Retired Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery

Navy ship.

You know, when I talk with him, you know, he and his shipmates expect that they'll be part of a crisis or war that breaks out there because that's how our Department of Defense views the Taiwan Relations Act.

So, we're training and building a military to be ready to respond.

But, you know, you kind of hit it in your question.

Will the president make the decision to do it?

And that is a uniquely presidential decision.

What do you think?

You've got a lot of experience, sir.

What do you think?

Look, Joe Biden four times said, I'll fight for Taiwan, and four times his national security advisor the next morning went, you did not hear him say that.

We're back to what they call strategic ambiguity, that maybe we will, maybe we won't.

I think President Trump practices something different than strategic ambiguity.

He practices more a form of strategic unpredictability.

You don't know what he's going to do.

And I think in doing so, he kind of preserves some deterrence.

Would he really pull the trigger?

Only if Taiwan were doing really well, because what we learned in the 12-day war between Israel and Iran is three or four days into it, Israel was doing very well.

The president's right next to dad, Yahoo, with a thumbs up.

And, you know, seven days later, we were doing something we never, ever thought we'd do, dropping massive ordnance penetrators on the Fordow nuclear enterprise.

So from my view, it's not known, but it's not strategic ambiguity.