Sino-American War On The Way

by JASmius



The Islamic State is, or shortly will be, deploying nuclear warheads to American cities; the Iranian mullahgarchy has, or shortly will have, a nuclear arsenal and the ICBMs to deliver them to American territory (or above it); North Korea now (apparently) has submarine-launch nuclear ballistic missile capability, along with nukes to mount atop them; the Russians are openly escalating towards an all-out attack, including with nuclear weapons, against NATO.  That would seem to be more than enough gathering storms that Barack Obama has done everything in his power to seed, cultivate, and encourage, while doing absolutely nothing to even pretend to stop them.

But wait!  There's more!:

The buildup of Chinese naval power in the South China Sea and recent groundbreaking on two island lighthouses are elevating tensions between the U.S. and China over the disputed region.

The release of a new white paper, "China’s Military Strategy," which indicates Chinese plans to broaden its influence over the South China Sea, noting that the People's Liberation Army (PLA) will be adding "open seas protection" to "offshore waters defense" in its naval mission, is straining nerves in the U.S., where Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter has instructed his staff to come up with ways in which the U.S. can confront China's actions, Bloomberg News reports.

The paper was released just after an editorial in the state-run Chinese tabloid Global Times said conflict between China and the U.S. will be unavoidable if the Washington doesn’t stop harassing Beijing for building islands and military facilities in disputed parts of the South China Sea.

“We do not want a military conflict with the United States, but if it were to come we have to accept it,” the paper said.

The ChiComms'....expansive definition of what it calls its "territorial waters" is quite evidently designed to provoke and force a military confrontation that it knows it will win:

China has been expanding its reach in the South China sea with land reclamation projects in the Spratly Islands, which countries with overlapping interests, including Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Brunei, fear will be used for military purposes, Newsmax reports, in an article citing some material from Reuters.

"We will not attack unless we are attacked, but we will surely counterattack if attacked," the paper said, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Here's a map of the South China Sea, with Beijing's "territorial waters" claim demarcated in red:




Which is to say, as far as Red China is concerned, no nation in Southeast Asia with a frickin' coastline HAS any "territorial waters".  And they demand that we and whatever allies we still have left in the Pacific Rim stop "interfering" with their "maritime interests".  Nothing calculatedly "provocative" about that, is there?  Perhaps that's why the aforementioned Pacific Rim countries are belatedly and rationally boosting their defense expenditures.  About which they are far, far behind the ChiComm curve, as even the aforementioned "white paper" finally admits that, "China intends to add offensive air operations to its military plans, as well as to further develop its outer space, cyberspace, and nuclear capabilities".  The latter of which will include both miniaturization and the introduction of MIRVs (Multiple Independently targeted Reentry Vehicles).

The only country in this Pacific equation that is shrinking its military at a terrifying pace?  You know which one:

U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff General Mark Welsh says that major cuts to the defense budget will weaken the United States' air dominance against future enemies.

"China and Russia are two good examples of countries who will be fielding capability in the next three to five years; if they stay on track, that is better than what we currently have in many areas," Welsh said in an interview with Fox News.

"Fighter aircraft in the next three to five years that have more capability than what we currently have sitting on the ramp. The F-35 will stay a generation ahead of them. F-22 will, too. Everything else we have will not stay ahead. The gap has closed," the Air Force head explained....

And, of course, Barack Obama canceled both programs almost as soon as he took power over six years ago, so there'll be no more where they came from.

But it's not just air power that has taken a hit from defense budget cuts, Welsh said.

"We are 200,000 people fewer in the active component. That's 40% less than we were during the first Gulf War. It's a dramatically different Air Force," he explained to Fox.

"We have to stop this drawdown and build a red line right now in the size of the active force," he added.

The same can be said for the Navy (two and a half times smaller than at its Reagan-era peak), which can no longer effectively project power anywhere in the world any more, and the Army, which is now smaller than it was before the Second World War.

That across-the-board "significant shrinkage" occurring at the same time as all our enemies' arming to the teeth and using that military muscle in increasingly and brazenly ambitious ways, while making their common intention of ultimately taking us out once and for all are two dots that cannot help but be connected.  At least to the logical, rational, commonsensical mind.

Problem is, logical, rational, commonsensical minds in 2015 Obamerikastan are a dying breed.  Which is part and parcel of how and why we got into this endgame scenario.

The differences between now and, say, December 1941?  Nukes; the numbers, might, strength, and "will to fight" being all on the other side; and the fact that nobody will be either willing or able to come to our aid.

Our enemies have come to the realization that they can actually defeat the United States - and I don't mean just withdrawing our forces from some place else in the world, like Vietnam or the Middle East, but actually conquering us and/or eliminating us as a power of any kind for good - which means we have lost any deterrent power we ever had.  And the only way to regain that deterrent power is on the battlefield....where we have fatally enfeebled ourselves, even if we had the will to fight, which we do not.

The question is not if America will fall, but when and to whom.  But we are going to fall, and a lot quicker and more spectacularly than Rome ever did.  It's just a matter of time.