The US created a new stockpile of military equipment during drills in Australia last summer to prepare for a future war with China over Taiwan, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
The stockpile was left behind after the Talisman Sabre exercises, which ran from July 22 to August 4 and were billed as the largest-ever iteration of the drill, demonstrating US focus on preparing for a future conflict in the Asia Pacific.
The Reuters report said the equipment left behind includes 330 vehicles and trailers and 130 containers in a warehouse in Bandiana, a suburb of Wodonga, a city in southeastern Australia.
The supplies are enough to supply three logistics companies that would focus on getting equipment to US troops who are fighting a war elsewhere in the region. “We’re looking to do this more and more,” said Gen. Charles Flynn, the top Army commander in the Pacific. “There’s a number of other countries in the region where we already have agreements to do that.”
The US is working to establish stockpiles in the Philippines, Japan, and other countries in the region. Congress is also looking to establish a weapons stockpile in Taiwan itself, something that might not be publicized due to the risk of provoking China.
US Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said last year that the Army’s role in a future war with China would be to establish “staging bases for the Navy, for the Marines, for the Air Force” and to “provide intra-theater sustainment” using the weapons stockpiles and watercraft.
Wormuth said the Army would also have a role to play in the homeland since a full-blown US-China war would likely spread around the globe. “If we got into a major war with China, the United States homeland would be at risk as well, with both kinetic attacks and non-kinetic attacks,” she said.
US military officials are preparing for a direct war with China despite the obvious risk of it quickly turning nuclear. They say they’re trying to “deter” a war, but the military buildup in the Asia Pacific and the new levels of US support for Taiwan make a conflict more likely.
One of lessons of Ukraine war and now the Gaza war, is one can not have too much ammo stored away.
The war drums for combat with Iran and China are beating louder every day. One must be deaf,dumb and blind not to see whats coming.
LOL. The good news is you don’t have to be “deaf, dumb and blind,” because you can be willfully “deaf, dumb and blind.” I see people like that everyday willfully living as zombies.
Biden has 3 wars going and preparing for another with China, a country that has never attacked America and with whom we have huge trade exchanges. What’s wrong with the US that all it can do is manufacture war? What’s wrong with the American people that all they can elect are warmongers. This is on you, Americans.
We usually have the choice between one warmonger and another. As well, some give speeches with words full of peace during election campaigns and then get into office and do the complete opposite.
All of the psychopaths are preparing for world war 3. And while the rest of us know that what they’re preparing will probably kill millions, we all just go on with our daily lives.
If death and destruction is profitable, then they’ll make the conditions for an ever continuing increase of it.
Insanity
To ‘prepare for a future war’ is about all the Biden administration is good at. Now that I think about it, all US administrations are sooner or later involved in wars. It’s a sad ritual.
As former president Jimmy Carter has said, [the US] “has been at war for most of its history…The US has only enjoyed 16 years of peace in its 242-year history, making the country the most warlike nation in the history of the world.“
We all know why.
It’s because the United States has become a military empire and because most American politicians are bought out by the military-industrial complex.
Ray McGovern promotes the concept of the Military Industrial Congressional Intelligence Media Academia Think Tank (MICIMATT) complex. All the components of the complex are bought.
China, Iran, North Korea, Hamas, Houthis, and Russia, others; all can store as much ammo as they want wherever they want and the anti US war movement will not have an issue with that however, let West do that, and suddenly is because they want to start WWIII.
uncle sam has 800+ military bases all across the world.
most of them surrounding the countries that you mentioned.
but let’s pretend that “the West” is not already storing as much ammo as they can in those 800+ military bases, all of which has already been payed for on the uncle sam credit card just waiting for the US tax-payers to ultimately pay the bill.
edit = i am down-voting myself so that Agent Julio does not have to.
but we all know that he will anyway, because he has that down-vote button on his speed-dial.
(the US) to prepare for a future war with China over Taiwan
in other words uncle sam will bend over backwards to provoke China into attacking first.
then uncle sam can say with a straight face “told yalls that China is the bad guy!”