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Washington has pressured the Philippines, whose government it owns, into conducting joint military exercises in the South China Sea. Washington's excuse is that China has territorial disputes with the Philippines, Indonesia, and other countries concerning island and sea rights in the South China Sea. Washington asserts that China's territorial disputes with the like of Indonesia and the Philippines are a matter of United States' national interests.
Washington has not made it clear what Washington's stake is in the disputes. The reason Washington cannot identify why China's disputes with the Philippines and Indonesia are threats to the United States is that there is no reason. Nevertheless, the undefined "threat" has become the reason Washington needs more naval bases in the Philippines and South Korea.
What this is all about is provoking a long-term cold war conflict with China that will keep profits and power flowing into Washington's military-security complex. Large profits flow to armaments companies. A portion of the profits reflow into campaign contributions to "the people's representatives" in DC and to presidential candidates who openly sell out their country to private interests.
Washington is going to construct new naval bases in the Philippines and on the environmentally protected Jeju Island belonging to South Korea. Washington will waste tax revenues, or print more money, in order to build the unnecessary fleets to occupy these bases. Washington is acquiring bases in Australia for US Marines to protect Australia from China, despite the lack of Chinese threats against Australia. Bush and Obama are the leading models of the "people's president" who sell out the people, at home and abroad, to private interests.
Why is Washington ramping up a new cold war?
Comment: What are all these anonymous officials basically telling us? That the threat is still at large, and that we should be very afraid. At the same time we should be grateful to the FBI and the CIA for saving our lives by being on top of this secret operation that they so masterfully stopped in its tracks. What we find most interesting of all however, is how this mysterious plot came a month after Obama approved the bombing of the population of Yemen, a sovereign country that the US has no legitimate reason whatsoever to want to attack. What better excuse to justify more slaughter of Yemeni innocents than to claim that allegedly an underwear bomb was created by 'terrorists' in that country, with plans to use it, allegedly, to destroy a commercial flight.
If you are experiencing a feeling of déjà vu it's because we saw this phony drama play out before:
The Underwear Bomber - Crushing Freedom With Phony Arab Terrorism