Wall Street Journal reports Pentagon's lunatic underestimation of China

© 2025 Peter Free

 

08 June 2025

 

 

American stupidity is on addictive steroids

 

After reporting how difficult a time the US Navy had in dodging Yemen's Houthis' missiles and then attacking them at home, the Wall Street Journal reported the following:

 

 

Some 30 vessels participated in combat operations in the Red Sea from late 2023 through this year, around 10% of the Navy’s total commissioned fleet.

 

In that time, the U.S. rained down at least $1.5 billion worth of munitions on the Houthis, a U.S. official said.

 

The Navy was able to destroy much of the Houthis’ arsenal—but it has yet to achieve the strategic goal of restoring shipping through the Red Sea, and the Houthis continue to regularly fire missiles at Israel.

 

Despite the wear and tear, Navy officials said the fight with the Houthis offered invaluable combat experience, and the Red Sea conflict is viewed inside the Pentagon as a warm-up for a potential “high-end” conflict with China.

 

© 2025 Stephen Kalin and Shelby Holliday, How the Houthis Rattled the U.S. Navy—and Transformed Maritime War, Wall Street Journal (04 June 2025)

 

 

 

So we gather that . . .

 

. . . based on this practice with Yemen, the US is going to fight China. Despite having strategically lost the short and in comparison, grandly easy fight, with the Houthis.

 

That's typically American logic:

 

 

We lose a war to a group of honor-bound, micro-power third-worlders.

 

But we are, nevertheless, going to beat another grossly larger and more militarily advanced nation of 1.4 billion people. A nation that also leads us in virtually all aspects of technology and manufacturing.

 

And not only that, we are going to successfully punish them adjacent to their 7,000 miles away homeland.

 

This too, despite the fact that the United States was unable to supply geographically closer Nazi Ukraine with a sufficient supply of anything at all, during its US-controlled proxy war against Russia.

 

 

The moral? — The United States has become the definition of psychotic lunacy

 

We are like a milling circus of steroid-using, cancer-brained monkeys.

 

With nukes. Don't forget the nukes.

 

If the potential in all this were not so deadly, it would be absurdly funny:

 

 

Arguably most vicious, militarily unsuccessful, and brainlessly craziest country on Earth challenges all to a fight to the death.

 

 

Historically speaking, this is about as good an example of reversing the Founders' most basic geopolitical tenet — which advised us to avoid foreign entanglements — as one could dream up.