE WORLD AS YOU FERVENTLY WISH IT WAS. WE’D LOVE TO HEAR YOUR VIEWS ON PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINE. NOW BACK TO REALITY AS WE ACTUALLY FIND NANCY PELOSI’S
TRIP TO TAIWAN HAS IN FACT DRAMATIC ESCALATED TENSIONS IN THE REGION THROUGHOUT ASIA, IN FACT, ESCALATED MORE THAN ANY SINGLE ACT IN RECENT MEMORY. SO YOU HAVE TO ASK YOURSELF FOR WHAT HOW EXACTLY IS THE UNITED STATES, WHICH HE SERVES, BENEFITING FROM WHAT SHE’S DOING? IS THERE AN UPSIDE HERE FOR US ?
THAT’S ONE QUESTION THAT PEOPLE LIKE JOHN KIRBY NEVER THINK TO ASK. THEY JUST ASSUME CHINA MUST BE BLUFFING. JUST ANOTHER BACKWARD THIRD WORLD GOVERNMENT MAKING WHUFFIE NOISES DON’T TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY, JUST LIKE RUSSIA. WELL, THEY SAID THEY’RE GOING TO INVADE UKRAINE IF WE PUSH UKRAINE TO JOIN. NOW, WHO CARES WHAT THEY THINK
? THEY’RE A GAS STATION WITH A GOVERNMENT BLUFFING. THAT’S WHAT ARROGANCE DOES DO, BLINDS YOU TO REALITY. SO THE QUESTION IS , IS CHINA BLUFFING? WHAT IF THEY’RE NOT? WHAT IF IN RESPONSE TO PELOSI’S TOTALLY POINTLESS TRIP TO TAIWAN, THE CHINESE DECIDE TO SEIZE THE KAMINI, WHICH ARE NOW GOVERNED BY TAIWAN, WHOSE
DEFENSE WE’VE IMPLICITLY, EFFECTIVELY GUARANTEED FOR SEVENTY FIVE YEARS? WELL, THAT COULD ACTUALLY HAPPEN. THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT IS ALREADY MAKING THE KIND OF NOISES YOU WOULD EXPECT IT TO MAKE BEFORE DOING SOMETHING LIKE THAT. HERE’S A SELECTION AHEAD OF THE STOP. THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT CONTINUE TO RAMP THEIR WARNINGS, SAYING IT UNDERMINES CHINA’S
SOVEREIGNTY AND SECURITY, SENDING THEM VETO. WE HOPE U.S. OFFICIALS WILL CLEARLY UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE AND SENSITIVITY OF THE ISSUE AND HOW DANGEROUS IT WOULD BE IF THE VISIT ACTUALLY HAPPENS. THE CHINESE CLAIM TAIWAN AS THEIR OWN AND THERE ARE CONCERNS BEIJING COULD USE THE VISIT AS A PRETEXT TO RAMP
MILITARY ACTION IN THE AREA. HUH. MAYBE THAT’S BLUFFING. MAYBE IT’S NOT. BUT THE DEEPER QUESTION IS WHEN’S THE LAST TIME AMERICAN LIBERALS BUILT SOMETHING ONE DOES? LET’S HAVE NANCY PELOSI OR JOE BIDEN OR ANY OF THESE PEOPLE. SUSAN RICE CREATED SOMETHING WORTH HAVING. WE’LL GIVE YOU A FEW MINUTES BEFORE THEY BREAK THINGS.
THEY SHOW UP, THEY MAKE THINGS WORSE. THEY MOVE ON TO THE NEXT THING. THEY NEVER APOLOGIZED. THEY DID IN AFGHANISTAN. THEY DID IT IN IRAQ. THEY DID IT UKRAINE. THEY DID IT IN SYRIA. THEY DID IT IN LIBYA. ARE THEY GOING TO DO IT NOW WITH CHINA BREAKING THINGS?
IN FACT, IF YOU WERE TRYING TO GIVE BEIJING A PRETEXT TO SEIZE TAIWAN, THIS IS EXACTLY THE KIND OF TRIP YOU WOULD TAKE AND WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF BEIJING SEIZED TAIWAN WILL BE A HUMANITARIAN DISASTER FOR THE TAIWANESE. THEY WOULD LOSE ANY SEMBLANCE OF SELF-DETERMINATION. DEMOCRACY WOULD DIE. SO THAT’S BAD.
