Timeline for Was there risk that Speaker Pelosi's aircraft could have been shot down by the People's Liberation Army?
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| Aug 6, 2022 at 12:29 | comment | added | Machavity | @Shadur You're always going to have some foolish member of any party (especially these days) openly cheering for bad things to happen to the other side. I don't see GOP leadership doing that, nor do I see them balking at any sort of serious response for China. Again, this would shift public opinion against China. | |
| Aug 6, 2022 at 8:38 | comment | added | Shadur-don't-feed-the-AI | I'm unsure why you think that Pelosi getting assassinated by fighter jet wouldn't lead to a nontrivial chunk of the GOP's base celebrating in the streets while their talking heads would make comments about how of course it's terrible but she had it coming etc etc. | |
| Aug 5, 2022 at 21:30 | comment | added | user44029 | @Ian The other answers don't even mention the threat from the Chinese official. That's the only reason the Times mentioned it, not because anyone calculated some risk. | |
| Aug 5, 2022 at 15:31 | comment | added | Ian Campbell | This is a much more detailed analysis than the other answers, so I'll go ahead an accept it for now. | |
| Aug 5, 2022 at 15:31 | vote | accept | Ian Campbell | ||
| Aug 5, 2022 at 15:05 | history | answered | Machavity | CC BY-SA 4.0 |