The priorities of the Beltway occupiers are clear. The Taiwanese government has been promised $567 million in military aid from the US, while Ukraine and Israel continue to rake in seemingly endless billions to finance their forever wars.
Taiwan has long complained of delays in aid for its ground forces and vintage air force composed of aging Northrop F-5s and Mirage 2000s. The embattled island will receive its first batch of M1 Abrams tanks and F-16V jets from the US to counter the omnipresent threat of Chinese invasion.
Is the aid worth the provocation? Roughly half a billion dollars is a drop in the bucket compared to the lavish spending on the twin wars in the Middle East and Asia, amounting to nearly $100 billion. The current US attitude is to provoke China, fight Russia by proxy, and enrage the entire Middle East by bankrolling Israel.
Never mind domestic issues such as the devastation from Hurricane Helene, where aid has been slow to materialize. While Americans suffer, Joe Biden was on the beach, and Kamala Harris was raising money in San Francisco.
