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Top Chinese General Accuses US And Japan Of "Provocative Actions"; Russia Wonders Why "US Has To Lead"
Now that the Ukraine pseudo civil war is slowly drifting off into limbo, with western support for the eastern regions of the nation no longer on the table, and Germany making it clear no further sanctions against Russia are coming, the Ukraine conflict is on its way to becoming a second Syria: a nation split in two, with US support for one group, Russian support for the other, and the only real victor being the Kremlin, which has regained possession of the Crimea (which earlier today officially adopted the Ruble as its currency). Which explains why the US, embarrassed in its foreign affairs for the second year in a row, is pivoting once again, only this time using China as a distraction.
On Friday, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said China has taken "destabilizing, unilateral actions asserting its claims in the South China Sea" (which incidentally is not called the South American Sea). Hagel added that the U.S. will continue to raise cyber issues with China, and by raising he likely meant accusing PLA members of hacking, resulting in China dropping more US tech firms as critical suppliers.Following the Us Defense Secretary, it was the turn of Japan's PM, Abe who said Japan would give more support to southeast Asian nations that are facing Chinese pressure.
He concluded that the U.S. takes no position on competing territorial claims, however the damage was already done: according the FT, a top Chinese general on Sunday accused the US and Japan of teaming up to stage “provocative actions” against China, as escalating maritime tensions spilled into an Asian regional defense forum.
Because if the US thought its latest pivot away from Russia and Syria into China (even if supported by Japan) would happen seamlessly, it is about to get an unpleasant surprise:
Speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue, Wang Guanzhong, deputy chief of the Chinese general staff, lambasted Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chuck Hagel, US defence secretary, for telling the forum of Asian defence ministers that China was using intimidation to assert its territorial claims.
"The speeches by Mr Abe and Mr Hagel gave me the impression that they co-ordinated with each other, they supported each other, they encouraged each other and they took the advantage of speaking first . . . and staged provocative actions and challenges against China,” said Gen Wang.
Mr Hagel on Saturday said China was undermining? its claims that the South China Sea was a “sea of peace, friendship and co-operation” by using coercive tactics, adding that the US would “not look the other way when fundamental principles of the international order are being challenged”.
On Friday, Mr Abe said Japan would give more support to southeast Asian nations that are facing Chinese pressure.
As for Japan, China had one word: "fascist."
In the face of mounting efforts by the US and Japan to shore up or build new security relationships in Asia, Gen Wang said China opposed both the practice of building military alliances and “attempts by any country to dominate regional affairs”. In a jab at Japan’s wartime history, Gen Wang said China would “never allow fascism . . . to stake a comeback”.
In the meantime, with Russia expanding geographically, China is doing the same, and in the process steamrolling over Vietnamese objections.
This year’s event became more heated because of the escalating disputes in the South China Sea and East China Sea. China is embroiled in maritime disputes around the region, including with Manila and Tokyo. Scores of Chinese and Vietnamese ships are also involved in a stand-off near the disputed Paracel Islands after China started drilling for oil there in early May.
Gen Wang said China did not take provocative actions, but was being forced to respond to such actions from other countries. But when asked what Vietnam had done to trigger the decision to move the oil rig to disputed waters, sparking the worst crisis in China-Vietnam relations in years, the general did not respond.
While Shangri-La is designed to tackle a range of Asia-Pacific security issues, the focus has, in recent years, shifted squarely to China, with most of the participants this year asking China to explain its policies and actions.
Finally, Russia also chimed in:
Some experts questioned whether a new Cold War was emerging in Asia. Anatoly Antonov, Russia’s deputy defence secretary, took exception to comments by Mr Hagel that the US was the only power that could lead in the Asia-Pacific region. “Why does the US have to lead? To lead what?”
Based on his recent remarks at West Point, even Obama is not quite sure of the answer to that.
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Government is not a need, it is a want.
Stop wanting government. Those who do are the problem.
One thing to always keep in mind: IT IS NOT THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE TO CAUSE TENSION, STRIFE, WAR AND CONFLICT. It is only the will of a psychotic, sociopathic and parasitic minoity ...
