The United States is at War with Itself… and Facts

    

The United States is at War with Itself… and Facts

Within less than half a century, China has lifted almost one billion people out of desperate poverty. But China was a failed state when its cadres were running around chanting Maoist slogans, parroting his “little red book,” labeling university professors as uncaring elites and believing in the officially sanctioned conspiracy theories that the communist government fomented as it sought only those with unquestioning loyalty to Chairman Mao. In the mid-1960s, when Mao was banished to a life of pedophilia and luxury after his abysmal “Great Leap Forward” program decimated the entire country, Mao then fomented the Cultural Revolution to bring the country down from the bottom. That was an even bigger failure. China was a big zero.

Deng Xiapeng was the father of modern China. In 1981, beginning with allowing some capitalism, crushing a world where conspiracy theories loomed over everything else, universities were elevated, scientific research was prioritized, the military modernized and infrastructure was a new national obsession. Simply, all those steps were necessary to undo Mao’s zealous slogans… and their hateful impact on China. The culture war destroyed what little was left of early communist China, loyalty mattered over competence, and China was just a giant, backward, third world nation. Deng turned the country around.

So as I look at China’s patterns of destruction and rebuilding, and by no means do I think the Chinese model is what would work to rebuild here, I think the mechanisms of China’s self-destruction – slogans, conspiracy theories, blind loyalty and vile labels for all who opposed Mao’s twisted vision –are visibly happening under a MAGA/Trump raging culture war with tens of thousands of secret police and label worshipping zealots seeking to turn the United States in to a white Christian nationalist dictatorship where science and expertise are dismissed as “elitist arrogance.” Greed and God are being manipulated to create our own path to destruction… even as nothing in the Bible seems to support that direction. It did not work there, and it definately won’t work here either.

Oddly, the zealots who wish to rule us have taken to using the epithet of “creeping socialism” in a way hardly reflective of the actual definition of that term. It is now simply a way to further pass all the remaining wealth to the top, and tax the rest of us for the pleasure of serving this billionaire or centimillionaire class. What is ironic is how we are effectively handling global influence, economic domination and military superpower status (China First?) to China… by doing the same things that killed China before they “woke” up. Aside from universal healthcare, which they and every Western democracy have in place, modern China is preparing itself to seize Taiwan by force, which some experts predict could well happen in 2027 or soon thereafter. And take us on!

This assessment from Shweta Sharma at the Independent (December 11th), based on Pentagon reports, is sobering reality as to how far we have slipped: “The U.S. military is most likely to suffer a defeat at the hands of China if it tried to intervene in a war over Taiwan, a top secret Pentagon assessment report has found.

“Pentagon war games simulating a Chinese invasion of Taiwan have shown that Beijing could cripple U.S. fighter squadrons, major warships, and even satellite networks before they deploy effectively, the highly classified document, ‘Overmatch Brief’, warned.

“The document, prepared by the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment, shows America's reliance on advanced and expensive weapons makes it vulnerable to China's rapidly manufactured cheaper ones, reported the New York Times… The report warned that China has developed the capacity to neutralise critical American assets at the outset of a conflict.

“It comes days after Guo Jiakun, a spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry, warned U.S. to ‘handle the Taiwan question with the utmost prudence’… The report, recently delivered to senior White House officials, said China’s rapidly maturing arsenal – particularly its long-range precision missiles, expanding fleet of advanced aircraft, large surface vessels, and its counter-space capabilities – now places U.S. forces at a significant operational disadvantage in the region.

“China has amassed an arsenal of about 600 hypersonic weapons, which ‘can travel at five times the speed of sound and are difficult to intercept’, the report said. The Office of Net Assessment is a state agency that serves as the Pentagon's internal think tank… When a senior Biden national security official received the ‘Overmatch’ brief in 2021, he turned ‘pale’ after realising that ‘every trick we had up our sleeve, the Chinese had redundancy after redundancy’, a official who was present there said, according to the NYT… China considers Taiwan as an inseparable part of its insisting that the island of 23 million people eventually be unified with the mainland - by force if necessary.”

With an incredible system of cyber warfare and plethora of drones, sophisticated and inexpensive unsophisticated (the latter which could be launched in overwhelming numbers), sea and air based, can overwhelm our likely sophisticated naval assets, most of which are deployed in multiple fleets stretched thin all over the world. When you think that our Department of War is under the leadership of a recovering alcoholic reservist major, who probably would never have qualified rising through the ranks to command any major military asset, you can easily see how our “blind loyalty over competence” could easily fall in a conflict with seasoned professional military leadership.

I’m Peter Dekom, and we seem to be committing ritual suicide by falling on our own bayonets of conspiracy theories and blind loyalty to Donald Trump… as China stands by to watch the United States embrace a bizarre China First policy.