President Biden Keeps Pledging Direct United States War With China Over Taiwan by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2022-09-19 at 23:04:31 )

President Biden Keeps Pledging Direct United States War With China Over Taiwan by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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The president of the United States has once again committed the United States military to direct hot war with China in the event of an attack on Taiwan, a commitment that was once again walked back by his White House handlers.

In a recent 60 Minutes interview, President Biden was asked point-blank by CBS News Scott Pelley if United States forces would defend Taiwan from an attack by the mainland.

"Yes, if in fact there was an unprecedented attack," Biden said.

"After our interview a White House official told us United States policy has not changed," Pelly narrates after the comment. "Officially, the United States will not say whether American forces would defend Taiwan. But the commander-in-chief had a view of his own."

"So unlike Ukraine, to be clear, sir, US Forces, US men and women would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion?" Pelley asked.

"Yes," President Biden replied.

This is by my count the fourth time the United States president has made such remarks in transgression of his governments standing policy of "strategic ambiguity" on this issue only to have them walked back by administration staff.

This past May Biden said "yes" when asked by the press if the United States would defend Taiwan militarily in the event of a Chinese invasion, adding, "That is the commitment we made." A White House official later stated that the presidents comments did not reflect a change in United States policy.

At a CNN forum in October of last year President Biden responded in the affirmative when asked by an audience member if the United States would intervene to defend Taiwan, and said "Yes, we have a commitment" when asked to clarify if he meant intervening against an attack from China. Again, the White House quickly clarified that "there is no change in our policy."

In an interview with ABCs George Stephanopoulos in August of last year President Biden implied that the United States would defend Taiwan as it would a NATO ally, saying that the United States has "kept every commitment.. same with Taiwan" when asked if China might be emboldened to attack the island by the United States military withdrawal from Afghanistan. Again a senior administration official told the press, "Our policy with regard to Taiwan has not changed."

(It is worth noting at this time that President Bidens repeated assertion that the United States has a "commitment" to defend Taiwan militarily is objectively false; that has not been the case for over 40 years.)

I have listed these statements in reverse chronological order, and you can see they get more vague the earlier they are. Now you have got the president clearly and explicitly saying that he will send United States troops to kill and be killed in a direct hot war with China to defend Taiwan.

The White House says official United States policy has not changed on Taiwan, but it does not matter. President Biden has made clear this is his policy, and whether he would follow through or not, that is the message that has been conveyed to China. This is not dementia, it is deliberate.-Dave DeCamp (DecampDave) September 19, 2022

I do not know why the United States president keeps verbally committing his armed forces to a third world war against a nuclear-armed nation only to have it walked back over and over again by the administration he is supposed to be in charge of.

Is this just some neurological glitch in an aging brain which promoted war and militarism throughout its entire time in office? Is it some weird new tactic in "strategic ambiguity" to have different parts of the administration saying completely different things in totally unambiguous ways? Is President Biden just a crazy warmonger? I do not know. But what I do know is that all this chaos and confusion is happening at the worst possible time.

As Brett Wilkins explains for Common Dreams, a new bill from the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee threatens to bring the world much closer to a horrific war due to the way it would upend existing United States policy on China with its recognition of Taiwan as a major "non-NATO ally" as part of a commitment to send billions of dollars worth of weapons to the island.

Fears of what this could unleash upon our world have caused even fairly reliable empire facilitators like Ed Markey to vote against the bill, which Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning says would "greatly shake the political foundation of China-United States relations and cause extremely serious consequences to China-United States relations and peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait."

This is just one of the ways that tensions with China are being ramped up with astonishing speed over Taiwan, among them also the normalization of sending an increasingly high number of United States officials to Taipei in steadily rising contempt for Washingtons One China policy which has kept the peace along this flashpoint for decades.

This Taiwan situation is getting uglier and uglier, much faster than many expected, and the president of the worlds mightiest war machine is either two stupid, too bloodthirsty, too careless or too demented to navigate this situation with the sensitivity it deserves.

Things never should have been allowed to get this far, and the United States empire is showing us every indication that it intends to take things much, much further.

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