Can this parasitic minority simply be ignored and disempowered? I would hope so.
Ever had a merchant or private seller try to rip you off? That parasitic minority is all around you and at every level. New ones are born every day. How are you going to control that?
True, but in one instance, with government, it is based on use of force.
The other is based on having to please customers or fail.
I would rather have stupid people falling prey to con artists than millions killed and trillions stolen by government.
True.Trouble is the parasitic minority have ways of rousing the rabble and making them die for their gain, with th eager help of their media empires.
Herman Göring 18 Apr 1946
"Of course the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?
Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany.
That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any countr
So the six or seven oligarcy types are sitting around figuring which pawns need to die? Seems so...
Death to war profiteers. Hear me Dick?
You fvk with "deadeye" he'll take you hunting.
That would be fun..double ought for quail! He does resemble a fat partidge.
the Chinese think we're taking "provocative actions" ? I think we ought to show them what a "provocative action" feels like. they need a little reminder that when we say sit down and shut up; they sit down and shut up.
You are so right. Just like America told Iraq, Iran, Lybia, and Afghanistan to sit down and shut up. That went so well, didn't it?
After the gold was removed.
not just like at all. In Reality all Reality consists in details; the meaning and usefullness of behaviours is always in the details. Nothing at all to do with Iraq or Afghanistan. The one case involves reminding a bully there's such a thing as international law; the others are egregious violations of international law. I would imagine if we sank a few of their armed ships they'd get the idea.
On what pretense would the USA be lawfully sinking Chinese ships? How about moral pretenses?
At best we should arm China's rivals with defensive systems so they can defend themselves, and each other as they see fit. Beyond that, we don't need to be involved.
So what if China takes Japan, Taiwan, Nam, and the rest... They aren't us.
If one wants war then the lawful way would be to expand the empire to China's border. We aren't talking a NATO kind of excercise. The right way would be if a country were to vote to join the USA as the 51st state and the US voted to accept them. Short of that, I don't think it's really our problem at this point.
Nations don't operate by moral pretense; as for legal pretense; we have plenty of lawyers. "Defending poor little Vietnam;s Territory for them"; we spent 50,000 lives supposedly doing that one upon a time; yes, yes; I know that's not what we were actually doing, but this is about a legal smokescreen, and public acceptance. We keep sayin we want to be a world policeman, why not slap a criminal in the head for a change, instead of wrecking non-involved backwaters. Nations operate by "realpolitik",according to Kissinger, and he ought to know. cf; the British Empire; keep the coolies in their place; they're starting to get big ideas.
Me think you are either Japanese or Vietnamese who happened to have landed in Hawaii.
Take you war elsewhere.
China remembers Nanking.
Japanese will pay,
For their atrocities.
"Once tipped to be a Japanese Prime Minister, Shintaro Ishihara, was the long-standing Mayor of the greater Tokyo region. He reigned over a densely populated region of over 20 million people. He loves a bit of controversy. He calls all foreigners in Japan ‘niggers’. He recently declared that the recent devastating March 2011 tsunami in Japan was a warning from god because of the Japanese peoples’ collective greed. God was truly unhappy that day. He says women who live past their childbearing days are sinful. He also says Japan should dispense with its pacifist post-war constitution and re-arm itself. He says a lot of things. He’s famous for his inflammatory and ultra-nationalist books, essays, speeches, activism and sentiments. He’s often in the news and he’s got history."
"He now leads a group of Japanese hard-line ultra-nationalists, the New Restoration Party, who are wanting to re-assert Japan’s perceived global superiority, i.e. a global theocracy under the divine leadership of the Japanese God Emperor; something that the Japanese militarists tried to achieve during W.W. I I. Their catch cry was and still is ‘all the world under the one roof’ which is religion/politico speak for a global Japanese theocracy."
http://alltheemperorsmen.com/nuclear_fascism.html
"While Shoko Asakahara, the bearded guru of the Aum Shinrikyo sect, remains a global icon of apocalyptic terrorism, practically no one outside a small circle of investigators knows the slightest about the political forces that manufactured the cult and ran official cover-up surrounding the murder of 12 commuters and injury to 20,000 others. Separated by only a few weeks, the Kobe-Hanshin Quake in January and the Tokyo subway gassing of March were connected by the fact of illegal development of “superweapons” of mass destruction."
