Ron Paul Liberty Report - Weekly Update --- Pelosi’s Taiwan Trip Exposes Foolishness of Interventionism
Aired: 2022-08-09
Duration: 04:32


=== Pelosi's Provocative Taiwan Trip (04:28) ===

[00:00:03]  Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the weekly report.
[00:00:07]  Pelosi's Taiwan trip exposes foolishness of interventionism.
[00:00:13]  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's surprise trip to Taiwan last week should be exhibit A as to why interventionism is dangerous, deadly, and dumb.
[00:00:26]  Though she claimed her visit won some sort of victory for democracy over autocracy, the stopover achieved nothing of the sort.
[00:00:37]  It was a pointless gesture that brought us closer to military conflict with zero benefits.
[00:00:45]  As Colonel Doug McGregor said on Pelosi's trip on a recent episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight, statesmanship involves advancing American interests at the least cost to the American people.
[00:01:00]  None of that is in play here.
[00:01:02]  Posturing is not statesmanship.
[00:01:06]  Pelosi's trip was no outlier.
[00:01:08]  Such counterproductive posturing is much celebrated by both parties in Washington.
[00:01:15]  Neoconservative senators Bob Menendez and Lindsey Graham were thrilled with Pelosi's stop in Taipei and used it as a springboard to push for new legislation that would essentially declare war on China by declaring Taiwan a major non-NATO ally.
[00:01:36]  The one China policy that, while perhaps not perfect, has kept the peace for more than 40 years, is to be scrapped and replaced with one sure to provoke a war.
[00:01:49]  Who benefits?
[00:01:51]  Foolishly taking the U.S. to the brink of war with Russia over Ukraine is evidently not enough for Washington's bipartisan war-mongering class.
[00:02:03]  Risking a nuclear war on two fronts with both Russia and China is apparently the only way for Washington to show the rest of the world it's serious.
[00:02:15]  The Washington Post neoconservative columnist Josh Rogan accurately captures the mindset in Washington, D.C. with a recent article titled, The Skeptics Are Wrong.
[00:02:27]  The U.S. Can Confront Both China and Russia.
[00:02:31]  For Washington's foreign policy experts, those of us who don't believe a war with both Russia and China is a great idea are written off as skeptics.
[00:02:43]  Count me as one of the skeptics.
[00:02:46]  During the Cold War, there were times of heightened tension, but even in the darkest days, the idea that nuclear war with China and the Soviet Union could be a solution was held only by only a few madmen.
[00:03:02]  Now, with the ideological struggle of the Cold War a decades-old memory, such an argument makes even less sense.
[00:03:12]  Yet this is what Washington is selling.
[00:03:15]  The U.S. fighting a proxy war with Russia through Ukraine and Nancy Pelosi provoking China neatly to the point of war over Taiwan is meant to show the world how tough we are.
[00:03:31]  In reality, it demonstrates the opposite.
[00:03:35]  A drunken man in a bar challenging everyone to a fight is not tough.
[00:03:40]  He's foolish.
[00:03:42]  He has nothing to gain and everything to lose from his display of bravado.
[00:03:48]  That is interventionism at its core, a foolish policy that provokes nothing but anger overseas, benefits no one in the U.S. except the special interest, and leaves the rest of us much poorer and worse off.
[00:04:04]  There may be plenty to criticize about China's government and policies.
[00:04:09]  They are far from perfect, particularly in protection of civil liberties.
[00:04:14]  But have we already forgotten that our own government shot down the country for two years over a virus and then forced a huge number of Americans to take an experimental shot that is proving to be as worthless as it is dangerous?