Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the highest ranking officer in the US Navy, unveiled a plan on Wednesday to be ready for a war with China by 2027 as the US military is preparing for a direct fight with Beijing despite the risk of nuclear war.
The plan lays out goals to be reached by 2027, including making 80% of the naval force ready for combat deployments on short notice. Franchetti told The Associated Press she wants to increase combat readiness so “if the nation calls us, we can push the ‘go’ button, and we can surge our forces to be able to meet the call.”
Other goals include increasing recruitment, improving Navy infrastructure, removing delays in ship maintenance, and increasing the use of drones and other autonomous systems.
Franchetti said the US is taking lessons from Ukraine’s operations against Russia in the Black Sea and the US’s new war against the Houthis in Yemen. US Navy ships have battled the Houthis since January in what US commanders have called the largest US naval battle since World War II, but the campaign has failed to deter or stop Houthi attacks.
Franchetti said that she is focusing on getting ready for war with China by 2027 because that is “the year that that President Xi (Jinping) told his forces to be ready to invade Taiwan.” However, that idea is only based on claims from US intelligence officials.
While China has ambitious goals for its military, there’s no evidence of a direct order to be ready for an invasion of Taiwan by 2027. Earlier this year, Defense News reported that Xi raised the issue with President Biden when the two leaders met in San Francisco in November 2023.
Recounting the meeting, a US official said: “Xi basically said: ‘Look, I hear all these reports in the United States [of] how we’re planning for military action in 2027 or 2035. There are no such plans. No one has talked to me about this.'”
The Defense News report noted how the claims about a Chinese invasion of Taiwan have helped funnel money to a US military buildup in the Asia Pacific. The claim about a 2027 invasion was first made in 2021 by Retired Adm. Phil Davidson, the former head of US Indo-Pacific Command.
“The concern it generated earned a nickname: the ‘Davidson window,’ shorthand for the near-term threat of an attack on Taiwan,” Defense News reported. “And that changed how Congress spent money. The Pacific Deterrence Initiative doesn’t have its own budget, but in the last few years the US has spent more on its forces in the region.”
American militarism is the greatest danger to the world.
And the US itself.
They're gonna need to "surge" the Navy because on Day One they're gonna lose maybe two or 3 carrier battle groups. Not just the carriers themselves, but most of the entire CBG.
Only morons attack a nation the size of China with navy ships. This is just more proof of what Andrei Martyanov says daily: the US military has no idea how to fight a peer enemy and no ability to do so.
US is openly discussing another totally unprovoked attack on a peaceful nation.
its regular to make plans to attack other nations; america made plans to attack
the ussr
france
germany
russia
the UK
Japan (again?)
Mexico
And now China
Nothing new; strategists like to d**k around
I see it as part of the budget process… It's loke county health departments running bubonic plague stories during budget submission periods.
gotta waste the extra money right?
Irony being, bubonic plague is easily cured now. ~7 people a year contract it in North America.
I worked at a Vancouver suburb environmental testing lab years ago, and our microbiologist told of a microbe screen of well-water in a different suburb (45 mins outside Vancouver; Mission, BC) that detected yersinia pestis – aka Black Death. He mentioned this with almost a "meh".
WOw
Would be fantastic if Xi and the DPRC started immediately promoting a permanent peace treaty between China and the USA, both nuclear and conventional.
Let the world see the Americans openly rebuff the peaceful overture time & again.
It’s just astounding that they plot out wars, years in advance, like someone might a dream vacation.
How stupid can the American people be? If China was an actual threat of aggression that US lives are at stake, how could you wait years to tackle it?
And then announcing their plans of aggression only readies China to prepare for such an event. And they are the US’ largest trading partner, but gov’t has no real plans to invest in true competitive industry.
These people are stupid, insane, dangerous and greedy mofus.
How did their borders get so close to our military bases ? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/89b73b9e8782298af871c949d9378864b37366c80ac1bf67aecb7a8be00ff354.jpg
Yep.
https://johnpilger.com/the-coming-war-on-china/
How stupid can the American people be?
Trick question?
Let's also enjoy the top leadership of the Navy, y'know, SAYING THEIR PLANS OUT LOUD.
My wife's German grandparents recall how the Berlin Times (and the sensationalist tabloid Berlin Post) both carried news stories during WW2 where the Supreme Commander of Allied forces announced that "our invasion force for Normandy is on-track to be ready by June 6, 1944, at the VERY latest."
lol
One can only conclude by this that our government and its military are at war against us US citizens as well in their nutty goals of plunging headlong into WWIII.
When a government decides it is an empire, all priority is given to conquest, raping and pillaging other lands. It does so for the true powers and not “the people”. Their usefulness is to hold the debt for such expansions.
