Caitlin Johnstone, February 19, 2023
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Last Thursday American Senator Josh Hawley gave the speech at Heritage Foundation — Inciting to war think tank of large influence in the swamp DC — which is an excellent representation of respective interesting dynamics presently taking place in the reasoning of US abroad policy.
Supported by Trump Hawley is an excellent example of false populism in the branch of the “MAGA” Republican Party: a wealthy postgraduate of the Ivy League who makes a large show of opposing elites on behalf of average people while consistently promoting far-reaching plans of Western oligarchs, neoconservatives from Washington and secret U.S. government agencies. [MAGA = Make America large Again]
Hawley's last performance, who pretended to be fighting Deep State while straight helping Deep State, appears in his speech entitled "China and Ukraine: Time for Truth In which he condemns the “endless replacement war in Ukraine”, the “Unipartia” of “neoconservatists from the right and liberal globalists from the left” and the way the U.S. wars in the mediate East cost “billion dollars and caused hundreds of Americans to die” (great understatement in both patients).
In a typical Republican way, MAGA, Hawley then takes all of this populist-sounding rhetoric and uses it to argue that all the wealth, resources and military power of fire that goes to these abroad policy errors should, instead, be utilized to aid prepare for the war with China over Taiwan. No wonder Hawley is A favourite guest. another false populist, virulent Anti-Chinese propagandist Tucker Carlson, who frequently eject the the argument itself.
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Calling China a "new imperial power" (compared to the Axis countries of planet War II alternatively than the United States), Hawley claims that PRC president Xi Jinping "wants control of the Pacific" and will rapidly decision from taking Taiwan to the United States military lap if he is not detained.
After sowing fear of shortages of bulk products “from basic medical products to consumer electronics”, if Beijing had occupied Taiwan, Hawley began to describe a “dark future”, in which the planet is surrounded by a Chinese war machine, even in the forests of Washington:
If China takes Taiwan, they can station their own armed forces there. They can then usage their position as a trampoline for further conquest and intimidation – against Japan, the Philippines and another Pacific islands specified as Guam and Northern Marianas.
As the fresh reigning power of Asia, China could limit US trade in the region – possibly completely blocking it. They may let us in, but only on terms favorable to China.
There's more. We just witnessed a Chinese spy balloon fly through the center of America. But the situation could get much worse.
Imagine a planet in which Chinese warships patrol Hawaiian waters and Chinese submarines cross the California coast. A planet where the People's Liberation Army has military bases in Central and South America. A planet where Chinese forces operate freely in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean.
Yeah, imagine that, Josh. Imagine a strange, dark timeline in which China surrounds the United States with military bases and weapons. You know, in precisely the same way The United States does Now it's China.
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Recently I wrote an article. about the bizarre war propaganda published by Sky News Australia, about the threat of “Chinese aggression” causing the 3rd planet War. Funny, more or less. mid-special programme, Sky News shows a graphics showing a huge, extended military presence that the United States has built around China in a "wide network of operations extending from Hawaii to India".
The peculiar Sky News program is entitled "China's aggression can start a fresh planet war” but your brain would should be made of soup so as not to look at the graphics and not understand, Who's the real aggressor here?. The United States clearly acts aggressively, and China clearly responds defensively to this aggression. This is apparent due to the fact that the United States would never let China do to them what they themselves do to China, as demonstrated by the fact that people like Josh Hawley describe this precisely hypothetical script as the absolutely worst nightmare script of the "dark future".
If Hawley wants to play with imagination, possibly he should imagine what the United States would do if China abruptly started doing the things he described. Chinese warships flying close California and Hawaii, the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean, within the same aggressive ‘free navigation’ exercises, which American warships routinely execute in the waters close China, to the wrath of Beijing. Military bases of the People's Liberation Army in Central and South America, as well as the network bases military, which United States formed around China and these databases still are development.
Imagine that, Josh.
It is not pleasant to imagine what would happen in specified a situation, as it would mean an immediate planet war. The United States would immediately consider building China's military presence in the western hemisphere as an act of war and would begin attacking these forces like hostile invaders. We all know it's true, due to the fact that managers of the American empire, like Josh Hawley, are talking about this perspective.
It will never cease to be comic to me the way American suprematists melodramatically teardrop their robes apart over the thought that nations specified as Russia and China establish their small, local spheres of influence over the erstwhile russian states and the South China Sea, while they themselves are pushing for their own sphere of influence, then it looks like this:
It is nonsense that the loyalists of the United States empire constantly complain that abroad governments are doing things that the American empire is constantly doing. halt creating the dynamics you claim to oppose. If you truly desire peace, halt fighting endless wars. If you are sincerely opposed to the spheres of influence, halt pursuing them yourself far more impudently and scandalously than anyone else. If you sincerely want to end interference in elections, espionage and propaganda, halt being their worst perpetrator in the world. If you honestly don't want a planet war, halt coming close it. Change yourself, brother.
Of course, no of these changes will be introduced by the U.S. Empire's pilots due to the fact that they sincerely do not want these things. They want power and global domination.
One of the strangest things the reception asks us to view mainstream is that The U.S. government (A) should be the leader of the full planet and (B) wants to be the leader of the planet solely for just and charitable reasons.
Anyone who wants to regulation the planet is called a megalomaniac. We all grew up watching movies and shows about bad villains who want to regulation the world. But the mainstream worldview makes us accept the fact that the government The US wants to regulation the planet just due to the fact that it loves us all and wants to give everyone freedom and democracy.
All that imperial song and dance is the funniest thing in the world.
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