There’s the quote “the bigger the lie the more people will
believe it” but the quote that fits the “new” American government would be “the
more stupid the idea the easier it is to sell.”
The new American government smashed its way on to the world stage like a
drunk with a broken beer bottle threatening everyone in the bar.
The Russia China Derangement Syndrome of the new American
government came in with a bang. The
first victims, Japanese teenagers on a fishing trip. From World Socialist Network:
Excerpt:
US sub joyride kills nine Japanese
The USS Greeneville and the arrogance of power
It is by now abundantly clear that
the February 9 collision of the nuclear sub Greeneville with a Japanese fishing
boat off the Hawaiian coast was an entirely avoidable tragedy, the result of gross recklessness and irresponsibility
on the part of the US Navy. Nine
people on the Ehime Maru, including four high school students, were killed
when the sub broke the surface as it completed an “emergency blow….”
The potentially dangerous maneuver
was executed by the commander of the sub
not as a strategic military exercise, but rather to impress a group of 16
well-heeled civilians brought
aboard the Greeneville as part of a public relations effort by the Navy to bolster support for its nuclear submarine
program. Two of these civilian
visitors were at control posts when the submarine rammed into the Japanese
boat…
The Japanese victims' relatives released a list of 31 questions they
want the United States to answer, including who was steering the
Greeneville at the time of the collision and why the sub's crew did not “do
their best” to assist survivors after the boat sunk. One of the relatives'
questions reads: “Do you let the
civilians experience the emergency blow to let them enjoy the thrill of a
roller coaster ride?”
The victims’ families were very astute to compare
billionaire donors, joy riding in a nuclear submarine as “the thrill of a
roller coaster ride.” The world and
America in particular, has been on a roller coaster ride since the illegitimate
government took over in 2001.
Next victim, China’s Air Force pilot. Seems the new American administration just
couldn’t wait to play with all of the toys in the American military toy
box. Next item on the agenda in the PNAC
playground was flexing America’s muscles using a top secret sophisticated spy
plane.
On April Fool’s Day, 2001 Bush sent advanced American spy
planes to buzz the Chinese, to display the power of the U.S. Air Force and to
show who the new boss is. But the U.S.
spy plane collided with a Chinese air defense plane and was forced to make an
emergency landing. From Daily Mail:
Excerpt:
Bush demands return of spy plane
American President George Bush has demanded that China releases a U.S.
spy plane and its crew and said the
future of U.S.-China relations are at stake.
In Washington yesterday, Bush warned that ties with Beijing could
suffer unless it quickly releases the EP-3E and its crew…
Chinese state media has splashed
pictures of the crippled U.S. surveillance aircraft sitting on the tarmac on a
military base in Hainan, where it made
an emergency landing on Sunday after a collision with a Chinese F-8 fighter.
Chinese President Jiang Zemin repeated a call today for an American
apology for the mid-air collision.
But Bush continued his tantrum and refused to apologize,
instead further digging in his heels and making threats, warning the Chinese
not to board the spy plane.
The incident threatened to renew
Cold War hostilities and further weakened already sour relations between the
Bush administration and Beijing.
The U.S. demanded the plane back before China tears apart the super-secret
technology aboard the spy aircraft. "We expect that the [Chinese]
government will respect the integrity of the aircraft and the well-being and
safety of the crew,"
Needless to say, that didn’t go over too well, so the
Chinese took their time and sent in engineers to dismantle the spy plane and
capture the most sophisticated of America’s technology onboard the aircraft. After Bush finally apologized to China for
his reckless behavior, China boxed the pieces of the spy plane up and shipped
them to Bush C.O.D.
But that wouldn’t be the end of the China Derangement
Syndrome, the new America’s foreign policy was one of belligerence and threats
to China, particularly with regard to Taiwan.
From Arms Control Association:
Excerpt:
On April 24, President George W. Bush authorized the sale of a major package of arms
to Taiwan, including destroyers, diesel-powered submarines, and
anti-submarine aircraft, but he deferred Taipei's request for U.S. destroyers
equipped with the advanced Aegis combat system.
Striving to further show his strong
support for Taiwan, the president stated
the following day that the United States would defend Taiwan against a Chinese
attack, abandoning the ambiguity
that typically cloaks Washington's response to how it would handle such a
scenario.
Tact and diplomacy have left the building, America had lost
its mind. The military industrial
complex of think tanks and defense contractors’ now owned America’s treasury.
