WSJ: US actively preparing for war with China
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What most don't understand is that in this century Armageddon will take place (sooner than later), for in this century the 6000 years of HUMAN history will come to an end and the 1000 year reign of Christ on earth will commence.
It is foretold in the Bible. You just need eyes to see.
You should look at *1 Thessalonians 5: 3* and compare this with *article 1* of the *UN charter* and *article 1 of NATO. "Peace and Security".*
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*1 Thessalonians 5: 3*
3 For when they shall say: *"Peace and Security";* destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
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*Article 1 United Nations*
“The Purposes of the United Nations are:
1. To maintain international *peace and security,* and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace;
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*Article 1 NATO*
Article 1
The Parties undertake, as set forth in the Charter of the United Nations, to settle any international dispute in which they may be involved by peaceful means in such a manner that international *peace and security* and justice are not endangered, and to refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force in any manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations.
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SCARE MONGERING and THREAT. They are provoking china to attack TAIWAN. USA cant touch china as long as they dont attack TAIWAN.
"there is no publicly known treaty that requires the United States to [defend Taiwan]" - PLEASE! Get the facts right! THE TAIWAN RELATIONS ACT OF 1979 requires the US to guarantee the security of Taiwan. Shame on you Alexander for ignoring this!
"technological edge"
USA actually has never had anywhere close to the tech edge that it claims. And sometimes, not at all.
There was a Nato report done after getting their hands on real Soviet equipment during the German reunification, the single most common comparison made was "equal or better than Nato equivalent in every way except ergonomics".
And that's back in the day when EVERYONE KNEW how totally superior Nato tech was supposed to be against the primitive but huge Soviet hordes.
One of the results of that report was the very hasty development of the -9X model of the Sidewinder, because the previous model was embarassingly inferior to the Soviet equivalent.
Less hasty and desperate, the further development of the AMRAAM was likewise made a priority for similar reasons.
And we've seen a lot of old Soviet tech from the 70s and 80s do better in Ukraine than newer Nato tech.
Can anyone explain the real situation of the Chinese - Indian border problems? I can't understand what's really happening about this whole situation!!? In few words!
Like the Ukrainian citizens, the Taiwanese population will discover that the U.S. considers them expendable
Yea agree
The US military are already planning to destroy the most important facility on Taiwan. That will crash the western tech sector.
The US elite even considers part of it's own population expendable
Once the US gets the semiconductor manufacturing off the island, which they are working on, the people in Taiwan become nothing more than cannon fodder. I hope they don't fall for this.
Kan dem virkelig være så dum? Man skulle tru at oppegående voksne folk må se hva som er i ferd med og skje!!
Taiwan got their own Zelensky.
of course, pre-arranged - who?
@@bellakrinkle9381 Look up the Sunflower movement and find someone who can explain the lead-up to it.
A US backed Government…LOL tells me a lot.
Philippines as well
The new president won the presidential election early this year with only 40% of the votes. It was sad that the two opposition parties with 33% and 27% votes respectively failed to form an alliance.
Watching the Fall of Rome in real time.
Rome’s fall was extended. This fall is going to be swift.
I’m an American, can’t wait to stop spending money on military footprint all over the world, everything is braking here at home, we need to fix the actual nation and not try to run this empire. It will be a good thing for America to withdraw from Eurasia, and rebuild, waiting for the old conflicts between Eurasian countries to flare back up over time.
A small elite has hollowed us out.
@ChalrieD any rebuilding of America is long, long time in the future. Likely not in our lifetimes.
@@ChalrieD aren’t you worried that once you become a normal country the US will get crushed under the weight of a that massive debt?
I'm a naturalized US citizen. I still keep up with news from my native Honduras. China is building malls, bridges and roads. We in the US send them weapons. Why can't the US build also? Why the forever wars? Why not invest in our infrastructure here in the US? Homeless tents everywhere. We can do better.
That 1 trillion dollar millitairy budget could make the USA more prosperous. Free healthcare, free education, free transportation and more. It's all possible. Voting will not solve this mess.
Same here in Britain under the tory government. Money for wars but not for the ordinary people. But we have a General Election and the tories are going to annihilated at the ballot box. Hopefully the new Labour Government will make the necessary changes.
because ur goverments are in big corporations pockets...black rock and vanguard dictate what goverments need to do...this is no longer a democracy is techno feudalism
Well to be fair, all that money for war is printed…..LOL
Western govts are also at war with their own countries. All western political class are trying to destroy their own countries from within at least as much as they are trying to get into wars abroad.
The US going at war with no ammo, and fighting the country that supplies it with steel, aluminum, electronics. Good luck.
China is the largest supplier of first aid kits, bandages and medicines to the US military.
