US sends land-attack missile system to Philippines for exercises in apparent message to China | CNN
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China has accused the United States of “stoking military confrontation” with the recent deployment of a powerful missile launcher capable of firing weapons with a range of up to 1,600 kilometers to exercises in the Philippines.

After unilaterally withdrawing from the INF treaty in 2019, US is the first country to develop and now deploy weapons prohibited under the treaty in the Philippines this year. It’s now clear the US sought to withdraw so it could develop and deploy prohibited weapons against China.

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    28·
    2 days ago

    Lol imagine having an “ally” spread anti-vax disinformation in your population, putting millions of vulnerable and poor people at risk, then thinking “hmm, I think’s he’s a trustworthy fella and we should keep doing as he wishes”

  • The_Jewish_Cuban [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    24·
    2 days ago

    Interesting development after China’s reaffirmation of “peaceful development”. I wonder how long that goal will work if America tries to keep poking the proverbial bear.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      271·
      2 days ago

      US is working hard to cross China’s red lines because they realize their window of a military victory is closing. In my opinion, the window has closed a long time ago, but it seems they’re still under the delusion that they could win a conflict, and want to goad China into it the same way they goaded Russia in Ukraine.

  • Droplet [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    18·
    2 days ago

    This is the new model for America’s war, perfected in Ukraine.

    This hypothesis is stolen from Michael Hudson: You send military equipments to get blown up in Ukraine, killing Ukrainian soldiers, the government gives more money to defense contractors to replace the lost equipment. GDP goes up. In fact, for every American tank blown up in Ukraine, GDP goes up, the strength of US dollar goes up, which it then leverages to wreck the economies of the Global South. Rinse and repeat. It doesn’t even matter whether new equipments get built, or if they are functional, as long as GDP goes up, the strength of the dollar goes up.

    Same here with the Phillipines. GDP for America is gonna go up for every Filipino killed, who will be dying for America’s war. No need to sacrifice American lives like they did in Iraq and Afghanistan anymore.

    I was wrong and too naive to think that the Ukraine war would be confined to industrial warfare alone, which Russia is winning handily. But it looks like we are going to see a transition into financial warfare very soon, and when that happens, global flashpoints are going to erupt all across the world, and it would take a lot of collective sanity to ensure that nukes don’t start flying.

      • coolusername@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Taiwan was never in danger in the first place. The CPC was saying shit to appease their own nationalists and western media spun it as “China gonna attack anytime now”. If you don’t trust me look at the effect of China’s threats on Taiwan’s stock market.

        Recently they said they would kill taiwanese independence diehards or whatever and nobody cared. Trade with China continues.