"Many of the guilty politicians, temporarily discredited by the Aum affair, have since regained their positions of power, including the current Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Their international partners in terrorist crimes against humanity and false-flag attacks included Russia’s Yeltsin regime and the North Korean hard-liner faction that is now brandishing nuclear warheads to bolster the militarist agenda of their old friend and secret ally Abe."
http://rense.com/general95/anotherk.html
Oh, lovely; another loosely threaded wing-nut on the world stage.
The ultra-nationalists are real; large numbers of them. They're out every weekend on trucks with stadium sized megaphones blaring out their message in neighborhoods across Tokyo. They want revenge for WWII. Now the earthquake being connected to weapons development -that's a stretch.
In that case the Chinese are no better than American blacks who want slavery reparations. Name a single living slave holder in the US. You can't? Maybe that's because they are all dead. Name a single living war criminal from Japan. Can't again? All dead again.
The Chinese leadership doesn't care about WWII. They are only using that to rile the masses to support conquest. It's the same with the community agitators and lawyers in the US. Greed drives the agenda.
They don't care? About Nanking? are you sure about that? Payback is a Bitch.
Ever heard IRIS CHANG? She said it very well in neat lines representing not only the Chinese people but also all the victims across the Asia Pacific.
It is NOT an artificial issue of Commie's/CPC's propagandas or not, or Chinese people are the paranoiac or revengeful or not... it's a deep wound not yet healed completely of the atrocities and destructions done by the Japs towards the Asian people in the World War 2: Asia-Pacific. That kind of living memories are buried deeply inside the minds of not only Chinese and Koreans but also shared by the many of the South East Asians.
In peace time such feeling is buried and not expressed as naturally people tend to carry on their lives and try to forget the painful past, but any obvious sign of Japanese returning to a militarized fascist state, the nightmare will revive and you will see totally different responses from the most Asian people towards the Japs!
Definitely a pacifist Japan is a helpful cause but thing will change once the Jap are remilitarizing itself and showing any aggressiveness.
Shinzo Abe simply has no idea what kind of fire he's striving to ignite...
One may forgive but not forget!
The Rape Of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust Of World War II
Author: Iris Chang
And here's the homepage of the late Iris Chang:
http://www.irischang.net/
— Iris Chang
Iris Chang - on The Rape of Nanking
http://video.irischang.net/rapeofnanking/
Other Related Videos:
http://www.irischang.net/resources/
Some related books:
* The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by Iris Chang (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0131509322/
* The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan's National Shame (Studies of the Pacific Basin Institute) Paperback
by Honda Katsuichi (Author), Frank B. Gibney (Editor) & one more
http://www.amazon.com/The-Nanjing-Massacre-Journalist-Confronts/dp/07656...
* The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography (Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes) [Paperback]
Joshua A. Fogel (Editor), Charles S. Maier (Foreword)
http://www.amazon.com/Nanjing-Massacre-History-Historiography-Asia/dp/05...
* American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking: The Courage of Minnie Vautrin Paperback
by Hua-ling Hu (Author), Paul Simon (Foreword)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0809323869/
* The Undaunted Women of Nanking: The Wartime Diaries of Minnie Vautrin and Tsen Shui-fang (Hardcover)
by Hua-ling Hu (Editor), Lian-hong Zhang (Editor)
http://www.amazon.com/The-Undaunted-Women-Nanking-Shui-fang/product-revi...
