You contradicted yourself by first stating USN wont start a shooting war for an 80 year old politician then later stating China shooting her plane down will definetly give US justification to start total war.
USN doesnt decide what it goes to war over. When US decides to go to war it doesnt need and dont care about justification.
Again, Pelosi is merely the pretext, her life doesnt matter to either side in the grand scheme of things....
Yourself and the poster before you still hope this is a limited engagement /tactic from the US side, to either collapse the CPC leading to Chinese regime change or to embarass China again with a stunt to get leverage in other negotiations...
America has ran out of time and ran out of options.... this is its last stand... and its not that patient to begin with... I see this as a signal/indication that full scale total war has already been greenlit and there is no turning back no matter what happens or doesnt happen from here on out