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US Upset At West's Lack Of War Preparedness
As we noted on Friday, America’s closest ally on the world stage went completely rogue last week when the UK made the highly questionable decision to join the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank without getting the all clear from Washington first. In fact, US officials say the move was made “with virtually no consultation in the US.” The news has the White House frustrated, and understandably so. Ever since the idea of a sinocentric rival to the Japanese/US sponsored Asian Development Bank was floated last year, US officials have campaigned against it, patiently explaining to anyone for whom it wasn’t obvious that without the guidance of the G-7, such an institution couldn’t be counted on to uphold the proper “standards.” Unfortunately, a few of America’s allies didn’t get the message and the US ended up having to “appeal” to Australia and South Korea to refrain from joining.
As far as the UK’s decision goes, Washington has adopted a kind of “I guess that’s fine if you want to promote global instability” approach, wondering aloud if “a trend toward constant accommodation of China [is the] best way to engage a rising power” (the latter is an actual quote from US officials). While we understand the White House’s reluctance to concede that China will eventually adopt its own version of the Monroe Doctrine, explicitly discouraging the creation of an institution aimed at helping to develop underdeveloped parts of the world seems a bit much. That is until you understand the context. You see, Washington is just looking out for the UK’s safety because as it turns out, Britain and the entire rest of the Western world (other than the US that is) apparently don’t see the need to participate in an arms race with Russia and China.
Here’s The Washington Post:
With Europe facing its shakiest security environment in a generation, Britain has slipped into a familiar role: Washington’s tough-talking wingman.
British leaders have led the rhetorical charge against the twin menaces of Russia and the Islamic State while browbeating reluctant European governments to wake up to the reality of a newly unstable continent.
But behind the flinty facade lies an unmistakable erosion in British power, one that has reduced Washington’s indispensable ally to a position that U.K. officials, military leaders and analysts acknowledge could leave the United States without a credible partner in taking on the greatest threats to global security…
A study by the London-based European Leadership Network recently found that at least six countries are trimming their military budgets this year, despite a promise at last year’s summit to halt a decline that has been felt across much of the West while military spending in Russia and China surges ahead.
So you can see from the above that when the US warns its allies against the “constant accommodation of rising powers,” it’s really just well-meaning paternalism. That is, starting an infrastructure development bank may not be an overt act of aggression, but if you just sit idly by and let a rising superpower build stuff, it sends the wrong message, especially if you aren’t willing to spend at least 4% of your GDP on your military.
Here’s more from The Post:
“If the U.K. can’t do it, who else is the U.S. going to turn to in Europe?” said Gen. Richard Dannatt, a retired British army chief. “There’s no one else.”
“The concern is that we’re going to fall from being a significant player to a bit-part player,” Dannatt said. “The U.K. isn’t of much use to the U.S. if we don’t have a worthwhile military force behind us. Anybody can talk tough. But if you don’t back it up, everyone just laughs at you.”
This assessment seems to assume that the utility of political alliances should be measured solely by the number of things that can be blown up and by that measure, some US and UK officials believe their collective power may be slipping just as “menaces” like Russia threaten Western hegemony. In this environment, every little diplomatic slight helps, which is why Washington would have appreciated it if the UK refrained from joining the AII bank, but as one Asian Development Bank official so eloquently put it, “that horse has already left the barn.”
We’ll leave you with the following quote from John Baron, a member of parliament and a former British soldier who longs for the days when heads of state commanded military regiments and rode horses into battle:
“I’m not an interventionist. What I see is a need to talk softly and carry a big stick.”
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Was the US successful developing star wars tech?
Do you think they'd tell you?
Wall Street did more damage to the West in 2008 than Russia did throughout the whole of the Cold War.
Who needs the military anymore?
A few Goldman Sachs alumni advising the Chinese and Russian Governments should soon have them on their knees.
Bankers only have one product, debt (loans/mortages).
They will soon destroy any nation.
Have a look in the mirror America.
Folks need to buy more guns… and 5.56 rounds… just not American folks!
The more guns we put into the hands of “moderate rebels”, the safer we’ll all be! What could go wrong? It’s different this time!
