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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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    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.

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      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.

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        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……

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.