{"id":40797,"date":"2018-11-21T09:20:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T14:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40797"},"modified":"2018-11-21T09:20:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T14:20:17","slug":"bipartisan-panel-us-must-prepare-for-horrendous-devastating-war-with-russia-and-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40797","title":{"rendered":"Bipartisan Panel: US Must Prepare for ‘Horrendous,’ ‘Devastating’ War With Russia and China"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bipartisan Panel: US Must Prepare for ‘Horrendous,’ ‘Devastating’ War With Russia and China<\/a><\/h3>\n
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“None of the distinguished members of the committee arrived at the seemingly obvious conclusion: that maybe the United States should not fight such a war”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A bipartisan commission appointed by Congress issued a lengthy report Tuesday backing the Pentagon\u2019s plans to prepare for a \u201cgreat-power\u201d war against Russia, China, or both,<\/strong> making clear that the Trump administration\u2019s belligerent policies are shared by the Democratic Party.<\/div>\n
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Safe in the knowledge that its findings will never be seriously reported by the mass media, the authors of this report do not mince words about what such a war will mean. <\/strong>A war between the United States and China, which according to the report might break out within four years, will be \u201chorrendous\u201d and \u201cdevastating.\u201d The military will \u201cface greater losses than at any time in decades.\u201d Such a war could lead to \u201crapid nuclear escalation,\u201d and American civilians will be attacked and likely killed.<\/p>\n

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It is impossible to understand anything in American politics without recognizing one fundamental reality: the events and scandals that dominate political discourse, which make it onto the evening news and into headlines on news sites and social media feeds, have precious little to do with the considerations of those who actually make decisions. <\/strong>The media talking heads play their assigned roles, knowing that the most important topics can be discussed only within very circumscribed limits.<\/p>\n

Those who actually make policy\u2014a select group of high-ranking members of Congress, Pentagon officials, and think-tank staffers, as well as White House aides\u2014speak an entirely different language among themselves, and in publications they know the general public will not read, and the media will not seriously report.<\/p>\n

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These people all accept as plain, self-evident fact, statements that, if they ever made the evening news, would be dismissed as \u201cconspiracy theories.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Bipartisan Panel: US Must Prepare for ‘Horrendous,’ ‘Devastating’ War With Russia and China “None of the distinguished members of the committee arrived at the seemingly obvious conclusion: that maybe the United States should not fight such a war” A bipartisan commission appointed by Congress issued a lengthy report Tuesday backing the Pentagon\u2019s plans to prepare […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23153,130,620,694,10649,827,862],"class_list":["post-40797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-andre-damon","tag-china","tag-pentagon","tag-russia","tag-russia-insider","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40798,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40797\/revisions\/40798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}