* The Good German of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe by John Rabe (Mar 2, 2000)
http://www.amazon.com/Good-German-Nanking-Diaries-John/dp/0349111413/
* THE GOOD MAN OF NANKING: The Diaries of John Rabe by John Rabe (Mar 14, 2000)
http://www.amazon.com/GOOD-MAN-NANKING-Diaries-John/dp/0375701974/
* THE GOOD MAN OF NANKING: The Diaries of John Rabe Reprint Edition by Rabe, John published by Vintage (2000) (0010)
http://www.amazon.com/GOOD-MAN-NANKING-Diaries-published/dp/B00E29DJLM/
* The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe by John Rabe (1998)
http://www.amazon.com/Good-Man-Nanking-Diaries-John/dp/B000UZZMB2/
* The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe by John Rabe (Jan 14, 1999)
http://www.amazon.com/Good-Man-Nanking-Diaries-John/dp/0316847682/
* The Good Man of Nanking by John Rabe and Anna Fields (Jun 2000) - Audio CD
http://www.amazon.com/Good-Man-Nanking-John-Rabe/dp/0786192623/
* Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes In World War II (Transitions: Asia and Asian America) [Hardcover]
by Yuki Tanaka
http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Horrors-Japanese-Transitions-America/dp/081...
It's alright with me; their military killed my Father before I was born; I was born in early 1943. I'm not going to cry over the Japanese.
The cure for all these plunging GDPs is a nice Big War to stimulate production and distraction.
It has worked before.
It has worked before.
but that was before, now we are here :
http://iiscn.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/jlliquidsworld.jpg
which makes things very different ...
Thing about war is that it kinda helps to start one you can win. Russia? Nope. China? Nope. Sand Niggers? Nope.
Drugs? Nope. Poverty? Nope.
LOL We be the exseptionel peeple living on the city on the shinning hill LOL
OK now who is winning the sports game that defines who I am? I hope my team wins so I can share in their accomplishment; then I'll talk about it for days with other child-like d-bags at work.
I do hope my favorite sports team made a good trade or won a game. Hey friend, if you cannot find time to attend the nearest Church of the Sport and pump 200 more dollars into the coffers of millionaires and billionaires I think you'd do just as well to find a banker and hand him your cash.
Washington D.C. can only lead to death, destruction, poverty and into the gutter. Washington D.C. has forced spyware into US products, They have forced GMO cancer causiing agents on the children of the United States of America. They run torture chambers and terrorist organizations and have built the DHS to massacre the people of the United States of America. They should not and can not lead nor should they be allowed by the rest of the world to continue treating the citizens of the United States and the world as they do. Their politicians and CIA directors should be tried for war crimes and then prosecuted. Their FED members and corporate bankers should be arrested and prosecuted immediately.
Washington DC is but the manisfestation of human nature itself. Has anyone here learned anything from history? Anyone, anyone? FFS, quit trying to believe shit that is not set in the stone tablets of human existance through out the ages. WE havent changed since the days of riding horses and chopping off heads in the swarming days of the hordes.
More like rhesus monkeys with a thin veneer of civilization.
The whole thing is so sick, and yet very few seem to get it. The media in general will never rock the boat even whe it is on the bottom.
I guess China has hoarded (and since long time not updated the numbers) not only gold.
The same is probably valid for their ICBM arsenal. they are probably in the range of 400 and not 40.
China is piggy backing on Russia. She knows the USA is not keen on taking on both the bear and the dragon at the same time.
I somehow suspect though that the USA will secretly seek to get into bed with North Korea by providing it with whatever it wants in return for........
When governments feel hungry and need more tax revenues but their monied masters also seek greater wealth, there is sure to be trouble ahead for the general populace. The reality is that government and big money ultimately hate each other but need each other to keep the people in check.
obama wont be happy till they send an aircraft carrier to the bottom of the SCS with a yakcout missile
I'm feeling a 'sunburn' coming on . . .
Every day, I expect the news flash. I'm pretty sure that's the idea, alright. He really is a puppet for some really, really, sick puppies.
Give it some time. They are lining up to put undocumented illegals into the military. And there alligance will not be to anyone but them.Do what your told, OR ELSE. It will be contigent on becoming a citizen.
I'm glad someone else can see this coming too. South of the Border Americans supposedly and affirmative at a much higher rate when asked if they are willing to shoot Americans if ordered to do so.
but then a greater force emerged the un and the un un-nazid the world forever
how you call this in your football game...? a fumble ? ...
The Roman Empire led the world for a long time too.
