The US, Japan, and Australia agreed on Sunday to increase trilateral military cooperation as Washington is working to boost alliances in the region as part of its plans to prepare for a future war with China.
Defense ministers from the three countries, including US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, met in Darwin, Australia, which is home to a US military base that’s being expanded to house US B-52 long-range bombers.
The defense ministers announced the three militaries will begin conducting trilateral amphibious military drills starting in 2025 during Australia’s biennial Talisman Sabre, which has gotten much bigger in recent years.
Australia will also send troops to participate in Orient Shield, an annual training exercise that takes place in Japan and involves US and Japanese troops. Last year, a new US-backed military pact between Australia and Japan that makes it easier for the two countries to deploy troops to each other’s territory came into effect.
The US, Japan, and Australia also announced their goal is to conduct a trilateral live-fire exercise during Talisman Sabre by 2027. “The inaugural trilateral regional air and missile defense live-fire event at Exercise Talisman Sabre 2027 will be a key milestone,” the ministers said.
The US military is openly preparing for a future direct conflict with China despite the risk of nuclear war, and alliance building is key to those plans. Earlier this year, the US, Japan, Australia, and the Philippines conducted military drills together in the South China Sea for the first time.
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It seems to me that “preparing” in such a way, puts us much closer to potential conflict…
Some anti-neocons have the same black-and-white mindset as the neocons, only in reverse. That's what happens when you "pick a side."
The U.S. is not going to start a war with China. And China is not going to invade Taiwan, which would be almost impossible to do anyway.
But China is constantly provoking the Philippines and Taiwan, to create an atmosphere where nations shy away from confrontation because they don't want the same treatment. The Chinese navy harrasses the Filipino coast guard, even ramming into their boats, or attacking them from two sides with high-pressure water cannons that would kill anyone on deck.
Comments: "Hey, it's called the South CHINA Sea, that's the only argument needed!" (Named that way by the Portuguese, and the name is not an argument. It's the sea bordered by Vietnam, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Brunei, and China. The shoals China claims ownership over, with zero logic, are right outside the Philippines.)
Why is Chinese aggression not mentioned, only Washington's aggression? Why is it always "Washington supports this, so it must be BAD"?
Likewise I see people make excuses for the thieving dictatorship in Burma, where the generals took power only so they could grab the jade trade for themselves again, and the de facto dictatorships in Venezuela and Nicaragua. "Oh, Biden said the election in Nicaragua was fake? That must be WHITE COLONIALISM!"
Every country in the region, including those with leftist governments, know that the elections in Nicaragua and Venezuela are shams. Opposition leaders imprisoned en masse or simply banned from participating, funding blocked, ads blocked, the entire state apparatus used to promote one side, intimidation at the polls, government stooges count the votes. When the opposition won the parliament in Venezuela earlier, the dictatorship simply ignored parliament and ruled by decree. Also illegally installing Supreme Court judges and other judges. Imagine that in the U.S.
Or imagine the U.S. doing what China is doing to island nations. Then suddenly it would be wrong.
Hey, Washington condemns the RSF that is murdering, rahping and looting throughout Sudan, armed by the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Russia? Then the RSF must be good! Go, BRICS! Someone in Washington condemned Ethiopia's government forces rahping 120,000 women, killing countless people? Go, BRICS!
How long have you been in the CIA to write such dribble?
Your post reads like something fresh off the computer of one of the thousands of men and women paid to deliver the word.
History is repeating.
Prior to WWI, there was the making of fateful ties, ties that became involved in the "great war".
Supposed intelligent men lead countries that appear to be on the road to the end. For what? For what?
For those who profit through war, death and destruction, that's who. It's been that way since the beginning of human governments.
The govs. of the West are determined to start WWIII, but they forget that the people may not go for it. Until the masses demonstrate they don't want to be incinerated or bleeding at every orifice through radiation sickness, WWIII is a certain. All this maneuvering and these war games are taking place just for that purpose.
Never an agreement to increase diplomatic exercises. I guess you'd need some diplomats for that.