Editorial -- Nancy Pelosi for President?

Once again, Nancy Pelosi is acting like she is the President and not Joe Biden. It’s bad enough that we are shelling out billions of dollars to prop up a war in Ukraine that likely will find no winners, against a nuclear power. It’s bad enough that we’re on the brink of war against three other powers in China, North Korea, and Iran, two of which are nuclear powers and the other is a potential nuclear power. It’s bad enough that Speaker Pelosi is throwing gas on the conflict with China with her visit to Taiwan, a move obviously calculated to lure China into a premature strike there which would turn into another protracted war.

When she first ran for Congress and then House Leadership, she presented herself as somehow who was not like those other Democrats who caved into George Bush on anything and everything. She was against the Iraq War, and she would make history by being the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House.

But people are judged by the content of their character and not their gender or the color of their skin. And Speaker Pelosi’s true colors have shown since the start of the “Special Military Operation.” 

Not content with throwing gas on the fire with China, Speaker Pelosi is now throwing gas on the fire in the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia, demanding that the US inject itself into the conflict on the side of Armenia. She made a recent trip to the latter country to beg for the US to escalate the skirmishing there into a war, with the US fueling Armenia. 

If the President of Russia’s recent actions reveal a desperation to reverse the results of the Ukraine counter-offensive, the Speaker of the House’s actions reveal a desperation to prop up the US as the world’s policeman, calling for actions that are sure to drive up inflation, upend supply chains, drive up gas prices, and increase the risk of World War III.

What makes Speaker Pelosi’s actions even more disingenuous is the fact that the US is already funding Azerbaijan militarily. So her actions have only served to expose the two party duopoly for what it is – totally devoid of principle and totally dependent on the Military Industrial Complex. 

Editorial -- Nancy Pelosi Wants War With China

So apparently, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi now thinks she is the President. As part of a tour of Asia – something that normally presidents do – CNN reports as of Monday afternoon that she is expected to visit Taiwan, along with four other congresspeople. The Wall Street Journal reported this as well.

If Russia is the clear and present danger to Europe that Putin’s biggest critics charge, then what is Speaker Pelosi doing throwing gas on an already tense situation between the US and China, two nuclear powers, over Taiwan, a place that the US acknowledges is part of China? All this does is risk dragging the US into a two front war between the US, Russia, and China, one that they cannot win. And it could turn into a four front war if Iran and North Korea decide to take advantage of the situation. Or maybe Speaker Pelosi, who has access to classified intelligence that we don’t, knows something we don’t. Maybe the threat from Russia has been blown completely out of proportion.

Those who point to parallels between now and the late 1930’s, when Nazi Germany was threatening to unleash war, miss a key difference – the US, Russia, and China are all nuclear powers. Nobody would win such a war. We’d all burn. That is why the US and Russia, back when saner heads were in power, got together in 1987 and agreed that such a war must never be fought. Putin is a bully, but he is not suicidal.

And this illustrates the wrongheadedness of Joe Biden’s policy of sticking it to the Russians and simultaneously escalating tensions with China, Iran, and North Korea. Even if he wouldn’t personally start a war between the US and any of these countries, the next President might. For instance, Hillary Clinton (D) and John Bolton (R) never met a war they didn’t like. And there are always wanna-be presidents like Speaker Pelosi who are more than happy to escalate already high tensions between the US and China. In 1914, it took one hotheaded person to plunge Europe into war.

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