I’m not sure using ‘the world didn’t end’ would be a good measure of wether or not that provocation wad a good idea.

Needlessly antagonizing another superpower while cocking things up badly in Eastern Europe looks like desperation. Europe’s going backwards economically. Coal plants are being put back online. Over 5 million refugees. Up to a thousand Ukraine conscripts are dying a day. Germany has cut hot water usage in all public buildings, etc.

World didn’t end but there’s major consequences for the parties involved. Wonder what there will be with unnecessarily provoking another conflict.

I remember the aghastitude of the liberals when Gingrich visited Taipei. How far to the war mongering right the Dems have become.