At a time when we have a complete fool in the presidency and a communist vice president, the Pentagon’s top strategist believes communist China poses an existential threat to the U.S., The Washington Times reports.
The CCP has abandoned its old strategic policy of “hide and bide” — that is, to mask a burgeoning national military while waiting for the right time to unleash an aggressive foreign policy, he said. That brings us to a new stage in the CCP desire to dominate the world.
James H. Baker, who directs the Defense Department’s Office of Net Assessment (ONA), sounded the alarm during a private talk in July 2017 before a Japanese-U.S. audience.
Mr. Baker said, “the U.S. is presently not well poised to capitalize on this trend, nor is it clear that U.S. elites across the political spectrum understand the danger that China poses as a competitor.”
“Comparative military advantage remains with the United States (and its allies), but is being systematically undermined by increased Chinese investment, focus, training and basing,” Mr. Baker wrote.
Since China depends on globalization for prosperity, Baker believes it “will inhibit more radical tendencies.”
The flaw in his thinking is that if they take over the world as they plan, they will have it all.
The Trump administration has been warning about the CCP for years. Some even believe coronavirus was a bioweapon. It could be. The CCP steals our secrets, spies on us, and has done so for the past four years. An entire political party served their interests, promoting their propaganda to hurt the former president. Joe Biden’s family business is deeply entwined with the CCP.
Knowing what we know makes Mr. Baker’s conclusion hard to believe.
Mr. Baker concludes that China, Russia, and Iran do not have the means to change their neighbors’ borders and “lack the ability to substantially revise the present international order through violent or coercive means.”
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Those of us with large 3 digit IQs have known this since the Clinton Administration.
Our New and Improved military.
https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1370827005575450624
When a Master Sergeant makes the statement, “We go to war with the “values”… he clearly doesn’t understand What a superior fighting force truly is. Is it “values” that a soldier slings over his shoulder.
Our military has become an embarrassment to anyone who has ever served with responses like this.
https://twitter.com/iimigofficial/status/1370854134853799936
Take a Damn Knee?? It was a huge mistake giving the Pentagon over 700 Billion. To bring the military into readiness it should have been taken from the bloated unnecessary programs that are littered throughout the Pentagon. It didn’t begin with Obama, as some said. It began under Clinton. Bring in more R. Lee Ermey’s.
https://thepostmillennial.com/the-us-marines-attack-tucker-carlson-critics-forced-to-walk-back-comments-with-apologies
Notice we haven’t “won” a serious war ever since the office of Defense Secretary was created. I doubt our conventional forces could hold up to a long, hard ground war. In Iraq, their forces mostly ran away. When there is a lack of continued air support our military runs into serious problems. A confrontation with a China will find a population more nationalistic than this country. Whether understood or not, the Chinese are very patriotic to their own country. That makes for a highly motivated force, that many nations suffer with. It appear our own military is more concerned with social constructs than a superior fighting force.
Xi will laugh in the face of the pampered pansy punk Petraeus wannabes of the Pentagon as he dries up their MIC gravy train forever!
It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of clueless feckless in the rear with the gear Fauntelroys.
I don’t feel sorry for them or anyone else so detached from reality as to consider China an ally.