Amerika will eat its share of humble pie soon enough....maybe real soon.
We're not going to eat humble pie.
We're going to drown in it.
Chinese are liars, always liars. They made up the story of Nanking, most vicitims were killed by the Chinese themselves,
no those deluded Chinese claim Japan is a threat whilest they drive their military boats within 30m of Japanese coast navy...
all Chinese crap and more to come. I think they want war. I hope Japan steps up against these morons, Chinese are just as disgusting as it gets.
"Unit 731 (731?? Nana-san-ichi butai?, Chinese: 731??) was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II. It was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes carried out by Japanese personnel. Unit 731 was based at the Pingfang district of Harbin, the largest city in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (now Northeast China)."
"Between 3,000 and 12,000 men, women, and children[1][2]—from which around 600 every year were provided by the Kempeitai[3]—died during the human experimentation conducted by Unit 731 at the camp based in Pingfang alone, which does not include victims from other medical experimentation sites.[4] Almost 70% of the victims who died in the Pingfang camp were Chinese, including both civilian and military.[5] Close to 30% of the victims were Russian.[6] Some others were South East Asians and Pacific Islanders, at the time colonies of the Empire of Japan, and a small number of Allied prisoners of war.[7] The unit received generous support from the Japanese government up to the end of the war in 1945.
Many of the researchers involved in Unit 731 went on to prominent careers in post-war politics, academia, business, and medicine. Some were arrested by Soviet forces and tried at the Khabarovsk War Crime Trials in 1949; most remained under American Forces occupation. These researchers were not tried for war crimes by the Americans so that the information and experience gained in bio-weapons could be co-opted into the U.S. biological warfare program.[8] On 6 May 1947, Douglas MacArthur, as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, wrote to Washington that "additional data, possibly some statements from Ishii probably can be obtained by informing Japanese involved that information will be retained in intelligence channels and will not be employed as 'War Crimes' evidence."[9] The immunity deal concluded in 1948."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
Was this made up, too?
Nanking.
Yes, that was made up too.
The story was ordered to justify the nuclear weapons Americans dropped on Japan.
You are all brainwashed. End.
And one more left-hand threaded Wing-Nut checks in to the little forum, that doesn't provide much light; but plenty of heat. and Entertainment.
Right and most of the thousands of rape victims raped themselves and the thousands of torture victims obviously tortured themselves, because the Chinese always like to kill tens of thousands of their own people so they can point the finger at Japan,you Rough-trader are a nut job.
The Russians ask why the U.S. must lead? Dah, so the brutal, empire-building Russians don't get the chance to screw every small country on the planet. You want to experience injustice and crime, let the Russians or Chinese be the sole world superpower.
Why the down arrows?! This is seriously good sarcasm.
Right?
Time to recognize the Republic of China (Taiwan) and station some ships there...
The Chinese government is all about saving face... this would destroy their leadership/
Territorial claims aside, Japan was effectively nuetered after WW II (by th USA, naturally) and is not a serous/credible threat to China's regional ambitions, what ever they maybe. With the subsequent post-war ecomonic miracle that became Japan (at least up until the property bubble and stock market collapse of the late 80s) Japanense men became more effiminate and spoiled as a result of this same success, e.g. emasculted. Japan is pathetic (unfortunately) and relies on the waning fortunes and military strenght of the formerly mightly USA. We may not be done (we are!) but Japan most certainly is; stick a fork in it!
US nuclear first "pre-emptive" strike on Russia and/or China in 2016?:
http://xrepublic.tv/node/9198
US nuclear first strike on Russia and China ? No one believe that unless we elected a crazy mother fucker, or in Hitlery's case, father fucker.
These decisions are not made by the puppets.
A nuclear strike guarantees mutual destruction, even with an interception system. We can only hope that the USA bully will leave the playground quietly and not throw a parting tantrum. If China or Russia are attacked it will be Dr Strangelove for real (
Look at the bright side, the war will be over in about 10 minutes. Push the button and go home, have a beer and wait to die.
Just nuke it and get it over with. Make sure to give me 15 mins. notification, so I have time to get the lawn chair and a cold one.
you left out the biggest nasty ism of all... Capitalism, the destroyer of worlds.
