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Chas Freeman unfortunately is getting canceled by neocons and think tankie, at least on Twitter.
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Good luck giving any sort of military aid (military financing doesn't count), especially in the billions, to any place with a per capita GDP of over $25,000
Israel.
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Israel at least spends something like 5% of its GDP on defense.
Wven so, they still get foreign military aid from the US. How do you think they replenished their Air Force so quickly during the Yom Kippur War?
The US is doing the classical Anglo-Saxon offshore balancing. Though difference the difference this time is China's neighbors are a lot less problematic compared to France, Germany and Russia. There is no state in the Chinese neighborhood that can challenge China with the exception of Japan. India is behind the Himalayas and is simply dysfunctional, and Russia (despite all the bullshit think tankies are pushing) is friendly to China. South Korea is decently powerful but has problems with Japan and has no real problems with China. Australia is 6000 km away and has an economy smaller than 2 of Chinese provinces. I would rather see the USA spending that $2 on the Taiwanese military rather than its own military. That $2 billion would generate a lot more additional firepower in the hands of the US military.
The US is going for an arms race but in a roundabout way. It will try to feed its puppets defence budget to its own military programs so that it can challenge China with other countries' money
This is why you see such a strong push for these countries to participate in US programs.
Former Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew once said that the US would really have to be engaged in Asia, because otherwise he foresaw that in the not too distant future the rest of the Asia combined including both Japan and India would not be able to challenge China. That future is now and is sooner than most people expected.
No, Japan would not have the guts to challenge China alone. It wanted to make sure the US is backstopping it there. When China finally has the clear military superiority over the US within the second island chain, the US's alliance/vassal system in Asia will start to fall apart. That's why the US's ruling class feel so insecure and are so hell bent on containing China with all kinds of invention of grouping of countries around or far from China, at the expense of its other relationships.
That day will come; the more the US scrambles shooting itself in the foot a lot of the times, the sooner it will come. History has been accelerating since 2018.