Unless the US wants to do nuclear war, they have zero chance fighting China.
and China is the main supplier of raw materials in making explosive used by US manufacturer for their ammo. HAHAHA
And with no body to help in the fight also.
Their approach will be same as with Ukraine, no body on ground. They cannot afford any US casualty or else their people will revolt against the government.
With half hearted support in the game, US cannot help anyone to win war against small nations, and definitely NO CHANCE against a determined China.
the US already demonstrated that its navy is toothless when it couldn't even deal with the Houthis. Now they want a war with china right off china's coast?
The US should look after its own people rather than looking for wars!!
An Empire has to expand. It does not care about its citizens. It is about Power, Control and Domination.
That’s what they should do, but they will destroy the people and take the land and total control over the people. Communism .
that is not how they think unfortunately
Secrets of money episode 2 on YT. 10 years old but more relevant than ever.
It would help if the majority of US citizens wouldn't just blindly accept whatever narrative their MSM spoon-feeds them
NATO can't take on Russia but they want to go after China 🤣
C'est des rigolos ces americains OLLY WOOD
There are reports that Hezbollah has hit and destroyed a key Israeli EL/M-2080 Green Pine radar, a vital part of Israel's missile defense system.
Do you think this has anything to do with Western leaders' statements about their readiness to use weapons on Russian territory?
Well ideally we wouldn't directly go after China, instead let the Taiwanians and Chinese fight it out using Taiwan as a proxy, a similar model to the ukriane conflict but with the US being more hands on.
And China are 10x bigger.
Well China is in the North Atlantic isn't it?
"Leaders fear China holds a significant advantage in the region."
- Imagine China holding a significant advantage in the region of China.
Well said ❤ from Wisconsin
The news that knocked me sideways was the rumour that Russia has an advantage in the region of Russia!
@@James-Campbell For whatever reason they appear to be provocatively stationing significant forces in the area!
Nooo ...
Exactly why Israelistan forced Japan into WW2 they were becoming a power in Asia
Confused as to how the President of Taiwan is going to call for independence when his party does not have control of Taiwan parliament. His party lost their majority position in last election and majority of members favour talks towards reunification rather than escalation of any type of conflict
More research on Taiwanese politics is required. However the jist of it is that provoking Chinese action will likely turn the supporters of 1 of 2 opposition parties to the side of the current incumbent party, and by enacting martial law there won't be a need to hold elections, thus keeping the incumbent party and its president in power.
You may see in the new recently about fighting (yet another one) in Taiwan’s congress. The new congress majority wants to introduce a law that will make it illegal for the president, or members of cabinet to ignore calls to appear in congress. The newly elected president Lai set a record for being absent from the city council when he was a mayor. President’s party DPP have supporters to stage sit-in outside the congress in support of the president, which is not gathering much steam. However, one area of grave concern is that under DPP support, Taiwan has dramatically lowered the “Pass” threshold for referendums to just 25%, and no doubt Taiwan’s independence supporters will try this (once US thinks it’s “ready” for a showdown with China). But no doubt setting threshold this low to pass a controversial law will only cause more chaos and unrest in Taiwan, which already is very polarized politically (maybe more so than in the US).
But that wont matter to those in the whitehouse they are capable of anything.
Yes this what l thought that there were many in favour for talks about reunification, the mainland is their largest trading partner after all
Ch1na is fed up with the DPP and the reg1me , it is just a matter of time for Ch1na to take the island back, either peacefully or by force, and that should happen in the near future.
As an American I have never been anti-american but pro-american until now that our government does not represent the majority of the people who believe our leadership is totally insane and they want to take us down with them. But what in the hell can we do? My choice is to leave the country.
Russia will wellcome you.
@@DamianP-n7b been there twice but not my cup of tea.
Its not really about being anti this that or the other. All countries have their establishments. The USA and Britain happen to have establishments that are not progressive.
@@pg618 ok then.
But go where? Where is their a country free of corruption?
If the US did not exist China might not care if Taiwan went independent. Because of US imperialism China has to worry about the US aligning with Taiwan and building military bases there. An independent Taiwan on its own would not be so threatening to China.
Bingo!
Not true, Taiwan would remain with full autonomy but not as an independent country. It's still Chinese sovereignity, this would be a war for China to defend it's sovereignity over Taiwan, not a Taiwan invasion.
Exactly the reason why Russia took Crimea.
If they lose Taiwan, they'll be looking at yet another US military base, alongside South Korea, Japan and the Phils.
They couldn't manage Afghanistan or Russia and they think that they stand a chance with china😂😂😂😂
At this point, I think all their wars, win or lose is irrelevant, what'$ important is that there is war and money to be made via the MIC. 💡
Can’t handle Syria or Yemen either, bother were failed proxy wars people forget about even though they are so recent.