BUT MORE TO THE POINT, IT WOULD BE DISASTROUS FOR US , FOR US BECAUSE IT WOULD MAKE THIS IS THE EFFECT OF VIRTUALLY EVERY POLICY THAT COME OUT OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION. IT WOULD MAKE CHINA MORE POWERFUL. HOW POWERFUL IS CHINA? WE UNDERSTATE THEIR POWER. ACTUALLY , CHINA ALREADY MAKES
90% OF THE WORLD’S ANTIBIOTICS. IT MAKES 80% OF THE WORLD’S LITHIUM BATTERIES. 96% OF THE SHIPPING CONTAINERS USED TO TRANSPORT GOODS ACROSS THE WORLD, MOSTLY FROM CHINA, ARE MADE IN CHINA. BUT ONE THING CHINA DOES NOT YET CONTROL IS THE SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY. AT THE END OF 2020 ONE , CHINA
HELD JUST FOUR PERCENT OF THE GLOBAL SEMICONDUCTOR MARKET. NORTH AMERICA, THE ASIA PACIFIC REGION, THE DOMINANT PLAYERS. NOW SEMICONDUCTORS ARE NOT A SMALL THING. IN FACT, THEY’RE ESSENTIAL TO MODERN LIFE. THEY’RE IN EVERYTHING BRAKES, SENSORS IN YOUR CAR TO YOUR PHONE, TO YOUR COMPUTER THERE AND EVERYTHING. AND AS IT HAPPENS, VIRTUALLY
ALL ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTORS ARE MADE WHERE THEY MADE THEIR MADE IN TAIWAN, THE TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY MAKES 90% OF THE WORLD’S ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTORS. IT IS BY FAR THE WORLD’S LARGEST SEMICONDUCTOR FOUNDRY WITHOUT THE TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY. THAT WOULD MEAN COMPANIES LIKE APPLE, QUALCOMM AND MANY OTHERS COULD NOT FUNCTION.
THAT’S A LOT OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY. LAST YEAR, TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY ACCOUNTED FOR MORE THAN HALF OF THE TOTAL FOUNDRY REVENUE IN THE WORLD. SO MAYBE SHOWING UP IN TAIWAN WOULD GIVE BEIJING A PRETEXT TO INVADE TAIWAN AND TAKE OVER THE WORLD’S LARGEST SEMICONDUCTOR FOUNDRY. AND THAT PUTS US IN THE BETA
POSITION TO AN EVEN GREATER EXTENT, TO PUT IT MILDLY. IS THAT THE GOAL OF THIS TRIP? COULD IT BE THAT TONY BLINKEN AND BARACK OBAMA AND THE REST OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ACTUALLY RUNNING THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE JOE BIDEN CAN’T REMEMBER ANYTHING AT THIS POINT.
COULD IT BE THAT ALL THESE PEOPLE PERFECTLY WELL, HIS RECKLESSNESS IS NOW PERFECTLY WELL WHAT THE EFFECTS COULD BE AND THEY ARE DOING IT NOT JUST IN SPITE OF THOSE EFFECTS, BUT BECAUSE OF THOSE EFFECTS, BECAUSE ACTUALLY , AT LEAST ON SOME GUT LEVEL, THEY WANT TO HASTEN THE END OF AMERICAN
HEGEMONY, WHICH IS TO SAY THE END OF THE U.S. AS WE KNOW IT. THAT WOULD EXPLAIN WHY THEY SENT KAMALA HARRIS, OF ALL PEOPLE, TO AVERT A WAR ON UKRAINE, KNOWING FULL WELL THAT KAMALA HARRIS WOULD READ THE NOTES THEY WROTE FOR HER AND INSIST THAT UKRAINE JOIN NATO AND THEN GUARANTEE
THAT RUSSIA INVADES UKRAINE, CONSTRICTS THE WORLD’S ENERGY AND FOOD MARKETS AND MAKES US WEAKER. MAYBE THAT WOULD HAPPEN. MAYBE THEY’RE NOT THAT STUPID. MAYBE THAT WOULD ALSO EXPLAIN WHY THEY SENT NANCY PELOSI OVER TO TAIWAN EFFECTIVELY THE ADMINISTRATION’S REPRESENTATIVE, EVEN THOUGH NANCY PELOSI RIVAL KAMALA HARRIS INABILITY TO FORM A COHERENT THOUGHT.
NOW, AGAIN, WE LEARNED THIS LESSON, BUT IT’S JUST TRUE AS WE WATCH THIS STUFF, WE HOPE YOU DON’T HOPE YOU HAVE A REAL LIFE. BUT IF YOU SEE NANCY PELOSI REESON SINCE SHE TURNED 80 , FOR EXAMPLE, TWO YEARS AGO, YOU KNOW, THIS IS SOMEONE WHO WAS HAVING A LOT OF TROUBLE SPEAKING.
