Reality: Peace Is Not Possible

Editor's note: Not to be pessimists but this is not going to happen. The present central banking commercial warfare model with a vast weapons and munitions industry will never pursue peaceful trade, economic cooperation, transparency and mutual benefit. The US, UK and NATO (US vassal) countries are clearing out their military stockpiles of junk (Australia has been in dialogue with NATO since 2005) and dumping it on Ukraine to make room for the manufacturing and sale of replacement military equipment. The goal to get Ukraine into NATO hasn't stopped. It would open the flood gates of weapon sales. America has already proven to have destroyed a "great empire" over Ukraine and the continuing destruction will not stop. How is it even thinkable the United States of Lockheed Martin will "benefit the Japanese people and their communities" with Japan purchasing 105 jets for $80 million per aircraft? 

The US military is literally devouring America

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Source: Ron Paul Institute

End Washington's Buildup for War with China, Pursue Peace and Economic Cooperation

By Connor Freeman | June 29, 2023

As Washington is mired in brinkmanship with Russia in Ukraine, the last thing the US should do is decouple with China. For years, the Pentagon has been eyeing a future war with Beijing, yet another unnecessary war which – in our lifetimes - could lead to this planet's nuclear incineration.

America's new Cold War with China is a bi-partisan imperial project led by the Democrats. In 2011, former President Barack Obama began it in earnest, dubbing it the "pivot to Asia." The "pivot" entails the largest military buildup since the Second World War, shifting hundreds of bases as well as two-thirds of all US Air and Naval forces to the Asia-Pacific region. Washington is encircling China for a future war with Beijing.

In 2020, while Americans were distracted by the Covid-19 crisis, Donald Trump's war cabinet seized the opportunity to drastically expand the US military footprint in Beijing's near abroad by sending more warships and spy planes, conducting aerial surveillance flights, to the region and especially the South China Sea. These provocations have been vastly escalated by the Biden administration.

Americans must soon put the shoe on the other foot and ask how Washington would react if instead China was surrounding the US with weapons of war and military bases.

Ten months after Biden entered the oval office, US reconnaissance aircraft had flown over 2,000 sorties in the South China Sea, the East China Sea, and the Yellow Sea, including near China's coast. That same year, Biden nearly doubled the deployments of aircraft carrier strike groups in the South China Sea.

In 2022, US spy planes flew 1,000 sorties in the South China Sea including, in some instances, flying just over a dozen miles from the baseline of China's mainland territorial waters. US aircraft carrier strike groups and amphibious alert groups made eight deployments to the region. Last year, Biden sent nuclear-powered attack submarines to the South China Sea 12 times.

Concurrently, the US is attempting to wrangle its allies in the confrontation with China, bringing the north Atlantic alliance to the Indo-Pacific targeting Beijing, and building various alliances such as AUKUS and the Quad with Australia, Japan, and India, eyeing an east Asian version of NATO.

The Trump administration formally rejected almost all of China's claims to the waters in the South China Sea. Washington has been challenging China, using the Navy's Seventh Fleet, inserting itself into disputes between regional actors there whom all have overlapping claims on the waters including over various, sometimes unmanned, rocks, reefs, islands, islets, and archipelagos. Under Biden, the policy has been reaffirmed.

Even if it means war with China, Biden's administration has pledged that the US will defend Japan's claims to the uninhabited Senkaku Islands. The Senkaku Islands are claimed by Beijing, Tokyo, and Taipei. Similarly, Washington has promised the US military will come to the Philippines' defense in the event of a violent conflict with China, including in the South China Sea, potentially over the disputed Whitson Reef, which is claimed not only by Beijing and Manila but by Hanoi as well.

The Navy routinely conducts so-called Freedom Of Navigation Operations (FONOPS), in the waters surrounding China, sailing warships through the waters, particularly in the South China Sea, usually provocatively close to Chinese controlled or claimed islands.

Additionally, Biden's administration has overturned almost 50 years of US-Taiwan policy, which has largely kept the cross-strait peace. Per the former approach, the US would never commit to defending or not defending the island, which the US views as part of One-China, against a potential attack on the breakaway province. Critically, "strategic ambiguity" has aimed to deter Beijing from attempting to retake the island by force and, at the same time, to discourage Taiwan's radical factions seeking to declare independence.

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