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Secret #Pentagon memo on #China, #HomelandSecurity has #HeritageFoundation fingerprints
An internal guidance memo from #Defense Secy #PeteHegseth focuses on deterring China’s seizure of #Taiwan & shoring up homeland defense. In some instances, the document is nearly a word-for-word facsimile of a report from the conservative think tank behind #Project2025.
#Trump #USpol #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #leak
https://wapo.st/3Y3I0sf
#SecDef #PeteHegseth has reoriented the US #military to prioritize deterring #China’s seizure of #Taiwan & shoring up homeland #defense by “assuming risk” in #Europe & other parts of the world, acc/to a *secret* internal guidance memo that bears the fingerprints of the conservative #HeritageFoundation, including some passages that are nearly word-for-word duplications of text published by the think tank last year.
#Trump #USpol #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #leak
The doc, known as the Interim National Defense Strategic Guidance & marked “secret/no foreign national” in most passages, was distributed throughout the #Defense Dept in mid-March & signed by #Hegseth. It outlines, in broad & partisan detail, the execution of #Trump’s vision to prepare for & win a potential #war against #China & defend the #UnitedStates from threats in the “near abroad,” including #Greenland & the #PanamaCanal.
The document — setting out a prioritization framework for senior #defense officials & a vision to execute that work — also instructs the #military to take a more direct role in countering illegal #immigration & #DrugTrafficking.
The first #Trump admin & the #Biden admin characterized #China as the greatest threat to the #US & postured the force to prepare for & deter conflict in the Pacific region. But #Hegseth’s guidance is extraordinary in its description of the potential invasion of #Taiwan as the exclusive animating scenario that must be prioritized over other potential dangers—reorienting the vast US #military architecture toward the Indo-Pacific region beyond homeland defense.
@Nonilex I guess my English is lacking, but don't see a big shift here. China is the new enemy, and if they start the war by taking Taiwan the US are in and are preparing to win. I somehow heard that for years. Where's the new twist?
@Nonilex I read that over half of USA drugs come from China. Certainly more than half of all consumer goods are assembled there.
This leads me to believe that a USA war with China would also be a bankers war and not actually a ideological war.
The USA cannot go to war with trading partners even if it wants the population to THINK they would do so or even PRETEND to do so. All the profitable trade would have an exception carved out and it would be business as usual.