The West doesn't have a government therefore the oligarchs that control the contractor politicians are preparing to have China and Russia take over the West where they will maintain rights to substaintial portions after Russia and China take over. Everybody knows that Russia is the land mass of this century. The oligarchs have no need to beat either Russia or China, they simply sell out the West and move on.
So all you police, FBI, military personel, and politicians that think being a part of the NWO makes you immune you better think again and stand up for your countries by arresting Lloyd Blankfein, Jamie Dimon and the rest of the traitors at the FED.
As Smedley Butler wrote in his book "War is a Racket", pay everyones wage, including the top man to the dog catcher, the same as a private in the army, while war is going on, and that will end the war.
If you are one of those guys who still support Israel, you should go tend to your wife's injuries before she puts a restraining order on you...again...
The US led West isn't killing enough and wants to bomb more countries.
The US wants Europe to spend more to join in with the killing free for all.
What a wonderful future the US has prepared for us.
We should just give the worlds governments all big sticks and let them go after each other in the octagon once a year. Like a Monty Python show.
You can watch videos on youtube of American soldiers flying in helicopters in Afghanistan and killing lightly-armed barbarians like in a computer game.
It's not so easy when Russian anti-aicraft missiles are involved. No helicopters fly in the zone of the Ukrainian conflict. They are shot down almost immediately.
How long will an aicraft carrier survive if it sails into the Black Sea attacking Crimea? Probably 5 minutes.
The issue is that no one is putting up a big enough fight! A war fought primarily against a developing country isn’t profitable enough!
Interesting that everyone seems to miss the fact that Russia and China's defense speding COMBINED represents only one-third of the US Military spending..
So whats all the hub bub...bub?
Insanity. If you took all of European AND Russian AND Chinese military spending combined, we still outspend them ALL by$200 billion.
What crisis?
Jesus Christ on a cracker, this can't go on much longer...
It's not how much you spend that matters, it's what you get for it.
No doubt Chinese and Russian soldiers are lower cost than US or European ones. Also how much of the US expenditure is just MIC welfare payments, not about getting the best military result for amount spent.
OIC
I guess thats why the US is ranked as the worlds top military
http://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-listing.asp
...care to try for some new/different propaganda? fucktard
Psychopathic and Sociopathic WAR PIGS: primarily found in Washington, D.C. Consider them heavily armed and extremely dangerous!!!....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GRR_n_yQGA
USSA upset about Europeans not increasing their military budgets when EU is literaly bursting at the seams?! I conclude from this that either they have they gone completely nuts or this whole Ukraine debacle was actually indeed aimed at crippling not just Russia, but Europe at large...
As in 'Fuck the EU'?
Obozo should kill Vlad's love child.
That would provoke a response.
yup, you definitely live up to your name not the chuck part.
Hard charts to look at. The U.S posturing over Ukraine is scary at best. Gorbachev has expressed concerned that tension could easily escalate to war, even nuclear, in the region.
http://www.globaldeflationnews.com/gorbachev-warns-of-major-war-even-nuc...
Push the right buttons and it will happen.
fremannx said "Hard charts to look at."
That ain't the half of it. Try $10 Trillion spent in 12 years by the USA on MIC from say 2002-2014.
That should be a Felony. No one can have credibility if they spend like that and fraud in their Corporate Accounting and .gov Stats.
- $1 Trillion a year MIC
- $1 Trillion a year MEDICARE/MEDICAID
- $1 Trillion a year Social Security
- $1 Trillion a year State Education
Personally Property taxes are sticking in my Craw this weekend.
This is a kind of tax on Wealth, tax on elderly, tax on kids who will inherit, tax on academics that don't work, tax on those on fixed income...
Even Capital Gains tax looks stupid if you ever tried to invest in something
Looks like Sales tax and Flat Income tax till we can eliminate income tax is the way to go. I say Banks should pay all our taxes, no individual taxes, since they are screwing us all, printing all the money, and they are getting rich. Don't even have corporate taxes, since they are already fading away and you have off shore tax havens.
The only true threats to global security are the warmongering neocons in Washington, DC that are bringing us to nuclear war with Russia!
