National Insecurity: America Held Hostage

To go to war, even to the brink of war, brings all these vulnerabilities into play.

The United States is not formally at war with Russia, but it has adopted aims that cannot be achieved without a war.

Blinken noted on April 26 that "The United States would support the Ukrainian military in pushing Russian forces out of eastern Ukraine if that is what President Volodymyr Zelensky aims to do. If that is how they define their objectives as a sovereign, democratic, independent country, that's what we'll support." Ukraine's leaders have demanded that Russia abandon both Crimea and the Donbass, then submit to reparations and a war crimes trial for Vladimir Putin.

2020, the year of Covid, crystallized the judgment that America and China were locked in an inexorable competition that brought with it a heightened risk of war.

As with Ukraine before the war, America's stance is to threaten China, protect Taiwan, and reassure the U.S. public that nothing will come of it.

U.S. military commanders speak of "Winning the battle" with China via such a war plan, but those commanders would obviously be in no position to prevent further escalation by China against the U.S. homeland, if China should respond to an attack on its territory by inflicting harm on the United States.

If relations between China and America have increasingly acquired a dynamic that recalls the era before 1914, so likely would the consequences if at last a great war should come.

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