In congressional testimony in
March, Admiral Dennis Blair, commander-in-chief of the U.S. Pacific Command,
noted that the decommissioned Kidd-class
destroyers, originally built for the Shah
of Iran before he was toppled from power, could be ready for Taiwan within
roughly two years, whereas the Aegis-equipped destroyers would not be available
until around 2008 or later….
Hmmm, so the Kidd-class destroyers were originally built for
the Shah of Iran, under Reagan. No sense
crying over spilled “military complex” milk, we can sell those to Taiwan to
attack China.
The Clinton administration declined to sell submarines to Taiwan, considering
them to be offensive rather than defensive weapons. Though committing
itself to provide Taiwan with the arms necessary to "maintain a sufficient
self-defense capability" in the
1979 Taiwan Relations Act,
Washington has also sought to avoid providing Taipei with weapons that it could use
offensively and thereby provoke a
Chinese attack….
The new American foreign policy was no longer defensive, but
offensive with the goal of destabilizing governments around the world to ensure
American domination.
Although the proposed package did
not include the Aegis-equipped destroyers, it
is being touted as the biggest U.S. arms deal for Taiwan since 1992, when the
elder George Bush authorized the sale of 150 F-16 fighter aircraft to the
island.
Every stupid, proven failure of an idea that the think tanks
who suckle at the teat of the military industrial complex was now dusted off
and was presented as the new “foreign policy.”
There’s a new sheriff in town baby, and this one is armed, mentally
unstable and extremely dangerous.
One of the most disturbing of the stupid neocon ideologies
of untethered fascistic attacks on the environment was to withdraw from the
Kyoto Protocol citing lack of scientific evidence of global warming. Had Al Gore, the winner of the 2000
Presidential election, assumed the Presidency there may never had been a
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster in Japan.
From the Nuclear Information and Resource Center:
Excerpt:
The Exclusion of Nuclear Power From the Kyoto Protocol
What the Bonn Decision Means For
Nuclear Power
The exclusion of nuclear power from
the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Joint Implementation (JI) mechanism
of the Kyoto Protocol is both a
financial and political blow to the nuclear industry. It prevents it from
using "carbon credits" to help fund new reactors in developing
countries and Central and Eastern Europe, and denies them the PR benefit of
being a Kyoto-endorsed "clean development" technology.
While new construction in
developing countries could continue and the debate about nuclear power as a
climate response will carry on in Europe and North America, this outcome is undeniably a major defeat for the nuclear industry….
For a number of European countries it was one of their only
"bottom lines", and they made it clear that they would not accept a pro-nuclear Protocol.
Back in 2000 the world was turning away from nuclear power,
the dangers were too great and the benefits to small. Today, Japan has been suffering since the
tsunami disabled the nuclear reactor in Fukushima and contaminated the Pacific
Ocean.
An accident that according to Wikipedia“The Fukushima
Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission found the nuclear disaster was
"manmade" and that its direct causes were all foreseeable.”
So I would imagine a trade deal like the TPP would help
Japan get back on their feet and rebuild their economy. So what is the new America offering Japan to
sweeten the deadly poisoned pill Japan will have to swallow if they accept
America’s terms for the Trans Pacific Partnership?
America’s new Secretary of Defense, the neocon nut job,
Ashton Carter is setting up a militarized Pacific rim around China and Japan is
pivotal in surrounding China. From Washington Post:
Excerpt:
Revised defense rules would give Japan new powers to aid U.S. military
TOKYO — The United States and Japan
are close to concluding a set of bilateral defense rules that if finalized would give Japan’s military new powers to
act when U.S. forces are threatened by a third country, U.S. officials said
Wednesday.
By U.S. forces being threatened by a third country, they
mean China.
Under a previous bilateral
arrangement, Japanese forces could protect the U.S. military only if it was
operating in Japan’s direct defense in areas close to the country. U.S.
officials say the new rules, once given final approval, would broaden the
geographic scope and, significantly, allow Japan to respond to an attack on the
U.S. military even if the American forces are not acting in defense of Japan at
the time.
A senior defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity
to discuss ongoing negotiations, called
the new rules “a big, big deal.” He said they were also intended to empower Japan to use its missile defense
systems to protect U.S. military assets under a greater range of
circumstances.
“With missile defense, the more
radars you have and the more shots you have, the higher the probability of a
kill is,” he said, referring to the likelihood that a missile could be
intercepted.
Ely Ratner, a senior fellow at the Center for New American
Security, a Washington think tank, said the changes will create “a more equal
alliance of mutual defense, rather than simply the defense of Japan.”
