From China’s state owned publications over the past 11 months, the PLA is obviously keeping an eye out for political fear of war in western-allied countries. They’re watching Internet chatter about Ukraine closely.
That’s what bullies—both bully individuals and nations—do. They watch for signs of fear in the rabble before attacking. If they’re ready to attack and see enough fear (that is, speech from Jane Fonda and Tucker Carlson types in the general population), they’ll attack.
They see our system of government and speech freedoms as weaknesses to exploit. Propaganda and abuse of diplomacy are some of their favorite weapons. In social media, most of them pretend to be us. They try to manipulate us into going all peacenik on our politicians to disarm our military forces and turn them into mush.
They know that some of us are afraid of nukes more than anything else. As long as we’re afraid, they won’t be afraid. They’ll continue to build up their nuclear weapons forces until they’re ready to use them. And as you’ve seen with their human wave attacks in warfare, they don’t care about general populations.
They only think about their own dreams of grandeur (pride, expansionism, conquering, pillaging, rape, perceptions of genetic superiority, etc.).
The policy of the Neoconservative Deep State folks who run the Defense and Security apparatus of the USA is simple when it comes to China not to mention Russia.
Poke
Prod
Provoke
Ukraine and Taiwan are issues among others that are used to do that to those two nations.
I can handle Israel doing that to Iran like they have done successfully in the last two decades.
Iran a real dirty enemy.
But these games with Russia and China they are deliberate to get Russia and China to look like the bad guys.