For fuck's sake G.O.O.D you have to think a little deeper than that. There ain't no capitalism going on anywhere, only perversions of capitalism. Certainly no capitalism in the USA-land-of-the-slaves-who-think-they're-free. The USA is as fascist and corrupt as Russia and China. So it's the fascist fucks slogging it out for hegemony and resources. "Capitalism, destroyer of worlds." WTF.
Some experts questioned whether a new Cold War was emerging in Asia. Anatoly Antonov, Russia’s deputy defence secretary, took exception to comments by Mr Hagel that the US was the only power that could lead in the Asia-Pacific region. “Why does the US have to lead? To lead what?”
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Winters are cold in Russia but what did this guy do? Hibernating?
Answers are easy:
To lead what? Humanity.
Why? Since 1776, July, 4th, 'americans' have hijacked humanity with stuff like their natural rights theory and since then, 'americans' speak and act on the behalf of humanity.
It was a novelty in human history as before that, governing bodies either spoke of the behalf of themselves (like Kings), on behalf of gods, or on behalf of their limited group (like the Romans who spoke on the behalf of the romans, not even the roman empire)
As the leader of the 'american' world, the US, the historcally first 'american' nation on Earth will lead humanity in Asia on behalf of human beings.
Simple as simple.
Did you mean the Doctrine of Manifest Destiny?
Btw, for those who aren't yet familiar, Manifest Destiny was the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
At the heart of Manifest Destiny was the pervasive belief in American cultural and racial superiority. Native Americans had long been perceived as inferior, and efforts to "civilize" them had been widespread since the days of John Smith and Miles Standish. The Hispanics who ruled Texas and the lucrative ports of California were also seen as "backward."
Expanding the boundaries of the United States was in many ways a cultural war as well. The desire of southerners to find more lands suitable for cotton cultivation would eventually spread slavery to these regions. North of the Mason-Dixon line, many citizens were deeply concerned about adding any more slave states. Manifest Destiny touched on issues of religion, money, race, patriotism, and morality. These clashed in the 1840s as a truly great drama of regional conflict began to unfold.
From American Heritage Dictionary:
A policy of imperialistic expansion defended as necessary or benevolent.
The 19th-century doctrine that the United States had the right and duty to expand throughout the North American continent.
From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia:
Concept of U.S. territorial expansion westward to the Pacific Ocean. The phrase was coined in 1845 by the editor John L. O'Sullivan, who described the U.S. annexation of Texas and, by extension, the occupation of the rest of the continent as a divine right of the American people. The term was used to justify the U.S. annexation of Oregon, New Mexico, and California and later U.S. involvement in Alaska, Hawaii, and the Philippines.
From Gale Encyclopedia of US History:
In 1845 John L. O'Sullivan coined the term "manifest destiny" in reference to a growing conviction that the United States was preordained by God to expand throughout North America and exercise hegemony over its neighbors. In the United States Magazine and Democratic Review (July–August 1845, p. 5) he argued for "the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions." Around the time of O'Sullivan's writing, the United States saw an extraordinary territorial growth of 1.2 million square miles, an enlargement of more than 60 percent. Most of this growth occurred at the expense of the newly independent Mexico and the Native American nations. The expansion happened at such an accelerated pace that people like O'Sullivan thought that even larger expansions were inevitable, necessary, and desirable—hence the origin of the concept of manifest destiny.
Manifest destiny was obviously a defense of what is now called Imperialism. It was a complex set of beliefs that incorporated a variety of ideas about race, religion, culture, and economic necessity. Some people, like the land speculators that settled in Florida, Texas, and Native American lands, wanted more land to get rich. Some fled poverty in Europe and eastern metropolitan centers. Some assumed that without spreading out to fresh lands the nation would languish. Some sought to perpetuate the institution of slavery by expanding it to new territories. Some believed that expansion into "uncivilized" regions would spread progress and democracy. It was convenient for all to think that they had the divine right to acquire and dominate because they had the proper economic system and the most developed culture and belonged to the most advanced race.