GeoCombat2050

  Let’s call it what it is: The Russia-Ukraine conflict is a war between two imperialist powers, the US and Russia. The longer the war lasts, the better for the world, as the protracted war undermines their respective power. Is the conflict a clash between democracy and autocracy, as the US claims? Or is it self-defense against Western encroachment, as Russia contends? There is nothing righteous about the geopolitical tussle over which side will control Ukraine. Under the veneer of democratic freedom or pan-slavic nationalism lies the primacy of might by any means necessary. Any rational person with some knowledge of history and geopolitics should be able to cut through the smoke screens that each belligerent uses to justify its aggresion. When America brandishes its Democracy stick, it means that its empire itches for new boundaries. When the Russian Bear plays the victim, it merely pursues its centuries-old insatiable hunger for more land. Ten years on, the clash of titans has result

  Year after year, the US cries wolf about China’s impending military aggression. The familiar refrain from the White House, Congress, Pentagon, CIA, and retired generals comes in invariably alarming tone: China’s invasion of Taiwan is imminent; President Xi Jinping has ordered his military to be ready for invading Taiwan by a certain year; and rising tensions in the South China Sea will trigger WWIII. Year after year, the wolf fails to show up. Yet, the US Empire’s mass media keeps amplifying this false narrative, day in day out. These tired tropes never die. For good reasons. They vilify China as America’s greatest enemy. They advance the National Security Council’s bellicose agenda. They prompt Congress to boost ever greater defense budgets. They serve to rally American allies. The sweeping China military threat narrative brushes aside a major question: Why has China not gone to war yet, despite enjoying 40 years of dizzying economic boom and rapid military modernization? The U

Imagine a world where the West and China live in harmony.  At its annual military parades, Beijing shows off its M1 Abrams tanks, M777 howitzers, and the world's most advanced fighter jets, F-35 --- all made in America. Soldiers march in lockstep, holding German HK416 assault rifles, while French H160M military helicopters sweep through the clear sky of the Chinese capital.  In low Earth orbit, the International Space Station welcomes Chinese astronauts, who conduct research with their US colleagues and maintain equipment provided by China, Japan, Canada, and other nations.  Knowing its place in the world supply chains, China, the world factory, churns out loads of consumer goods destined for Costco, Walmart, and the like while importing hi-tech products from the advanced industrialized countries.  This would be a China dreamed by Western liberals and neoconservatives: A Chinese client state subservient to the US, fully integrated into the so-called rules-based world order, entirel