HE WAS PELOSI THE BRIEFING BACK IN NOVEMBER, FOR EXAMPLE. THE OTHER THING THAT WE’RE GETTING, WE’RE SENDING STUFF OVER TO THE SENATE. MOST OF THE PRODUCT THAT WE’VE DONE IS NOW WE MAY HAVE HAD IT IN THE LAST HOUR OR SO. AND SOME OF WHAT WE ADDED A SENATE TO THE BILL HEARING
FOR DOESN’T LIKE HEARING ACCUSING BERNIE LOVES HEARING MENTIONED IT DOESN’T WANT A HEARING IN THE BILL. SO SOME SEN. ORRIN AND THEN WE HAVE MEDICAL MEDICALLY THE FIGURES THEY’RE PUTTING THINGS IN, THEN WE CAN PUT SOMETHING IN EVEN IF MENTION DOESN’T LIKE. DOESN’T LIKE. SO SO WE ARE GETTING SOME BIRD AND PRIVILEGE.
I THINK I THINK MOSTLY WE’RE GETTING PRIVILEGED SCRUB BECAUSE PRIVILEGE DRIVE IS DEVOTED TO A BILL 30% IT’S IMPORTANT. IT’S YOU HAVE TO TAKE IT OUT. BUT PRIVILEGE VIOLATION CAN TAKE YOU OUT. SO AT THIS POINT AUGUST OF 2020 TWO, TAIWAN IS THE WORLD’S GREAT FLASHPOINT. IT’S THE LARGEST POWER WITH A
NAME IT HAS ARTICULATED REPEATEDLY OVER ALMOST 80 YEARS TO INVADE A NEIGHBORING COUNTRY, TAIWAN. SO THERE’S NO DELICATE PLACE DIPLOMATICALLY ON THE GLOBE. SO IF YOU’RE SENDING THAT PERSON TO CALM TENSIONS OR REASSURE ALLIES, PROBABLY DOING WHAT YOU SAY YOU’RE DOING, YOU MAY BE DOING THE OPPOSITE. IF YOU’RE TRYING TO PROVOKE
YOUR ENEMIES AND TERRIFY YOUR SO-CALLED ALLIES, YOU’D PROBABLY PICK NANCY PELOSI AS YOUR REPRESENTATIVE IN TAIWAN. WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? WELL, IF YOU’RE WILLING TO UNDERSTAND THE MOTIVE OF THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE, CONSIDER THIS AT THE SAME MOMENT THAT WE ARE CLEARLY GOADING OTHER COUNTRIES INTO CONFLICT
WITH EACH OTHER AND WITH US , WE ARE MEETING THE ADMINISTRATION, DEGRADING OUR ABILITY TO PARTICIPATE OR PREVAIL IN THOSE WARS. OUR DEFENSIVE CAPABILITIES HAVE NEVER BEEN WEAKER AND THAT’S ON ACCIDENT. THEY DID IT, FOR EXAMPLE, THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, WHATEVER YOU THINK THAT WE DON’T THINK MUCH KIND OF
IMPORTANT TO OUR COUNTRY, CERTAINLY WELL FUNDED. HERE’S A RECENT RECRUITING AD FROM THE CIA. I’M A WOMAN OF COLOR. I AM A MOM. I AM A GENDER MILLENNIAL WHO BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH GENERALIZED DISORDER. I AM INTERSECTIONAL FOR MY EXISTENCE IS NOT A BOX CHECKING EXERCISE. I AM A WALKING DECLARATION.
