The US military is preparing for war on China, and has missile systems in the Philippines aimed at major Chinese cities. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the USA is making “Japan into a war-fighting headquarters”. Ben Norton discusses the extremely aggressive policies of Trump, Biden, and beyond.
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US Defense Secretary Hegseth wants to overthrow China’s government, in ‘crusade’ against left (and Islam): US Defense Secretary Hegseth wants to overthrow China’s government, in ‘crusade’ against left (and Islam)
Imagine believing that the craziest genocidal empire in history hasn’t been wasting enough lives and resources on the MIC.
The Western hegemony only knows one way to solve issues and that is violence.
I cannot seeing this ending well
I don’t like the way the world is heading.
it will be a very quick war, what with both countries having a lot of nukes
The Japanese government is currently trying to deal with food shortages from a stupid agricultural policy that has sent the price up rice up 300%. Meanwhile, the US is busy blowing up its own economy while China dog walks Trump over tariffs, and on the military side, the US inventory is so depleted from Israel and Ukraine that they would run out of munitions within the first week of any actual shooting war.
So the scene from Enemy at the Gates will officially become projection. ‘When the man with the gun dies, pick up the gun and shoot’.
That movie sucked
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the USA is making “Japan into a war-fighting headquarters”.
Imagine being Japanese right now and finding out your beautiful country is being transformed into a punching bag.
if they didn’t learn it back when the plaza accords were signed, they won’t learn it now. Countries occupied by the US are simply pawns.
As opposed to every other country with US bases in it since, what, 1945?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=WTP7v4BB-Bo
I found this guys take to be very interesting and credible and terrifying if true.
Never heard of him. He writes for The Real News Network, which I take as a good sign. His interviewee, John Helmer, talks about Trump administration mandarins Wess Mitchell and Elbridge Colby.
I wasn’t referring to Dimitri (who does great stuff and lots of activism) but to what John Helmer said. Just incase it’s TLDW for any one he basically predicts that Trump has no intention on ending the war in Ukraine and instead will try to bait Russia into extending the conflict into a direct war with Europe. This will force the Europeans to buy American weapons, and use them to go to war with Russia destroy them, and allow the United States to focus all their efforts on starting a war with China. This at least is the plan of the one homelander looking CIA mother fucker, and the other smug one.
I hate these political psychos with a burning passion……
This isn’t really a secret in the US. Every who’s gotten out of the military recently that I’ve talked to from all different backgrounds all say the same thing, war with China is inevitable and the timeline has been moved up to 2027 from 2030. The US will not allow them to take Taiwan, too much at stake. Doubtful we’ll initiate.
The US will not allow them to take Taiwan, too much at stake. Doubtful we’ll initiate.
But the US already did since Biden. They named Taiwan an “important strategic military partner” which goes much further. Basically the US is putting it’s finger on the map halfway around the world right in front of China’s doorstep and saying “this is ours” while China says it is theirs. Obviously Taiwan DID belong to greater China and even though I don’t especially support reunification it’s a slap in the face. Instead of letting sleeping dogs lie.
It’s always the press and people portraying the US has not doing anything but inviting countries into their military alliance. It’s dangerous warmongering. Yes, and the same happened in Ukraine.
I can see the opinions after another proxy war breaks out, oh those evil Chinese devils / yellow orcs! Appeasement doesn’t work, they want to gobble up all the world like Hitler!
Hopefully China is smarter or the USA collapses before that can happen.
Last Taiwan election had US hawk oligarchist President elected, but Parliament majority was won by the sensible survivalist party. To help start a war, there is a proposal for McCarthyist military tribunal system where, like recent ROK martial law, “do you now, or have you ever, considered war to not provide a path to glorious happiness?” in order to jail anyone blocking war, and measures that would force China to intervene.
Whether we ultimately initiate or not, we will work to create conditions for China to initiate, as we did with Ukraine, and as we did with Afghanistan in the previous cold war. Despite the public rhetoric, the US doesn’t give a rat’s ass about Taiwanese or Ukrainian lives. They’re just means to its imperialist ends.
US doesn’t even give a rat’s ass about American lives.
China will fuck with Taiwan just enough to get them to melt their chip foundries, then blockade the fuck out of them till they say uncle. Give china another five years or so to get their own chip industry to something approaching parity, then they’ll strike. Once Taiwan loses their best export, support for them will plummet.
To be honest, I’m amazed it took til Biden before we saw more pressure on TSMC as a flashpoint.
Even if we’re on nominal good terms because they’re a capitalist democracy, nobody likes single points of failure (earthquakes and industrial disasters happen even without geopolitical tensions)
But we’ve handled it miserably-- throw some money at Intel who can’t innovate out of their gilded cage anymore, and try to get a few TSMC facilities stateside-- when we should have been trying to completely diversify the supply chains with new players and new geographies.
In fact, it’s amazing that we lost the concept of second sourcing. That ensured no one vendor held you hostage. Like 8 different firms made 8088s, on up to the 486, but after that it dried up fast. You saw a few IBM badged Cyrix 6x86s, but who else sells a pin-compatible Ryzen?
I hope once China gets far enough up on the tech curve, they see distributing fab tech as a BRI programme. No reason your next bag of 74LS04s, or the 30-cent MCU in your thermostat, can’t be made on a 28nm fab in Burkina Faso.
