[Chainmail]

So - we will stand by our allies, our treaties, our word as a nation - or we’ll fold and crawl back under our beds and hide.

I do hate cowards and defeatists.

[Olog-hai]

There is a rank due to the United States among nations, which will be withheld, if not utterly lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it. If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war.

— George Washington, Fifth Annual Address to Congress

… (T)o fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence. Supreme excellence consists of breaking your enemy’s resistance without fighting.

— Sun Tzu, The Art Of War III:2

The Chicoms want to make the USA look weak, and its people feel weak. Hence they have agents here to foment this weakness.

[redgolum]

What is in the best interests of the nation to do?

The old British Empire was rather cutthroat and never to be trusted to act against their interests.

[Trailerpark Badass]

We have a treaty to defend Taiwan? Seriously asking because I wasn’t aware.