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The United States Empires Ultimate Target Is Not Russia But China by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2022-03-30 at 22:45:36 )
The United States Empires Ultimate Target Is Not Russia But China by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
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The Pentagon has produced its latest National Defense Strategy (NDS), a report made every four years to provide the public and the government with a broad overview of the United States war machines planning, posturing, developments and areas of focus.
You might assume with all the aggressive brinkmanship between Moscow and the United States power alliance this year that Russia would feature as Enemy Number One in the 2022 NDS, but you would be assuming incorrectly. The United States "Defense" Department reserves that slot for the same nation that has occupied it for many years now: China.
Antiwars Dave DeCamp writes the following:
The full NDS is still classified, but the Pentagon released a fact sheet on the document that says it "will act urgently to sustain and strengthen deterrence, with the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) as our most consequential strategic competitor and the pacing challenge for the Department."
The fact sheet outlines four priorities for the Pentagon:
-Defending the homeland, paced to the growing multi-domain threat posed by the PRC
-Deterring strategic attacks against the United States, Allies, and partners
-Deterring aggression, while being prepared to prevail in conflict when necessary, prioritizing the PRC challenge in the Indo-Pacific, then the Russia challenge in Europe
-Building a resilient Joint Force and defense ecosystem
China Identified as Top "Threat" in New National Defense Strategy
US military activity near China increased significantly in 2021
by Dave DeCamp@DecampDave #China-Antiwar.com (Antiwarcom) March 29, 2022
"The Pentagon says that while China is the focus, Russia poses "acute threats" because of its invasion of Ukraine," DeCamp writes, showing the empires view of Moscow as a second-tier enemy.
Ahead of a meeting with Chinas Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has made some comments which clearly illustrate the United States-centralized empires actual problem with Moscow.
"We, together with you, and with our sympathisers will move towards a multipolar, just, democratic world order," Lavrov said to the Chinese government on Wednesday.
And that right there ladies and gentlemen is the real reason we have been hearing so much hysterical shrieking about Russia these last five or six years. It has never been about Russian hackers. Nor about a Kremlin pee pee tape. Nor about Trump Tower. Nor about GRU bounties in Afghanistan. Nor about Manafort, Flynn, Bannon, Papadopoulos or any other Russiagate Surname of the Week. It has not even actually about Ukraine. Those have all been narrative-shaping constructs manipulated by the United States intelligence cartel to manufacture support for a final showdown against Russia and China to prevent the emergence of a multipolar world.
The United States government has had a policy in place since the fall of the Soviet Union to prevent the rise of any powers which could challenge its imperial agendas for the world. During the (first) Cold War the strategy promoted by empire managers like Henry Kissinger was to court China out of necessity to pull it away from the USSR, which was when we saw business ties between China and the United States lead to immense profits for certain individuals in both nations and the influx of wealth which now has China on track to surpass the United States as an economic superpower.
Once the USSR ended, so too did the need to remain on friendly terms with China, and subsequent decades saw a sharp pivot into a much more adversarial relationship with Beijing.
Speaking at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum, Hillary Clinton admits there was an expectation in Washington,D.C. Russia would have no choice but to become the Wests junior partner due to the fear China could take over the Russian Far East-Artyom Lukin (ArtyomLukin) November 20, 2021
In what history may one day view as the United States empires greatest strategic blunder, empire managers forecasted the acquisition of post-soviet Russia as an imperial lackey state which could be weaponized against the new Enemy Number One in China. Instead, the exact opposite happened.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the Bloomberg New Economy Forum last year that she had "heard for years that Russia would become more willing to move toward the west, more willing to engage in a positive way with Europe, the UK, the US, because of problems on its border, because of the rise of China." But that is not what occurred.
"We have not seen that," Ms Clinton said. "Instead what we have seen is a concerted effort by President Putin maybe to hug China more."
The empires expectation that Moscow would come grovelling to the imperial throne on its own meant that no real effort was expended trying to establish goodwill and win over its friendship. NATO just kept on expanding and the empire got increasingly aggressive and belligerent in its games of global conquest.
This error has led to the strategists ultimate nightmare of having to fight for global domination against two separate powers at once. Because empire architects incorrectly predicted that Moscow would end up fearing Beijing more than it fears Washington,D.C., the tandem between Chinas economic power and Russias military power that experts have been pointing to for years has only gotten more and more intimate.
And now here we are with Russian and Chinese officials openly discussing their plans to create a multipolar world while Chinese pundits crack jokes about the United States empires transparent ploys to turn Beijing against Moscow over the Ukraine invasion:
Can you help me fight your friend so that I can concentrate on fighting you later?-
CGTN LIU Xin (LiuXininBeijing) March 19, 2022
On the empires grand chessboard, Russia is the queen piece, but China is the king. Just as with chess it helps to take out your opponents strongest piece to more easily pursue checkmate, the United States empire would be well advised to try and topple Chinas nuclear superpower friend and, as Consortium News editor-in-chief Joe Lauria recently put it, "ultimately restore a Yeltsin-like puppet to Moscow."
Basically all we are looking at in the major international news stories of our time is the rise of a multipolar world crashing headlong into an empire which has espoused the belief that unipolar domination must be retained at all cost, even if it means flirting with the possibility of a very fast and radioactive third world war.
This is the Hail Mary pass of the United States hegemon.
Its last-ditch effort to secure control before forever losing any chance at it.
Many anti-imperialist pundits I read regularly seem quite confident that this effort will fail, while I personally think those forecasts may be a bit premature. The way the chess pieces are moving it definitely does look like there is a plan in place, and I do not think they would be orchestrating that plan if they did not believe it had a chance to succeed.
One thing that does seem clear is that the only way the empire has any chance of stopping the rise of China is by maneuvers that will be both highly disruptive and existentially dangerous for the entire world.
If you think things are crazy now, just you wait until the imperial crosshairs move to Beijing.
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