Comments on: US urged to clarify simultaneous campaign for Russia and China https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2023/08/25/us-urged-to-clarify-simultaneous-campaign-for-russia-and-china/ Truth Exists: Lies Are Made Up Fri, 25 Aug 2023 23:45:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: penny2 https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2023/08/25/us-urged-to-clarify-simultaneous-campaign-for-russia-and-china/#comment-2978 Fri, 25 Aug 2023 23:45:06 +0000 https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/?p=4889#comment-2978 It’s a rebrand. Everything has to be rebranded in order for it to be perceived as new and improved, although it’s more of the same old, same old.
That saying there’s nothing new under the sun- maybe in some ways that’s true- thinking big on the cyclical nature of things (and being super tired)

“This “new ” policy is simply think tank regurgitated verbiage meant to bolster NATO self delusion, like putting lipstick on a pig.
Any talk of simultaneous armed confrontation with Russia and China is geo-political suicide, nothing but the desperate last gasp flailing for Imperial domination and should be avoided at all costs.”

What shocks me all these years of writing on geopolitics is the US never considers anything but war- In all this time. Economic war. Military war. It’s always attempting to subjugate, some people, some nations.

“The Byzantine Eastern Roman Empire lasted a long time in the face of increasing enemy pressure and decreasing military capabilities by embracing diplomacy and compromise. If we are to perpetuate our species and save what’s left of our planet we must learn from history and do the same.”

Agree, whole heartedly!

]]> By: Mark Finnegan https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2023/08/25/us-urged-to-clarify-simultaneous-campaign-for-russia-and-china/#comment-2975 Fri, 25 Aug 2023 18:41:06 +0000 https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/?p=4889#comment-2975 Hi Penny,
I fail to see how this ‘new’ approach dubbed ” campaigning ” is any different than the policy of forward containment popularized by George Kennan in the early 1950’s. There have been US bases in the Philippines since the 1890’s and in Iwo Jima, South Korea and Australia since WW2. As for Sweden and Finland their recent attempts at joining NATO is folly in the extreme. They were already effectively covered under the US “nuclear umbrella”. This just radically extends the frontiers of NATO while hardly increasing the armed forces necessary to defend it. Helsenki is already within the range of Russian artillery and they are rapidly forming a new corps of 90,000 troops north of St. Petersburg.
“Stockpiling critical supplies and munitions in Europe and the Indo-Pacific is also recommended ,,,”. Well, I guess so, but new stockpiles do not exist and the US and EU do not have the heavy industrial capacity to rapidly ramp up production.
This “new ” policy is simply think tank regurgitated verbiage meant to bolster NATO self delusion, like putting lipstick on a pig.
Any talk of simultaneous armed confrontation with Russia and China is geo-political suicide, nothing but the desperate last gasp flailing for Imperial domination and should be avoided at all costs.
The Byzantine Eastern Roman Empire lasted a long time in the face of increasing enemy pressure and decreasing military capabilities by embracing diplomacy and compromise. If we are to perpetuate our species and save what’s left of our planet we must learn from history and do the same.

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