On Tuesday, the Senate confirmed China hawk Kurt Campbell as the deputy secretary of state, the second highest ranking position in the State Department.
Campbell is taking the position after serving as President Biden’s top Asia official on the National Security Council. He worked in the Obama administration’s State Department from 2009-2013 and oversaw a policy known as the Asia “pivot,” which began the US military buildup in the region to prepare for a future war with China.
Back in 2021, Campbell said that when it came to China, the “period that was broadly described as engagement has come to an end” and that the “dominant paradigm” in the US-China relationship would be competition. Since then, tensions between the two nations have escalated as the US imposed new harsh economic sanctions, increased support for Taiwan, and continued to build up its military presence in the Asia Pacific.
Campbell is replacing Wendy Sherman, who retired in July 2023. His appointment signals the administration is still focused on increasing its military and diplomatic footprint in Asia despite the war in Ukraine and the escalating situation in the Middle East. Victoria Nuland, a notorious Russia hawk credited with orchestrating the 2014 coup in Ukraine, has been serving as the acting deputy secretary of state.
While Campbell has been known to focus on China most of his career, he is also a Russia hawk. During his Senate hearing, he said he favored more military aid to Ukraine. In 2022, Campbell said he believed the US could sustain two theaters of war as it did during World War II.
“It’s difficult. It’s expensive. But it is also essential, and I believe that we’re entering a period where that is what will be demanded of the United States and this generation of Americans,” he said.
“It’s difficult. It’s expensive. But it is also essential, and I believe that we’re entering a period where that is what will be demanded of the United States and this generation of Americans, (to go kill and die for American empire. Although we don’t care that we have made life much harder for every American, and then told them to pull themselves up by the bootstraps. We don’t care that education, healthcare, housing and food are outrageously expensive. We have got to spend money on warfare and empire building. If that means that your kids die in world war 3 and things get even harder for the majority of Americans,then so be it. Me and my family will be ok. Your won’t. So we ask you to make this sacrifice for the dying empire, he said…
You had a few typos:
“It’s difficult. It’s expensive. But it is also essential, and I believe that we’re entering a period where that is what will be demanded of the Russian Federation and this generation of Russians, (to go kill and die for the Russian empire. Although we don’t care that we have made life much harder for every Russian, and then told them to pull themselves up by the bootstraps. We don’t care that education, healthcare, housing and food are outrageously expensive. We have got to spend money on warfare and empire building. If that means that your kids die in world war 3 and things get even harder for the majority of Russians, then so be it. Me and my family will be ok. Yours won’t. So we ask you to make this sacrifice for the dying empire, Putin said…
Which nation has over 800 bases all over the world? Which nation spends more on “defense” than all the other countries combined? Which nation has instigated wars and threw away peace deals so that their arms dealers and defense contractors could profit from another war far away from its borders?
After all they did, they’re only “Hawks?” Especially Nuland with probably over a million lives lost in Ukraine since her nasty cookies were consumed in 2014. What do you gotta do to be called an: “Uber-Hawk” like John Bolton? How many more millions of deaths needed before you receive that honor?
They aren’t hawks. We learned from the widely respected American liberal and eminently intellectual Thomas Friedman how to attribute animal analogies to humans, even groups of humans with undeniable scientific accuracy from his deep studies of the television series Animal Planet. Nuland would be a lyme diseased tick, Campbell would be like a leech identifying as a wolf spider, Bolton would be a malaria mosquito with a pornstache. They’d all be insects riding on the back of a disease riddled old lion stinging it wherever they can to squeeze a roar out of the dying beast.
Well said, brother! Keep writing!
I agree. China must pay for its egregious crime. They sold me a fantastic refrigerator for a $1000. Have you priced shipping something like that from across the world to the US? What an atrocity! All Chinese must be put to death for their crimes! (If I need to add “Sarcasm” to the end of this paragraph then we’re all in trouble for losing our common sense)
“In 2022,Campbell said he believed the US could sustain two theaters of war as it did during World War II.”
Sure, as long as the Russians are doing the heavy lifting in one of them. But . . .
and oversaw a policy known as the Asia “pivot,” which began the US military buildup in the region to prepare for a future war with China.
At last. Some accuracy..honesty in what the P2A was about from the outset…starting another war.