Sunday, June 8, 2025

The United States and the Indo-Pacific Region: A strategy to contain China through alliance building. Rebecca Chan: June 03, 2025

 

The United States and the Indo-Pacific Region: A Strategy to Contain China through Alliance Building

Rebecca Chan, June 03, 2025

The Indo-Pacific region has once again fallen into an old trap—not one of geography, but of geopolitical theater, with Washington still scripting the play.

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The Return of Bloc Logic

To the applause of its “allies,” the United States is reintroducing bloc logic to the region—not as an echo of the Cold War, but as a redesigned, more flexible, yet no less aggressive remake. Joint exercises with Japan, Australia, and the Philippines, naval visits, flag-showing operations—this is not about defense; it’s about orchestrating fear. It’s the architecture of a new coloniality, where instead of a protectorate, there is “key partnership” status, and instead of direct occupation—“joint command.”

The so-called strategy of containing China is not about protecting the region—it is about annexing it into the American security system. Sanitized language like “integration” conceals the de facto absorption of entire states into the Pentagon’s orbit. Command centers, intelligence-sharing pacts, modular fleets—these are not so much tools of defense as instruments of power projection. It’s entirely possible that the White House no longer feels the need to pretend that China is merely a competitor. It is the designated adversary. And the entire Indo-Pacific stage is being arranged for the grand performance called “The United States versus China.”

Yet, there’s one question this play still hasn’t answered: how voluntary are the supporting actors?

Soft Underbelly of China: The Philippines as a Pressure Point

U.S.–Philippine Military Cooperation

Every dock that receives a U.S. warship becomes a point of no return—even if partnership is the word spoken ashore

The Philippines is not just an ally. It is the frontier. The forward line of a new neocolonial campaign, where chessboards are replaced by minefields and every move Manila makes is framed as a “sovereign decision,” made under Washington’s all-seeing gaze.

The South China Sea has become a laboratory of managed escalation: water cannons against buoys, ramming instead of diplomacy—all against the backdrop of American nods of approval. Formally, it’s sovereign resistance. In reality, it’s a shadow play, where every Philippine maneuver echoes a baton waved from across the ocean. Manila performs confrontation like an actor in a bad play, but it’s the Pentagon that holds the curtains. The entire stage, meanwhile, is littered with the traces of transnational corruption and bribery that harm not only the Philippines, but neighboring states from Hong Kong to Thailand.

While Chinese ships maneuver near Second Thomas Shoal, the U.S. is upgrading bases, expanding legal guarantees of mutual defense, and building out intelligence channels. This is not assistance—it is systematic embedding. As in classic imperial logic, every “helper” turns out to be a new overseer. Geopolitics transforms the archipelago into a corridor of American influence—with bases instead of rooms, and satellites instead of windows.

U.S.–Japan–Philippines Trilateral Command Center

The establishment of a trilateral command center is no longer just muscle-flexing. It is the open institutionalization of control. This new center marks the end of ad hoc alliances and the beginning of systemic dependence. For China, it’s a foothold under the belly; for the U.S., it’s a control panel for a war that needs no formal declaration.

This is what modernized colonial architecture looks like in the 21st century: maps filled with sovereign nations, tied in reality by cords of allied obligations, military agreements, and defense protocols. The irony is that all this is sold as “security.” But security for whom? For a region dragged into someone else’s game? Or for the metropole projecting power without paying the cost?

The Philippines is no longer just a coastline. It is a living shield, pushed closer to Beijing with American money—but paid for in local blood.

Japan as Outpost and Operator

Japan’s New Military Doctrine

Japan is once again stepping onto the front line. But now, not as a power seeking its own voice, but as an outpost, dutifully reinforced under the guidance of its former occupier. Increases in the defense budget, purchases of strike missiles, investments in cybersecurity—all of this is, of course, presented as an “internal decision.” Yet behind every item of Japan’s “sovereign choice” looms the outline of the Pentagon.

