
This week the Russian and Chinese militaries are conducting a joint military exercise involving large numbers of troops and combat vehicles. The former Soviet Republics of Tajikistan, Kyrgkyzstan, and Kazakstan are participating. Other countries appear ready to join the military alliance.
This new potent military alliance is a real world response to neoconservative delusions about US hegemony. Neocons believe that the US is supreme in the world and can dictate its course. The neoconservative idiots have actually written papers, read by Russians and Chinese, about why the US must use its military superiority to assert hegemony over Russia and China.
Cynics believe that the neocons are just shills, like Bush and Cheney, for the military-security complex and are paid to restart the cold war for the sake of the profits of the armaments industry. But the fact is that the neocons actually believe their delusions about American hegemony.
Russia and China have now witnessed enough of the Bush administration's unprovoked aggression in the world to take neocon intentions seriously. As the US has proven that it cannot occupy the Iraqi city of Baghdad despite 5 years of efforts, it most certainly cannot occupy Russia or China. That means the conflict toward which the neocons are driving will be a nuclear conflict.
This has been coming for a long time and it's going to continue so long as Putin sees us as a threat. Those ABM systems aren't helping -- and if we drive Russia back to China we'll have undone the stroke of luck that split the two in the 1960s.
From a military, and perhaps even an economic perspective, this is not good.
This combined with the Russian flyovers, the Russian flag stunt and the Chinese threat of the 'nuclear option' with their US debt is all very disheartening. I always hope deep down that all of it is for show to keep our respective nations in fear and friendly to the idea of military build ups. But as he said, the neo-cons have publicly declared their intention of military hegemony so maybe they really are that stupid.
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