That quote is attributed to someone in the GWB administration. Usually to Karl Rove, but not known for sure. Probably because it sounds like something he WOULD say.
Sounds like Cheney, Wolfowitz, Biden and now Harris too.
The, um, old boys club.
Harris is an old boi?
The ol’ warmongers club. Also includes Hillary and Nuland, Albright, etc.
Mad Maddie and Condi belong in that group too.
Maybe "the dark prince", Richard Pearle ?
Could be any psychopath.
It could have been said by Charles Krauthammer or William Kristol too.
Pretty sure the revealer of the quote only said it was someone actually in Bush’s cabinet circle. Krauthammer and Kristol are certainly of the same mindset, but are (or was, re CK) more in the media side.
No, here’s the original:
https://archive.ph/pvkxE
Evil, pure evil! Thanks for sharing this.
The irony being, the speaker acts as if the American State is on the leading edge of all events, weaving some Greek god style tapestry of actions for which everyone else just reacts – yet the USA seems constantly befuddled and startled when things happen somewhere.
"We had no idea Ukraine was going to blitzkrieg into Kursk !"
"We had no idea that pagers were going to explode all over Lebanon at Israel's command !"
"We had no idea that the NordStream pipelines whose destruction our President alluded to in advance, would be destroyed !"
"We had no idea that the Houthis were good with missiles !"
No, that is playing dumb, pretending they aren’t pulling strings.
He / they can’t have it both ways. The American State can’t be both Sherlock AND “carrying the Idiot Ball” simultaneously.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IdiotBall#:~:text=A%20moment%20when%20a%20normally,any%20number%20of%20smaller%20threads.
Sure they can.
You always have to plan ahead for the fall guy.
It’s part of “creating realities”.
Charles was a major big headed BORE!! Fox falls all over him, sickening..
Rove is a disgusting little TURD!!!
The best thing that could happen to the World would be if the United States has a total economic collapse and couldn't fund anything, not even porta potties.
Yes, but this will hurt citizens most, who do not endorse the warmongering.
Yes, I agree, but in the interest in justice and peace for the world, I am willing to take the financial hit.
Yeah, the point underneath it all is that they don’t need to do this damage to us or the globe.
They are crazed people who think they are god!
But it would create a populist movement among citizens, to take their government back from foreign agents and ogliarchs.
And a USA that can't have its military all over the planet, WON'T have its military all over the planet.
I see it as a rollback to post-Independence America, a return to the State the Founders envisioned. Limited government, trade with all and entangling alliances with none. Being a humble citizen of the world, not its overlord.
That part I like. But who really believes that they will give up control of their riches , while paupering everyone else through a fascist system?
Xi is like… …I don't know. He's just sitting there "unprovoking and unjustifying" a war. Even when we give him our specific plans on how we're going to destroy his country, which we name and show as a target on a FU@KING MAP! …You think I'm kidding!? …Did you read the article above!?
Yeah, but luckily nobody in China talks English good like we done do, so they don't even see it comin' !
…
I mean, so long as the DPRC doesn't have, like, 10 MILLION English-speaking citizens. THEN nobody will notice…!
China seeks peace. Chinese are busy planning a research station on the moon, with Russia and others. War is a waste that distracts China and Russia from evolving into modern democracoes.
This Taiwan scene is not the first time a collapsing dynasty fled to Taiwan.
The Chinese remedy for Taiwan tensions is to award scholarships, offer jobs, promote tourism, make business deals and inter marriage. Taiwan can begin the process to take a seat at the table if China governance any time it chooses.
I agree with you 100%. But I think it would be prudent of them to understand that we want them destroyed or enslaved.
Making war plans is what the military does. For nearly 100 years US maintained war plans against Canada. Never used them of course but they were there.
and the UK and France and mexico and god knows what else
Oh, we knew.
You'd have found that our Death Star superweapon was QUITE op-er-ational when your friends arrived…
Are you sure this isnt Filed Marshall Foch with his empty brief case? 'Any historian buffs out there? They need us!
Insanity. Continue to try and convince young people NOT to join the military.
Yes, the idea of convincing young people not to join the military is indeed insane.
Why am I not surprised that you got yet another thing backward?
I saw that movie. Van Damme was okay but overall it's not the best action flick of the '90s.
Sacrificing people for banks and corporations is insanity. Soldiers are dying for BlackRock, Goldman Sachs and the petrodollar.
War is terrible-triple plus bad.Not preparing for defense is suicidal.
$890 billion a year, 800- 1,000 bases all over the world… sometimes "defense" becomes offense.
