[TheDandyMan]

Non sequitur — just because we shouldn’t be the world police, it doesn’t follow that China is our friend, and I seldom if ever observe people of the mindset you’re mocking who say that it is.

To the extend that Taiwan is a part of a strategy to defend the US, by all means recognize the ROC and sell them whatever weapons they can pony up the cash for. Beyond that, I don’t foresee Taiwanese troops fighting to defend US sovereignty in any event, so US troops defending ROC sovereignty is a non-starter.

[familyop]

"Non sequitur — just because we shouldn’t be the world police, it doesn’t follow that China is our friend,..."

It is the presumed antecedent, though. The PLA under the CPC is expansionist in nature. Ignorance towards expansionism is what allowed the Germans to commit acts of war against the United States in World War 1 and World War 2.

The same ignorance is sucking both China and Russia into hastening efforts to expand control now into South America, the Caribbean, Africa and many other places. The same ignorance is sucking them into implying threats to annihilate the U.S.A. And to that truth, cowardly keyboard hippies often insult the bearers of reality with projections.