Sen. Lindsey Graham declared that the United States should deploy forces to Taiwan “so they can fight like Ukrainians” against China, which is widely believed to be planning an invasion of the small Asian country in the coming months or years.
Along with dispatching U.S. military forces to Taiwan, the South Carolina politician told “Fox News Sunday” that America should send Taiwan F-16 fighter jets and install nuclear-tipped missiles in submarines.
“I’d be very much open to using U.S. forces to defend Taiwan because it’s in our national security interest to do so,” Graham said.
Graham proceeded to claim that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is “setting the stage possibly for a blockade of Taiwan” and plans to “test us dramatically this year and next year before the election.”
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“In 1961, the Russians tried to isolate West Berlin. So I’m fearful that the Chinese may be setting conditions to blockade Taiwan in the coming months or weeks, and we need to respond forcefully if they do that,” Graham said, citing the threat of China gaining a “monopoly on the digital economy” regarding Taiwanese microchip production.
“What would I do to deter blockage Taiwan? I would let the Chinese know that if you blockade Taiwan, you’re gonna have a hard time getting oil from the Mid-East,” Graham said. “I would increase training and get the F-16s they need in Taiwan. There’s a backlog. I would solve that backlog.”
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“I would move war forces to South Korea and Japan,” Graham added. “I would put nuclear-tipped cruise missiles on all of our submarines all over the world like the Russians did.”
Graham additionally claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping have been “empowered” by Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
“Taiwan’s not the problem. Lindsey Graham’s not the problem. It’s Putin and it’s Xi,” Graham said.
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