USA the largest black mark on modern history. 0:42
Listening to the always interesting Jeffrey Sachs, who had the ear of Western leaders. It's horrifying, the way he describes it, how American administrations after 1991 enthusiastically pursued a policy of global hegemony. Blind to peaceful ways of resolving problems, as they arose. The Ukraine crisis is an obvious and crystal clear example. The total subservience of Germany to the American agenda even Sachs was unable to explain.
Thats if... there will be history books to be read
How about N Korea?
@rashone2879 they haven't overthrown nearly as many governments or caused wars to kill as many people as the United States have.
Nope. Definitely America
I don’t think that anyone will dispute who started world war three now.
Neocons with tiny hats?
USA:" We've failed to defeat the Russians in Ukraine and the Houthis in the Red Sea, but we'll definitely beat the Chinese in Taiwan"
Everyone: "Riiiiight"
That's Bidens next speech.
@@jaimhaas5170 now clap
Snake: ssssh... that's not the goal, making $ $ $ $ $ from all those w a r s is the goal. 🐍
Biden ihas perfect mental health too. 😊 Of course the US can win. 😊
make it make sense! we are truly led by embecils! we,ve defeated no one because wokeness has destroyed our military and greed has destroyed our manufacturing base and stupidity has engulfed our elected leaders! now they want to war with the most populous country on earth?
US is not strong anywhere. They are Finnish. Just a matter of time. BRIKS
BRICS
Bricks
Sam Vaknin is correct about everything.
@@bellakrinkle9381 yes he is
Did you mean Jewish?
"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you can imagine". ~William Blum
Well said❤ from Wisconsin
"NATO is not to defend Europe from the Russian hordes, it's to control the global energy system, sea lanes and pipelines. And to serve as a U.S run intervention force." ~Noam Chomsky
Nato is a blight.
imagine Chomsky making sense for once;
@@iga279 What do you mean? Chomsky has always been very critical of US foreign policy and, by extension, NATO.
The problem being that like it or not, "the global energy system" is changing.
America you fools , your out of your depth …your not super now
MASSIVE VOICE CRACK AT 8:21
@@prostakKowalski
Your comment about the voice crack is probably the best thing to think about in this whole discussion 😅
@@anguskelly414 Yeah brother, politics divide but comedy unites :)
Grasshopper: Don't fuck with Russia. NOR China.....
🐛 vs 🐉
the aggregates of China and Russia in economic, military, and production capacity are greater than that of the empire of lies, its colonies and vassals combine.
America is creating problems, conflicts of wars everywhere in the world 🌍🌎. Why? The world needs peace 🙏🕊️
Because Capitalism needs imperialism to survive.
Follow the money. In the past, weapons are manufactured to fight wars. Now, wars are manufactured to sell weapons.
To maintaining their empire and ruling day.
@@PhiloSurfer
And attempt to save failing ("not so united") states.
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It's about national debt and energy system reform.
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China is winning.
USA can fall in line, join the change, demilitarise and become prosperous again (maybe).
Or
Cry "It's not fair"
Call the new winner "the bad guy"
And use "The Big Stick" to halt the change.
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Guess which method they chose?
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Dangerous.
They make a lot of money for the elites via their MIC
The American soldiers will never get chance to see chinese soldiers, only chinese AI robots and drones.
You have just reminded me of the opening scene in the movie, Angel Has Fallen with Morgan Freeman!
US needs to mind its own business. Civilians suffer.
Soldiers including those mobilised against their will should not be forgotten either.
Civilians are not part of the accounting.
Bear and Dragon against Eagle and it's fleas.
Me, a flea rootin' for the Bear!
bear claws eagle. dragon bbq eagle. both bear and dragon share their kentucky fried eagle with brics members as a delish snack.
Its more like an Elephant fighting a Whale.
The different between Spain and the US is, Spain didn't have nuclear weapons that could destroy the world when they lost!
Go look up China's annual steel and aluminum production compared to the US. End of story.
Even Russias steel production is comparable to the USA. China is leagues ahead.
Look at any economic production metric and you will see China dwarves the U.S. or is catching up fast.
Easy to stop. WE the people in the USA just need to go back to soda and milk in glass. Problem solved.
@@jaimhaas5170 how much glass is manufactured in the US ?
@@Cheesecake99YearsAgo not enough.
We are living in scary horrible awful times 🥲🙏
Make sure you don't get reborn here, it's not for you.
No we are not. We are seeing a key point of human history - liberation from the USA
@@rogerhill138 I wish my dear friend 🙏🙏🙏
China kicked US’s ass in Korea, and does not mind to do it again
Yes, during the Korean War, China's military equipment was next to nothing; today, China is already a comparable adversary of the United States. Perhaps more than a match, robotic fighter, 5G communication, drone swarm.
