Thursday, March 4, 2021

RYO Nakamura - US to build anti-China missile network along first island chain

Exclusive: Indo-Pacific Command requests to double spending in fiscal 2022


Billions of dollars for new missiles to encircle China. For Washington elites, military is the only option to bully and contain China’s rise. There are no plans for fixing the US economy.

What happened to good ol' capitalism and competition, which the US says it champions?


WASHINGTON -- The U.S. will bolster its conventional deterrence against China, establishing a network of precision-strike missiles along the so-called first island chain as part of $27.4 billion in spending to be considered for the Indo-Pacific theater over the next six years, Nikkei has learned.


They form the core proposals of the Pacific Deterrence Initiative that the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command has submitted to Congress and Nikkei has reviewed.


"The greatest danger to the future of the United States continues to be an erosion of conventional deterrence," the document said. "Without a valid and convincing conventional deterrent, China is emboldened to take action in the region and globally to supplant U.S. interests. As the Indo-Pacific's military balance becomes more unfavorable, the U.S. accumulates additional risk that may embolden adversaries to unilaterally attempt to change the status quo."


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US to build anti-China missile network along first island chain

14 comments:

Peter Pan said...

There are profits to be made when spending is doubled.

Matt Franko said...

“What happened to good ol' capitalism and competition, which the US says it champions?“

Where does it say that?

Other than perhaps in the deranged minds of commies?

Marx was a commie...

Matt Franko said...

Here is wiki for MBA degree programs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Business_Administration

The word “capitalism “ does not appear....

Capitalism is an artistic creation of Marx (1867) as an antithesis to his commie stuff... to create a dialogue ....

Nobody doing anything real does that today... only dialogic Art degree academics trying to hold on to their failed methodology which doesn’t work and everybody is moving over to the Scientific methodology since that methodology was formalized in a degree program in 1860...

It’s not dead yet .... hopefully on its last gasps.... but you are still going to see some dialog between “capitalism “ and other antithesis by the fewer and fewer people still being trained in that failure methodology...



Matt Franko said...

Darwin came up with his “evolutionism” at about the same time (1860) as an antithesis to the Biblical thesis...

That dialogic thesis also on its way out and rapidly being replaced by science of Biochemistry....

Matt Franko said...

“The Indo-Pacific Command submitted an investment plan for fiscal 2022 through fiscal 2027 to Congress this month.

For fiscal 2022, it has requested $4.7 billion, which is more than double the $2.2 billion earmarked for the region in fiscal 2021, and is close to the roughly $5 billion Washington has spent annually on dealing with Russia.

The six-year total of $27.4 billion represents a 36% increase over planned spending for that period as of fiscal 2020,”

Hmmm sounds like competent people put a plan together and budget submissions...

Why don’t dumb Art degree incompetent unqualified lefty people develop a similar plan and budget submission to do their left wing stuff? JG, Healthcare etc?

Too stupid?



Matt Franko said...

Didn’t get the training in finger painting classes for your Art degree?

Matt Franko said...

Smoking dope and high all the time ?

Matt Franko said...

Don’t have time out shopping for Buffalo horn hats and face paint?

Sitting for hours to get tattoos? Don’t have time?

Matt Franko said...

Too busy trying to figure out what a kitchen garbage disposal is?

Peter Pan said...

Calm down Matt. He's asking what US priorities are.

Cold War 2.0 is obviously the answer.

S400 said...

US will have to import this precision-strike missiles from Russia and export them to encircle China.

Matt Franko said...

Better than hot war 3

S400 said...

Worse than no Cold War.

Peter Pan said...

Cold War as compromise... Yippee ki-yay!