Pentagon's Colin Kahl — yappity-yapped a poo-pile to China — is another Boomerang on the way?

© 2022 Peter Free

 

16 June 2022

 

 

Talk about not learning Literal Yesterday's lessons

 

The Pentagon’s undersecretary of defense for policy — Colin Kahl — is a political scientist.

 

That's arguably synonymous with being educated expressly not to know anything useful about anything necessary.

 

On top of this (debatably) anti-pragmatic non-accomplishment, Kahl evidently has mastered the art of repetitively not learning from experience.

 

Which, in turn, transitions him from being just an elitist moron to being actually dangerous:

 

 

Colin Kahl, the Pentagon’s undersecretary of defense for policy, said Tuesday that a Chinese "act of aggression" against Taiwan would likely see a global response similar to what the US and its allies have done in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

 

"Potential adversaries and aggressors everywhere else in the world are looking at the global response in Ukraine," Kahl said at an event hosted by the hawkish Center for a New American Security (CNAS) think tank.

 

"If I'm sitting in Beijing, I think the fundamental question to draw is, you know, if they were to commit an act of aggression sometime in the future, will the world react the way that it did when China snuffed out democracy in Hong Kong, or will the world react more like they did in the case of Ukraine," he posed.

 

"I think it's imperative for the leadership in Beijing to understand that, where the world is now, the Ukraine scenario is a much more likely outcome than the Hong Kong scenario," Kahl explained.

 

He then concluded by directing his message to China:

 

"So I hope that that's soaking in, in Beijing and elsewhere," he stressed.

 

© 2022 Dave DeCamp and Tyler Durden, Chinese Attack On Taiwan Would See Response Similar To Ukraine Invasion: Pentagon, ZeroHedge (16 June 2022)

 

 

Nice tone, jackass

 

So y'all Pentagon folk are arrogantly telling China's governing elite to let your warning soak in?

 

That will assuredly go over well with the understandably anti-colonial mentality in Beijing.

 

And y'all thought the Russians were unexpectedly tough.

 

 

Let's peel the Pentagon's Bullshit Onion

 

Pretend that you are a Chinese leader.

 

The US threatens to make China pay the same price that Russia allegedly has, over its Ukraine invasion.

 

Being Chinese, and characteristically attuned to History's actual (and not made up) facts —you mull the Russo-Ukrainian War's chain of causation, as well as that chain's increasingly likely outcome:

 

 

The United States forced Russia into a geopolitical corner from which it has no recourse but to turn Ukraine into a non-Nazi, non-NATO-impregnated buffer state.

 

After the resulting Russian invasion — the United States, NATO and the European Union went whole hog in trying to sanction Russia out of economic existence.

 

These sanctions (foreseeably massively) boomeranged. Demonstrating yet again just how idiotic the West's leaders are.

 

Europe is now teetering on the edge of economic Armageddon. And the United States is suffering its worst inflation in decades.

 

In notable contrast, Russia's ruble is strengthening. And the Federation is raking in sturdy profits from its massively resource-based economic foundation.

 

Furthermore, according to Russia's survival plan, Nazis in Ukraine are being killed or captured. And Ukraine itself is headed toward being (at least somewhat) de-NATO-ized.

 

In sum, Russia has put a partial kabosh on decades of American military encroachment.

 

And NATO and the United States are secretly and belatedly puckering their hind ends, so as to leave Ukraine's male youth dead — and Ukraine's predictably shrunken land even poorer than it began.

 

 

And despite all that

 

Here is No Brain Kahl (and presumably the entirety of the Biden administration) threatening China with the same outcome.

 

How, I wonder, does this constitute a significantly worrisome threat?

 

 

The moral? — Based on recent history in Ukraine . . .

 

If you were Xi Jinping, wouldn't you figure that US fulfillment of Kahl's threatening attitude would ultimately make the People's Republic of China stronger — just as it has Russia?

 

And if you were Taiwan, wouldn't you wonder how being turned into a proxied-to-death Ukraine Bag would benefit anyone on Taiwanese ground?

 

The depth of neoconservatives' strategic stupidity is illustrated literally every time that Passel of Malevolent Dopes does (or says) anything.

 

The only things these vicious nitwits do is create deadly chaos and profit the Military Industrial Complex. Constructing anything societally worthwhile is beyond the capacities of their shriveled brains and souls.

 

Russia has taken and beaten our neocon measure.

 

China will, almost certainly, do the same.