A real deal maker would make a deal that kept Taiwan free.

Do you have any idea how much of the worlds, and the U.S. high tech manufacturing is done in Taiwan?

The CHIPS act was done specifically to alleviate this, but we're years from any of that going into production.

To risk escalation like this at this point, before we were actually ready for the consequences, was monumentally unwise. In other words, we almost HAVE to defend Taiwan, whether we like it or not. That's just the reality of it.