No need to increase spending, the goal of the United States is to align interests with China and Russia and split the spoils. World control will be split among the threes and Europe can kiss its autonomy good bye. All this US vs them is just rhetoric, the US has sold Germany out and now the Euro will pay, just like they did in WW1 and WW2. Good luck, if everyone hasn't noticed, the US is become full of socialists, far from the democracy by which people actually have a choice.
Once the dollar is no longer "global currency" the war cries will become a whimper as our corrupt congress tries to borrow enough rubles and/or yuan, etc... to buy that which was once manufactured here.
Maybe Europe is not planning to start a war, and their intel agencies are telling them nobody else is planning on invading them.
Maybe they are happy with peace.
http://www.stopthecrime.net/docs/Report_from_Iron_Mountain.pdf
is peace even desirable for ZWO'ers?
Well if you look at England,they've had enough of American failed foreign policy and here is the latest deal that they signed onto with China.The AIIB or The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.It's the New York based World Bank competitor that's arrived."America is essentially inward-looking and xenophobic,ruthless...So,that's where their money is going.America can spend till it's broke being the global war mongering cop...http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/china-business/11470919/Who-cares-wha...
Sales Pitch for the MIC.
Hmm, goal-seeked graphs on military spending!
They should be very afraid someone might make such a chart since 1989...
<-- Kabuki theater
<-- Real deal: McCain, Pelosi et al don't want to lose their stuff
They just found out that the F-35 (nicknamed the Payola Gay) bomb bay doesn't fit our close-air support bombs.
It also turns out that there are 10 billion (billion) lines of code needed to run this kunt, much of which is unfinished.
http://thediplomat.com/2015/03/oops-us-close-air-support-bomb-doesnt-fit...
.add to that it won't have a usable cannon until 2020.
go MIC
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2995335/Vladimir-Putin-neutralis...
After the West was ransacked by Wall Street in 2008 no one has any money left.
Wall Street did more damage to the West in 2008 than Russia managed during the whole of the Cold War.
Wall Street is the threat.
what a f*cked up country.
all they can come up with is that they spend more on weapons than the rest of the world.
something very insane in this logic.
but then they are exceptional.
lmao
Was going to say Military Republics have preconditions and then launch into that.
But Spain, France, UK are Military Republics. Russia and China are Communist transitioners, so they have lower initial costs prior to 20 years ago. I met a guy that served in US Air Force or something and was stationed in Spain. He confirmed that Spain was a Military Republic in the 1970s.
The USA has been the World Super Military Power since 1945, so that is 70 years of Capitalist Control of the US Military Budget (MIC).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine%27s_laws
Every year the cost of US Weapons is increasing, perhaps at an exponential Rate. This is Regulatory capture, Government Capture, Congressional Capture... Corruption.
Fear and the Strategy of Tension/Friction of the Communist Threat was the best, most profitable business in VICHY DC.
- Institutionalize Secrets
- Enlist all people into the Importance of Federal Government
- Recruit the MSM/US Press to support any war even a cold war
- Create a Strong Central Government, but limit the Exposure within the Press so it is below the Radar
- Use Ivy League Secret Societies and Grads within Intelligence Agencies and Banking
- Move Intelligence Personnel into the US Congress & White House
- Partner with Big Engineering/Big Oil for Strategic Positioning around the world and Economic Strength
- Finally Enlist Big Tech to join the MIC and to strengthen Centralized Power, Control, and Authority
But the Military Republic especially in any Super Power is in Opposition to True Democracy and the preconditions for Democracy like Individual Rights, Free Press, Privacy, and Freedom of Information and Education... and equal opportunity to free market success (due to Oligopolistic Power granted by the Federal Government)
https://feltd.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/the-prussian-german-educational-s... (Belief in the Federal Government as the Ultimate Authority not God, from Hegel)
Even a god king can bleed.
I don't know about Europe's unpreparedness, the French sub Saphir just sank the USS Theodore Roosevelt and half her escort ships in one strike last week during war games off the coast of Florida. That's about $50 billion in hardware on the academic bottom of the Atlantic in one theoretical strike by one very real submarine. Now, who did the US say was unprepared?