This is a short post on Nancy Pelosi and her childish/rebel-adolescent tamper tantrum to raise sh*t through her visit to Taiwan a couple of months ago, thus further complicating a situation already explosive. For what purpose? To send a message to China? Or to insist on America’s resolve in defending Taiwan? Maybe to show that America is still Great and powerful? All these, however, have already been demonstrated through both Trump and Biden administrations!!
Maybe it was to show that the Democrats are adamantly anti-China to make sure some of the hawks’ votes go to them in the midterm elections. In any case, it was not necessary, it was not really approved/appreciated by the US executive branch who generally leads the foreign policy, and gave an excuse to China to carry out a massive live fire military exercise that it would not have done otherwise.
When she was pushed on her action, she repeated that she hoped other countries now would start doing the same thing, and her aim was to support freedom and democracy!! I find the explanation a bit weak (and in line with her general condescending behavior) especially since around the same time, the White House occupant paid a visit to a leader who ordered the killing and dismemberment of a journalist, and whose country’s social and religious policies basically persecute women!!
I know that she is admired by many people and some of you may take objection to this post, but frankly the other day I thought about her behavior in this particular case and found it resembled that of a proto-senile person behaving like an adolescent in trying to prove that she mattered.
Paris, October 13, 2022
Zeejay