Tokyo, once condemned for militarism, is today the apologist of a new militarization—but under the right flag. No longer a fearsome aggressor, but a “responsible partner” in the U.S. strategy. In Washington’s language, this means: a tool with historical amnesia and a well-defined functionality. Japan is now the operator of new operations—with the capacity to project force beyond the archipelago and direct access to the command interfaces of the global military machine.

When a former empire becomes a satellite of another, this is no longer about sovereignty. It’s about a redistribution of roles in the same old play.

Regional Mediation and the Risks of Dependency

Japan likes to call itself a bridge. But a bridge is always a structure for someone else to walk across. Tokyo plays an ambitious role as mediator between Anglo-Saxon alliances and Southeast Asia, offering infrastructure, diplomacy, and investment. It seems like initiative, development, strategic thinking. But reality is harsher: the more deeply Japan is drawn into the architecture of Pax Americana, the less it resembles an architect—and the more it resembles a tool.

Trilateral formats, infrastructure projects, diplomatic activity—all of this fits seamlessly into the American system of China containment. Infrastructure investments, which Tokyo uses to mask its role in new bloc logistics, are just one form of this struggle—where the West tears off the humanitarian storefront signs and rolls out the heavy machinery of competition for the region’s roads, ports, and fiber opticsAnd even if Japanese politicians are convinced of their autonomy, the logistics tell a different story. One step off course—and the fragile “bridge” finds itself suspended between loyalty and isolation.

With every passing year, Japan becomes less of an independent actor and more of an indispensable operator. But an operator is not the one who writes the rules. It’s the one who pushes the button—when told to.

Australia and New Zealand: War Logistics and Symbols of Participation

The Role of AUKUS and U.S. Infrastructure in Australia

Australia is no longer the southern flank—it is the southern hangar. A country once associated with Pacific independence is now becoming a transit hub for a future war. Not a defensive bastion, but the engineering bay of a new cold campaign. Ammunition depots, repair bases, refueling airstrips—these are not just consequences of the AUKUS alliance, but symptoms of a deep strategic surrender of sovereignty.

Washington is building out logistics in advance as if war is already a scheduled campaign. Not “if,” but “when.” Not a hypothesis, but a scenario. Australia is merely a geographically distant stage where props, scenery, and tools are placed ahead of time. And the lead role in this production is still played by the United States—as the director of a global conflict, casting Canberra as a set, not a character.

Submarine program? A technological gift? In reality—a strategic tether. The moment you receive a nuclear toy from the U.S., your foreign policy is no longer written in parliament, but at AUKUS headquarters.

The Significance of the USS Blue Ridge Visit to New Zealand

And here comes the symbolism. When the USS Blue Ridge slowly sails into New Zealand’s waters, it may seem like a polite visit. But in geopolitics, nothing is ever truly “polite.” This is not just the flagship of the 7th Fleet. It is a message made manifest—not to China, but to hesitant allies: “You’re already inside. Don’t fool yourselves with neutrality.”

New Zealand, a country that traditionally kept its distance from rigid military schemes, is now welcoming American ships into its waters. This isn’t integration—it’s a precedent. And from precedents, a web of dependency is woven.

There’s no need for pacts, statements, or speeches from the podium. One port call is enough. Every dock that receives a U.S. warship becomes a point of no return—even if partnership is the word spoken ashore.

This is the true logic of an undeclared alliance: drawing in quietly, absorbing through participation, eroding neutrality through symbols. All done under the banner of freedom—but aimed at submission.

Whose Security and Whose Game

“Enhancing collective security” — this is how the U.S. likes to frame every new turn in the militarization of the region. But whose security, exactly? Whose “collective”? The one dictated from Washington, where the maps are redrawn without the input of those actually on them?

