Appears the pentagon has a China conflict penciled in fir 2027.
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/05/16/pentagon-funded-thin…
NBC’s Meet the Press just aired an absolutely freakish segment in which the influential narrative management firm Center for a New American Security (CNAS) ran war games simulating a direct US hot war with China.
CNAS is funded by the Pentagon and by military-industrial complex corporations Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin, as well as the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office, which as Antiwar’s Dave DeCamp notes is the de facto Taiwanese embassy in the US.
The war game simulates a conflict over Taiwan which we are informed is set in the year 2027, in which China launches strikes on the US military in order to open the way to an invasion of the island.
It also happens that CNAS CEO Richard Fontaine has been featured all over the mass media pushing empire narratives about Russia and China, telling Bloomberg* just the other day that the war in Ukraine could serve the empire’s long-term interests against China.
Center for a New American Security was the former home of Ely Ratner. Mr Ratner now is Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs in the present administration.
It is no longer the Military-Industrial complex but is the Military-Industrial-Political-Media complex.
*https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-09/biden-tea…