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Pentagon's false promises of security plaguing South China Sea

2021-03-05 08:48:00       source:CGTN

March 4, 2021


In a new report delivered to Congress, the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) has asked for about $27 billion in additional spending between 2022 and 2027 to stoke the big lie of taking on China.


The interventionist untruth, jotted down in the dungeons of the Pentagon by INDOPACOM Chief Adm. Philip Davidson, seeks to rationalize the 2018 National Defense Strategy, which outlines the U.S. military's shift away from the botched "war on terror" in the Middle East toward costly and dangerous great-power confrontations with China.


The "stay the course" report to beef up INDOPACOM's spending upon the always bizarre and often unbalanced campaign is largely the same over many torturous years that the perceived allies and partners are powerless to face Beijing on their own, and that a U.S. military departure would add pressure to their already stressed fleets.


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