Posted on 10/08/2019 5:07:50 AM PDT by sushiman
The Coming War on China, from award winning journalist John Pilger, reveals what the news doesn’t – that the world’s greatest military power, the United States, and the world’s second economic power, China, both nuclear-armed, may well be on the road to war.
Nuclear war is not only imaginable, but planned. The greatest build-up of NATO military forces since the Second World War is under way on the western borders of Russia. On the other side of the world, the rise of China is viewed in Washington as a threat to American dominance.
To counter this, President Obama announced a ‘pivot to Asia’, which meant that almost two-thirds of all US naval forces would be transferred to Asia and the Pacific, their weapons aimed at China. A policy which has been taken up by his successor Donald Trump, who during his election campaign said “We can’t continue to allow China to rape our country and that’s what they’re doing”.
Filmed on five possible front-lines across Asia and the Pacific over two years, the story is told in chapters that connect a secret and ‘forgotten’ past to the rapacious actions of great power today and to a resistance, of which little is known in the West.
IIRC, we heard about it the next day in Silicon Valley, is that what you recall Vendome?
Well those of us who weren't directly involved by home or business in Silicon Valley
didn't learn of the cause or seriousness of the attack on the sub-station
until 1 1/2 years later when the matter became public in a government report.
It was the next day and that particular substation is patrolled 24x7
A war with China would turn into a World War—But that doesn’t mean it will go Nuke. Just as poison gas was not used in battle in WW II so too nukes would not be used in WW III.
A war with China would be a mostly naval with land fighting in India and Vietnam (and possibly Korea ) It might have a European theater with Russia moving west to crush Germany/Nato. USA would be busy in the pacific defending Japan. Unlike WW II I don’t think the Allies will win this time.
Yeah. Welcome to mushroom world.
Still, it did give them time to harden all substations without opening them to copycat events nationwide.
Not that they ever even tried to harden them, but they did have the time to do it. *sigh*
I think we would win, but it would be at a high cost, but not as high a cost as a defeat, as China will bear.
China has enough people to wage a land war on five fronts simultaneously. We would be lucky to put up a good defense on one.
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