We have the most feckless administration in our history and we may soon be on a war footing with two nuclear armed powers. But no mean tweets.
No, We Are Not
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
No mean tweets and no “insurrection”. Dick Cheney stoops to a low I hitherto thought he was incapable.
https://twitter.com/liz_cheney/status/1555270027871338496?s=21&t=a9-Hd2OSxSp1RnKV-aeXEg
That video address was tough to watch. God be with people of Taiwan. The invasion, if it happens, won’t be small- you are talking dramatic full-scale air assault.
They need to strap Pelosi to one of those missiles.
They need to strap Pelosi to one of those missiles.
Amen.
I would put my money on Taiwan’s own defense forces making an invasion hellish for the invaders. US forces may or may not be of any real help. I’m no military expert, but several I’ve read have been saying that invading that highly fortified island across the strait will be a serious challenge, for many reasons, not just the quality of the military defense. Weather, ocean currents, and the like are apparently real problems. A retired Third Armor colonel who fought in the original Iraq war has told me “you can’t win a non-nuclear war with bombs and missiles. You have to occupy the enemy’s territory.” Sure hope we don’t get to find out if he’s right, though it may be that Ukraine has been proving him right at least for that particular situation.
Frank,
Just asking. Would the name of that armor guy you quote begin with a “B?”
I think that if Taiwan was worried, Pelosi’s visit would not have come off. Yet, apparently, they were not.
invading that highly fortified island across the strait will be a serious challenge, for many reasons, not just the quality of the military defense. Weather, ocean currents, and the like are apparently real problems.
That perfectly sums up my basic understanding. I’m even less of a military expert than you Frank and even I understand that this won’t be troops rolling tanks over borders as in the case of the Ukraine.
Also, I think that Taiwan thought allowing Pelosi to visit was a gesture of “humanitarian peacekeeping” for Taiwan. I heard a Taiwanese university professor interviewed on our news stating this and Pelosi in the same sentence. I couldn’t believe my ears. But then it dawned that the Taiwanese are probably desperate. Any US official defying Chinese authority, even if it is a measly Pelosi, is a moral boost for them in their mind. I still think she had no place to do it and it was a completely foolish and self serving act.
Pelodi did mot just make this decision by herself.