American leadership is too psychotically lazy to keep its own lies straight

26 July 2022

Integrity

Integrity, even loosely held integrity, matters in human and national relationships.

Yet, American leadership seems to lack any trace of it. Apparently so on purpose.

For example . . .

Lies — sample one

Below is U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, tweeting about doves of peace and love on 10 June 2022:

We do not seek confrontation or conflict.

And we do not seek a new Cold War, an Asian NATO, or a region split into hostile blocs.

Lies — sample two

A few weeks after Austin tweeted his blather — Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Mark Milley, implicitly announced (in Indonesia) that the American Empire is determined to divide the world into hostile fragments, as well as to squash everyone who resists — my inserted comments in bracketed italics:

U.S. Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the number of intercepts by Chinese aircraft and ships in the Pacific region with U.S. and other partner forces has increased significantly over that time, and the number of unsafe interactions has risen by similar proportions.

“The message is the Chinese military, in the air and at sea, have become significantly more and noticeably more aggressive in this [Pacific] region,” said Milley . . . .

U.S. military officials have also raised alarms about the possibility that China could invade Taiwan, the democratic, self-ruled island that Beijing views as a breakaway province.

The U.S. and others are also worried that a recent security agreement that Beijing signed in April with the Solomon Islands could lead to the establishment of a Chinese naval base in the South Pacific.

The U.S. and Australia have told the Solomon Islands that hosting a Chinese military base would not be tolerated.

[Evidently the United States' own roughly 800-850 globe-spanning bases are okay.

But even 1 Chinese international presence would be one too many for Imperial America to allow to exist.]

“This is an area in which China is trying to do outreach for their own purposes.

[Chinese "outreach for their own purposes" is (we are supposed to agree) evil by definition.]

[A]gain, this is concerning because China is not doing it just for benign reasons . . . .

[I'm sure that the hundreds of thousands of America-killed innocents — across the world and through roughly six decades from the beginning of the Vietnam War — would eagerly testify to the United States' own benignity.]

"They’re [meaning the Chinese] trying to expand their influence throughout the region.

And that has potential consequences that are not necessarily favorable to our allies and partners in the region."

[General Milley is apparently too lazy or too deceiving to define exactly how China's undefined — "potential consequences" are "not necessarily favorable" — to the West.

We are again to presume that China is a threat — to something also conveniently undefined — just because it is Chinese.]

Milley declined to provide specific numbers of unsafe Chinese interactions with U.S. and allied aircraft and ships.

[Facts, we can infer, do not matter to Milley. Or presumably to any other Americans.

It is, we must accept on faith, the allegedly aggressive Chinese spirit that is important for us to defend against.]

Austin, in a speech in Singapore last month, referred to an “alarming increase" in the number of unsafe intercepts by People's Liberation Army aircraft and vessels.

Milley's visibly porky bellicosity . . .

. . . sounds closer to what the U.S. is actually doing.

At the end of June, America's puppet NATO alliance forecast its intention to ditch the 'North Atlantic' in its name and go whole planet:

The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) stated ambitions and coercive policies challenge our interests, security and values.

The PRC employs a broad range of political, economic and military tools to increase its global footprint and project power, while remaining opaque about its strategy, intentions and military build-up.

The PRC’s malicious hybrid and cyber operations and its confrontational rhetoric and disinformation target Allies and harm Alliance security.

The PRC seeks to control key technological and industrial sectors, critical infrastructure, and strategic materials and supply chains. It uses its economic leverage to create strategic dependencies and enhance its influence.

It strives to subvert the rules-based international order, including in the space, cyber and maritime domains.

The deepening strategic partnership between the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation and their mutually reinforcing attempts to undercut the rules-based international order run counter to our values and interests.

The American mantra seems to be

'What's yours is ours.'

Regarding US rapaciousness . . .

. . . Andrei Raevsky wrote the following scathing essay:

The Saker, Five months into the Special Military Operation – a summary, thesaker.is (23 July 2022)

One result of US actions and omissions . . .

. . . has been a serious decline in the international respect accorded us:

Russia has concluded that the United States will not keep any agreement that it makes.

China is in the process of discovering the same thing.

And much of the planet's remaining people appear to be trending similarly. Including India.

Those components, together, probably comprise more than half global population.

Is making enemies all over the place . . .

. . . a win for American influence in the long term?

Only a neocon would think so.

The moral? — Screw harmony . . .

. . . seems to be American leadership's core message.

That foundation, I predict, is not going to work out well.

In practice, neoconservatism becomes a form of nihilistic self-destruction.

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American leadership is too psychotically lazy to keep its own lies straight