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Pentagon’s Latest Strategy: Promote Socialism To Combat China
Washington Free Beacon ^ | Adam Kredo

Posted on 02/15/2022 8:36:27 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski

The Pentagon is slated to host an event on Wednesday making "the case for global justice and democratic socialism" as a means to combat China’s rise, sparking ire on Capitol Hill.

The event, titled, "Responding to China: The Case for Global Justice and Democratic Socialism," is being hosted by the Institute for National Strategic Studies, a department of the National Defense University, the Pentagon’s top policy shop. The event is open to the public and will be held on the Pentagon’s Strategic Multilayer Assessment platform, a Defense Department initiative that studies global challenges, according to an invitation for the event posted online.

Featured speaker Thomas Piketty, a French economist, "will argue that the right answer" to addressing China’s rise "lies in ending Western arrogance and promoting a new emancipatory and egalitarian horizon on a global scale, a new form of democratic and participatory, ecological and post-colonial socialism," according to the event invitation. "If they stick to their usual lecturing posture and a dated hyper-capitalist model, Western countries may find it extremely difficult to meet the Chinese challenge." Piketty is the author of the book Time for Socialism.

The event, which was first reported by the Conservative Brief, is raising eyebrows on Capitol Hill, with Rep. Jim Banks (R., Ind.), a top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, telling the Washington Free Beacon that the Biden administration is politicizing America’s military…

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To: Tellurian
a new emancipatory and egalitarian horizon on a global scale, a new form of democratic and participatory, ecological and post-colonial socialism

A just machine
To make big decisions
Programmed by fellas
With compassion and vision

We'll be clean
When their work is done
We'll be eternally free
Yes, and eternally young

What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free

21 posted on 02/15/2022 9:26:13 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Spktyr

The crazies are proven right yet again and the sensible adults of the party are full of horse crap.


22 posted on 02/15/2022 9:30:36 PM PST by ArcadeQuarters (Remember the 2020 backstabbers. No more RINOs ever!)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

I’m glad I served my time in the military before all this sh’t started.


23 posted on 02/15/2022 9:40:09 PM PST by Signalman
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To: Jan_Sobieski

And we are paying assholes in DC for this bullshit?


24 posted on 02/15/2022 10:18:01 PM PST by Herakles (Diversity is applied Marxism les)
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To: ArcadeQuarters

If the ‘crazies’ are proven right endlessly, maybe they’re actually the sensible adults and the ‘sensible adults’ are really the crazies.


25 posted on 02/15/2022 10:18:21 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski; MadMax, the Grinning Reaper; piasa
This is the same misguided strategy the CIA's Congress for Cultural Freedom (infiltrated by Communists) used in Western Europe in the early days of the Cold War, which is one reason the EU has drifted so far left.
26 posted on 02/15/2022 10:18:35 PM PST by Fedora
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; azishot; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; ..

p


27 posted on 02/15/2022 10:47:52 PM PST by bitt ( <img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Propaganda for their constituents who are too stupid to know they are all Communists. Orwellian af.


28 posted on 02/15/2022 10:53:09 PM PST by ShawnShawntheLeprecaun
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To: Herakles

24. Yes! Just look at what Fauci is paid!!!

We are gonna need more toilet paper to clean up all these asses.


29 posted on 02/15/2022 11:20:31 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Why even pay for a military? Let’s send all the soldiers home and save some money. Hunter Biden will deliver a white flag to China, no problem.


30 posted on 02/15/2022 11:20:52 PM PST by Irenic
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To: Signalman

Why is it that no active military can give a good explanation on just how the Marxists are taking over the Pentagon, the Academies and even basic training? Is our military leadership actually as stupid as our comics have made them out to be?


31 posted on 02/16/2022 4:37:26 AM PST by Bookshelf
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To: Jan_Sobieski
Thomas Piketty, a French economist is officially endorsed by the US military for showing the French way of surrendering using a word salad to confuse the enemy while running away with behinds intact.
32 posted on 02/16/2022 5:54:00 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Fedora

Interesting!


33 posted on 02/16/2022 6:05:39 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; azishot; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; ..

yeah, that’ll help... /s


34 posted on 02/16/2022 7:24:32 AM PST by bitt ( <img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: Jan_Sobieski
Our WOKE & STUPID Pentagon is being re imagined into a force willing to attack the American people.

35 posted on 02/16/2022 9:20:27 AM PST by GOPJ (We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. Ayn Rand)
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To: Signalman

My nephew just signed his discharge papers for refusing the jab in the navy last week. He will muster out in mid-March. He says the navy has changed quickly and headed down hill fast and is not the same entity he entered in 2018.


36 posted on 02/16/2022 9:49:39 AM PST by sarge83
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To: Spktyr

Yes. I understand that. Some very bad procurement in the past. The question I have was it bad requirements or bad execution.


37 posted on 02/17/2022 8:24:25 AM PST by wgmalabama (We will find out if the Vac or virus risk was the correct choice - can we put truth above narrative )
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To: wgmalabama

All of the above, combined with a feckless Congress and a military that wanted the new shiny before dealing with basics.


38 posted on 02/17/2022 2:22:44 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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