WE PLACE.
GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TUCKER
CARLSON TONIGHT.
THE THING ABOUT THE CHINESE
GOVERNMENT IS THIS IS KIND OF
WEIRD.
THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT ALMOST
NEVER CELEBRATES DIVERSITY.
THINK ABOUT THAT AMERICAN
LIBERALS LITTLE THREAT.
THE WEST LOVES CHINA.
IT’S JUST AMERICA’S MODEL.
BUT CHINA DOES NOT CELEBRATE
DIVERSITY.
IN FACT, IN THE AMERICAN MEDIA
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