VIDEO: Echoes of WWI: China, the US, and the Next "Great" War
In the early 20th century, the world’s dominant superpower looked warily on the rise of a competitor to its supremacy. The machinations of the British to contain the rise of Germany led inexorably to the First World War. Once again in the early 21st century, the world’s dominant superpower is looking warily on the rise of a competitor. Will the American Empire’s machinations to contain the rise of China lead to the Third World War? Or is the American/Chinese conflict another engineered conflict for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many? Join James Corbett as he presents “Echoes of World War I” to the Open Mind Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Unless the U.S. use nuclear weapons, which would be suicidal, despite their clear superiority in terms weapons and technology, their ability, effectiveness and motivation to ‘fight’ is very low compared to China or Russia. The term ‘body-bags’ comes to mind.
“Clear superiority”?
This is a misnomer that is constantly repeated by the MSM.
Fully 61% of American cruise missiles failed to hit their target in the attack on Syria by Trump.
China will win any conventional war with America in the South China Sea. The USN has no reply to the mach 6 missiles and S-300/400 derivatives possessed by China.
Nuclear? Then the exceptional ones will disappear as vitrified rock into the dust bin of history.
Just an opinion 🙂
Both United States and China are colonial empires. The world has always suffered from the military adventures of the imperialist powers. Both World Wars fought by European and Russians but the coming WWIII would be fought in the Middle East to protect Israel which is darling of all world powers; the US, UK, China, Russia, France and Germany.
In July 2017, US vice-Admiral H. Scott Swift, said that he will launch a nuclear attack next week if ordered by US president Donald Trump.
https://rehmat1.com/2017/07/28/us-admiral-is-ready-to-nuke-china/
China a colonial empire? Could you elaborate on that, please?
President Xi Jinping has recently laid out his ambitious vision for Chinese (and World) development in the 21st century: a hundred year plan to raise the living standards of 70% of the world’s population. This is to be achieved by non-interventionist; non-imperial trade and development means: a laudable plan indeed (especially in contrast with the US Imperium militaristic GWOT conquest and terror and plan): but is it practical??? In the same period: China is entering into a net energy crisis – with (combined conventional and unconventional) domestic oil set to peak in 2018. Not a problem: they’ll just import more oil to top up the shortfall? Fine, in a non-finite world: but conventional oil production has plateaued since 2005 (120% of the increase in oil production over the period has been from unconventional sources) – so the replacement oil is not of the same quality. That creates a deferred net… Read more »
OBOR energy requirements/
I read somewhere that China is now a world leader in these things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_modular_reactor
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-5002382/A-bitter-China-marching-global-domination.html
The Daily Max beats the drum
Typical Economist trash: heaps a pile of junk verbiage to conceal the ugly facts of The Western War of Terror which, starting ca.1980 and still ongoing at present, successively destroyed and/or destabilized YugoSlavia, Iraq, Sudan,Somalia, Libya, Ukraine, Syria — and is now “pivoting” to do likewise to East Eurasia (as though the West had not caused terror enough by 3 million dead in Korea, another 3 million in Vietnam, and yet another 3 million in Indonesia). Bland words disguise the Clintons as failed peacemakers inste’d of being Lord and Lady Macbeth of Arkansaw. ….etc etc. This Economist’s History of WW3 is as fictional as an Oxford professor’s History of WW1.
“But what will History say?”
“History, sir, will tell lies as usual”.
This is James Corbett at his best: giving a clear summation of current geopolitical machinations toward an engineered conflict. As well as the anti-war solution … ”Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” versus “Let’s go screw up One Belt One Road.” Wilfred Owen (quoting Horace with tragic pathos): versus Steve Bannon (who is just tragically pathetic.) Who do we believe? The national pride cover story: or the mission creep nefarious intent? Bannon’s quote most succinctly sums up the Pivot to Asia and Africa arm of US Foreign Policy. It’s all about strategic denial – not direct conflict – at this stage. China will need access to a vast store of energy and resources if it is to go ahead with OBOR: which it is currently trying to develop through trade and investment. The US Imperium is countering with (al Qaeda affiliated) terrorism; commitment to a massive containment strategy; and… Read more »
Here is an interesting ‘fictional’ account published in the Economist in 1992. It talks of the emergence of Muslim Caliphate and a war with China but with an interesting twist. Please take note of the term ‘sight bites.’ The 21st century war with China was mentioned in esoteric circles in the 1920’s.This is why I find this article interesting. https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-13282236.html • A World History, Chapter 13: The Disastrous 21st Century The Economist325.7791 (Dec 26, 1992/Jan 8, 1993): 17. Publisher logo. Links to publisher website, opened in a new window. Full text Abstract/Details Turn on hit highlighting for speaking browsers by selecting the Enter button Abstract Translate [unavailable for this document] A fictionalized account of world history in the 21st century as published in a 1992 history textbook is described. Democracies missed the great opportunity they were given in the 1990s to establish new societies. Full Text Translate [unavailable for this… Read more »
That saves us the trouble of acquiring the book. Communism wasn’t ‘defeated’, and certainly not in a ‘battle of ideas’ with C20th Liberalism. Anyone who seriously believes”that there was no serious alternative to free-market capitalism as the way to organise economic life’ needs to get out more often. And take few deep breaths.
As to the nonsense that what Amin calls ‘the triad’ has ever displayed the tiniest interest in democracy, anywhere, well…
Behind the propaganda wall and the ranks of mercenary intellectuals whoring themselves en masse for a share of the pickings, the capitalist system is crumbling. The only question is whether it will collapse before its victim- life on earth- is mortally wounded.
It isn’t a real book Bevin, that’s the point.
@Bevin: I’m not sure you understand the basic tenets of the historical dialectic; especially if you think that communism was an autonomous self-determined independent and viable alternative to capitalism? There were not two separate hemispheric COMINTERN and capitalist blocs that did not interact. They existed and encroached within a holistic interactive complex adaptive system. What one did heavily impacted upon and determined the response of the other: a mutual co-dependence and (sub-optimal) parallel development. They had a shared dynamism, competitive determinism – each drove the other (particularly in foreign policy; and technological ‘advancement’ toward confrontation and war) – and as such, they were as much complementary as contradictory and antagonistic. Especially if you consider that communism was organised financed from Kerensky on; got much of its investment and development capital from Western capitalist bankers (such as John D Rockefeller, John D Ryan of the National City Bank, J.P. Morgan and… Read more »
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