For Asian countries, participation in the U.S. strategy is not an insurance policy—it’s a ticket into a game where the odds are pre-assigned. It’s a choice without alternatives, where every step toward alliance is a step away from autonomy. The deeper the region embeds itself in the American defense architecture, the less maneuverability it retains. Sovereignty doesn’t vanish—it evaporates in the routines of military day-to-day life: joint headquarters, unified protocols, intelligence sharing. All of this may seem like technical coordination, but in reality, it’s a daily ritual of subordination.

America is not simply reinforcing its position—it is redrawing the entire region in its own image, employing not only military alliances but also economic bludgeons, such as tariff pressure that strikes China from withinFlagless alliances, nameless bases, blocs without declarations—this is a new form of control, far more refined than the colonialism of previous centuries. It is an empire in stealth mode, smiling in the name of democracy, striking with the iron fist of “defensive necessity.”

And when the first real conflict erupts—whether with China or anyone else—the U.S. will remain at a distance. Not under fire, but behind the operations panel, watching its allies do the shooting, watching their economies crumble, watching their populations die. That is the real cost of American-style “collective security.”

Between seas, between promises and reality, between protection and submission—this in-between is where the main front of geopolitics now lies. This is where the decisive battles will unfold. Not in Washington, not in Beijing—but on the bodies and shores of those caught between two empires.

 

Rebecca Chan, Independent political analyst focusing on the intersection of Western foreign policy and Asian sovereignty

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

"We are ptrparing for war with China 'threat' says US military - Defense Sec Pete Hegseth

 

