Pentagon Names [China as] Biggest Threat in ‘Secret Memo’

 

Pentagon Names Biggest Threat in ‘Secret Memo’

A newly issued internal Pentagon document setting priorities for the US armed forces reportedly calls for focusing on preparing for a potential conflict with China and leaving all other potential “threats,” such as Russia and Iran to America’s allies, the Washington Post has claimed.

The nine-page paper, dubbed the Interim National Defense Strategic Guidance, effectively narrowed down the US defense strategy in the Indo-Pacific region to a single scenario that would require the American military to prevent Beijing from establishing full control over Taiwan through military means, according to WaPo.

“China is the Department’s sole pacing threat, and denial of a Chinese fait accompli seizure of Taiwan — while simultaneously defending the U.S. homeland is the Department’s sole pacing scenario,” the “secret” document obtained by the media outlet said. According to WaPo, Beijing was named as the only potential enemy in a “major power war” that Washington needs to plan contingencies for. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has previously described China as the main defense priority for the US. – RT

Our Take: This is where the NeoCons who have infiltrated the Trump administration will need to be addressed. First it was Ukraine. Then Israel. Now Taiwan.

These sociopaths will shamelessly look you in the eye and insist that your children dying for these places somehow serves the national interest of our country. As somebody who has spent a great deal of time studying at least some of these issues, I can assure you that is a despicable lie.

Your children do not need to be sacrificed on the altar of the MIC in order to preserve the American experiment. In fact, their blood is the grease that lubricates the wheels of their war machine.

There is nothing of significance on the island of Taiwan that is worth American lives and American treasure. The manufacturing base that was exported there decades ago needs to be returned home, anyway. Whatever political conflict the inhabitants of that island are involved in with Beijing cannot be resolved with overwhelming military force. And dedicating American lives to a futile military conflict is a senseless act of depravity. (Hence, why you don’t see US boots on the ground in the other two major conflicts.)

These facts do not change because a man we admire is in the Oval Office. And while I don’t think President Trump is planning to get involved, kinetically, it is never too early for our people to begin conditioning ourselves to take responsibility for our government and exercise our influence over it through the public mandate.

Because that’s what I think President Trump’s ultimate vision is: to return power to We The People. And while we may have a constitutional – as well as God-given – right to claim it, we must ensure that we are worthy.
– GhostofBasedPatrickHenry