A WOMAN WHOSE INFLECTION DOES NOT RISE AT THE END OF HER SENTENCES, SUGGESTING THAT A QUESTION HAS BEEN ASKED. I USED TO STRUGGLE WITH IMPOSTER SYNDROME, BUT AT THIRTY SIX I REFUSE TO INTERNALIZE MISCA PATRIARCHAL IDEAS OF WHAT A WOMAN CAN OR SHOULD BE . OH YOU’RE INTERSECTIONAL. THAT GENERALIZED ANXIETY SORT
OF COME WORK IN A CRITICAL FEDERAL AGENCY. SO IF YOU’RE RUNNING AN AD LIKE THAT, NOT ONLY ARE YOU NOT SERIOUS, YOU ARE TRYING TO DEGRADE AND HURT THE ABILITY OF THE UNITED STATES TO DEFEND ITSELF, TO PERPETUATE ITSELF, TO REMAIN THE UNITED STATES FOR OUR GRANDCHILDREN. THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT LET’S STOP
LYING ABOUT THIS EXACTLY WHAT YOU’RE DOING. AND IT’S JUST HAPPENING AT CIA . NOTHING JOE BIDEN HAS DONE IN THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF HAS MADE OUR ARMED FORCES BETTER PREPARED TO FIGHT WARS. INSTEAD, IT HAS BEEN ONE CALCULATED HUMILIATION AFTER ANOTHER FOR THE U.S. ARMED FORCES. VAX MANDATES ANTIWHITE IDEOLOGY
, CHANGES, DRAG SHOWS, WHATEVER IS NECESSARY TO TELEGRAPH TO THE UNITED STATES MILITARY. YOU ARE WORTHLESS. YOU ARE DEFENDING A COUNTRY THAT DOES NOT DESERVE TO BE DEFENDED. YOUR TRADITIONS ARE DISGUSTING . YOU’RE TERRIBLE. THAT’S THE MESSAGE. HERE’S THE LATEST. THE VA HAS DECIDED TO DESECRATE MILITARY CEMETERY CEMETERIES THAT BE AMERICA’S LAST
REMAINING NATIONAL SHRINE. OUR MILITARY CEMETERIES DESECRATED WITH INDUSTRIAL WIND TURBINES ONE JUST ONE UP IN MASSACHUSETTS NATIONAL CEMETERY. SO TEXAS IS BACK THERE STARTING MORE WARS WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY MAKING IT HARDER FOR THE UNITED STATES TO FIGHT AND PREVAIL IN THOSE WARS. SPOKESPERSON FOR THE CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY SAID THIS
MORNING THAT THEIR ARMY WILL , QUOTE, NEVER SIT BY IDLY. WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT? WE HAVE AN ARMY, TOO, AND WOULD TAKE STRONG BY IDLY EITHER. DON’T TELL OUR NEIGHBORS WHERE THEY CAN GO AND WHERE THEY CAN’T DEFEND . I SALUTE NANCY PELOSI FOR GOING THERE, FOR SENDING A MESSAGE
THAT TAIWAN IS AN ALLY AND JUST AS WE WON’T SUPPORT TAIWAN’S INDEPENDENCE AND BREAKING AWAY FROM THIS ONE , CHINA POLICY, WE WILL NOT STAND IDLY BY IF IT’S MAINLAND CHINA DECIDES TO INVADE TAIWAN OR CHILDISH POSTURING FROM PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT, HAVE NO SKIN IN
THE GAME WHATSOEVER. THE TRUTH, WE’RE NOT IN A POSITION TO PROSECUTE A SUCCESSFUL WAR AGAINST CHINA SHOULD BE WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN MAKING DEFENSIVE STRATEGIC MOVES FOR THE PAST TWENTY YEARS. ON SHORING CRITICAL MANUFACTURING, BUILDING UP A STRONG MILITARY AND YES, A STRONG CIA NOT DEGRADING THEM WITH IDENTITY POLITICS
AND OTHER POINTLESS LUNACY THAT DETRACTS FROM THE MISSION, WHICH IS TO PROTECT THE UNITED STATES . BUT THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT WE’VE DONE. REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS HAVE ALLOWED IT TO HAPPEN. OH, WE’RE FUNDING FOR YOU. SO WHATEVER THE MOTIVE HERE IS , THE EFFECT IS ABSOLUTELY PREDICTABLE. AS WITH AFGHANISTAN AND UKRAINE
AND COVID AND NINE OTHER DISASTERS, WHEN WHAT WE’RE WATCHING RIGHT NOW FINALLY ENDS, THE U.S. IS LIKELY TO BE WEAKER AND CHINA IS LIKELY TO BE STRONGER. SO WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? IT MEANS THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF AMERICAN INFLUENCE IN ASIA, INFLUENCE THAT WE PAID FOR WITH .
AND THAT’S NOT AN OVERSTATEMENT. MORE THAN HALF A MILLION AMERICAN SERVICEMEN WERE KILLED OR WOUNDED THE PACIFIC THEATER IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND IN KOREA A FEW YEARS AFTER THAT AND AS A RESULT OF THEIR SACRIFICE AND WISE DIPLOMACY, COUNTRIES LIKE JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA AND SINGAPORE AND THE PHILIPPINES HAVE ALL
BEEN IN OUR ORBIT. THE WESTERN ORBIT, AMERICA’S ORBIT FOR MOST OF THE LAST CENTURY. AND THAT’S BEEN A GOOD THING FOR ALL INVOLVED. NOT PERFECT, BUT BETTER THAN THE ALTERNATIVE. BUT WE’RE ABOUT TO SEE