china poses no threat. the us gov does.
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To understand what America is doing, see what America accuses others of doing.
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Spewing Pentagon Propaganda
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China is a big country of 1.4 billion population; rising, modernizing rapidly. China does not want war but never afraid to fight to winning a war.
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The whole world 🌍 is fed up with the 🇺🇸
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Great work as usual Ben.. your geopolitical analysis is way above the rest.
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The clowns of the fox news administration
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Hegseth claims America is not picking a fight with China but surrounds it with military bases.
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China doesn't have to do anything while the US bankrupt itself on endless wars 😂
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Instead of arming Taiwan, Ukraine and Israel; US tax payer money should be spent on infrastructure, healthcare, education, homelessness etc.
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same old, same old, the world's terrorist calls other terrorists
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The US launched more than 250 military interventions since 1991. Meanwhile, China built the world's most extensive high-speed railway network. Make of that what you will.
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I'm 72 and have heard these same statements from the US many times before. The war drums have started.
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C-hina is not our enemy. Greetings from Australia.
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Hegesth can go on the battlefield all by himself. We Americans citizens are not fighting China. China is not our enemy.
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I'm Canadian. Consider us in Chinas alliance
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It’s all projection. The USA have over 800 military bases all over the world. Yet it’s China that’s the aggressor😂
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If it's us or China, I don't see how anyone won't choose China.
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The fact that Hegseth is Secretary of anything is a total condemnation of the US government.
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Better to live under a Chinese umbrella than a U.S. boot.
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what did china do to be a threat? Did they support the Gaza Genocide like the US?
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Hegseth is a dark and scary figure willing to destabilize the entire world
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Does he think that he can scare China? Poor him, Mr nothingness
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And BTW.. USA owes China 700plus billions usd.... So shut up😂😂
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From Fox news to secretary of defense 😂., what a joke.,
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I've never heard such a war mongering speach in my life.
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"We fight ppl who outcompete us" is like a toddler mentality, it's pathetic
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If you can’t frighten your enemy, frighten his neighbors — the oldest tactic of a loud-mouthed coward. Lots of noise, zero credibility.
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Is china attacking any country right now? nope But USA is 😂
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Dude wants war so bad. Supremely disappointed at anyone who can't see past this
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When a single Chinese shipyard produces more ships than all American shipyards combined, you don't prepare for war, you BEG for peace.
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Learning mandarin rn cause I'm getting sick of the West
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A evangelist saying China is a threat. What madness
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"... you're stuck with me..." this guy, secretary of defense (?!) couldn't even name any ASEAN country when questioned!!! And he was a fox news journalist??? Guess a monkey in a blond wig will be hired!!!
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The US barking loud and bluffing but China is quietly ready to kick ass Lol
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China answered: Don't play with fire!!! Hegseth is like Goering.
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The Americans they will never change
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damn war mongers, i do not appreciate the US trying to keep their hegemony at all costs (specially the cost of life). it will lead the whole world into turmoil.
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Never Sell any critical rare earths minerals to the hegemon.
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Such arrogance
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This predator is toxic to the ears.
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Hegseth's "peace through strength" mentality is the perspective of a bully, which America has a long history of being to the rest of the world.
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There is a saying, " The devil 😈 always overplays his hand . This is a perfect example. China is not Iraqi.
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Got soooo fed up with endless US’s BS🙄
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China smiles enigmatically at the lunatics, criminals, and warmongers of the dysfunctional states of America 😂. The world, however, laughs at the irrelevance of the US.
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Uncle Sam trouble maker of the whole world
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Ahh America, the country that is so obsessed with war and always preaches for peace lol.
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Funny how the US recognizes a neighbour's garden as being 'its own backyard'!
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He sounds so very aggressive and warmongering. We must not let such people take over any part of the world! Not outside his own ward.
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Trump is the biggest arms dealer ever.
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Listening to Hegseth and Blinken only serves to reinforce my belief that Chistianity is stone cold dead in the US.
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Outrageous! 9 US military bases in the Philippines to threaten China---- what a waste of money, and resources! The billions wasted on warmongering/war profiteering could of been spent building the infrastructure of the Philippine people improving lives, or even better the American population here in America.
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Remember VietNam? You lost your a$$!!
