{"id":63980,"date":"2022-10-31T16:26:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T21:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63980"},"modified":"2022-10-31T16:26:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T21:26:46","slug":"advocating-world-war-three-is-just-mainstream-punditry-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63980","title":{"rendered":"Advocating World War Three Is Just Mainstream Punditry Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2022\/10\/28\/advocating-world-war-three-is-just-mainstream-punditry-now\/\">Advocating World War Three Is Just Mainstream Punditry Now<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-12161\" class=\"post-12161 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article category-news tag-china tag-humanity tag-iran tag-media tag-peace tag-propaganda tag-russia tag-us-empire tag-war tag-world-war-three\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/medium-4.png?485df6&amp;485df6\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/medium-4.png 1080w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/medium-4-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/medium-4-768x402.png 768w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/medium-4-1024x536.png 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"565\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/advocating-world-war-three-is-just-mainstream-punditry-now\">Listen to a reading of this article:<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1371816295&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxheight=1000&amp;maxwidth=1060\" width=\"1060\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Mainstream punditry in the latter half of 2022 is rife with op-eds\u00a0arguing that the US needs to vastly increase military spending because a world war is about to erupt, and they always frame it as though this would be something that\u00a0<strong><em>happens to<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0the US, as though its own actions would have nothing to do with it. As though it would not be the direct result of the US-centralized empire continually accelerating towards that horrific event while refusing every possible diplomatic off-ramp due to its inability to relinquish its goal of total unipolar planetary domination.<\/p>\n<p>The latest example of this trend is an article titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/xNqEC\">Could America Win a New World War? \u2014 What It Would Take to Defeat Both China and Russia<\/a>\u201d published by Foreign Affairs, a magazine that is owned and operated by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/swprs.org\/the-american-empire-and-its-media\/\">supremely influential think tank<\/a>\u00a0Council on Foreign Relations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States and its allies must plan for how to simultaneously win wars in Asia and Europe, as unpalatable as the prospect may seem,\u201d writes the article\u2019s author Thomas G Mahnken, adding that in some ways \u201cthe United States and its allies will have an advantage in any simultaneous war\u201d in those two continents.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1585745970725371905&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2022%2F10%2F28%2Fadvocating-world-war-three-is-just-mainstream-punditry-now%2F&amp;sessionId=05ce99d765ba0e4613d94b8e5875b57f9d3d0084&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=1c23387b1f70c%3A1664388199485&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1585745970725371905\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>But Mahnken doesn\u2019t claim a world war against Russia and China would be a walk in the park; he also argues that in order to win such a war the US will need to \u2014 you guessed it \u2014 drastically increase its military spending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe United States clearly needs to increase its defense manufacturing capacity and speed,\u201d\u00a0Mahnken writes. \u201cIn the short term, that involves adding shifts to existing factories. With more time, it involves expanding factories and opening new production lines. To do both, Congress will have to act now to allocate more money to increase manufacturing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advocating World War Three Is Just Mainstream Punditry Now Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 Mainstream punditry in the latter half of 2022 is rife with op-eds\u00a0arguing that the US needs to vastly increase military spending because a world war is about to erupt, and they always frame it as though this would [&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":[17039,130,281,441,496,14545,694,827,834,862,965,891,1823],"class_list":["post-63980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-china","tag-europe","tag-iran","tag-mainstream-media","tag-narrative-control","tag-russia","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-war","tag-west","tag-world-war","tag-world-war-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63980","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=63980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63981,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63980\/revisions\/63981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}