Shiver, Yankee.
Don't forget Vietnam.
@@avrilclelland3379 Yeah. North Vietnam also kicked US's ass in South Vietnam.
americans still coping and seething over the fact that a peasant army with WW2 handmedowns beat them and their whole UN coalition back to the 38th parallel in the single largest retreat in US military history.
That was when China was poor. Very different now.
President Xi tell President Putin, if Russia break up, China is next.
President Putin also tells President Xi, if China break up, Russia is also will break up.
Why not we both work together.
If Russia breaks up for some reason then we're all dead, a nuclear superpower breaking up is the end of the world especially when the matter is considered to be existential by said superpower. Basically, they either win or we all die in a nuclear holocaust.
Why worry about invasion when Taiwan is not independent, but part of China? It is not an invasion, if you defend your land.
Technically Taiwan and China are still at war during the Chinese civil war. It was only the intervention of the US that protected Taiwan from defeat.
One China policy is agreed upon by the US.
💯👏
@@KizzieWiz
You mean illegal agreements?
@@davidlazarus67 Technically it's the unfinished civil war between The People's Republic of China(Main land China) and The Republic of China(Taiwan province). Hence the One China policy.
"The Chinese army is ready, together with the Russian army, to defend justice in the world."
This was stated by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the People's Republic of China Wu Qian.😂🤣
Ukraine is a huge failure for US, no hope of defeating Russia, so now they pick on China, where their military is huge, well trained, don’t have pronouns, or poor quality military equipment. Russia has shown that they can nullify the US missiles, etc.
If you look at UK, European, Australian forces, they are low in numbers, experience, arms. But have plenty of multicoloured badges.
Nato does t have interest in winning wars. They just simply want to be at war with people. Money laundering. All the countries taxes get given to the transnational oligarchs who own the military industrial complex .
China also has no problem recruiting. In fact they have a waiting list to join.
The leaders of the collective west have their uniquely paranoid expression of Mattias Desmet's "Mass Formation."
Yeah but nobody is scared of them, they’re not good fighters. Who have they ever beaten? Certainly not a western nation. The mongols, the Japanese multiple times, the British multiple times, the boxer rebellion and so on.
They’re an economic and manpower superpower but no one anywhere thinks their manpower is of any great quality.
The US wants to take over all of these countries in order to be the empire that no one dare questions Europe is already destroyed
The Philippines would be crazy to ally themselves with the US if a conflict broke out 😮.
Not if, when
The coccaine addict presidents made a deal with the devil(america) so hecan get their billions of frozen assets
They already are, everyone knows the Filipinos pray to the American to rule them.
Marcos has about 30 billions stuck in u.s. justice dept, meaning his balls in American's hand.
well, they are doing it. i live here and it just makes me scratch my head.
The current American administration seems to believe all the army requires to fight major wars all over the world is a good supply of rainbow flags.
RUSSIA IS WINNING BIG. ❤😊
US will also have to deal with Iran. It will be three fronts and the US won’t be able to handle it
They can't handle noodle makers korea, rice farmers Vietnam, goat herders with flip flops in Afghanistan and your talking about 3 fronts ,,,don't be delusional like their "generals"😂😂😂
They are suffering from Yemen. The US carrier Eisenhower was hit multiple times by cruise missiles. Which means their ship defences are depleted.
And North Korea. And what would India and Pakistan do ? Would they sit it out in the hope of picking up some valuables out of the rubble, or would they decide that it was time to settle their differences with a nuclear exchange ? And what might flare up between Turkey and Armenia, or Greece, or Libya and Italy ?
@@albatross8361 The North Koreans have more tanks than Russia and I think comparable numbers of artillery. They could defeat South Korea once the USA has been defeated.
@@albatross8361 World wars are made of such stuff.
5:38 I think you have to consider what really is at stake here. Is it concern for Taiwanese Democratic Rights? The answer is that is seems extremely improbable that a contry which has zero interest in any rights at all for Palestinians, would have any real interest in rights for any other country. Therefore, I conclude that the REAL interest is in degrading China so that it does not compete with the USA for the position of World Hegemon. This means that there is no need for a real causus belli. The US wants a war and will try to get it any way it can. On the other hand, it does not want to be seen as the aggressor. Nothing that the Chinese can or will say, will make the slightest difference to the USA's aim.
Puppets following orders. Mention the master and post goes down black hole.