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Ben, there's a clip where this Joker Pete was grilled on what countries are ASEAN and he couldn't name even one ... 😂😂😂
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It's not planet America anymore
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Tell me what China is doing wrong? show me Chinese battle groups sailing in the north Atlantic, Caribbean or eastern pacific or west coast U.S.A? show me Chinese bases along the U.S borders, show me Chinese meddling in other countries affairs? show me Chinese staging offensive weapons on other countries territories near and far!
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They're not hawks, they're scavengers.
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Phillipine leadership are not stupid. Bong Bong is getting access to his father Billions. That's all he cares. Money. He does not give a krap about the Filipino people.
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Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:18
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God, I hate this administration!
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They said the same about the Vietnamese people….1 of the most friendly people I know🤷🏻‍♂
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Peace through strength HAS NEVER WORKED.
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LUCKILY FOR CHINA, DENG XIAOPING WAS NOT BORIS YELTSIN, FOLKS......
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Amenaza de China? Donde? En las costas de California? En el golfo de México? Será por los misiles en Filipinas, o las 160 bases alrededor de China. Será por la presencia americana en mar del Sur de la China. Que hacen allí? Defender las rutas de comercio. De donde vienen esas rutas? De China. Ah, usa protege en el mar de la China las rutas de comercio chinas.
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The Chinese are very smart and patient and it will pomell the arrogance of this country
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His first platoon? He was a national guard captain for God's sake. It was probably his only platoon.
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Paper tiger USA
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What a horrible man, this Pete
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when criminals say: beware of criminals.. 🤣🤣🤣
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Hegseth is a frightening war monger…
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what’s scary is these warmongering words are coming out of the mouth of a defense head of the greatest military power of the world didn’t even know which countries were located & considered part of the ASEAN region of our globe.
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Lol hypocritical when that the Americans who always been the threat on this planet
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Thanks for your research Ben ❤.
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I randomly dropped into a military subreddit discussing Hegseth to see what they were saying about this douche; surprisingly, the comments all believe he's full of it and tore apart his service record in a way only those with substantial military experience could. No one trusts him and they don't want to get into another bs war.
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The "War is Peace" doublespeak from 1984 is so blatant, I don't even know what else to say.
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Hegseth is on a holy crusade against humanity.
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The arrogance of hegseth is mind boggling people here in Australia are always telling me that I don't know about the weapon's that America have and all I keep telling them is everyone knows what they have what isn't known us what Russia and China actually have as these two countries don't go around bragging about it and I've always said that Russia and China together are the perfect superpower one a economic and technological the other military and nuclear 😂😂😂😂
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Fortunately China does not behave like the West. If it does then war is inevitable. Through it's long history, China has learned harmony to be a much better condition than hegemony. Hegemony just brings forth too many issues down the road. The west still has much to learn...
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Aren't those the same guys who have been humiliated by the Houtis? They want to take on China? 😂
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It speaks volumes about the U.S, when you think this warmonger Hegseth, is the Secretary of Defence (War).
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Hey.. Wtf is the USA doing in the indo Pacific? Go back and guard your borders😂😂😂
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A great analysis,mr Norton
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What a great way to have other counties buy more military products from USA.
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The MIC spends a LOT of money to keep this scam going.
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The Shangri La dialogue claims to be a global forum but is in reality a western forum, it’s founders based in Washington, London and Berlin, and hosted by a capitalist enclave in Singapore, a key supporter of the US. Unsurprisingly therefore that China did not send a key delegate to the forum.
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OMG this is a total insanity, god save us from those people.
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I will never fly to the 🇺🇸 in my life, that's for sure 🧙🏻‍♂
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You've got Australia wrong mate we have strong trade relations with China and we disagree with America where we must, we're not an outpost of the US those military ties go all the way back to WW2.
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My Dad used to be tough at home but when he was out, he couldn't do anything EXCEPT when he was drunk! The USA is DRUNK ON POWER. His shtick was to pull his jacket of his shoulders and tell people to HOLD HIM BACK! NOBODY gave a damn! Keep dropping the $$$
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Substitute the word America every time Hegseth uses the word China, and this warmonger is telling you absolute truth 👌.
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This is not what we signed up for in voting for Trump. We don't want all these wars.
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Thí guy was the FOX News host, he’s not quality to be the secretary of defense
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"War is Peace" is a Newspeak slogan from *1984*. Orwell believed the USSR represented this dystopian future, but instead, it was capitalism in the country of "freedom" that brought this to us.
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Disturbing comments by Hegseth. Ironic he wants peace through strength. They mis interpret China's defensive posturing as agressive, when in fact China is surrounded by US bases and has made it clear that China does not seek hegemonism.