Eventually, “this has the potential to open up a variety of new defense activities
for Japan in Asia and beyond that are CURRENTLY FORBIDDEN,” he said.
Jeepers, those dimwitted neocons from the Reagan
Administration are imbeciles. A missile
defense shield for Japan?? One of the
most ignorant of ideas that was scrapped after billions of dollars were spent
on failed test after failed test was Reagan’s missile shield system.
Basically, the military think tank boondoggle’s wet dream
was to have a “shield” of missiles in Alaska pointed at Russia. The genius idea
was, if Russia lobbed a nuclear missile at America, we would launch a missile
to hit their missile head on before it got here. From Wikipedia:
The Strategic Defense Initiative
(SDI) was proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983…
The
initiative focused on strategic defense rather than the prior strategic offense
doctrine of Mutual assured destruction (MAD). The Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) was set up in 1984
within the United States Department of Defense to oversee the Strategic
Defense Initiative….
The ambitious initiative was widely criticized as being unrealistic, even unscientific,
as well as for threatening to destabilize
MAD and re-ignite "an offensive arms race".[3] SDI was
derided, largely in the mainstream media, as "Star Wars", after the
popular 1977 film by George Lucas.
In 1987, the American Physical Society concluded that a global
shield such as "Star Wars" was not only impossible
with existing technology, but that ten more years of research was needed to
learn whether it might ever be feasible.[4]
The same clowns that usurped power in 2000 had been told in
1987, your missile shield idea is impossible, it’s like a 12 year-old’s idiotic
plan to build a space ship out of soda cans and circle the earth. So Americas and the people of the world are
beginning to feel the kind of fear and dread that makes your scalp feel too
small for your head.
I can only imagine what Putin must have thought when George
W. Bush claimed he was able to look into Putin’s eyes and see his soul. Bush gave his personal, divine seal of
approval based on his faith-based evaluation of Putin.
The “new” America has destroyed every relationship formed
over centuries in favor of a bully on the block policy that has endangered the
world war beyond anything ever imagined.
From Top Info:
Excerpt:
Russia Demands Removal of U.S. Nuclear Missiles
The demand comes after Denmark was
threatened with a potential nuclear attack.
MOSCOW, March 24 (UPI) – Russia
increased tension over NATO nuclear missiles Tuesday with a demand that the
United States remove all non-strategic nuclear weapons from Europe…
He added that deployment of U.S.
missiles in European NATO countries is a
violation of the 1968 Treaty on Nuclear Weapons Non-Proliferation…
Lukashevich’s remarks came after
tensions, already ratcheted upward by
Russia’s contention that it could place nuclear weapons in Crimea,
increased over the weekend with the suggestion by a Russian diplomat that the
Danish Navy’s inclusion of radar on one ship, to involve it in NATO’s missile
shield, could make Denmark a nuclear target.
“If this happens, Danish warships
become targets for Russian nuclear missiles,” Russian Ambassador Mikhail Vanin
wrote in the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten on Sunday.
Danish Foreign Affairs minister
Martin Lidegard called Vanin’s comments “unacceptable,” adding, “Russia knows full well that NATO’s
missile defense is defensive and not targeted at them.”
Sounds like the Danish Foreign Affairs minister
is unfamiliar with the “new” America. The
“new” America’s foreign policy has the world on the brink of a full blown arms
race and the only winners will be the new American industrial military complex
and the many think tanks that populate them.
Russia and China have now been forced to respond to the threat. From Popular Science:
Excerpt:
CHINA SIGNS HUGE ARMS DEAL WITH RUSSIA, BUYS WORLD'S BEST MISSILE
China and Russia, as part of closer strategic ties, have finalized a long-awaited deal for
very long range S-400 surface to air missile (SAM) system.
The deal is not
only the largest Sino-Russian arms deal in over a decade, but S-400 missile defense capabilities would provide China with a quick
missile defense upgrade at the moment neighboring states like North Korea
acquire more ballistic missiles, and the
U.S. and Japan look to buy stealthy anti-ship missiles…
The
deal is significant to regional security as well as geopolitics. China's improved air defense capabilities
will greatly complicate any efforts to conduct aerial operations or missile
attacks against the Chinese mainland, even
with stealthy drones, longer-ranged cruise missiles, or new bombers, all
part of the new US "third offset" plan.
Congratulations “New” America, your ignorant Russia/China
Derangement Syndrome has put the world on a course of total annihilation.
By Patricia Baeten