The United States has not been prepared - logistically, doctrinally, spiritually or emotionally since 1983 at the latest, and probably since Uncle Tai’s Hunan Yuan opened in Manhattan after Nixon’s trip to China.
We were not going back to Moo Goo Gai Pan after that.
Seriously - history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. I was born less than five years after the Japanese surrender on the USS Missouri and I was brought up in one of the houses that sprouted up out of the potato fields of Long Island. Kids in my class lost their fathers in Korea.
“We did it before, and we can do it again”
Actually, no, we can’t. Mao said the US was a paper tiger, and he was absolutely correct. Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Iwo Jima were won in part as battles in a race war, and we don’t do that any more.
Vietnam was the tragedy. Sacrificing the US Navy in a vain effort to prevent the inevitable would be the farce.
The fall of Taiwan will mark the end of the American superpower status.
We’ll just be “Argentina with nukes.”
The Chinese will move with a slow deliberation after the Olympic Games. Before the new GOP Congress takes over in January 2023, they will move on Taiwan. My bet July of 2022 with a full land, air, Space, and sea operation. They will move so fast we will have little time to re-act. Biden will slow things down and not act until the Chinese are in full control of the Island. Media will be their helpers—preaching a hard line CCP Propaganda line 24/7. A Hong-Kong Like Treaty will ensure Taiwan “Independence” in economy.