I would agree to that. It is not often that you say something halfway sane. Young people should indeed need no convincing not to join the military, self-evidently true like you shouldn't have to convince them of not removing their nose with a chainsaw.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/fa405317de9681f2ada08b8387d52067161480b5ab571dd8d12aa674935dc6e8.jpg
i wonder
what happened here
no so long ago
i find melted things
the sky is still scorched
yet i ponder
who or what
was here before
Or if you prefer haiku version:
i wonder
what happened here
not so long ago
melted things
ponder
Kids kids, its simply glorified,refined 'King of the Hill', its about being #1,the head enchilada, the big cheese, who does not want to be the biggest baddest the world has ever seen? EGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Talking monkey ego at every level. Where is it not? This literally 'Lord of the Flies' but here the kids never got rescued, and instead they devolved into Idiocracy' living conditions or i prefer the life of 'Universe 25'….We might be 23 or 24, at best, but i think here and now its at the 25th….But its the economy right, you friggin' locust?
Shouldn't we just be patient and let our wonderful contributions' to negative climate impact do the same thing, and cheaper?
No such thing as a "War with China", as it would be WW111. Does anyone think that N Korea, Russia, would do nothing? If the USA decides to go to WAR again, it would be the perfect opportunity for Russia, N Korea and China, to destroy us. What is Japan going to do, or S Korea? Probably make a deal with China to save themselves. When does the USA decide to live peacefully and stop pilling blood.
n korea is pathetic cuz south korea and japan would join.
And for Russia?
Uhm
uhm
We don't talk about them
Well, everyone plans for contingencies, so this is nothing new. It's the immature sabre-rattling and threatening that is ridiculous; crying "China China China!!" and "Russia Russia Russia!" like panty-wetting little girls, making up threats and seeing monsters under every bed, all in order to squeeze every last possible nickel out of the taxpayers and feed it into the enormous garbage can that is the Pentagon, the security and intelligence apparatus, and the defense industry, and their parasitic hangers-on in the think tanks, congress, media, and academia. F them all.
She meant to say by 2027, China would be the world first economy and US wouldn't dare to attack China because of the threat of counter attack not just by China but also from Russia and North Korea…!
china actually is strong
russia and north korea are pathetic excuses for militaries
we have proven the rus to be bad quite well
maybe the other axis of evil members are weak aswell
Ukraine with OVERWHELMING SUPPORT FROM NATO proved the Russian Federation military unprepared. With no US$ or NATO toys and intel, the ethnic Russian East Ukraine would be neutral nation-states under the RF's protection not even six months into the war. Hells, nobody would be calling it a war. It'd be "that time the Russians invoked the Americans' Responsibility 2 Protect doctrine and stopped a potential genocide in the Donbas."
there was no genocide or even a potential one
False. There is ALWAYS potential for genocide – in any directed killing campaign. It just becomes a question of how many, how fast, and/or how correlated the victims.
Donbas doesn’t post big numbers or quick time frame, BUT the ethnic Russian nature of the victims (and corresponding racist policies by Kiev against them) indicates intentionality.
No, C. Bob Vila, there isn’t and wasn’t a genocide in Donbas. The Russian Federation SMO stopped and/or prevented it (you can choose either one).
what racist policies?
Name a few
Enlighten my dumb ukrainian mind
Russian language being taught & spoken. BANNED.
Russian Church. BANNED.
Ethnic Russians denied job opportunities and government support.
"The ethnic Russians of the Donbas would suffer attacks on their language, their culture, their rights, their property and their lives."
https://original.antiwar.co…
"Adding to growing tensions between Ukraine and Russia, and the broad Ukrainian hostility toward all things Russian, President Petro Poroshenko announced on Friday that he is banning all Russian men between the ages of 16 and 60 from the country."
https://news.antiwar.com/20…
"Beyond this, Poroshenko announced new crackdowns on the Russian Orthodox church, ordering raids against important religious sites in the country."
ibid
Hmm… i wonder why?
Maybe to prevent foreign influence?
The Russians suffered NO or very little attacks on their culture
We only denied it being a national language which i personally disagree with; it should be (But not anymore of course)
So the russian language/teaching of russian language was never banned
And the 2nd to last article you quoted as 5 days before the invasion began
Tensions were high, we didn’t want any of them here after they’d attacked us for then it was 7 years
Take things into context
I am amazed, and saddened, by the skills employed and the reasons invented to justify racism.
because the enemies of our state don’t do it either
Orthodox Priests arrested.
Don't forget to mention that the speaking of Ukrainian in all public venues is mandated under threat of punishment by law. What real nation needs laws to require people to speak the "national" language?
What do you mean by “all public venues?” Does that include e.g. privately owned concert halls, movie theaters, etc.?
