Ask yourself this question: What will happen if America told the leaders of Taiwan, it will not fight China to protect Taiwan? If you are sane, the answer will be that Taiwan will seek to negotiate the reunification of the Chinese homeland’s two parts. After all, each of the Mainland and the Island have a charter which recognizes that the two parts form one and the same nation that will someday be united.
Now
ask yourself this question: What will happen if America continues to assure
Taiwan, it will protect it in the event that China tried to bring it into the
fold by force? If you are sane, the answer will be that Taiwan will continue to
hold out on reunification, knowing full well that this situation cannot go on
forever, and that something will give, possibly causing a catastrophe that
everyone will regret.
The
alternative is that China will continue to build its military, and bring it to
a level of readiness where the Americans will no longer have the stomach to
bluff the Chinese into believing they will go to war (that might escalate to a
nuclear exchange) just to maintain China in the current state of being a divided
nation.
Now
ask yourself this question: What might happen between now and the time that
something will give, with the possibility of causing a catastrophic event? If
you are sane, the answer is that there will continue to be an arms race between
China and the United States, with some of the newly invented weapons ending in
the hands of the Taiwanese military. After that, anything can happen, be it by
the deliberate decision of someone or by accident.
Now
ask yourself this question: Win or lose the war, is there any possibility that
America will keep the two parts of China from being reunited? If you are sane,
the answer will be that even if America wins the war, however devastating it might
be, the only way that it will keep Taiwan from falling into the hands of the
mainland’s leaders, is to occupy Taiwan permanently, thereby create a quagmire
for itself that will make Vietnam look like a picnic; also deprive the
Taiwanese people of the independence they always sought.
Given
that by asking all those questions and answering them, you cover just about
every conceivable situation that might arise in the unfolding of the China vs.
America drama, you wonder what could a warmonger say to make a case for America
to go between Taiwan and mainland China. You seek an answer by delving into the
article that came under the title: “US sleepwalking in China’s shadow,” and the
subtitle: “China’s military is undergoing major transformative growth, as the
US prioritizes woke baloney.” It was written by Jed Babbin, and published on
November 11, 2021 in The Washington Times.
Here,
in condense form, is what Jed Babbin wrote as a preamble to making his case:
“President Joe Biden has said that America
would defend Taiwan against a Chinese attack. His staff corrected him. Mr.
Biden has changed our policy toward China and Taiwan. The evidence is in two
parts. First, China is buying enough Iranian oil to keep the Iranian
economy afloat. Yet Mr. Biden is taking no action to
penalize China for buying Iran’s oil. To Mr.
Biden, China and Iran are too fearsome to attempt any
action that might inconvenience either. Second, China’s military is
undergoing major transformative growth. It is being redesigned to prevent our
forces from being able to intervene in any attack on Taiwan, Japan, India or
Australia. China’s tests of hypersonic nuclear-capable missiles, is a Sputnik
moment for us, but you’d never know that from the administration’s reactions”.
So,
that’s how these people think. They believe that America is the center of the
universe. Because it has decreed that Iran should not sell its oil to feed its
people, everyone in the world must see to it that America’s will is fully
implemented. China has violated that will when it bought Iran’s oil, says
Babbin. Iran is also doing something that’s just as bad, he goes on to say. It
is allowing its people to become highly-educated to the point where they are inventing
the means to defend themselves should someone dare to attack them. And that’s a
no, no, according to the Babbins of this world.
That,
my friend, is what came in Jed Babbin’s preamble. Wait till you see what else
he is saying. Well, let me tell you: Babbin invoked the memory of the “Sputnik
Moment” when the Soviets surprised the world by putting into Earth orbit the
first artificial satellite. How dare they do such a thing without first seeking
and obtaining permission from America!?
Read
what Jed Babbin is saying to convince those in charge that the way to handle
China is to show it that America would risk a nuclear war to achieve no more
than it did in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Libya or Afghanistan. Read the work
produced by that kind of mentality, and be amazed. Here is a condensed version
of Babbin’s article:
“There is no evidence of anything like a Sputnik-era
effort in the 2022 Defense Authorization Act (DAA). It authorizes nearly $770
billion. That would be enough to catch up if it weren’t burdened with the cost
of other items. We are sleepwalking while China and Russia are
building new weapon systems. The Chinese have more ships than we do. They are
planning warfare that includes information warfare to interfere with our
government planning and our political will to deal with the threats we face. We
need to craft intelligence and defense budgets to meet the threats China,
Russia, Iran and North Korea pose. Mr. Biden and his team would
have to understand that sleepwalking in our adversaries’ shadows is no way to
defend our nation. In Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea, serious people
with deadly intent are making use of their own Sputnik moments. If only we
were”.
Now ask yourself this question: Would Jed Babbin’s article have been written were it not for the fact that the two parts of China are not unifying peacefully because America is risking Armageddon to keep them apart?