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Show a map of US bases near China. The aggressor is self-evident. Besides, how is China supposed to respond when the US agrees on a "One China" policy, then actively weaponizes Taiwan. It's barely not a direct act of war.
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Do we laugh or cry to us hegemony threats
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Going to war with china ?cant even win a war against Vietnam come on USA it take Twenty years to fight Vietnam still cant win the war.and usa lost their pride and bragging rights.,war with Houthis their fighter jets went scuba diving scared to fight.😂😂😂😂
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I know which side I'm on. Clue: not the US
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Pete Hegseth is like a mad man talking. From singapore
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As an American this guy is pure cringe
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The Houthis aren't impressed with this clown 🤡
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United States trying to beat China into submission,would be like the Earth trying to beat the Milky Way into submission
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So, we have Taco (DJT), Taco Belle (KL) and Taco Belle Grande (MT)...and Hegseth is definitely BURRITO.
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Military complex corruption
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From an arms dealer to a bellicose punk, the mission of whoever holds the title 'US Defence Secretary' remains the same which, incidentally, has nothing to do with defending the U.S. from imaginery enemies, but has everything to do with duping or forcing countries in other continents to kill & destroy each other, while the U.S. enjoys from afar, and profit from the flow of capital & talents to the U.S. 'safe haven' besides, of course, the money they stand to make from selling you the weapons for your self-destruction.
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What an excelent channel. Super informative
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i mean in a public forum saying 'communist China' and 'CCP' is the most disrespectful thing you can say to another country
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What are the US fighting with? China has the key ingredients to make weapons!! 😂
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Boasting is unnecessary if America is genuinely confident. All this chest thumping smacks of insecurity.
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He talks like a gangster
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Trade don't invade Blessed the peacemakers
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China has the rite to defend themselves its high time
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Pete is drunk
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10:01 psychoanalytically speaking—the US empire is projecting and gaslighting
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US always talks tough when it comes to war, but the reality is it chicken out as usual. TACOS 🌮 USA 🇺🇸 TACOS 🌮 🇺🇸 Hegseth you will never get the chance to win any war with any country LOOSER Hegseth👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿☹☹☹☹😩😩😩😩(USA)
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Thank you Ben!
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Korean-War? Vietnam-war? 2x the merry USA army stood in the field against the PLA and how did that go? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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freaky hegseth makes me throw up.
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How? Doesn't China 🇨🇳 also make military weapons for the USA 🇺🇸 too? 🤔
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let's draft Pete
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The only country at war for the last forty years is America 🇺🇸 😂… He also said, ASEAN must increase their defence spending by 5%, and boost our military industrial complex sales…
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We should send the secretary of defense to the front lines, if he wants to act all hard.
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So, they are mad because they relocated manufacturing to China 🇨🇳? 😳
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India will not going to support USA fight. 🚨🚨🚨
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They talk big bcs they're not in frontline put those peoples in frontline they won't talk big anymore bcs those peoples are fears with deaths
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Uhhh what happened to no wars??
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I hope, he is aware that not a single Nato Member will stand with the US...
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Absolutely disgusting
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Thanks Ben, your fact based analysis is invaluable
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"Pax" Americana is endless suffering. Luckily, we're blessed living in this time where the empire of evil declines!
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lost against peasants with sandals, and want to war against a country with retaliation capability?
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It was a sales pitch. Panic buy USA defence. I hope we don't fall for it.
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Cowboy mentality never change
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"When will they ever learn" Pete Seeger
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Ha..ha ..ha.... Only Philippines is pro- USA among ASEAN Nations but their citizens can only afford Chinese merchandise to survive decently!!!!!!😂😂😂
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Hegseth is delusional.
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For any Asian country thinking to ally itself with the usa, look to ukraine to see how that’s working out for them.
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Hegseth excels in arrogance and hypocrisy
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I feel so sorry for these soldiers. They are fighting a war that TACO wants.
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Otherwise, how could they justify $1T military budget? just imagine how much billion dollars those warmongerings jokers could make
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Stupidity, arrogance, hubris, and madness continues!
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Salesman for the MIC. You can see him drooling over all the kickback he'll be pocketing.
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I watch all your videos. Im learning a lot
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PH will be the next Ukraine..
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😂😂😂who is threatening whom!😂😂😂 by the way the US recognises that Taiwan is a prorince of China officially!
