I think you just blew off a very good and rationale reply from Married21.
You need to go back and read it carefully. The PRC is ALREADY our enemy. They crave our destruction as a world power, and will use Taiwan to achieve that goal if we let them.
Married21 is saying the issue isn’t the “worthiness” of Taiwan, but the danger the PRC is becoming. Taiwan is just the pawn... As much as Poland was in 1939.
We need to oppose them, and that itself will not start a war China’s communists are already willing to fight.
The choice is status quo, we submit to China, or we oppose China, even with violence. Status quo is best, but it appears the PRC no longer has patience to the status quo.
The real question is not if we, the USA, are going to start or not start a war, but are we, the USA, going to allow China to replace the USA as the primary world power.
One reason we have had as much peace and prosperity as we have had as a nation is that we have kept going to war someplace else. We have to project power elsewhere because we don’t ever want the fighting with the bullies of the world to be on our own soil if it can possibly be avoided. Oil is not at stake, but freedom and security from the Chinese military and corporate espionage is. And tamping down any Chinese connection to terrorists.
A strong connection with Taiwan, Korea, Japan and others can slow Ji Jin Ping down in his ambitions to be a second Chairman Mao. That should be the plan, but, as Obama said, never underestimate Biden’s ability to screw this up.