{"id":234820,"date":"2023-05-08T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=234820"},"modified":"2023-05-05T10:11:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T09:11:02","slug":"wwiii-on-the-installment-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/05\/wwiii-on-the-installment-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"WWIII on the Installment Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Invention of a Wartime Presidency to Save the Biden Administration<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Illustration by Thomas Gaulkin<\/p><\/div>\n

4 May 2023 – <\/em>Yesterday\u2019s attempt to attack the Kremlin with a drone strike, supposedly to assassinate Vladimir Putin, is being pinned on Ukraine. But this is a proxy war of the U.S. versus Russia, and no one is fooled. Ukraine is a simply a U.S. pawn and can make no major moves without checking with Washington.<\/p>\n

The U.S. has successfully muzzled its energy-starved allies in Europe from even objecting to, let alone investigating the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline.\u00a0 Europe is stuck with the skyrocketing cost of U.S. supplied replacement fuel.<\/p>\n

The destruction of Nord Stream followed well-publicized mock U.S. nuclear strikes targeting Russia and the equally provocative shipment of depleted-uranium munitions transferred to the Ukraine battlefield through our \u201cspecial relationship\u201d with the British government.\u00a0The Russian government has publicly warned that the use of such weapons, as were used by the U.S. in Iraq and Syria, will lead to escalation.<\/p>\n

The Biden Administration has done everything it could to incite a hot war directly between the U.S. and Russia, sacrificing Ukrainian<\/em> youth and the majesty of Ukrainian cities.<\/p>\n

The drone strike and the depleted uranium transfer are made to look like the West is somehow succeeding in the battle which, for all intents and purposes, will soon come to an end\u2014 with a phony declaration of victory of sorts (definitely not for Ukrainians).\u00a0Then the infernal Enemy Engine will pivot its wrath and venom towards CHINA<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Get ready for a parceling out of some of the manufactured hate that has been reserved for Russia and President Putin — to hate China and President Xi, and to suffer a fully-machinated Red Peril.<\/p>\n

One need only to look at the \u201cDown Under\u201d Australian press\u2019 frightful China fear-mongering to know what we in the \u2018Up Above\u2019 can expect.\u00a0 This has been well chronicled by Caitlin Johnstone, whose Substack posts are a must read.<\/p>\n

The Biden Administration, having unsuccessfully diminished the Russian economy with its broad sanctions, and having failed to defeat the Russian military, will soon lead us to believe that the same geniuses in Washington, London and Belgium who brought us the war in Ukraine, will somehow succeed in holding in check China, or perhaps even toppling President Xi, through military means.<\/p>\n

The depraved thinking that resulted in approximately $140 billion wasted for the war in Ukraine and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian and Russian soldiers, countenances even greater opportunities in the East.<\/p>\n

Witness:\u00a0 The U.S. has brought Australia, South Korea, Japan into an alliance against China and is pressuring the Philippines and Indonesia to join in as we ship arms to Taiwan. The intent is to bait China, to try to make Taiwan the next Ukraine, while coordinating submarine patrols amidst risible plans to send ships from the EU to patrol the Straits of Taiwan.\u00a0 If China did something similar in our sphere, Congress would declare war.<\/p>\n

The geographically-confused North Atlantic Treaty Organization, (NATO) ever ready to be the U.S.\u2019 wrecking ball, now considers China \u201ca threat to global security.\u201d Remember, China has brokered a peace deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and attempted to do so in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Remember, the U.S. has 800 military bases abroad and China has zero.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Remember, China is holding almost a trillion dollars of US debt.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So, what is this all about?\u00a0 The White House, which bet on the forbearance of a nuclear-armed Russia, in a conventional proxy war in Ukraine, is similarly counting on the forbearance of nuclear-armed China in a conventional war over Taiwan. \u00a0Thus is the horror of unfettered brinkmanship.<\/p>\n

