{"id":91477,"date":"2022-09-07T16:56:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T16:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/?p=91477"},"modified":"2022-09-07T16:59:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T16:59:44","slug":"video-america-is-preparing-for-confrontation-with-russia-and-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/video-america-is-preparing-for-confrontation-with-russia-and-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: America Is Preparing for Confrontation with Russia and China"},"content":{"rendered":"

First published by <\/em>Global Research on December 14, 2018, of relevance to unfolding events<\/em><\/p>\n

At first glance, it reads like the script for a Hollywood catastrophe movie. And yet it\u2019s one of the scenarios that is actually being considered in the official 2018 report by the Commission, tasked by the United States Congress with studying the national defense strategy \u2013<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn 2019, on the basis of fake news announcing atrocities committed against Russian citizens in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, Russia invades these countries. While US and NATO forces prepare to respond, Russia declares that an attack against its forces in these countries would be viewed as an attack on Russia itself, and considers a nuclear riposte. Russian submarines attack transatlantic optical fibre cables, and Russian hackers cut the electrical networks in the USA, while Russian military forces destroy US military and commercial satellites. The major cities of the United States are paralysed, since the Internet and cell-phones are rendered inoperative<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

The bipartisan Committee, composed of six Republicans and six Democrats, are looking at a similar scenario in Asia \u2013 in 2024, China stages a surprise attack and occupies Taiwan, and the United States are unable to intervene in a cost-effective manner, because Chinese military capacities have continued to grow, while those of the USA have stagnated due to insufficient military spending.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese scenarios \u2013 explains the Commission \u2013 exemplify the fact that the security and the well-being of the United States are in greater danger than they have been for the last few decades<\/em>\u201d. Since the Second World War, \u201cthe United States have guided the construction of a world of unusual prosperity, freedom and security. This development, from which it has benefited enormously, has been made possible by the unequalled military might of the United States<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

For the moment, however, their military power \u2013 \u201cthe backbone of world influence and the national security of the USA<\/em>\u201d \u2013 has eroded to a dangerous level. This is due to the fact that \u201cconcurrent authoritarian forces \u2013 especially China and Russia \u2013 are in the process of seeking regional hegemony and the means with which to project their power on an international scale<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

This would be a tragedy of unimaginable dimensions, but perhaps terrible \u2013 warns the Commission \u2013 if the United States should allow their own national interests to be compromised by a lack of the will to make \u201chard choices and the necessary investments<\/em>\u201d. They therefore propose an ulterior increase of US military spending (which today is already equivalent to a quarter of the federal budget) of between 3 and 5% annually \u2013 particularly to increase the deployment of US forces (submarines, strategic bombers, long-range missiles) in the Indo-Pacific region, where \u201cfour or five of our adversaries are active \u2013 China, North Korea, Russia and terrorist groups, (the fifth being Iran)<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

The strategic vision which emerges from the Congressional report \u2013 even more worrying when we note that the Commission is composed of equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats \u2013 leaves no room for doubt. The United States \u2013 which, since 1945, has provoked wars causing between 20 and 30 million deaths (plus the hundreds of millions caused by the indirect effects of these wars) to \u201cguide the construction of a world of unusual prosperity, freedom and security, from which it has benefitted enormously<\/em>\u201d is now preparing to do anything necessary to maintain its \u201cunequalled military power<\/em>\u201d upon which their empire is founded, but which is now beginning to crumble with the emergence of a multipolar world.<\/p>\n

For this purpose, the Congressional Commission is examining scenarios of aggression against the United States, which are no more than the mirror image of their own aggressive strategy, which runs the risk of dragging the world into catastrophe.<\/p>\n