{"id":42880,"date":"2019-01-17T09:10:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T14:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42880"},"modified":"2019-01-17T09:10:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T14:10:12","slug":"is-the-us-planning-to-wage-war-on-russia-and-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42880","title":{"rendered":"Is the US Planning to Wage War on Russia and China?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"title\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/is-the-us-planning-to-wage-war-on-russia-and-china\/5665523\">Is the US Planning to Wage War on Russia and China?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"subtitle\"><strong>Interview with Prof. Michel Chossudovsky<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"postThumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-single-post-thumbnail size-single-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Russia-or-China-400x389.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Russia-or-China-400x389.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Russia-or-China-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Russia-or-China-768x748.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Russia-or-China-1024x997.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Russia-or-China-50x50.jpg 50w\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"389\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Listen to the interview with Prof. Michel Chossudovsky below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/556738869&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"690\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is Guns and Butter.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Rand Corporation, on contract with the US Army, which commissioned a report examining a war with China. Now, this is called \u201cWar With China: Thinking Through the Unthinkable.\u201d The irony of this is that what they examined in this report is whether \u201cwe\u201d could actually win a war on China. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Essentially, this is a simulation of a war between the United States and China and it comes up with the conclusion that we\u2019re going to win it. That\u2019s diabolical and it\u2019s criminal. What has China done to the sovereignty of the United States?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The study (published in 2015) entitled <strong>War with China:\u00a0Thinking\u00a0the Unthinkable<\/strong> was commissioned by the US Army.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Screen Shot 2016-08-05 at 11.55.56\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rand.org\/content\/dam\/rand\/pubs\/research_reports\/RR1100\/RR1140\/RAND_RR1140.pdf\" rel=\"lightbox[5539814]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Screen Shot 2016-08-05 at 11.55.56\" src=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-05-at-11.55.561-1024x439.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"717\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Screen Shot 2016-08-05 at 11.59.02\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-05-at-11.59.021.png\" rel=\"lightbox[5539814]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Screen Shot 2016-08-05 at 11.59.02\" src=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-05-at-11.59.021-1024x279.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"717\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019m <strong>Bonnie Faulkner<\/strong>. Today on <strong>Guns and Butter<\/strong>, <strong>Michel Chossudovsky<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Today\u2019s show: Is the US Planning to Wage War on Russia and China? Michael Chossudovsky is an economist and the Founder, Director and Editor of the Center for Research on Globalization, based in Montreal, Quebec. He is the author of 11 books including The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order, War and Globalization: The Truth Behind September Eleventh, America\u2019s War on Terrorism and The Globalization of War: America\u2019s Long War Against Humanity. Today we concentrate on the global military agenda, on the evolving restructure of geopolitical alliances, the Nuclear Posture Review, the purpose of the Manhattan Project, and the dangers of nuclear war.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>BONNIE FAULKNER: Michel Chossudovsky, welcome again.<\/p>\n<p>MICHEL CHOSSUDOVSKY: Delighted to be on Guns and Butter.<\/p>\n<p>BONNIE FAULKNER: President Trump\u2019s surprise announcement that the US is leaving Syria caught most people in and out of government by surprise and led to the resignation of Secretary of Defense Mattis. Two thousand US troops will be withdrawn from Syria. What is your assessment of this move?<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the US Planning to Wage War on Russia and China? Interview with Prof. Michel Chossudovsky Listen to the interview with Prof. Michel Chossudovsky below. This is Guns and Butter. \u201cThe Rand Corporation, on contract with the US Army, which commissioned a report examining a war with China. Now, this is called \u201cWar With China: [&hellip;]<\/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":[12503,130,6110,12502,8104,694,827],"class_list":["post-42880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-bonnie-faulkner","tag-china","tag-global-research","tag-guns-and-butter","tag-prof-michel-chossudovsky","tag-russia","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42880","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=42880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42881,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42880\/revisions\/42881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}