While Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is implementing a daily round of dictates, domestically and internationally, that all contact with China must be severed at risk of punishment from the U.S., the military has announced a full reorientation of all U.S. forces in the Pacific theater to prepare for a war on China. Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger told a Marine conference on Sept. 24 that the former focus of the Pacific Command on the danger of conflict on the Korean Peninsula is no longer appropriate. “We have to spread out,” Berger said. “We have to have a disbursed, distributed laydown in the Pacific that allows us to work with all the partners and allies and deter forces like the PLA from asserting themselves in a manner that tries to rewrite the global norms that have been well established in the past 70 years. So, our posture must change.”
Meanwhile, the September-October issue of Military Review, The Professional Journal of the U.S.Army is devoted to a discussion of the coming war, to be launched by a unilateral breach of the Shanghai Communiqué of 1972, in which the U.S. adopted the agreement between Taiwan and Mainland China that there were only “One China,” although Taipei and Beijing disagreed over who was in charge. That Communiqué set the stage for formal U.S. recognition of Beijing in 1979. The U.S. adopted a Taiwan Relations Act in that year which included a removal of all U.S. military forces from Taiwan, although it allowed for the provision of arms to the Taiwan government. It is universally recognized that Beijing considers the One China policy as a red line for war — any effort to separate Taiwan would mean an end to any effort to achieve peaceful reunification over time, requiring the use of military force to preserve national sovereignty.
The most explicit article in the Military Review is titled “Deterring the Dragon: Returning U.S. Forces to Taiwan,” in which author Capt. Walker Mills writes: “If the United States wants to maintain credible conventional deterrence against a PLA attack on Taiwan, it needs to consider basing troops in Taiwan…. U.S. ground forces in Taiwan, particularly combat credible, heavy forces could not only go far in repelling a PLA cross-strait operation but also serve as a tripwire that would inevitably trigger a wider conflict not acceptable to China.”
What mindset within the U.S. military would allow such madness to be published? Is a nuclear war but a game to be played in geopolitical calculations of unipolar hegemony? Did we not defeat the British Empire in three bloody wars in order to be finished with such evil?
Recall what President Donald Trump said on Labor Day: “I’m not saying the military is in love with me. The soldiers are — the top people in the Pentagon probably aren’t, because they want to do nothing but fight wars so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make everything else, stay happy.” Several of those generals in the military-industrial complex, those who have been leading the “endless wars” launched by Presidents Bush and Obama — which Trump has sworn to end — signed a letter Thursday, Sept. 24, endorsing the cognitively challenged Joe Biden to become the Commander in Chief of the largest nuclear force in the world, declaring that President Trump is “not equal to the enormous responsibilities of his office,” and that “our allies no longer trust or respect us, and our enemies no longer fear us.” The letter claims that Trump “has ceded influence to a Russian adversary who puts bounties on the heads of American military personnel,” a lie adopted from a fake-news New York Times story which has been repeatedly disproven by the military itself.
The world stands on a precipice, as the title of the Schiller Institute conference which will be held online today (Saturday) indicates: “Youth Conference —The World Has a Choice: Extinction, or Era of LaRouche.” The conference is open to all, with a particular focus on youth from around the world, to counter the war drums with the urgent implementation of the ideas of Lyndon LaRouche for global cooperation in a new economic and cultural paradigm for Mankind. The conference begins at 10:00 a.m. EDT. The conference will be available to watch at this link:
https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2020/09/24/62768/
If you are a young person, or know young people who would like to participate, you can register for live participation in the Zoom discussion here: https://schillerinstitute.nationbuilder.com/sept_26_conf