The problem is Taiwan’s TSMC produces almost all of world’s top end semiconductor chips and US cannot go to war with China now knowing that this will bring to a halt pretty much all of the production of consumer electronics, cars, airplanes , appliances in the world (imagine what happened during COVID times 10 or 20). So until US’s production of high end semiconductor chips are ready (which is at least two years away (in the best case scenario), US is not ready for war with China (hopefully by then US will recoup much of it war stockpiles).
@@CycOp You think war with China is a good idea?
@antonywooster6783.
The problem?
US debt.
Global Energy Transition (China "winning")
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Petrodollar (Will fail)
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The choices?
Get in line.
"Big Stick"
❤😊PUTIN AND LAVROV ARE THE GREATEST OF ALL MEN IN RUSSIA.
In the world.
@johnbodman4504 ❤️YES SIR PUTIN AND LAVROV ARE THE GREATEST OF ALL MEN IN THE WORLD.
You cannot invade your own country.
MASSIVE VOICE CRACK AT 8:21
Exactly 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Long live Taiwan as an independent democracy!
@@Greek0715 dream on
@@garylee9668 Yeah, I have been dreaming since 1949 when they became a country. 🤣🤣🤣
That won't go wrong. It's not that China is as powerful as the Houthis in the Red Sea... 🤡🔥
😂 oh no not the Houthis.
🤣
The Houthis have hit the carrier Eisenhower multiple times yesterday.
Les USA ont une facheuse habitude de faire la guerre au plus faible et sous armé la Chine c'est une autre puissance et les americains vont se retrouver le cul à l'air VIVA CHINA VIVA RUSSIA
@@davidlazarus67 Multiple times?! Wow, hope something leaks (I mean info, not the ship)
Thanks guys. Much appreciated.
MASSIVE VOICE CRACK AT 8:21
Isn't this how all empires collapse?
China is totally different from Russia,
China is the major trading partner of 140 countries in the world,
a war with China will not only affect China, but also the whole world's economy.
USA imposed sanctions on China its will destroyed all of its.
Higher inflation?
We sanction China. China will sanction U.S. shutting down our supply chains.
Can someone explain how the USA can go to war with China a country that pretty much manufactures everything the Americans need. A war would stop all the exports and Walmart would collapse in 24hrs, Amazon in 4 days and the entire country in a week. 😂
they are our major trading partner the idjits in dc must think they will keep sending crap to us if there is a war
Thank you for providing us with the best analysis, gentlemen ❤️
China just needs to stop sending engines and other practical machinery to the US. We would be crippled almost immediately.
Better still - stop export of toilet papers to the US.
Problem for Washington is that Ukraine & Taiwan are related issues. If Ukraine collapses, weaponizing Taiwan becomes harder because Taiwanese don't want to follow Ukraine. So best case scenario for Washington is that they can push Taiwan "over the edge" before Ukraine collapses.
I agree
Legit thinking, but Taiwanese have probably figured it out by now. It's just the government puppets that want to please their US masters and start a conflict. And it's gonna end bad for Taiwan. Americans are already overstretched in Ukraine and Middle East and they don't have the capacities for yet another conflict, and especially not for conflict with adversary like China.
I think you just nailed the "window" thingy. 💯💥👍
Do the ‘people’ actually have any say? Or is this political nonsense driven by politicians?
@@yolandascholten2012 sad and terrifying isn't it.
I’m totally devastated over the current situation in the US. We keep digging ourselves deeper and deeper into the hole we created ourselves. True patriots are silenced or marginalized. Then in. November our choice for president is between (what someone else characterized as) “an orange topped plant” who has been politically tarred as a criminal AND, the other choice, a Alzheimer person who can’t even walk properly without tripping and falling. What can we do to uplift this country? 😢
Revolution
The near death of an empire. It has been like in many past empires.
Based...😂😂@@vanzikky
😪I just despair for you in US, as well as us in UK
I kept hearing American bragging about the number of gun they have
It all for show and cosplaying is it?
America still thinks itself 'Exceptional '
The US is so cute. Preparing for a WW 2 style campaign. Why does the US keep on demonstrating how weak it really is ?
because they made their own people to believe that US is entitled to do everything they want without any harm done to US itself. Generations were raised on lies, Hollywood movies and computer games, where they easily beat Russians
MASSIVE VOICE CRACK AT 8:21
Considering china has fractional orbital bombardment weapons that can hit the continental US from any angle, the geniuses thinking this will be a repeat of WW2 are woefully delusional.
Remember the fourth member, N.Korea.
North Korea has a bigger military than Russia. How will South Korea hold North Korea off?
❤😊US IS POKING THE BEAR.
The Panda Bear? Pooh-Bear?
@@johnski4709 🙂❤️THE BLACK AND WHITE BEAR MY DEAR.
