this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2023
78 points (91.5% liked)
World News
32323 readers
859 users here now
News from around the world!
Rules:
-
Please only post links to actual news sources, no tabloid sites, etc
-
No NSFW content
-
No hate speech, bigotry, propaganda, etc
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Goddamn, with the amount of negative coverage coming from Reuters, NYT, and other US/UK propaganda outfits, it really feels like the new military goal is to undermine support for the war, which means either the USA is scrambling to react to other events (Africa, China, Okinawa, India) or they want to further expand the red/blue divide in advance of the election.
Are you surprised? People in Washington are openly talking about how they should be focusing on China under the assumption that China will somehow make the decision to seize Taiwan tomorrow... As if they haven't been posturing about that literally since the end of the civil war and done nothing except increase trade, open up immigration, and increase cultural coupling with Taiwan.
The US needs an enemy to justify their extreme military budget and China is the bogeyman of the decade.
I am a little surprised because it's not like they didn't know about China as their target back in '08. I'm wondering about why it's shifting now
They pulled out of the Middle East and now need a new enemy to justify the defence budget.
Following the Second World War, they had the Soviet Union to blame and the War on Communism. Then it was the War on Terror. Now? Well... Now it's the War on China.