Obviously that time has come if they are attacking our satellites. Why is everyone in the US government so afraid to stand up to China?
Mysteriously deorbiting one with our mini robot shuttle though…
Exhausted too much political capital chasing dead ends in Afghanistan and Iraq. Far easier to focus on non-existential threats than to address the elephant in the room.
To me the Space Force is terribly tainted by association. I don’t know what will change that, but vague claims of threats doesn’t.
While the description of Trump is accurate, that of the US Space Force is not: it does not exist as a separate department, it is a separate uniformed service within the Department of the Air Force, much as the Marine Corps is within the Department of the Navy.
My mistake in word choice. You’re correct.
If someone is capable of attacking us, they are most likely already planning to attack us, and we must plan to attack "first". (Implied in "stand-up to China, as if US were already being put down...)
I mean, I was born and raised in China, CCP does not manage to install such mentality into adult Chinese. I never see anyone who say "we have to prepare to strike first".
Is this mentality real? Or I perceived wrong?
I don’t think the average American is having this drilled into them as you suggest, but there are certainly military planners in the USA whose job it is to think about such things.
China works the same way.
Yes, it’s real.
I am pretty sure that the domestic propaganda is not too different from what it used to be.
When a nation grow strong, it naturally demands more space for its realm. And they are learning new skills to push back the things they used to feel incapable of (like China seems starting to cultivate an alternative theory on democracy). Also, you have to understand, any ambitious politician in China understand the immense power if the nationalism is used properly.
Imagine a nation back to its pinnacle in the Han and Tang dynasty, that's hugely attractive, and also to the people...
The issue the US media sees, it's essentially that China does not put herself as a subordinate of the US dominant international hierarchy.
If you think in that way, the wolf diplomacy is just normal tic to tac between two rivalry nations. And in fact, each instance of so-called wolf diplomacy action was never proactive. It was always some random Western guy or media provoked previously dormant issues, and the Chinese have to react...
Interestingly enough, Trump took the same position when the Iranians shot down an expensive spy drone, and Trump called off the punitive strike against Iran that would have killed ~150 people. Yet people maintained that he was an unstable warmonger. shrug
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/21/734683701/trump-reportedly-or...
That he claimed to have stopped one strike doesn't change his record, though his overall record was similar to other recent presidents.
That's kinda my point, he wasn't significantly different from the other idiots we've had in office but CNN et al. certainly didn't spend 8 years calling Obama an unhinged tyrant, despite him also being more of the same with regards to bombing brown countries.
and if the other party applies this same reasoning to your response? if your epistemics are at all self-consistent, then after the escalation you’re responsible for the negative impact on about half of all the lives impacted. the easy out you present is just self delusion.
Yeah it was probably the CIA or another similarly reputable agency[0] that actually made the report.
[0]https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/cia-employ...
The US government is intently focused on competing with China, especially militarily. Agencies are dedicating themselves to it as the leading priority, especially the Dept. of Defense, which is rebuilding its forces specifically for conflict with China. It's in the defense and foreign policy news every day.