NBC News obtained a memo in January where a four-star general instructed his logistical command of nearly 50,000 to get ready for war with China by 2025.\u00a0 His charges were told to further prepare by getting their \u201clegal affairs\u201d in order and to engage in the calisthenics of war, by firing an ammo clip often at a target and to aim for the head.\u00a0 Is this just hysterical puffery?<\/p>\n

The 2022 National Security Strategy of the United States identified China as the greatest military and economic threat to the United States. Forget that Mr. Biden voted for China trade, NAFTA and the WTO, all which sharply eroded America\u2019s strategic industrial base of steel, automotive, aerospace and shipping and ultimately set the stage for China\u2019s rise as a world power.\u00a0 Forget that we have shipped high technology to military labs in China \u2013 and the Ukraine.<\/p>\n

While the US continues its military muscle-flexing globally, incurring rising resentment in its continual challenges to the very idea of national sovereignty, China has focused instead on economic expansion, assisting in economic development throughout the world and strengthening the capacities of nations to support their own interests.\u00a0 China has played the long game, while US leaders have played the wrong game.<\/p>\n

So, with only sanctions as a tool, the US has limited options to respond to China, except for war.<\/p>\n

If the Biden Administration continues to ramp up for war against China, it could mean the end, not of China, but of the United States itself.<\/p>\n

China and Russia are not natural allies, to say the least.\u00a0 However, with NATO encroachment, the placement of missiles on Russia\u2019s border, the war in Ukraine, the blowing up of the Nord Stream pipeline, the U.S. has pushed Russia into China\u2019s waiting arms.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a result of the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, together with the saber rattling over Taiwan, we have forced a once unthinkable China-Russia alliance whose combined manufacturing, energy production and offensive capabilities exceed that of the US.<\/p>\n

A US war with China will not only bring in Russia on China\u2019s side, but likely India, Brazil, and Iran.\u00a0 That is, if such a war were \u201cconventional,\u201d meaning not nuclear.\u00a0 However, the idea of containing such a war to conventional weapons is pure fantasy.<\/p>\n

The Biden Administration\u2019s cyclopean foreign policy will be the ruin of us all.<\/p>\n

There is not a shred of diplomatic skill exhibited by the Sullivan-Blinken-Nuland troika<\/strong>.\u00a0 They pull away from treaties.\u00a0 Engage in continual provocations.\u00a0 Recklessly spend hundreds of billions of taxpayers\u2019 dollars on military adventures.\u00a0 It\u2019s escalate, escalate, escalate.\u00a0\u00a0 The defense contractors, the war profiteers as FDR rightfully called them, cash in and the rest of us lose.<\/p>\n

The average American family has seen nearly $100,000 of its wealth spent on regime change adventures since 2001, with highly negative results for our country and the world.\u00a0 The U.S. is viewed in many circles as the greatest threat to world peace. Alarmingly and poignantly, the national debt is close to $100,000 per person in America.<\/p>\n

While the Biden Administration plans for a hot war with China in 2025, the White House will use cold war psychology now, for the 2024 election season, to scare the bejesus out of even the most pacific U.S. voter.\u00a0 And, with the help of the American media, which has largely been reduced to a posse of electronic spear carriers, we will be afflicted with every \u2018alarm of struggle and flight\u2019 appropriate to cowing Americans into silence and compliance.<\/p>\n

President Biden, like President George W. Bush in the Iraq War, will seek to burnish his Commander in Chief status as a war-time president, beginning in the later part of 2023.\u00a0 Going into 2024, the American people will be told not to change presidents in the middle of a manufactured war.<\/p>\n

Unless held in check by the voters, President Biden\u2019s foreign policy handlers are merrily leading America and the world down the path of World War III.\u00a0 New Hampshire, are you listening?<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> Dennis Kucinich is a former presidential candidate (D) who was in the US Congress for 16 years. He focused on pressing domestic issues, jobs, housing, health care, workers\u2019 rights, retirement security, and environmental protection. He also works to avert or to end wars that undermine US domestic priorities. Author Site<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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