WORLD AT WAR: 11.12.22 - China Is “Preparing For War”

 China Is “Preparing For War” – I Will Give You One Guess Who The Primary Opponent Will Be - by Michael Snyder - http://endoftheamericandream.com/china-is-preparing-for-war-i-will-give-you-one-guess-who-the-primary-opponent-will-be/ Chinese President Xi Jinping has just announced that China will be “preparing for war”, and that should deeply alarm all of us. Needless to say, nobody is going to be attackingChina any time soon. So why would the Chinese need to prepare for war if there is zero chance that they will be attacked? Unfortunately, the answer is obvious. The only reason China would be engaged in a military conflict any time soon is if it chooses toinvade Taiwan. The moment such an invasion is launched, the United States and China will be at war. The Chinese know this, but Chinese President Xi Jinping is going ahead with preparations for war anyway… China will focus on preparing for war with the country’s security ‘increasingly unstable and uncertain’, President Xi Jinping has declared. Beijing will now comprehensively strengthen its military training and preparation for any war, Xi said today, according to state broadcaster CCTV. This is the very first time in decades that China has been on a war footing. Not too long ago, the Chinese were our new best friends and we were doing all that we could to deepen trading relationships with them. Now our economy is deeply, deeply dependent on goods from China, and once a military conflict erupts that flow of goods will come to grinding halt. So let us hope that such a war does not materialize any time soon. Sadly, it has become exceedingly clear that Chinese President Xi Jinping is strongly considering the option of “reuniting” with Taiwan by force… Xi’s announcement that China will focus on preparing for a war will raise fears that the nation may invade the self-governing island of Taiwan, which Beijing claims as itsown. China, which has the second-largest economy and military in the world, has repeatedly threatened to annex Taiwan by force if necessary. A lot of people out there seem to assume that a conflict with China is not an imminent threat. But just last month, the top ranking officer in the U.S. Navy warned that it could come “as soon as this year”… Last month, US Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Gilday warned that China could take Washington and the world by surprise and invade Taiwan as soon as this year. Amid the military exercises by air and sea of Taiwan’s coast, Admiral Gilday said: ‘It’s not just what Jinping says, it’s how the Chinese behave and what they do. ‘What we’ve seen over the past 20 years is that they have delivered on every promise they’ve made earlier than they said they were going to deliver on it.’ Personally, I don’t think that we will see war between the United States and China in 2022. But 2023 is a very real possibility. And it turns out that many officials in Japan also see the need to prepare for a coming conflict with China… If China were to attack Taiwan, it wouldn’t just have to face a hostile superpower. It would also likely have to confront its longstanding regional rival, Japan. For centuries,Japan and China have vied for hegemony in East Asia; at times, they have threatened each other’s survival. Today, as I found from three days of meetings with Japanese officials and analysts in Tokyo, the threat of Chinese aggression is producing a quiet revolutionin Japanese statecraft — and pushing the nation to get ready for a fight. Tensions just continue to intensify month after month. As I discuss in my brand new book, eventually a breaking point will be reached. Meanwhile, North Korea and South Korea are also getting closer to war. In recent days, North Korea has test-fired over 30 missiles, and that includes an ICBM which prompted “an evacuation alert in northern Japan”… The North has test-fired more than 30 missiles this week, including an intercontinental ballistic missile Thursday which triggered an evacuation alert in northern Japan — a response to an aerial military exercise between South Korea and the US. Of course North Korea has test-fired lots of missiles before, but in this case the North Koreans are actually admitting that they just conducted “simulated strikes on SouthKorea”… North Korea said on Monday that its recent missile launches were simulated strikes on South Korea and the United States as the two countries held a “dangerous war drill,” while the South said it had recovered parts of a North Korean missile near its coast. War between North Korea and South Korea is coming. But my personal opinion is that it won’t happen until China invades Taiwan first. Speaking of missile tests, it is being reported that the Russians will soon conduct another test of the new RS-28 Sarmat… Russia is reportedly plotting to test-fire an intercontinental ballistic missile for a second time. Moscow first tested the RS-28 Sarmat in April. It is capable of carrying10 or more warheads and decoys, striking targets at 16,000mph. Russian politician Aleksey Zhuravlyov previously threatened to use the deadly weapon as Finland and Sweden were poised to join NATO. He said Satan-II could hit the UK in 200 seconds if fired from Russia’s European province, Kaliningrad. It has been claimed that a single RS-28 Sarmat possesses enough firepower to destroy an area the size of Texas. The U.S. does not have anything