Will the ‘Restrainers’ in the Pentagon Throw Taiwan to the Wolves?

Prior to his transition from mild Donald Trump critic into Trump endorser, Vivek Ramaswamy committed the cardinal sin of honesty in describing what he thought might reflect the populist right’s outlook toward Taiwan and the threat to it posed by Communist China.

“My message to China is clear: Do not mess with Taiwan before 2028,” he told Hugh Hewitt in August 2023. “After 2028, we have semiconductor independence. We have very different commitments, lower commitments, significantly lower commitments to a situation in which you’re sorting out a nationalistic dispute dating back to 1949.”