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Why is Biden Risking Nuclear War with China? – Chomsky and Ellsberg

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Putin's Plan to Use Nuclear Weapons to Destroy Taiwan

Biden is not going to remove, in terms of ambiguity, whether he will use nuclear weapons, if necessary, to defend Taiwan. The Chinese were 20 years, more than 20 years, since Clinton sent two carriers into the Taiwan Straits to intimidate them in 1996. They had been building up that area,. so the US can't make threats like that, and can't act with impunity in that area anymore. It's outrageous for either party, or either superpower, to be using the threat of initiating nuclear war for any reason, whatever.

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