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What does the US offer in return for the cooperation of Asia-Pacific countries? Tariffs of course.
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So much for ending the forever wars. We have met the enemy....
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War fighter that keep on losing battle after battle. 😂
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I don’t think there are any Americans that are willing to fight China because we know there are barely any Americans right now that are willing to fight for Israel’s war. And Israel is more tight into America’s economy and politics than China is.😅
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Here in Australia..... Unfortunately, I have more trust in China...... Good luck USA
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War ❌ Brylcreem ✅
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Every Accusation is a Confession
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Aye Hegseth was an civilian affairs officer. The only injury he was susceptible to was a paper cut😅
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0:01 How do these people come to power? Oh yes, money.
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I am skeptical, and for numerous significant reasons, not least because the world is now familiar with the formula: instill fear, assemble a group, initiate conflict, withdraw, and leave others to handle the aftermath, only to incessantly complain about war refugees. And don’t even get me started on Palantir and the other high-tech war companies (half hype, with earnings fueled by insiders and public funds). This is not to suggest that it is not a good company, but is it really cutting-edge compared to the same class of unsung Chinese companies, which may have 10 times the number of equivalent-quality labor? The Chinese are not sheep herders; there's a lot of water between the US and China, and China now possesses the most powerful autonomous sea-fighting vehicles, boats, and ships in the world. The internal public systems and processes of the US are garbage so don't expect all of that enhanced military budget to be very efficiently or effectively spent. An environment where suppliers have been known to charge $1300 for coffee cups, $150,000 Soap Dispensers, $640 Toilet Seat etc. The list goes on! That type of gravy is more addictive than fentanyl and will take an age to root out especially after the doge escapades and the US deregulation movement have disconnected the dots. Posturing is one thing and credible implementation is another.
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It is becoming very boring to listen to these American pundits. Empty suits with limited shelf life.
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Deterring what aggression?? Wtf???
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🔥 when a power ones looseing power. They become in war mode. It's example USA..
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Are these people formally educated?
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Peace through global order!
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《1984》: “war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength”. USA today
War mongerer
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China takes these words seriously and it has been investing heavily in the military build up, including nuclear.
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Someone's looking desperate..
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Come on American TACO get real😅😅
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so basically we’re heading for another draft car like the Vietnam war.
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A 1 trillion dollars doesn't sound so impressive when you know how wasteful the US government is and that they have to import everything 😂
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Remember, every empire falls getting to over stretch
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As a rule in US policy, a system that benefits the majority instead of the oligarchy is perceived as a threat.
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That five-star sargent is audacious.
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Thank you for sharing your insights with us & alerting us what kind of terrors the U.S. government is!
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Each time I hear Hegseth use the phrase “malign influence” I think - projection.
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War is Peace ? What in the 1984
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The RCEP is so ambitious. They're the future.
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No wonder this dude was a weekend solider involved in a series of nonsensical actions.
This guy does not udnerstand the war against Chian is not liek WWII, by island chaine. Chiense missile directly hit the US soil at any time. The fron line power is hypersonic missile, which Pentagon still failed the test. Chian has already 10,000 of them.
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Pete Hegseth grasped the opportunity to prove to his TACO master that he is a really good barking dog.
The US is playing with fire.
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Mr. Pete is a nut job !
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I think the biggest question at this point is which of the American allies will drop them and support China if America starts something.
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War is a Racket. Smedley Butler
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When were we ever Not preparing for war?🤷🏻‍♀
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If the Ukraine was next to the United States, we would all be speaking Ukrainian now. That is how it really is. This guys talks from the other side of the world. Go say that in China to a street vender.
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If this regime is starting to talk about others threats it's a sure fire sign that they are thinking about starting one.
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american (FORKED) TONGUECRACY EXCEPTIONALISM
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Fox News dude arrogant
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XIN JINPIN STOPPING TO BADER TAIWAN 🇹🇼 THEYE ARE OKAY YOU JUST LIVE THEME ALONG . 😢😮😮😢😮
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So if tarif doesnt work he will start war?😂😂😂
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As usual. Very good explanation
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China is also preparing for war. That's what militaries do.
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War is peace - 1984, Orwell
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Hearing a lot about China's aggression towards US 😅 not many examples though. I can give dozens and dozens of examples of US agression 😅 talk about projection.
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Hegshit is the $ vil arms sales spokesperson
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We'd never be prepared with petey
