PENTAGON PREPARES FOR WAR WITH CHINA
WAYNE MADSEN
BlackListedNews.com
December 21, 2015
Three recent moves by the United States threaten to ignite a war between the United States and China.
Not content with ratcheting up tensions with Russia in Europe and the Middle East, the Department of Defense’s neo-Cold Warriors are signaling to China their intent on triggering a military conflict with China over disputed islands in the South China Sea.
Admiral Scott Swift, the mustachioed and shaved-head commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, recently told a defense conference in Honolulu that the U.S. Navy was prepared to run Chinese military exclusion zones with military and surveillance aircraft, as well as warships.
When Swift is not busy throwing red meat to military contractors he is flying around the South China Sea on P-8A Poseidon advanced maritime surveillance aircraft.
These aircraft are currently based at Clark Airbase in the Philippines.
Swift is likely recalling with nostalgia the “good old days” of the Cold War when naval aviators like himself flew missions from Cubi Point Naval Air Station in the Philippines.
In some cases, the Navy pilots would play “cat and mouse” games with Soviet and Chinese aircraft and naval vessels.
Later, back at the Officer’s Club in Cubi, these “airedales,” as they were called, regaled their colleagues with inflated stories while holding a San Miguel beer in one hand and a Filipina hooker in the other.
Yes, America had much to be proud of in its naval aviators in those halcyon days when nuclear Armageddon was just around the corner.
Swift’s bellicose statement was followed by the Obama administration’s announcement that it was selling $1.83 billion in advanced weapons to Taiwan, which China regards as a renegade province.
The U.S. weapons deal, which includes two Oliver Hazard Perry class missile frigates, threatens to derail warming cross-strait relations between Beijing and Taipei, a thaw that was highlighted by a historic meeting between the presidents of China and Taiwan in Singapore in November.
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