Apologies for the url being a screenshot, for some reason the lemmur app won’t let me paste in the URL box, so here’s the link to the article: https://www.democracynow.org/2022/8/1/headlines/house_speaker_pelosi_will_visit_taiwan_despite_warnings_from_china
US is feeling really ballsy lately. Would be hilarious if their response was to start meeting with leaders of seperatists in Hawaii, Texas, Puerto Rico, Alaska, even California lmao. Do you guys think they’re trying to force a confrontation while Russia is bogged down in Ukraine? Kinda seems like that is their goal. Bog down Russia as long as possible and while Russia is busy take advantage of US having all of Europe in a firm bloc? They are also trying to form a bloc I feel to slow down the insane amount of trade china does with Europe, but if they keep up the sanctions on Russia and China we may see some European countries go neutral or even side with china out of pure economic necessity. The US economy is collapsing and dollar hegemony in waning- even Saudi Arabia is now trading with china in yuan.
I genuinely don’t think the US DoD is dumb enough to do this (I know I know), I think this is Nancy doing what she has always done.
Seems everyone in the US, including Biden and the Army, were against this visit. But for some reason they don’t have the authority to tell her to shut up and sit down lmao. They legit said “we can’t prevent her from going if she wants to”. Pathetic.
It’s bullshit. They don’t like it but they’re not going to be seen as not liking it. At most none of them want to be seen as being soft on China, a traitor, obstructing someone being hard on China during the new red scare, etc. They could seriously inconvenience and likely stop her by just refusing military planes or escorts at all for it. She could still get on a civilian airliner and go at that point but it would take the air out of her sails and without an escort or protection the PLA air force deploying chafe in front of her plane and ordering it to divert they may be able to force her away if they wished.
It does seem like this is more or less a solo venture, but I’m not sure why the army (etc.) are letting her do this
It’s been a while since the US has truly poked the dragon, I bet they are interested, like most of the world right now, how China will react. Will they be firm or wiggle away from the situation. Will they pull a US “the red line is actually a grey line” or will they actually treat it as a true red line. I think if China does nothing or something very minimal it opens up China to increased military button pushing by the US, but if they overreact, it could lead to a major conflict, it’s a fine balance. I’m incredibly interested (in a dark curiosity way) to see what the PLA does.
If the plane she’s flying saying United States of America on the side, the pilots are members of the DoD. When Biden says he can’t stop her, it’s either because he’s lying or he’s so senile that he’s forgotten he commands everyone in the DoD.