In the Middle of Very Poor Management of Ukraine Crisis, US Sails Warships Through Taiwan Strait

What are these people doing?

Who is even in charge of this decision-making process? 

RT:

The USS Ralph Johnson, a guided-missile destroyer of the US Navy’s Seventh Fleet, sailed through the Strait of Taiwan on Saturday. The Pentagon said the exercise was a “routine” one, but amid heightened tension in Europe over Ukraine, China’s state media accused the US of fomenting conflict “on two sides of the world.”

The USS Ralph Johnson transited the strait through waters controlled by neither mainland China or Taiwan, a statement from the Seventh Fleet read. “The United States military flies, sails, and operates anywhere international law allows,” the statement continued, adding that Saturday’s sailing “demonstrates the United States’ commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific.”

The Taiwan Strait is 180 kilometers (110 miles) wide and separates mainland China from Taiwan, which Beijing considers Chinese. It is situated at the far north of the South China Sea, where US warships regularly conduct similar sailings to challenge Beijing’s territorial claims.

The Chinese government did not immediately respond to Saturday’s sailing, but the state-run Global Times news outlet – widely considered to closely reflect Beijing’s thinking – did.

“While the ongoing Ukraine-Russia tussle is intensifying, the US military is attempting to demonstrate its capabilities to stir up trouble on ‘two sides of the world’, meaning in Europe and Asia, and by doing so it sent a wrong signal to the ‘Taiwan independence’ forces,” the Global Times stated, citing Chinese analysts.

The US is in the middle of losing a massive chunk of territory it stole from Russia. In fact, it’s already lost – there is no solution to fix the situation, and it’s just a matter of waiting for the Ukrainian neo-Nazis to burn out, or get attacked by their own people for using these residential areas as human shield zones.

So obviously, China is looking at Taiwan, then looking over at how easy this has been for Russia – accomplishing a task much harder than taking Taiwan would be for China.

And the US solution is to antagonize China?

That’s the play?

I’m not going to say “it’s happening.”

But it could well be happening.

The logical move for China is to just take Taiwan right now. They’re going to get sanctioned nearly as much as Russia for not standing against Russia.

So what do they have to lose?

The US isn’t going to do anything, and they are about to totally collapse their own economy.