The War With China is Already Under Way

"The only acceptable status for China is as a distinctly lesser power. To ensure such an outcome, administration officials insist, the U.S. must take action on a daily basis to contain or impede its rise. "

" In previous epochs a prevailing power seeking to retain its dominant status and a rising power seeking to overcome its subordinate one — has almost always resulted in conventional conflict. In today’s world, however, where great-power armed combat could possibly end in a nuclear exchange and mutual annihilation, direct military conflict is a distinctly unappealing option for all parties. Instead, governing elites have developed other means of warfare — economic, technological, and covert — to achieve such strategic objectives. Viewed this way, the United States is already in close to full combat mode with respect to China.
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Perhaps the greatest victim of this ongoing conflict will be planet Earth itself and all the creatures, humans included, who inhabit it. As the world’s top two emitters of climate-altering greenhouse gases, the U.S. and China must work together to halt global warming or all of us are doomed to a hellish future. With a war under way, even a non-shooting one, the chance for such collaboration is essentially zero. The only way to save civilization is for the U.S. and China to declare peace and focus together on human salvation. "

By Michael T. Klare, February 17, 2019. TomDispatch



Some of Michael T. Klare' books

• To be published in 2019: All Hell Breaking Loose: Climate Change, Global Chaos, and American National Security.

• The Race for What’s Left   

Some more books of interest

• John Dower: The Violent American Century. War and Terror Since World War II    
• Tom Engelhardt: A Nation Unmade by War   
• Alfred McCoy: In the Shadows of the American Century. The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power   
• Dahr Jamail: The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption  

If you find all this too dispiriting read Caitlin Johnstone's "Terence McKenna Offers Another Reason To Have Hope For Humanity"

" Even if we are some awkward transitionary stage between the simpler and the more complicated, our trying and our fight to survive would be just as much a part of that march toward complexity as our little herbivore dinosaur ancestors scrambling to avoid the sharp teeth of carnivorous predators. The only thing to do is fight for life, but this perspective takes the pressure and hopelessness out of it.

So where are we headed, if McKenna’s theory of novelty conservation continues to bear out? Well, the early single-celled organisms wouldn’t have been able to predict the emergence of multicellular organisms. Early multicellular organisms wouldn’t have been able to anticipate the emergence of land animals. A prehistoric land animal never would have imagined that there would one day be humans driving around in cars and making street art and arguing with strangers on the internet. Maybe any attempt on our part to predict where this trend in complexification is headed would be just as futile. All we can do is keep alive, do our very best, and hope. "

In the grand scheme of things 'fighting for life' is the only reason why we are here. Thinking, writing and painting is my way to 'fight for life' in the present. I passed indeed the stage of planning for the future... Check the following video. A psychologist and an ecologist debate about hope amidst humanity's predicament and the gradual sinking of the mind into acceptance that only remains living and love in the present...