Guest Post by Ron Paul
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “surprise” trip to Taiwan last week should be “Exhibit A” as to why interventionism is dangerous, deadly, and dumb. Though she claimed her visit won some sort of victory for democracy over autocracy, the stopover achieved nothing of the sort. It was a pointless gesture that brought us closer to military conflict with zero benefits.
As Col. Doug Macgregor said of Pelosi’s trip on a recent episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight, “statesmanship involves advancing American interests at the least cost to the American people. None of that is in play here. … Posturing is not statesmanship.”
Pelosi’s trip was no outlier. Such counterproductive posturing is much celebrated by both parties in Washington. Neoconservative Senators Bob Menendez and Lindsey Graham were thrilled with Pelosi’s stop in Taipei and used it as a springboard to push for new legislation that would essentially declare war on China by declaring Taiwan a “major non-NATO ally.”
The “one China” policy that, while perhaps not perfect, has kept the peace for more than 40 years is to be scrapped and replaced with one sure to provoke a war. Who benefits?
Foolishly taking the US to the brink of war with Russia over Ukraine is evidently not enough for Washington’s bipartisan warmongering class. Risking a nuclear war on two fronts, with both Russia and China, is apparently the only way for Washington to show the rest of the world it’s serious.
The Washington Post’s neoconservative columnist Josh Rogin accurately captures the mindset in Washington DC with a recent article titled, “The skeptics are wrong: The US can confront both China and Russia.”
For Washington’s foreign policy “experts,” those of us who don’t believe a war with both Russia and China is a great idea are written off as “skeptics.” Count me as one of the skeptics!
During the Cold War there were times of heightened tension, but even in the darkest days the idea that nuclear war with China and the Soviet Union could be a solution was held only by only a few madmen. Now, with the ideological struggles of the Cold War a decades-old memory, such an argument makes even less sense. Yet this is what Washington is selling.
The US fighting a proxy war with Russia through Ukraine and Nancy Pelosi provoking China nearly to the point of war over Taiwan is meant to show the world how tough we are. In reality, it demonstrates the opposite. The drunken man in a bar challenging everyone to a fight is not tough. He’s foolish. He has nothing to gain and everything to lose from his display of bravado.
That is interventionism at its core: a foolish policy that provokes nothing but anger overseas, benefits no one in the US except the special interests, and leaves the rest of us much poorer and worse off.
There may be plenty to criticize about China’s government and policies. They are far from perfect, particularly in protection of civil liberties. But have we already forgotten that our own government shut down the country for two years over a virus, and then forced a huge number of Americans to take an experimental shot that is proving to be as worthless as it is dangerous? Let’s look at the log in our own eye before we start lobbing missiles overseas.
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The endless war mongering of globalists. Anything to increase taxes [control] over the deplorables.
Nancy went to Taiwan only to check on the silicone factories. She wanted to make sure they have enough for her next saggy titty implant.
It’s hilarious that Pelosi is being hailed as anything other than a racketeering criminal that wears her CCP pin underneath her lapel.
Fuck Taiwan. Not because I have anything against them. They’re a small island of mostly Chinese people a stone’s throw from China on the other side of the globe. We adopted the “one China” policy 50 years ago, but more important than any stance or policy is that fact that we don’t have the ability or responsibility to keep Taiwan perpetually independent.
Same for Ukraine and Israel.
Pompeo can shove his “three lighthouses” (Ukraine, Taiwan and Israel) up his ass. Same for Nikki Haley and any other American politician of either party who thinks we’re the world’s policeman.
Americans need to stop joining the military.
10-4 , and those lunatic evangelicals like Hagee and Jeffress can join them.
I guess the U.S. having China peacefully having relations with Taiwan is out of the question. Kind of like the effort put forth to make the Minsk agreements work without causing war, starvation, and energy shortages for millions.
Now ask who benefits.
Apple/Tree
At the time, thought ron was the answer. Wrote him in, NOT on the ballot. BEFORE i quit. Voting.
Soooo far off that reservation. May be/have been/has been yet another false messiah.
Myriad angles.
Do say hello to your son, r “Barn Door” p.
I’m thinking pelosi went to covertly get Xi blessing for when Biden goes down.