Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Kowtows to the ChiComs and Cancels Scheduled Missile Test – Opinion

Thursday’s announcement by the Biden White House was that it would cancel a scheduled test firing of a Minuteman ICBM at Vandenburg AFB (CA) on Thursday. It was known years before. According to Wall Street JournalThe purpose was to keep the hemorhoids from inflaming President Xi’s Chinese Hemispheres.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the extended naval presence, John Kirby, a White House spokesman, said at a news briefing. Mr. Austin also ordered the missile-test delay to avoid further inflaming relations with China, Mr. Kirby said. He didn’t respond to a reporter’s question on whether President Biden ordered the delay.

“As China engages in destabilizing military exercises around Taiwan, the United States is demonstrating instead the behavior of a responsible nuclear power by reducing the risks of miscalculation,” Mr. Kirby said.

Because the world always interprets inaction as being responsible and not scared sh**less.

Here is my article on today’s Chinese exercise around Taiwan. This includes the first ever firing of missiles at Taiwanese soil and the largest air invasions to Taiwan beyond the Taiwan Strait median. China is changing Taiwan’s status quo. https://t.co/tS4YcKudmt

— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) August 4, 2022

It is the second such order by Secretary of Defense Austin this year. The last time was in early March, and we didn’t want to upset Vladimir Putin as his race to Kiev melted down; see Joe Biden’s Defense Department Cancels a Long-Scheduled Missile Test Because of Offending the Russians They Need for an Iran Nuclear Deal.

Alabama’s Mike Rogers, the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, hit the nail on the head.

In a foolish concession to Vladimir Putin earlier this year, President Biden cancelled a Minuteman III ICBM-test. Now, we learn that President Biden has postponed a second ICBM test to placate Xi’s tantrums. This news comes after China conducted live-fire exercises following the Speaker of the House’s visit to Taiwan. This appeasement tactic of weak-kneed, pearl-clutching will only increase aggression from our enemies.

Biden White House’s actions in face of oppositional challenges are nothing but an invitation for aggression. This supine policy to appease the violent acts being committed to our Armed Forces and by tax-paying taxpayers is a sign that a devastating war might be inevitable. Assuming that is something Biden’s cronies want.