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The United States intended to send thousands of German troops home, but Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced that they would instead be redistributed eastwards, only to the Russian border in some cases, with the intention of deterring “the developing threats of Russia and China. “
“It’s not an unusual sense,” Trump’s administration official said. “You don’t want to be Napoleon or MacArthur to look at the map and realize that the further east you are, the more you’ll reassure those allies and components on the front. either in the northeast, in the Baltic States, Poland, just east of Germany, or Bulgaria and Romania to the southeast along the Black Sea. “For the U. S. government, the “opposite of a Russia” aggressive front line “includes countries that until recently were components of the Soviet Union and are directly on the border with Russia. In July, Trump announced the imminent withdrawal of thousands of U. S. military forces from Germany (a country he has maintained militarily since World War II).
Esper speaking at the Atlantic Council, an influential group of experts began as a NATO district redistribution organization funded through Western governments, Middle Eastern dictatorships, arms corporations such as Raytheon, Northrop Grumman and Boeing, as well as many primary corporations around the world, such as Goldman Sachs. BP and FedEx.
The administration’s plan to reduce the U. S. military’s presence from 36,000 soldiers to 24,000 was greeted with overwhelming hostility in Washington when it was first announced in July; The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives even included an amendment to its 2021 National Defense Authorization Act to block investment for any withdrawal. Republican Sen. Mitt Romney and CNN described the concept as a “Trump gift to Russia,” while Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez said “champagne will have to freely tonight in the Kremlin. “Therefore, the news of a replacement, of course, will probably be well received in the circles of “resistance”.
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Even a global pandemic that destroyed the economy, the U. S. government is forcing its NATO and out-of-NATO allies to rearm for a possible global war opposed to Russia and China. defending other countries. ” To trump the increasingly complex threats of the 21st century and protect our non-unusual values, there can be no stowawaline for our non-unusual security,” he said, adding that it was inconsistent with other states. “share the burden” and increase the spending of his army. at least two according to the penny of your gross domestic product” as floor. “We also hope that they are ready, capable and willing to deploy in case of a problem. And we expect them to stand face-to-face with the United States in the face of Chinese bad habit and Russian aggression,” he added.
What is this Chinese and Russian aggression? Esper noticed a greater chinese army presence in the South China Sea, where the summer, the United States also expanded its presence. Warships patrol as close as 41 nautical miles off the Chinese coast. He pointed to the Russian presence in Ukraine (a country that the United States also floods with weapons) as a justification for the “defensive” action of sending thousands of troops a few miles away. Russia itself.
Esper also called for a global “modernization” of the military and the arms industry, which he said included too many restrictions on foreign sales, meaning the West’s “asymmetric advantage” was in danger. But, as many have explored before, “modernization” is a favorite political euphemism used to talk or herald a new arms race.
The Atlantic Council is an increasingly influential framework whose board of trustees is a who’s who of US state power. From war planners like Henry Kissinger to Bush administration officials like Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell, generals In the military like David Petraeus and Wesley Clark, and former CIA Administrators like Leon Panetta, Michael Chertoff, and Robert Gates, the organization is also close to representing the so-called “deep state,” as you might imagine.
The Council has also been the driving force for many of RussiaGate’s most bellicose stories in recent years, publishing a series of widely cited reports that virtually all political parties in Europe that do not represent the established political center are secretly controlled through Vladimir Putin. and UKIP in Britain, Syriza and Golden Dawn in Greece for the five-star movement in Italy, all, according to Atlantic Council reports, are the “Kremlin Trojan horses”. These reports have served as the basis for the highest breathless stories about Russia since 2016.
The Commission is also guilty of managing Facebook’s news service, deciding which resources are of the best quality and worthy of interest, and what is fake news and are removed from the site. Since about 40% of Americans (and similar numbers around) the global) get their news from Facebook, partnering with an organization like the Atlantic Council is as close to censorship of state media around the world as it probably is in the fashion age. However, few others know this connection, or what influence the organization has on the fashion media.
Throughout 2020, President Trump used China as a means to divert attention from his own reaction to the coronavirus pandemic, which on October 21 claimed the lives of more than 226,000 Americans. Trump has consistently condemned China for its reaction and called COVID-19 a “Wuhan. “Virus of China “or similar.
But Democrats will largely attack Trump from the right on the issue, as either side claimed that the leader of the other side was in Beijing’s pocket. As a result, public opinion on China has reached a new low, with only 22% of Americans. expressing a positive view of the world’s most populous state and 73% have a negative opinion.
Polls lately don’t seem smart for Trump; however, Joe Biden’s crusade team has strongly hinted at a greater confrontation with Russia and China if their candidate wins in November, suggesting that in foreign policy, war is a bipartisan issue.
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