MASSIVE VOICE CRACK AT 8:21
If the US goes down this road they will lose big. The US is disadvantaged geographically, militarily, and in military manufacturing capacity. This is a crazy path to go down.
That's why they may be unlikely to do down it, contrary to what these two are saying. If they do attempt something it will very probably go off like a damp squib and will be pursued half-heartedly at best.
Yes, things change. The US population has had the advantage of isolation. But now, who will come to the aid of their continent if push comes to shove. It's a vast territory to defend, alone.
The US plans to bully proxies, to do the fighting. Of course the proxies will also do the dying.
We are actually pretty good geographically. I don't know of any nation that has the sea power to actually invade us. Invasion through Mexico like we are seeing now is what i'm worried about. Our military is so full of DIE that i doubt we could fight ourselves out of a wet paper bag. Also recruitment is I think at all time lows where the various armed services can't make anywhere near their quotas. As far as military production goes as long as our MIC is profit based instead of performance/production based we are screwed. Just look at Russia producing 4.5 million Artillery shells a year where as the USA can barely make 1 million shells at 3 to 4 times the cost. I love my country but God help me I hate what the government has done to it in my life time.
the US cannot halfass a war over Taiwan, it will have to get directly involved and I don't think americans are ready for a real war.
I am a Taiwanese currently living in US. I can confidently say that the war drums against China certainly beating WAY LOUDER in the US (even predicting happening in two years) compares to in Taiwan and China. And I don’t see how Taiwan can declare independent by the president (which he stated in the past repeatedly as his ultimate objective, although he danced around this subject during the presidential election) when he does not have the majority of the votes (he won 40.05% of the votes) and lost the control of the congress. Perhaps you all aware of fighting in Taiwan’s congress just recently. This was because the congress majority wants to introduce legislation that will make it illegal for the president to bypass or ignore the congressional inquiries. The newly elected president Lai set the record for not set foot in the city council to report when he was a mayor. No doubt if president Lai can bypass the congress he will try to declare Taiwan’s independence when US asked. This however will set off a political crisis with large demonstrations or riots.
Well said, we know it is never about “freedom and “democracy”
I agree with everything you said except one thing, the US doesnt ask, they order.
Thanks for the insights. 👍🏻
Thank you for the valuable information -- much appreciated by someone here in the U.S. trying to follow what the Taiwanese are considering.
He can't simply declare independence. It would be against the ROC constitution and the courts would strike it down.
It is straight up insanity to go after a country who is doing better. They (us) use to make us believe competition is healthy. China has clearly shown how to care about their people and advance their luves. So what is the peoblem? This is a positive, not a negatuve why not focus on making life better in the us instead of using violence? Just a thought...
Helping the 98%.... = taxing the more of the 1-2%, who controls the gov't, who controls the media... that's plutocracy for you. 💡
The US is quite frankly jealous that china is able to develop peacefully and outcompete them.
Yes, I remember when the US was _demanding_ communist China embrace capitalism.
Imagine Taiwan wanting to be the next Ukraine!
Taiwan didn't refuse military aid from US instead of a peaceful reunification with China.
Thank you Alexander for explaining how the spanish empire fell. They were the first to conquer the New World and and amassed enormous wealth in Europe.
Life and all of its vagaries. “A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”, Lao Tzu 老子, Chinese philosopher.
If Russian shovels have been effective , get ready for the Chinese shovels .
Overcapacity of hypersonic shovels 😂
The United States no longer has the industrial or logistical capability to wage a war against China? The US is no longer the industrial and technological powerhouse that it was back in the glory days of the Apollo program? If major power wars are won on the factory floor,, the fact that the Chinese ship production is two hundred times that of the US is indicative of Chinese industrial dominance, which would confer a huge advantage to the Chinese military in any future showdown with the Americans? If war between the US and China breaks out in the near future, the Americans will lose badly? The problem for the US is that they would be fighting in China’s backyard where the Chinese, because they would be close to their logistic and industrial centres, would enjoy escalation dominance? In contrast, the US would be conducting military operations far from their own shores, which would present them with insuperable logistical problems because the US simply lacks the shipping capacity to conduct a major trans oceanic military campaign against a peer power?
❤😊UKRAINE IS RUNNING OUT OF MEN AND WEAPONS.
Men are dropping their weapons and running out of Ukraine
Never had many Sea men to begin with.
Mercouris has hit the nail on the head at 19.00. Foreign policy in the US and the UK is a closed shop. What gets out into the media is carefully controlled. People outside rarely understand what is going on.I know because in my 20s I worked in a foreign office and cabinet office for a few years (later went into a completely different profession). It was a real eye-opener. One thing I saw was that the media narrative and what actually was happening was very different. This was back in the 1990s.
