Per Washington's own logic it would be perfectly reasonable, and indeed responsible, for China to set up military arsenals along both US coastlines to "contain" it and "deter" attacks on Latin American nations as the US has an extensive history of doing and will surely do again.
The US is after all currently building a network of long-range missile systems on a chain of islands near China's coast for the explicit purpose of threatening China. news.antiwar.com/2021/03/05/us-…
And that's not the half of it.
It would be irresponsible for China not to defend the freedom of the Nicaraguan people, for example, as empire managers rage over Managua's geostrategically significant pivot to Beijing. Set up military arsenals along US coasts to defend Nicaragua.
That's not my opinion. It's Washington's. Per its own logic, exactly as it is written, the US should rightly be surrounded by Chinese military forces.
But of course, we all know how the US would react to such a situation. That's how you can tell the "tensions" between Washington and Beijing are very, very lopsided. The US is plainly the aggressor.
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Very cute how The Guardian never uses the word "imperialism" except when it wants to criticize a nation the world's leading imperialist power doesn't like.
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Julian Assange suffered a mini-stroke in October during the hearing for the US appeal of a UK court's ruling on his extradition case.
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This ruling which allows the US to continue working to extradite a journalist for exposing US war crimes comes on the final day of Washington's so-called "Summit for Democracy", where the US Secretary of State made this grandiose show about press freedom:
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A Republican senator who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee stated on a Tuesday Fox News appearance that he strongly supports keeping US military action on the table if Russia invades Ukraine, up to and including a first-use nuclear attack.
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Most people are deeply unconscious and patterned. Ruling elites are no exception, in fact they're MORE unconscious. It's a common mistake to think of these people as rational actors; really their minds are running on autopilot in response to conditioning put in place long ago.
That's why you'll see them continuing policies which destroy the biosphere they depend on for survival or escalating military aggressions between nuclear powers. They're not making cool, rational decisions, they're acting out impulses within themselves that they don't understand.
You'll see people say "They wouldn't nuke themselves, it's irrational" or "If the climate situation was really that bad they'd have taken drastic action long ago," but this assumes you're dealing with rational minds and not what are essentially neurological computer programs.
I keep seeing this claim in conspiracy circles that these dangerous escalations against Russia and China are a hoax being staged to distract people from the "Covid scam", which is among the dumbest theories I've ever heard about anything. Just seriously sloppy thinking. Come on.
But you can see how this happens for people who've decided that Covid is the be-all end-all issue of our day and that any government implementing Covid measures or vax mandates is part of a one world government. If it's a one world government why are they hostile? Must be a hoax.
In reality there is no one-world governmental body and the hostilities between the US-centralized power alliance and unabsorbed nations like Russia and China are very real, and governments don't move military equipment around the globe for a "distraction". That's not a thing.