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Hogwash is a dumb dumb. 😊
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Please tell him, we in Latin America want nothing to do with them. Thank you!
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Excellent analysis and expose of US empire's global objectives. Thanks Ben.
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little drummer boy trying hard to get another war going 🤣
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So sad that our leaders are so SICK.
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Told ya. That's been the plan for decades. They're gonna copy the Iraq script.
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Only hot air bs. Last time in 2016 they screamed war with China and they chicken out fleeing out of South China Sea like a chicken with no head😂😂😂
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Pete Hegseth can try to come to Asia as much as he wants, he is not welcomed in most parts of this side of the world. He is asking us to counter China. But what for? US trade tariffs or the narcissistic hegemonic ego? At the Shangri-La Dialogue, he compared Trump to the greatness that was Lee Kwan Yew. He got every Singaporean angry.
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Continuing the crusades by.... defending Israel... LMAO. Original crusaders would turn in their graves.
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1984 was mistakenly categorized as Fiction..
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China 🇨🇳
The fact is, US cannot win over China militarily nowadays.
Making America Grim Again
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Thanks!
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I so look forward to your insightful blogs Ben.
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How embarrasing to have people like hegseth represent the united states
Thanks for the great insight Norton God bless
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Spain sold the Philippines to the USA for $20 million. But they only bought the land; not the people. That’s why the Philippines’ natural resources were exploited, but we Filipinos did not receive the benefits of a colony.
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I think it goes: “To secure from peace is to prepare for war”
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The US is fishing for the next Ukraine in Asia.
“Peace through strength” is very obviously not “war is peace.”
China also is preparing.
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Hegseth, 1. XI ain't calling 2. You won't be getting magnets and rare earth elements 😂😂😂
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Thanks
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No rare earth to make magnets for military equipment for the US.
Preparing war in someone’s land not america, as usual. Learn from history, the world
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This speech may have been music to MAGA ears, but to those who were listening at the Shangri-La conference, it probably sounded as off-key and dissonant as it sounds to most of the viewers of this video.
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Thanks
If the US enters into a war with China, North Americans whom survive, if any one, best learn Mandarin or at least Cantonese 😅😅😅😅😅
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Just great and we got you. We are f..ked
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Hegseth. Rhymes with death.
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Bruh, I’m not sure why this is blowing your mind. As a retired intel analyst, let me make this plain: Strategic ambiguity has been U.S. doctrine for decades. When you operate in the realm of realpolitik and pragmatism as this administration, you understand this: projecting clarity is often a luxury calculated uncertainty is power. If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.
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The thought of the young dying to protect the fragile egos of the weak-minded politicians is just plain disgusting.
Ukraine give me you minerals and I can get you Peace
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Every accusation is a confession.
China has a right to defend itself (to be exact from US aggression).
"we hope not" - What a load of trash.
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TACO TACO MAN
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Both Parties work for Corporation$/ MIC😂
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Heggsy is simply cringe.
Ben Norton should be given a Nobile Prize for speaking the truth , on the World's situation today ,bravely and accurately as regards the attitudes of the non-hegemonic behaviour by china ,as compared on US of its hawkish and cold war mentality, threatening the World Order, peace and stability !
Vault-tec fallout is close
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We support you, dear. Your lucid and reason is exceptionally excellent.
Wonder what US citizens think of their government daily madness?
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No one else talks war but the US
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They will be standing all alone ..
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Thanks again Ben. Awesome video,as usual
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Briliant analysis and reportage, como siempre. Buen hecho y gracias.
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The US is getting bigger punching bag more than ever.
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Gracias Ben .
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God bless you Ben Norton and Co.
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Australians want no part in this. I love the US, but the proxy wars need to end. China and Russia are not our enemies. We need multi-polar cooperation, peace and prosperity for all.
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Excellent Podcast
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Peace is easier to achieve by cooperation and mutual respect, not by bloodshed of innocent people and destruction.
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As an indian 🇮🇳 i can say that we have non alliance policy since independence bcz we know that how these so called colonial superpower use small country for their wars. We have border issue with china 🇨🇳 but we will deal with it, US has never supported india 🇮🇳 in past. They supported Pakistan in war with india & fight against terrorism. Recently as well during "Operation sindoor " US supported Pakistan & tried to enter in bilateral issue that we dont want to internationalise. US just want to sell their F35 to india and also they dont want business like Apple to manufacture in india. We know this very well thats why india is in BRICS & QUARD Groups. We will not put all the eggs in one basket . India should resolve issue with china and allign more with russia 🇷🇺 & china 🇨🇳 . We have great relationship with russia . Also as Europe is moving away from US so we can have one to one relationship with European countries for trade
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