Mr. Mercouris truly is a knowledgeable person but he had a MASSIVE VOICE CRACK AT 8:21
Thank you Gentlemen.
I want peace. No war. Citizens are the victims of all war.
The Taiwanese people amaze me. Did they miss all what happened in Iraq, Afghanistan, U--raine? 🤯
If you can't stand the heat, don't poke the dragon
❤😊THANK YOU FOR YOUR NEWS AND UPDATES.
The bullies are getting bullied.
I don't t understand why you would fight the country that you greatly depend on for your manufactured goods?
Thank you for reminding us that even as we are focused on the Middle East, and rightfully so, other geopolitical agendas are being carried out in the periphery. Great reporting .
I say hello to all my Chinese brothers & sisters in my motherland, China and the world diaspora. I follow both "Alexanders" constantly and find them well versed in whatever views they put forward. I believe there cannot be peace between America & their western allies vs Russia & China partners. This "war" between them has no solution because the USA is fighting Russia and China in order to preserve the racist world order of "THE SUPERIOR WHITE MAN ! Just hold one consideration in mind, China and Russia fights for inclusivity and the freeing of the world's coloured peoples from hunger and illiteracy; while America & the white men's world is to retain the superiority of the white men. Bear this in mind, "to be a millionaire, one would need to have one million men poorer than himself. That said the west world have to keep the so called 3rd world permanently POOR ! That is how simple the issue can be so crystalized. War with America cannot be avoided; hence to end the issue of Taiwan, motherland has no other way out then to fight America. ONLY ONE NATION CAN SURVIVE !
Thanks yet again for your extremely well researched posts. We are at a turning point of human history - the liberation from the USA.
The British Empire was more power than peak America. Even then the sunset on it within a lifetime. It overstretched itself trying to swallow the whole world
MASSIVE VOICE CRACK AT 8:21
The US ranks #1 in the world as the most powerful banana republic
I know for a fact that American marines were in Taiwan already in the summer of 2022 and that they were involved in difficult situations already then
MASSIVE VOICE CRACK AT 8:21
If only the arrogance of Us was less the world would be a less waring place..😢😢😢😢
No reverse gear and no slow down!! The USA is heading off a cliff!
One China was the premise of US/China diplomatic relations in 1979.
Pride Marines for Taiwan - thats gonna work - NOT !
Talk of island hopping in a modern war. Madness.
Taiwan’s marines used to be ranked among top 5 in the world in 1950 and 1960’s and it has gone downhill ever since. The current government in power, DPP, led a demonstration about 10 years ago to abolish the “brutal” treatment of soldiers (resulting in death of a soldier when he was forced to run some laps in a very hot day). Now Taiwan’s soldiers don’t do outside workouts or exercises when the outside temperature is very high (say around 38 degrees Celsius or 100 degrees Fahrenheit). Also suicide seems to be a common occurrence in Taiwan’s military now.
Taiwan military is already pride lol. Them boys are SOFT!
How does China invade their own territory lol
Maybe this voice crack will explain it 8:21
Hop from Afghanistan to Ukraine to Gaza to Taiwan...all in a space of 2,5 years...Leaving misery and unfinished homework along the way. One thing is for sure, Russia is not Afghanistan and China is not Russia 😉
Maybe China is not Russia ,but military Russia is the alpha, and the Chinese knows that,the Russian army is the most dangerous and has the biggest coconuts on the planet, just they are still restrained against the Americans (yet)
Typical US
Too little, too late China has been preparing for US attack for 20 years.
Waiting for US 4:31 to start trouble and when trounced, expect Austin to start complain of China's "over capacity" in military power.
Here some simple maths for you. China has just launched its 10 type 55 destroyer ignoring the other types of destroyer. Each type 55 comes with 120 vl missile cells if 1/3 of these are antiship missiles that is 400 antiship missiles for the US carrier battle groups before reloads.
Latest houthi claim that US aircraft received damage from a swarm of slow moving drones and old ballistic missiles. No wonder why Pentagon war games found out that in every scenario US forces loses.
Go nuclear and the World + US loses big time.
The problem is that, they will go nuclear(elite doesn´t care about people), because they will loose badly...
the primary fear the chinese is that the US would go nuclear after losing one of it's carriers because the americans are just that immature.
With miscalculations in the Korean War 1950-1953, the Vietnam War 1955-1975 and the Afghanistan War 2001-2021, the U.S. has never fought a war without a calculated chance of winning. It has always started wars with lesser countries that have no capability to fight back -- the likes of Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc. -- all the while avoiding formidable enemies like they did in Ukraine.
