Nebraska’s Republican Senator Ben Sasse’s June 3 address in the Reagan Foundation’s “A Time for Choosing” Speaker Series, just shows how collectively insane the current “uniparty” elite of this country has gone.
Sasse followed his (enjoyable) denunciation of the current administration as “government of the weirdos, by the weirdos, for the weirdos,” with the lunatic proposition that the solution to the United States’ many problems is to prepare for war against China. He gave a typical “Ugly American” bully rant about how China “and the technologies they think their centralized system will harness faster and better than our decentralized system” are “the biggest threat to the American-led order,” and then demanded:
“Let’s pass a trillion-dollar defense budget….
“Let’s build a `NATO for the Pacific.’ We need allies to get back on the offensive against the CCP [Chinese Communist Party], and those allies need U.S. leadership. NATO in Europe has been the greatest treaty organization in history. It held the line against the Soviets, and it’s now holding the line against bloody Putin. But as Chairman Xi looks to expand his sphere of influence, we need a new military alliance centered far out into the Pacific. This is our main foreign policy work.
“Let’s streamline our intel agencies so we can win a shadow war with the Chinese Communist Party.
“Let’s arm the Taiwanese military to the teeth. Let’s amend the Taiwan Relations Act directly to make our security guarantee explicit. No more strategic ambiguity.
“Let’s pair military partnerships with economic partnerships…. Pacific NATO should be a free-trade zone, too.
“Nobody out-thinks, out-hustles, or out-works the American people. We built an American order that saw us through the Cold War. We can build a new American order that will see us through the coming conflict with the Beijing tyrant,” the jackass blustered.
