The United States Is Already Training To Bomb China

They even talked about this in Beijing. Special armbands with patches were prepared for the participants in American military maneuvers near the coast of California. Consider what they looked like: a red-painted map of China on a piece of cloth, over which soars a U.S military combat drone. This rather old machine is called a Grim Reaper (meaning death), and that is why a death’s head can also be seen on the patch.

We note that these were offensive maneuvers. The Americans practiced landings on a few islands without naming China as the purported target, and the patches were made specifically for the occasion. They show a unique form of naval quartermaster humor, as if it were a game of paintball. But humor in China is different than in the United States, and China’s response was that the exercises were highly unusual, that they constituted extremely brazen provocation, and that they showed how hostility between Chinese and American societies has grown.

We are confronted with the current reality of America’s aggression toward China. What is this? Where does it come from? It comes from the depths of humanity. The science of ethology deals with animal behavior (including that of humans), particularly packs of apes, our human ancestors. Basically, fear begins in the pack. The monkey, like any living creature, is afraid of many things, but fully knows that fear is shameful, and that defending oneself is necessary or the pack will die, and so shameful fear must combine with collective aggression. Everyone bares their teeth and instills courage in each other.

It is obvious that America feared the reality of an equal power after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Everything else is just ethological observation. The map of China on the armbands is illustrative precisely because apparently no one from the top military or political leadership ordered the U.S. 3rd Fleet in the Pacific to create the armbands. Teeth were bared strictly on a grassroots initiative. Nobody would have known about the armbands but for the photos which appeared in an Air Force magazine. Many wars have broken out over the accumulation of such trivial affairs.

However, these are no trifles, no accidents, but constitute a typical reflexive response. For example, consider the hearings held before the House Foreign Affairs Committee about China and the shameful fear that Americans have about the country.

In June, Michael Pack assumed leadership of the U.S. Agency for Global Media. He began to put things in order and cut the costs of clearly unnecessary and unsuccessful programs. This included firing several government experts on China and freezing funds that had been spent for years on spy technology that helped Hong Kong’s anti-Beijing fighters evade surveillance. This move was subjected to a beating from Congress which considered it damaging to U.S activities in support of democracy in Hong Kong. Note the timing: Pack had just taken up his position in June. By then, it had been clear for several months that the protest campaign in Hong Kong had embarrassingly run out of steam and that U.S funding, that is, taxpayer money, had been wasted. Thus, Pack’s behavior was quite understandable.

But the congressional hearings undoubtedly damaged the country’s prestige. Americans have always interfered in political and public life around the globe, and now one can see exactly how. For example, everyone knows that “color revolutions” are preceded by the sudden appearance of hundreds of nongovernmental organizations which often don’t quite look American but appear instead to be international. The general public learned that the little known USAGM was engaged in propaganda in target states. There is, in fact, direct organization of military operations (well, civil clashes) in the territory of other states going on. It turns out that the USAGM has been supplying special equipment abroad for years that prevents protesters from being identified by police, helps them stay anonymous online, and so on. There is a special open technology fund for the supply of such equipment.

This isn’t just about an armband. This is direct intervention, if not aggression. By the way, the reporting of such facts at congressional hearings should lead many ordinary fighters in all sorts of “color revolutions” to think differently. Only yesterday they were angry advocates for democracy, peacefully blocking the streets, and today they are getting special equipment from a foreign and unfriendly government.

And incidentally, it is now normal for the same Congress to say that China is interfering in the Nov. 3 presidential election. In particular, in Russia (although not only there), analysts publish approximately the same information as the American media publish about the catastrophic American political system. The scheme is the same: Fear of a certain threat needs to be met with aggression. During both the Soviet era and afterward, Russians got used to constant demonstrations of irrational anger toward this country, a competition in aggression that is difficult to understand and easier to ignore. However, this experience suggested a strange kind of “Russophobia.” When you see that same awkward dance taking place in another country, it is somewhat reassuring to remember that it’s not us. It’s just a pack of monkeys egging each other on and baring their teeth.