A wargame exercise ordered by Congress has shown that the United States could not resupply Taiwan if China decides to invade and take control of the island.
RT:
A wargame modeling exercise ordered by a US congressional committee has shown that it would be impossible for Washington to resupply Taiwan with weapons and equipment after a Chinese invasion of the self-governing island.
The exercise was carried out this week by the US House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, with help from think tank Center for a New American Security in Washington. “We are well within the window of maximum danger for a Chinese Communist Party invasion of Taiwan, and yesterday’s war game stressed the need to take action to deter CCP aggression and arm Taiwan to the teeth before any crisis begins,” US Representative Mike Gallagher, a Wisconsin Republican who chairs the committee, said on Thursday in a statement.
The exercise showed that US forces would suffer heavy losses if the Pentagon doesn’t shore up its stockpiles of long-range missiles and negotiate use of more military bases in the Asia-Pacific region, Reuters reported, citing an unidentified person familiar with the modeling results. The conflict would leave the world’s financial markets in “absolute tatters.”
“The business community is not taking the threat of a Taiwan crisis seriously enough,” Gallagher said, warning that a lax attitude on the issue “verges on dereliction of fiduciary duty.”
This was obvious. Anybody who knows where Taiwan is located relative to the United States can see that it would not be possible to resupply the island. There was no need to do some elaborate wargame exercise to know this.
Look at how close Taiwan is to the Chinese mainland.
It is unreal how hard Republicans are pushing this war agenda against China over Taiwan. They’re even threatening the “business community” for not supporting this insane war agenda enough.
Do these people not understand that this war agenda is highly unpopular among the people living in Taiwan? There is rising support for full reunification with China because of constant agitations from the US.
Just listen to this Gallagher moron. He claims he’s trying to prevent a war when all he is doing is making the prospect of war more likely.
Rep. Gallagher ahead of Wednesday night’s bipartisan @committeeonccp wargame: “The goal of course is to deter the CCP from launching an invasion…we are conducting this wargame in order to prevent a war.” pic.twitter.com/EHk0i51D6E
— Rep. Gallagher Press Office (@RepGallagher) April 21, 2023
The US will lose badly if they try to do a war against China over Taiwan.
