Yes, I am sure that is how so many guardsmen died in the Middle East, as the state mobilized and sent them on their own accord.

Not saying he will or that all states would go along with it, but when the money flows, troops do get mobilized for
declared national emergencies. We have troops on our southern border now, sometime being shot at, that are not even issued live ammunition to shoot back, as we speak. I have never been sure what good that is doing, but I guess it looks good for the strong border proponents, whether they really serve a purpose other than symbolic or not.
The Taiwan Relations Act does not guarantee the U.S. will intervene militarily if the PRC attacks or invades Taiwan nor does it relinquish it, as its primary purpose is to ensure the US's Taiwan policy will not be changed unilaterally by the president and ensure any decision to defend Taiwan will be made with the consent of Congress. The act states that "the United States will make available to Taiwan such defense articles and defense services in such quantity as may be necessary to enable Taiwan to maintain a sufficient self-defense capabilities". However, the decision about the nature and quantity of defense services that America will provide to Taiwan is to be determined by the President and Congress. America's policy has been called "
strategic ambiguity", and it is designed to dissuade Taiwan from a unilateral declaration of independence, and to dissuade the PRC from unilaterally unifying Taiwan with the PRC.[
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Taiwan Relations Act - Wikipedia