If the President and Vice-President were both killed, I believe the speaker of the house is appointed as the new President. If the speaker is killed first, then the President and Vice-President shortly after, I'm not sure what happens in that event.
Pelosi could also be working with China to disappear, and having the world think your plane was shot down is a good way for nobody to question your disappearance.
Pelosi could also be working with China to disappear, and having the world think your plane was shot down is a good way for nobody to question your disappearance.
This is a fair explaination-in-the-small but doesn't comport with the amount of military backing for the move.
The sudden antagonism toward china coincidences with a few explainations 1. biden is not owned by china (fat chance)
there is a faction in the biden regime that isn't owned by china, or has turned against the DNC (my prevailing theory).
its a distraction from domestic issues and ukraine while a new narrative is drummed up.
The case of number three, the thinking internally woul be that china is tied at the hip with the regime, so any talk of war amounts to saber rattling between us and china with very little actual risk. It would be to scare taiwan about attempting to play sides, or pressure them into 'cooperating' with the u.s. in a way that the u.s., courtesy of the bosses in china, would use to compromise taiwan in favor of china.
This would be a reasonable explaination if pelosi doesn't die.
However biden going into 'covid relapse' says to me they worry this may result in a conflict (of the global war variety). Which supports the idea that the regime/DNC has a splinter faction or elements that have turned against them. Woul explain why they couldn't stop the pelosi visit.
It may also just be her visiting to protect her financial investments in american manufacturing of computer chips. She'd have to go to affect any sort of covert threat against the taiwanese government. Or more likely, intentionally destabalize the situation there, in order to disrupt fab manufacturing in taiwan--to the benefit of domestic fab production which she is invested in and which would take up the production slack caused by an overseas logistics disruption due to a chinese blockade.
If thats the case, and pelosi represents a thorn in chinas side, then they have to take care of the problem before it gets worse. And therefore the worst move they could make would be to respond or blockade or disrupt taiwan while pelosi visits. It would be giving her clout domestically, when they can't control her, and would be pushing up the value of her stocks, which makes her less dependent on chinese-controlled donors and NGOs in the u.s.
It would also be giving the third-party neutral faction (the 'populist' faction) of the pentagon what it wants, which is a boost to defense contractor stocks and an excuse for budget increases. Which is exactly what Xi doesn't want, because then it means fresh weapons production for the ukraine war, rather than depleting american weapons systems.
The right move for Xi is therefore to do nothing over provocations about taiwan, unfortunately for them. This moment and scenario represents a choice between the chinese winning the ukraine war by having an outcome where russia is pushed into their arms long term, or winning taiwan, but resulting in the u.s. potentially beating russia in ukraine eventually.
However biden going into 'covid relapse' says
We've seen already Biden abdicate to Kamala over a medical related issue. He might secretly be using covid to officially abdicate to Pelosi. She might literally be acting president right now.
(post is archived)