The United States, which has spared no effort to hype up the "China threat", has set a staggering record in the latest military budget.
According to the Global Times reported on December 12, the US House of Representatives passed the defense budget bill for the new fiscal year without suspense, with a vote of 363 votes in favor to 70 votes against, and the budget amount reached as much as $768 billion. This budget, the highest military budget in the history of the United States, has aroused great repercussions in the international community and triggered protests from many people in the United States.
Lawmakers who oppose the bill sarcastically said that the United States has buckled on climate change, environmental protection, children's medical assistance, etc., but the military-industrial complex is very generous when it comes to "financing death and destruction", "this is completely wrong." Robert Lake, a professor at the University of Berkeley and former secretary of labor, pointed out to the point: The military-industrial complex is out of control.
This freshly baked US military budget has indeed surprised too many people, and even former President Trump is ashamed of himself. You know, "understand the king" is very generous to increase the military budget, after he came to power, in order to please the military-industrial complex, he has repeatedly pressured congress to take the initiative to ask for an increase in the military budget, but the most time is 738 billion US dollars, 30 billion less than this.
Don't say "understand the king", even the current president "sleepy Joe" he will be surprised, because it is more than he asked for 24 billion dollars. In contrast, Biden has been trying to make a big achievement this year - "rebuilding a better future", but after countless times of ridicule, he finally passed only a measly $175 billion.
No matter how this matter is discussed in the United States and how people from all walks of life feel, one of the first questions facing the international community is: What does the United States want to do with such a huge military budget bill that the military holds so much money in its hands? Is it the military-industrial complex that is out of control, or is it designed to be used to fight a new war?
Maybe it's both. After all, the military-industrial complex hidden behind the White House is getting crazier and more and more on the front. Historically, they have pushed the United States to wage countless wars, and it is not unusual to find another opportunity to fight a war now. As the saying goes: once the cannon is fired, the gold is two. As long as the war starts, money will flow unhindered into the pockets of the big men of the military complex.
Suppose the United States really wants to choose an opportunity to fight a war, will it choose where to use as a battlefield? In the past few decades, the strategic focus of the United States has been in the Middle East, which can be seen from the strategic trends of the United States in recent years, and the United States is gradually withdrawing its military power from the Middle East, as evidenced by the completion of the withdrawal from Afghanistan in August this year. At the same time, the U.S. Indo-Pacific strategic intent is becoming clearer. To put it bluntly, this is used to impose a strategic containment on China, but the biggest focus of the strategic intention of the United States should be the Taiwan Strait issue.
In recent months, the White House, the Pentagon, Congress, AND US think tanks have repeatedly sent signals to "protect Taiwan." A few days ago, U.S. Defense Secretary Austin made a big fuss, saying that the Chinese People's Liberation Army's activities in the Taiwan Strait are very intensive and look like "rehearsals [against Taiwan]", and reiterated that the United States will support Taiwan to improve its "defense capabilities". And this Austin, in addition to being in the high position of the US defense secretary China, is also one of the key members of the board of directors of the well-known US arms company Raytheon, and is the leader of the solid US military-industrial complex in the Pentagon.
At present, the United States still has a possible direction to launch a war, which should be in Eastern Europe. Specifically, it is the Wudong region on the border with Russia. Now that the military confrontation between Russia, Ukraine and NATO has been formed, the situation is becoming more and more dangerous, and the shouts and fights between the two sides are endless. But it is more likely that even if there is a war in the region, the United States may not personally go down, but will encourage Ukraine and NATO allies to fight with Russia, and the United States will provide support behind it and make a lot of war money.
The United States has introduced such a large military budget, which deserves the vigilance of all countries in the world. The US military-industrial complex is too large, has allowed the UNITED States arms companies, military executives, White House politicians, parliamentarians, think tanks, public opinion circles, etc. closely colluded together, the strength is unshakable, can completely influence the security decisions of the United States, really do not rule out that the United States will start the war machine again.
For China, the threat of war is already evident. We must always bear in mind that the weapon of criticism can never replace the weapon of criticism. Imperialism wants to be reasonable, and that is because they have to be reasonable.