The “law on supporting the functioning of the Ukrainian language” does not, in fact, mandate the speaking of Ukrainian even in the areas it covers. It includes exemptions for EU languages and minority languages … other than Russian, Belarussian, and Yiddish.
Public means public. Private stores, private restaurants, etc. You are correct, if you speak English you are OK, but that is to not cause problems for the new masters. If your first language is Russian, which is the case for many Ukrainians, then you are the target of this law. Ukraine is not a homogenous country. The band that currently rules in Ukraine is motivated by a vision of an ethnically, culturally and linguistically pure Ukraine. They don’t do tolerance or freedom of choice in today’s Ukraine. Not a model of libertarianism, is today’s Ukraine. As I said: it’s not a real country if you have to force people to speak the “national” language.
In other words, I was correct: Use of Ukrainian is not in fact mandated by law in Ukraine. Non-usage of Russian, Belarussian, and Yiddish is. There’s a difference. The latter is no better than the former, but it’s not the same thing as the former.
“A new legal provision on the use of the Ukrainian language, part of a broader state language law, raises concerns about protection for minority languages.
“The provision, which entered into force on January 16, is stipulated in article 25 of the law. It requires print media outlets registered in Ukraine to publish in Ukrainian. Publications in other languages must also be accompanied by a Ukrainian version, equivalent in content, volume, and method of printing. Additionally, places of distribution such as newsstands must have at least half their content in Ukrainian.
“The state language law requires that Ukrainian be used in most aspects of public life. The law was adopted and signed by former President Petro Poroshenko in 2019, as he was leaving office, with several provisions scheduled to come into force in subsequent years.
“The law aims to revitalize the Ukrainian language and is part of government efforts to reinforce national identity after the fall of the Soviet Union. Some officials called it essential for Ukraine’s national security. Public opinion polls indicate that at least 60 percent of Ukrainians support certain provisions of the law.”
https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/01/19/new-language-requirement-raises-concerns-ukraine
Yes, that’s what HRW said in 2022. Without mentioning the exemptions. And before the law was amended to meet EU admission criteria. And before Zelenskyy proposed further amendments adopting English for international communications and encouraging Ukrainian subtitles instead of Ukrainian dubbing for foreign films.
It’s interesting you’re choosing a hill that ended up not happening (“mandating use of Ukrainian”) to die on rather than the hill that did happen and is happening (suppressing Russian, Belarussian, and Yiddish).
Arrogance is a sin.
so is tyranny
US tyranny is hated around the world.
it is but american tyranny isn’t putting it’s buttocks in my face as much as Russian tyranny which is more blatant
Your dictator is the one not holding elections, which is tyrannical.
We're under martial law[
Martial law is dictatorial and anti-democracy. Most dictators use martial law to stay in power.
Oh, that's right. Russia has 800 military bases around the globe, has interfered in 81 elections in other countries, fomented coups in Iran, Ukraine, and others. /s
america fomented no coup here
that was us
and america has NATO while Russia has CSTO
So uhm no competition really
Agreed
what of pride
my dear
do we not share this desire
a taste
but not too much
for then pride
becomes
vanity
and vanity
is the greatest vice of them all
it creates gods
ominoptant gods
who brook no rivals
for the higher
one seems to be
the lower one
looks down
How far the fall
go ask the first one
who fell…
And we are superb? What happened in Vietnam, Afghanistan? All we do is pick on countries that have no chance.
Its harder to fight the weakest insurgents than the strongest military
its just the nature of an insurgency
Fire the war Monger, Lisa!!
worst idea ever. no offense but we would get our arses handed to us if we did sth real stupid like pick a fight w/ China.
In a word, ….., Sick. We are become a nation of monsters.
Not to be arrogant, but I already know how war with China plays out. Something along these lines:
1. War between U.S. and China breaks out. Doesn't matter who "started" it.
2. Naval battles ensue.
3. China sinks one or even two American aircraft carriers* with their massive arsenal of antiship missiles.
4. With American military prestige on the line, not to mention an impending major military loss, the U.S. attacks China with several tactical nuclear weapons.
5. The rest is history – except there may be no historians left to write it.
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* I'm no military expert but a Nimitz class aircraft carrier has something like two nuclear reactors, up to 100 nuclear bombs, up to 100 or more aircraft, and up to 5000 sailors and marines. The sinking of a single aircraft carrier alone represents a humanitarian, ecological and military disaster such as the world has never seen. I wonder if the military ever contemplates this scenario?
cmon you guys have anti ship missiles too
dapper up!!
Better start recruiting that cannon fodder…
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240921/us-bets-on-allies-to-bail-out-crippled-shipbuilding-industry-1120237804.html