Posted on 06/21/2018 7:58:23 PM PDT by cba123
On May 30th, Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced a momentous shift in American global strategic policy. From now on, he decreed, the U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM), which oversees all U.S. military forces in Asia, will be called the Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM). The name change, Mattis explained, reflects “the increasing connectivity between the Indian and Pacific Oceans,” as well as Washington’s determination to remain the dominant power in both.
What? You didn’t hear about this anywhere? And even now, you’re not exactly blown away, right? Well, such a name change may not sound like much, but someday you may look back and realize that it couldn’t have been more consequential or ominous. Think of it as a signal that the U.S. military is already setting the stage for an eventual confrontation with China.
If, until now, you hadn’t read about Mattis’s decision anywhere, I’m not surprised since the media gave it virtually no attention — less certainly than would have been accorded the least significant tweet Donald Trump ever dispatched. What coverage it did receive treated the name change as no more than a passing “symbolic” gesture, a Pentagon ploy to encourage India to join Japan, Australia, and other U.S. allies in America’s Pacific alliance system. “In Symbolic Nod to India, U.S. Pacific Command Changes Name” was the headline of a Reuters story on the subject and, to the extent that any attention was paid, it was typical.
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And stronger.
And stronger...
A full scale trade war between China & United States will .......
cause loss of 20 million jobs in China.
cause gain of 10 million jobs in USA.
Why the loss/gain is not equal?
Because productivity is higher in US.
I still don’t think it will ever amount to direct military conflict, no.
And yet, if there’s a war, we stop paying them, and stop buying from them, and then what do they do?
They should have gone with the CBICOM. China Burma India Command.
Nope. Their tech is squishy, they know it. Everyone that’s bought something Made in China knows it. It works for a year or two, then it breaks.
Their 2 “new” carriers are an old hunk of scrap rebuilt from the USSR, and a home-built version of that decades old tech.
Pretty sure we know exactly where to hit those ships to sink them.
The “connectivity” came to fruition when the Seabees built a comunication station on the island of Diego Garcia. Until that time there was a comunication gap so we couldn’t have a fleet in the Indian Ocean.
The project began in 1971. I was there in ‘73. I worked on a crew setting concrete high voltage poles, underground cable to a sewer plant and was on a crew that finished wiring the barracks so ship’s company could move into a barracks with A/C.
My best bud was a mechanic who kept the machines running building the runway.
We’re both very proud to have served in a great military organization with great bees. Once a Seabee, always a Seabee.
Even with their shoddy tech, the difference is they have so many more ‘pawn’ to send into battle than our soldiers..
It’s an iffy situation. I don’t think we will go to war with them, but if it does happen, it won’t be pretty :/
Chinese tech is lightyears ahead of Russia. They are our biggest threat.
I snark at how the headline takes the dollar amount to two decimal points to make the number look even ‘huger.’
Michael Klare is an old 60’s red who has been around many far-left, pro-communist organizations including the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS -S. Steven Powell, “ Covert Cadre”), SDS, and possibly the Socialist Scholars Conferences of the late 60’s/early 70’s, for a start (Alice Weidner, “U.S.A.” reports).
I did that.
Our trade deficit is all all-time record amount, ever.
Ever. Between any two countries. The largest of all time.
It deserves to be noticed. Our companies are selling out.
Probably a correct summary.
I just linked to the article. The author does seem to have something of a career long agenda, in some of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Klare
If this is the guy.
Well that would sure necessitate some BIG changes at Walmart.
Sending em trillion a year. That will buy just about anything.
India and the USA along with Vietnam and the Philippines have long been allies and China has been well aware of it. A name change means more to India and Vietnam than to China.
The Chinese know that the USA would be rational in using nukes. I believe that China does not think the same way about India. China tries to tweak their border with India on a regular bases. China, I believe, will be very cautious not to pursue war with anyone in the area because India has nukes and is trying to keep up with China on a military footing.
#14. That’s Klare. As hardcore a red as they come. That is why he was hired by so many leftist colleges and writes for far-left, anti-US publications.
He had a brother Fred who was also a leftist radical.
Klare was also affiliated with the SDS “research arm” NACLA (North American Congress on Latin America” in the 1960’s/70’) Somewhere there is a published monograph on NACLA by the old Church League of America with information on Klare in it.
His name should show up at www.keywiki.org and www.DiscoverTheNetwork.org.
The thing is:
There are thousands and thousands, and thousands, no millions of “conservative” Americans.
Who see absolutely nothing unusual about building up the largest communist nation in the ENTIRE WORLD.
By sending our production to them.
I don’t understand how one can be so methodical and so precise about dealing with leftists from here, yet send ALL OF OUR NATION’s PRODUCTION TO THE BIGGEST COMMUNIST NATION IN ALL OF HISTORY.
Been in Walmart lately? Been shopping lately?
Have you bought anything in America lately.
Why is it, real communists, are making everything sold in America these days?
Why?
(I have an answer I am comfortable holding, but I am asking the question because there are a whole huge lot of American “conservatives” who simply do not even ask the question.)
A whole lot of them.
Why?
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