What do I mean in saying that America is “short-sighted”? Try this: The Pentagon then discovers an urgent need for another carrier. When the carrier is completed and sails off to kill its peasants, the town goes into depression and stockholders lose dividends. A big-ticket carrier creates a huge number of jobs for years at Newport News as well as jobs all over America for parts. When military industry wants to produce a new weapon, it makes sure that components are produced in as many states as possible. Congress Pushes for Weapons the Pentagon Doesn’t wantĪ list of examples from Ohio.Even killing peasants begins to lose cache, as witness the comic opera defeat in Afghanistan. Getting into big wars with real countries is no longer practical despite the opportunities for profits because big countries depend on each other too much commercially. Think Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Somalia. Killing peasants and soldiers in third-rate armies of bedraggled third-world countries is what the American military does. What is a Ford-class carrier good for? The Fords are versatile ships, having a three-fold purpose: Funneling lots of money into military industry, killing defenseless peasants, and sticking the Pentagon’s tongue out at China. China builds rail lines and buys up resources. China-Africa trade hits record high of \$139.1 billion from January to July: MOFCOMĪmerica sends troops (Africom, Africa Command) and builds drone bases.Military industry is so pervasive, providing so many jobs in so many states with so many lobbyists, that the President and his party cannot control it Congress Moves to Increase Pentagon Budget, Defying Biden.It is impossible even to leave the military budget as it is, much less reduce it. All of this send-money PR assumes that China thinks it needs a nuclear holocaust. The point is to funnel vast amounts of money into a bloated, running-on-autopilot military business so large that it can’t be reduced or controlled.
If the US launched a first strike, the bombers would get there hours after the war was over. China isn’t going to since (a) its approach to power and influence is commercial, which is working well, and (b) America has so many, many nuclear weapons of all sorts that China would be obliterated.
Are we sure this is a good idea? There will be no such war unless America starts it. What does one do with intercontinental nuclear bombers? Engage in intercontinental nuclear war. What are these weapons for? The B-21 is an intercontinental nuclear bomber. Biden says he will build infrastructure but, if history is a guide, he will pander to the woke, fight systemic racism, promote LBGQXYZ, become mired in congressional infighting, and the whole thing will devolve into pork. It makes as much sense as lug nuts on a birthday cake.Ĭhina’s major capital expenditures, as gleaned as best I can from pubs covering these: highways, dams, bridges, very-high-voltage power lines, airports, rail, new high-tech 360 mph rail, five-g implementation, reactors, and semiconductor catchup.Īmerica’s major capital expenditures: the B-21, F-35, Virginia-class subs,, Ford-class aircraft carriers, SSN (x) attack submarine. It wants to get the Ukraine and Georgia into NATO to threaten Russia. It forms military alliances: the Quad in the Indian Ocean, with Japan against China, puts missiles in South Korea, pushes Europe to buy more American weaponry, sends naval forces to the Indian Ocean, Taiwan Strait, South China Sea, Black Sea, and Persian Gulf to intimidate, without much success, China, Russia, and Iran. Washington’s approach is military, coercive, shortsighted, and commercially dimwitted. They seem good at it, China now being the largest trading partner of something like 165 countries. They seek trade agreements: The Comprehensive Agreement on Investment with Europe, The RCEP, Regional comprehensive Economic Partnership, the CPEC, China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, the huge Iran deal, the development with Russia of the NSR, the Northern Sea Route. They are fast, agile, innovative, and imperfectly scrupulous.
China invests heavily in the infrastructure, both physical and educational, that makes for current and future competitiveness. They advance their interests while turning a profit, which wars don’t. This does not mean that the Chinese are warm and fuzzy, only intelligent. China’s approach to influence and prosperity is commercial and longsighted. In pondering Washington’s new toy, a cold war against China, one sees a pattern.
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