Speaking on Fox New Sunday today, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the biggest war hawk in Congress, said he would back sending U.S. troops to Taiwan if China decides to invade. Since Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen visited House Speaker Kevin McCarthy at the Reagan Library April 5, Beijing has been menacing Taipei, sending bombers and warships in the Taiwan Strait, in what looks like preparation for an invasion. Whether that happens anytime soon or not, is anyone’s guess. Graham, a dear friend of friend of the late Sen. John McCain (R-Az.), has inherited McCain’s war-like mantle, voicing strong support for 80-year-old President Joe Biden’s proxy war in Ukraine. Graham would have no problem setting up a no-fly-zone or sending U.S. troops to fight in Ukraine, answering 45-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky’s call for U.S. and NATO troops.
Graham sees 70-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin as the next Adolf Hitler, trying, as Biden and Zelensky says, to take over all of Europe. Without presenting any proof, Biden and Graham are more than willing to escalate the Ukraine conflict, even if it means fighting a war on the European Continent. Brussels hasn’t come to grips with how far Biden, and war hawks like Graham, are willing to go, including starting WW III. Confirming today that he would support sending troop to Taiwan, it’s time for the American public to pump the brakes before it’s too late on Biden’s reckless foreign policy. Graham knows the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act where former President Jimmy Carter ended the 1954 Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty and agreed to recognize only one China, the one in Beijing. Graham is ready to escalate with Russia and he’s ready to do the same with China.
How is the Pentagon supposed to fight a two-front war with America’s nuclear-armed superpowers? Biden already has the U.S. battling the Kremlin in Ukraine, supplying unlimited cash-and-arms to Zelensky’s Kiev government. “So the question for Congress, should we have a defense agreement with the island of Taiwan? We don’t, should we have one,” Graham asked. “But yes, I’d be very much open to using U.S. forces to defend Taiwan, because it’s in our nation security interest to do so,” Graham said. So, Graham thinks with all the business ties between the U.S. Communist China, the U.S. should go to war against China to protect Taiwan? Graham is ready to escalate the war against the Kremlin, now saying he’d provide mutual defense to Taiwan. Graham’s comments are consistent with Sept. 23, 2022 remarks by Biden that he’d send U.S. troops to defend Taiwan.
Sheer madness has taken over the White House and Congress, not content apparently fighting the Kremlin to defend Ukraine. It’s not bad enough that Biden has destabilized world peace and financial markets, creating surging inflation and economy slowdown all over the planet. Now Graham reinforces Biden’s views of starting WW III with Communist China, over their border dispute with Taiwan. Tsai said all the right things about Taiwan’s democracy to pull in U.S. war hawks, looking to pick a fight with Communist China. All the tough talk has resulted in Biden waging war against the Kremlin, with new leaked information confirming that things haven’t gone all that well for Ukraine over the last 14 months of war with the Kremlin. Biden or his 60-year-old Secretary of State Antony Blinken only talk about Ukraine’s victories, not infrastructure damage and mass casualties in Ukraine.
Recently leaked Pentagon files give a different picture than the one painted by the White House. Depleting U.S. arms and munitions, it’s clear that Ukraine struggles to keep pace with Russian Federation, talking about a vaunted counteroffensive happening sometime this Spring. Graham’s remarks about Taiwan show he’s oblivious to the unending drain on the U.S. treasury, but, more importantly, on Pentagon stockpiles, now depleted in Ukraine. What’s the Pentagon supposed to do fighting Russia and China, both with little prospects to succeeding? Losing both fronts would forever damage U.S. credibility around the globs, leaving he U.S. vulnerable to opportunistic attacks. What’s Graham talking about U.S. national security, something badly damaged under the Biden administration. Graham can’t possibly think opening up a two-front war would bolster U.S. national security.
Biden has all the GOP war hawks like Graham backing his war with Russia, now considering a new front with China. Listening to Tsai talk about preserving Taiwan’s democracy pulls the heartstrings of U.S. lawmakers. Ending the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty in 1979, Graham knows that the U.S. pledge its loyalty to Beijing, not Taipei. Biden ended “strategic ambiguity” saying Sept. 23, 2022 he would send U.S. troops to defend Taiwan. How does Zelensky feel hearing that? “I believe in a One China policy, but I would be willing to fight for Taiwan because Taiwan is a ‘democracy,’” Graham said. “We stood with them for decades,” referring to U.S. arms sales to the island nation. “So I would up our game and if you don’t up your game now you are going to have a war,” Graham said. Only a change in the White House can’t stop the war drums from beating.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