comparable. In fact, the aging Minuteman missiles that currently form the backbone of the U.S. strategic nuclear arsenal are not scheduled to be replaced by something new until some timearound 2030. Unfortunately, the world will look completely different by 2030. I believe that World War III has already begun, and several new conflicts are likely to erupt over the next 12 months. In this article I haven’t even talked about Israel and Iran. Personally, I think that is probably the most likely conflict to erupt next. This truly is a time of “wars and rumors of wars”, but most people out there still do not understand what is happening. ---------------------------- The Dangerous Nexus: Russia and Iran's Mullahs - by Majid Rafizadeh- https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19100/iran-russia-nexus The Iranian regime is now providing weapons and troops to Russia with full impunity. What are the ruling mullahs of Iran getting in return? First of all, Iran's theocratic establishment is rushing to cross the nuclear threshold in order to become a nuclear-armed state. Iran wants Russia to help it bolster andspeed up its nuclear program. On October 24, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accurately warned: "In eight months of full-scale war, Russia has used almost 4,500 missiles against us. And their stock of missiles is dwindling. Therefore, Russia went looking for affordableweapons in other countries to continue its terror. It found them in Iran." Zelensky added: "I have a question for you � how does Russia pay Iran for this, in your opinion? Is Iran just interested in money? Probably not money at all, but Russian assistance to theIranian nuclear program. Probably, this is exactly the meaning of their alliance." The Iranian regime, which has long argued that it is not seeking to develop nuclear weapons due to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's reported "fatwa" forbidding suchan act, has lately changed its tone and is boasting that it currently has the ability to build a nuclear bomb. In July, Kamal Kharrazi, Iran's former foreign minister, acknowledged to Al Jazeera: "It's no secret that we have become a quasi-nuclear state. This is a fact. And it's no secret that we have the technical means to produce a nuclear bomb... In the past, andwithin just a few days, we were able to enrich uranium up to 60%, and we can easily produce 90% enriched uranium." Kharrazi added that "what we want is a Middle East without any nuclear weapons" -- most likely meaning that only Iran will hold onto nuclear weapons, but not any other country. Other Iranian officials have also come out admitting that the regime's nuclear program was always designed to manufacture nuclear weapons. In April, it was reported that formerdeputy speaker of the Iranian Parliament Ali Motahari said: "From the very beginning, when we entered the nuclear activity, our goal was to build a bomb and strengthen the deterrent forces but we could not maintain the secrecy of thisissue." The former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Fereydoon Abbasi-Davani, also acknowledged that his work was part of a "system" designed to develop nuclear weapons.According to a report from November 2021: "The former AEOI head also told IRNA that he worked with [nuclear scientist Mohsen] Fakhrizadeh on 'nuclear defense.' "Abbasi claimed that Fakhrizadeh had been targeted by Iran's enemies for years, but 'when the country's all-encompassing growth came concerning satellites, missiles, and nuclearweapons, and [Iran] crossed the various frontiers of knowledge, the issue became more serious for them.'" The Biden administration's non-existent leadership has helped the ruling mullahs to buy time in the last two years and speed up their nuclear program, increasing their uraniumenrichment from 20% to 60%, conducting uranium metal research, development and production, and adding additional advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges. The emboldened regime of the mullahs even announced that they would not allow the International AtomicEnergy to see images of the centrifuges. Even a joint statement issued by the UK, France and Germany stressed that Tehran "has no credible civilian need for uranium metal R&D and production, which are a key stepin the development of a nuclear weapon." Russia and Iran previously worked together to construct several nuclear reactors in Iran and advance the regime's nuclear technology. Biden's new nuclear deal, if reached, will also allow Russia to cash in on a $10 billion contract to further expand Iran's nuclear infrastructure. US Secretary of State AntonyBlinken has stunningly made it clear to US lawmakers that the Biden administration will not stand in the way of Russian-Iranian nuclear cooperation and Russia cashing in on the $10 billion contract. State Department spokesman Ned Price repeated the Biden administration'sstance by pointing out: "We, of course, would not sanction Russian participation in nuclear projects that are part of resuming full implementation of the JCPOA". Sadly, this still seems to be the legacy that the Biden administration wants to leave: Iran's predatory regime, the top state sponsor of terrorism, armed with nuclear bombs,and an empowered Russia that does not hesitate to use aggression and military force to invade other countries. No wonder Biden is being called a "Russian stooge." --------------------------------------