Efforts To Groom Us For War With China Are Getting More Forceful
If you thought western media have been pushy with their anti-China propaganda, wait til you see The Hill's new opinion piece titled "America must prepare for war with China over Taiwan". caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/efforts-to-g…
At the very bottom of the article you get to the part that really matters: the information about the author.
Would you like to know what this big brave warrior looks like? Would you like to see a picture of this mighty hero who has no fear of leading us all into a third world war?
Here he is:
Now that's the face of a man who'd be first to volunteer for duty on the front lines in defense of what he believes in. You look at that man and can't help but imagine him charging into Taipei bleeding red white and blue firing an M4 carbine for freedom and democracy.
Why is it that all the worst warmongering narrative managers are always weird-looking little nerds who plainly wouldn't know how to hold their own dicks, much less a gun?
Anyone who supports the idea of the US and its allies entering into a third world war against a nuclear-armed nation to determine who governs an island off the Chinese mainland is an enemy of humanity.
Contrary to what propagandists like Sauer keep implying, the US is not even treaty-bound to defend Taiwan militarily and hasn't been since 1979 when the only such treaty was annulled during Washington's campaign to coax Beijing away from the Soviet Union. daniellarison.substack.com/p/taiwan-treat…
Yet because of their steadily escalating propaganda campaign, for the first time ever a majority of Americans surveyed on whether they'd support going to war with China over Taiwan now reportedly say yes.
And now Moscow and Beijing are moving further into a military partnership that seems to be getting closer by the year in response to aggressions from the US and its client states.
Which, I dunno, I'm no historian but maybe MIGHT be cause for alarm when you've got world powers splitting into two increasingly hostile global alliances. Could that lead to something bad? It seems like maybe that could lead to something bad.
Twitter deleted someone's reply to me saying "Taiwan needs a nuke". It was probably deleted under the mistaken impression that they were saying Taiwan should be nuked, an interesting double standard considering how many tweets you see saying "Nuke Iran", "Nuke North Korea" etc.
I mean it's possible Twitter could have deleted it for the right reason: that the commenter was calling for nuclear weapons to be given to Taiwan, because that is what they were saying. But that would mean a lot of empire think pieces also need deleting. hoover.org/research/put-n…
Twitter users call for Iran and North Korea to be nuked all the time, and always have. I've never once heard of a tweet being deleted for this reason. But saying nuke Taiwan is off limits.
Western media are churning out reports about Russia preparing to invade Ukraine any minute now and China preparing to invade Taiwan any minute now, saying the response to each is obviously to move a lot of high-powered weaponry there, and NONE of them are questioning ANY of this.
This is so dangerous. This whole two-front nuclear brinkmanship game is so very, very dangerous, and they keep finding ways to make it MORE dangerous. And hardly anyone notices it, because the outlets people look to to understand the world aren't telling them it's dangerous.
The only danger you're allowed to discuss in mainstream western reporting about Russia and China is their scary aggressive expansionism, like this new bullshit propaganda piece here. Nowhere are you allowed to question if it's true, or to mention detente. newsweek.com/if-china-invad…
You can tell people who freak out about Russia and China are either acting in bad faith or regurgitating propaganda because they all act like detente is not a thing. They always take it as a given that those nations will be aggressive and expansionist unless aggressively opposed.
At no time does it ever even enter their minds that hey, maybe these nations might be acting defensively here and the way to cool things off would be to move toward an easing of tensions.
Pilger has been writing about this for years. This article is from 2016. Yet it's still taken as a given by Serious News Reporters in the west that Russia and China are these reckless aggressors and the US is responding defensively to their aggressions. johnpilger.com/articles/a-wor…
If your opinion about a legal case would be different if the political ideologies of those involved were reversed and all other facts in evidence remained the same, then it's probably best not to pretend your position on the case has anything to do with the facts in evidence.
If the above tweet bothers you then your issue is with your own cognitive dissonance, not with me.
Okay. But you don't. Or if you do you don't criticize them proportionately to how bad they are. The US today is indisputably far more destructive than modern China; do you criticize it far more? Most westerners don't.
The US has killed millions and displaced tens of millions in its still-ongoing post-9/11 wars. It's circling the planet with hundreds of military bases and working to destroy any nation which disobeys it. Nothing China is doing comes anywhere near this level of evil.
Very few westerners apply this level of criticism to the US. Most westerners ignore US imperialism altogether while rending their garments about Hong Kong or Xinjiang or whatever they're instructed by the mass media to be upset about today.
Criticize Beijing's Xinjiang policies all you want, but its deradicalization campaign was indisputably infinitely less draconian than the western "war on terror" which has killed millions and displaced tens of millions since 9/11.
And now it's winding down, while the US empire's "war on terror" has been continually expanding. These two things are not equal. They're not even comparable. The US and its allies are indisputably far, far worse.
All the western hand-wringing about Muslims in China is worse than hypocritical; it's a joke. The US empire pretending to care about Muslims is like Exxon-Mobil pretending to care about the environment.