A war with China? Grand posturing aside, the U.S. still wants whatever talks with China "to avoid misunderstandings and miscalculations." American aircraft carriers staying away while Philippine vessels were sprayed by the Chinese Coast Guard says it all -- not to mention the U.S. moving its American sons and daughters from the First Island chain to the Second and Third chains in the past few years. U.S. arrogance and presumptuousness without the means to back it up only leads to further loss of credibility in the eyes of the world. The sad thing about all these is American politicians seem oblivious to their own predicament.
The American politicians just work for whoever pays the best. But otherwise, well said.
❤✝ CHRIST IS RISEN ✝❤
❤💪🏼🇷🇺🇨🇳🙏✝ BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS ✝🙏🕊🇷🇺🇨🇳🦾
Who?
This is high stakes poker and all the US has left is to bluff.
Chinese de-dollarization underway..cue destabilisation operation.
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Except Japan & the Philippines, the other countries in Asia won't bother with supporting Taiwan. In addition, Taiwan is an island unlike Ukraine, once surrounded there is no way to retreat. If a war between China-Taiwan starts, it ain't going to last long to satisfy the MIC. It will only create further tensions and disrupt peaceful lives of commoners.
The Philippine military is extremely close to the Chinese military, they have been for decades.
All I see is the US Military being baited to spread thin where it cannot resupply and it won't be able to return home to defend North America and stabilize it to maintain and rebuild! 👀
All of this is intentional, it is finely tuned, it's treason and it's a giant trap.
US soldiers wont shoot at civilians, but the new BRICs walk ins and their allies who flooded in will for a square meal a day turn a rifle against the Citizens!
The military won't even be here in sufficient numbers to stop it anyway.
China knows Western elites are desperate to keep power to a point they will send the military to die and take in foreign men and arm them like they did to try and keep control that way... they won't be able to stay in power anyway!
Taiwan is dumb for not accepting a peaceful unification with mainland China.
It shall be like in the days of Noah. There will be wars and rumours of war….
Now tell me I’m not seeing this clearly?
I know where I am in this!
I am from America, I love the asia. I am going to Singapore and Saudi arabia. Far away but great countries!!!
The US Administration: Say one thing but do another thing
Phillipnes may unnecessarily turn toast. Hope they realize that sooner than later.
They work with China!
Afghanistan, Syria, Ukraine, Gaza, Taiwan - how many wars can one US president lose in only four years?
YES.
Good reminder by Alexander Mercouris on how "neocons" of Imperial Spain lost their empire over hubris and dogma and Beltway neocons are repeating Spanish strategic mistakes. Sadder still Imperial Span's currency will outlast US Dollars because the former backed its currency with gold and latter with thin air.
In reference to Alexander's tidbit on Spain, we live in "1639 Spain" or possibly "Rome 475 A.D."
It is so heartbreakingly sad, that the worst patterns of history repeat, lead by ignorance, hubris, and greed.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on us!
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I don't understand why Phillipines are involved unnecessarily. To be famous?
No rational mind in Philippines?
Fear of assassins. How did Marcos father die
@@Haijwsyz51846 : That is an excuse
Well
The big money assets are located in the US
So the president got to protect the assets by following the instructions from Washington 😂
You get large bribes if you do what you are told.... 😂 The stick if you don't ....
Bong Bong needs to obey Uncle Sam so that he can get his daddy's ill gotten billions.
Disaster of US floating pier...what an embarrassment for the American ship builders
The Russians and Chinese collaborating together, who would or could fight that?
Russians can only defend themselves though.
Taiwan is what ? A hundred miles from mainland China. So the conflict will be primarily naval. Do the pro independence people of Taiwan think they will escape unscathed if there is war?
Sadly many Taiwanese get their news from a single pro-Taiwan news source and it focuses only on the negatives of China while ignoring all the recent advances in China as fake or feel good news. And the news source is also completely following the official US lines that Ukraine is mot losing and Israel is only targeting terrorists.
U.S. has threatened to destroy all the chip manufacturing industry in Taiwan THEMSELVES if there's a war.... it's crazy and Taiwan is not remotely the size of Ukraine. Ukraine is 17 times larger than Taiwan -- so Taiwan would suffer immense damage in any conflict.
A representative from China stated to the effect, that US is creating a NATO appearance/demeanor in the far East ..
Amusing that the USA military as small as it is scattered all over the globe are going to invade a country of 1.5 billion people. I’ve seen a drone, aircraft carrier, full of surveillance drones, and probably hundreds of thousands of kamikaze drone, now exactly what are those people soldiers on those islands going to do to stop those drones from destroying all of them and it probably got more aircraft carriers there 1/3 the size of a normal carrier being built as we speak if they don’t already have them built. I think that they have high resolution satellites, watching everything going on in Ukraine and they aren’t stupid people. Thanks for the reality check gentleman.