New
evidence that the "usual suspects" seek a warm conflict
again
While Obama
is trying to balance between Ukraine and Middle East chaos, it
appears that some in Washington seek to strengthen the new cold war.
On the one hand, the US official government appears to be willing to
improve relations with China, for a start, with China responding
positively, on the other, the US "shadow" government is
pushing for more aggressive policies that could lead to a dangerous
warm conflict.
Probably
Obama tries to earn some time to end his term with "clean
hands", throwing the "hot potato" to the next US
president, but those who are behind the pressure are well known from
their past and way of thinking:
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"A
think tank connected to Zbigniew Brzezinski and Henry Kissinger,
the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), is
calling for retooling the U.S. military in preparation of a 'great
power conflict' with 'a newly aggressive Russia and rapidly
modernizing China,' ..."
“Zbigniew
Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter’s former national security
adviser and co-founder of the globalist Trilateral Commission with
David Rockefeller, is a longtime adversary of the Soviet Union and
now Russia. He has worked to revitalize the Cold War ethos by
exploiting the conflict in Ukraine and warns about the threat of
'Russian chauvinism' and the need for containment.”
“Under
the pretext of responding to a federal budget sequestration, the
CSIS study suggests the United States 'maintain its full triad of
bombers, submarines, and intercontinental ballistic missiles meant
to deter or carry out nuclear warfare' as emphasis shifts from the
Middle East to an ultimate confrontation with Russia and China.”
“'The
trend lines in the relationships between the United States and its
near-peer competitors, China and Russia, are worsening —
cooperation and competition have been largely replaced with
competition, which itself is migrating toward conflict,' the
authors of the study argue. 'We believe that a 2021 affordable
military that is focused on the growing conflict with China and
Russia is the ‘least bad’ option for this punishing fiscal
context of fewer and weaker defense dollars.'"
“The
study does not characterize the proposed move as confrontational,
but rather as buttressing the Pentagon’s 'traditional
‘peace-through-strength’ strategy for deterring, containing,
and influencing its Cold War adversary.'”
“CSIS
has functioned as a Cold War think tank since its formation in
1962. A product of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown
University, the think tank has made an industry out of discovering
'communist influence' around the world. It has specialized in
producing generations of 'Cold Warriors' for positions in
government.”
“The
call for preparing for a conflict with Russia and China pairs up
with recent U.S. government rhetoric. Following a U.S. State
Department supported coup in Ukraine, the U.S. has taken an
increasingly strident stance on Russia. Meanwhile, as China
asserts sovereignty in the South China Sea and confronts Japan on
territorial issues, the relationship between China and the United
States has experienced its worst decline in decades.”
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Meanwhile,
the US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Friday met with Japanese
Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera at Pentagon, reiterating importance
and reinforcement of US-Japan partnership and alliance, while North
Korea has denounced the United States and South Korea for their
planned joint naval exercise in the southern waters off the Korean
Peninsula.
These latest
actions by the US came after recent Japan's decision to ease
restrictions on its military, which have kept it from fighting abroad
since World War II:
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