Posted on 03/19/2021 6:38:21 AM PDT by SJackson
“I cannot for the life of me understand some of the capabilities that they’re putting in the field, unless it is an aggressive posture.” That was Admiral Philip Davidson, head of Indo-Pacific command, in recent testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee. “They” was a reference to China, and as Fox News headlined the story, “US losing military edge in Asia as China looks like it is planning for war.”
If embattled Americans wonder how Joe Biden might respond, they might start with the man who orchestrated the move to put vice president Biden at the head of China policy. That would be Tom Donilon, a longtime Democrat activist and adviser to Biden’s first presidential campaign in 1988. In 2010, Donilon’s selection for National Security Advisor troubled Robert Scheer of The Nation.
“Why in the world would President Obama, whose legacy has been sabotaged by a housing crisis that Donilon helped create and conceal, have hired him to run the most sensitive position of public trust in his administration?” As the president so often demonstrated, Scheer wrote, “it’s the top hustlers of whom he seems enamored.”
Donilon never served in the military, but as Robert Gates noted in Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary of State at War, Donilon blasted the United States military as “in revolt” and “insubordinate.” Donilon also “bridled” when Gen. McChrystal announced a counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan. Gates found that stance rather troubling.
“Troops risking their lives need to be told that their goal is to ‘defeat’ those trying to kill them,” he explains in Duty. “But such terms were viewed in the White House as borderline insubordinate political statements by generals.” So for Biden’s China mentor, and his White House boss, American troops were not to defeat their enemies and win their conflicts.
Joe Biden never served in the military, and as Gates noted, Biden had been on the wrong side of nearly every foreign policy issue over the past 40 years. Biden opposed the raid on Osama bin Laden and with Iran the vice president’s first move was to wave the white flag.
In 2016, four Iranian gunboats captured 10 U.S. Navy sailors, who “surrendered rather than opening fire.” Vice president Biden told CBS News, “there was no looking for any apology. This was just standard nautical practice.” It wasn’t “standard practice” to send planeloads of cash to Iran’s “death to America” Islamic regime, but the vice president had no problem with it.
Biden claimed to agree with the hit on Islamic state terrorist al-Baghdadi, but said it happened despite President Trump’s “ineptitude” as commander-in-chief. In January of 2020, when Trump took out Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, Biden blasted Trump as a liar and said the strike “takes us a heck of a lot closer to war.”
During the 2020 campaign Biden said the Chinese Communists were “not bad folks,” and “not competition for us.” In January of 2020, when President Trump shut down travel from China, Biden called the move “xenophobic fear-mongering.” In 2021, Biden proclaims “I’m not going to speak out” against Chinese concentration camps or Chinese aggression in Taiwan and Hong Kong. For Joe Biden, China’s genocidal Communist regime operates under “different norms.” That surely pleases Xi Jinping, as he surveys the correlation of forces.
The United States has troops in Afghanistan but does not deploy the military to protect its own southern border, which Joe Biden has proclaimed open to all comers. American sailors surrendered to Iran, and Joe Biden approved. The FBI and America’s vaunted “intelligence community” failed to protect the nation against the 9/11 attacks, on the scale of Pearl Harbor, but this same community deployed in force against Donald Trump, Joe Biden’s 2020 opponent. Indeed, his administration regards people who voted for Trump as the primary threat to the United States.
When the primary threat was the Soviet Union, the United States never allowed the USSR to manufacture products for the American market, in the style of current deals with China. President Ronald Reagan, did serve in the U.S. military, during wartime, and had no relatives with lucrative business deals in Moscow. Reagan called the USSR an “evil empire,” and challenged Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.”
Joe Biden has never denounced a Chinese Communist regime that murdered more 60 million people, according to the Black Book of Communism. Even after the Tiananmen Square massacre, Sen. Biden wanted China in the World Trade Organization, without any accounting for genocide and with no democratic reforms. As vice president, Biden deployed his son Hunter to cultivate lucrative deals with Chinese companies.
Joe Biden is now the figurehead for term three of the “composite character” president David Garrow described in Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama. He was known for “leading from behind,” and the addled Biden even fails that absurdity. He’s already waved the white flag with Islamic terrorism and would doubtless do the same with Communist China, now preparing for war according to Admiral Davidson.
we’re fully on for the ‘great reset’ now
and one of the main components of the ‘great reset’ is the requirement of the US no longer being a super power.
so the question is... how do they get rid of our military?
direct confrontation can work... but i expect it’ll relate to all military and front liners being forced to receive the ‘vaccine’. once ‘vaccinated’ a new virus will be released which will react to the ‘vaccine’ and kill the vaccinated.
from there it’s just a mop up action
if you’re unfamiliar with what the chinese have been doing since ~1993 then you need to do some homework.
start with walmart... go to clintons... then china gate... and wrap up the 90s with the cox congressional report. that’ll give you a foundation on which to understand why HRC leaked intel and the bidens gladly took payouts and for what
““I cannot for the life of me understand some of the capabilities that they’re putting in the field, unless it is an aggressive posture”
And likely said with a straight face.
The only worry of any loyal Americans is that our government has been seized by a junta with military and intelligence cooperation.
How do they get rid of our military? Full it with moms, homos, trannies. and aggressively prosecute war fighters. Have the FBI vet it for leftist politics only.
The HRC and the rest of the Dems are our problem. They are something which we legitimately can control. The Chinese are something that can only be controlled through economic policy and war.
But if the Democrat Party is truly beholden to the Chinese (of which I’m quite skeptical), then we have a much, much bigger problem than the Chinese. It’s simple: we can’t face China if we indeed have a group of collaborators as big as the Democrat Party itself. Our internal house would half to be in order or a conflict would end in catastrophy.
If China is to be effectively resisted, it will not be the task of the United States. As General MacArthur correctly noted American involvement on the Asian mainland and the waters around it is not in the best interests of the American people. The line of defense is further east in the Pacific with Guam. American Samoa , and Midway being the line of resistance that our military can defend.
China no doubt has territorial and cultural ambitions. However after they manage reunification with Taiwan ( probably peacefully using the Hong Kong approach), they will be sorely tempted by the riches of Russia’s underpopulated Pacific regions and the wealth of Siberia. They also wish to settle scores with Japan. Their activities in the South are largely a feint. Does China really believe it can or would want to control economically, militarily and culturally ala the Middle Kingdom, Vietnam, Indonesia,Malaysia and Australia? One day soon it will be the unavoidable task of both Russia and Japan to confront China. The United States and the American people are better served with an American strategic withdrawal eastward.
Hegemony doesn’t necessarily need to be accomplished with (just) a military. Look up the Belt and Road initiative.
They won't need to. Our current military is lead by wokesters and globalist.
That scenario could happen rapidly if the US Dollar ceases to be the world reserve currency. It's hard to field a military when you have a Weimar Republic grade currency to support it. As a DoD contractor, the scenario would cook my goose pretty fast too.
Ultimately, one must have a military in order to engage in economic imperialism, because once nations decide that they do not want to honor old contracts or agreements, then only military power can coerce them to do so.
Now one could argue that China’s naval buildup is a pretext to such position. It may very well be, but until they actually start occupying other lands and plopping down bases in previously foreign territories, they simply don’t have the track-reocrd that the US does.
When pushed we will pull back—out of Japan, Guam and South Korea. WE will fall back to Wake, Samoa and Hawaii. We lost a year ago to the Chinese pandemic. This is a gift to Red China by the all powerful Democrats for taking the Saddle and ridding the nation of “Evil” Trump. Lots will be getting rich in this move.
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