“It might sound like twisted logic, but military
forces everywhere argue that the greater the firepower they possess, the greater
the chance of maintaining peace,” opens 60 Minutes Australia’s Amelia Adams. “In
other words, massive weaponry is the best deterrent to war. Right now the theory
is being tested like never before, and much of it is happening in Australia’s
backyard, the Indo-Pacific region. The United States wants the world, and more
particularly China, to know of its increasing presence there, and to do that
it’s putting on a spectacular show.”
What follows is 19 minutes of overproduced footage displaying this “massive
weaponry” while Adams oohs and ahhs and gives slobberingly sycophantic
interviews to US military officials.
“There’s something utterly mesmerising about the F-35 jet,” Adams
moans. “The
sound, the heat, and the power put this supersonic stealth fighter in a league
of its own.”
“Colonel these are some very impressive machines you’re in charge of!” she
gushes to an officer on an aircraft carrier.
“Yes ma’am,” the colonel replies.
Jesus lady, do your orgasming off camera.
Contrast this glowing ecstatic revelry with Adams’ open hostility
later in the segment toward a
Chinese think tanker named Henry Wang, claiming that he was trying to “rewrite
history” for dismissing panic about a Chinese military buildup by pointing out (100
percent correctly) that China is spending a lower percentage of its GDP on
its military than western nations.
“Every command, every maneuver, is being fine-tuned on this vast blue stage,
where China has proven to be a bad actor, playing a long game of intimidating
Pacific nations,” Adams
proclaims
over helicopter footage of US war ships. “But the US and its allies aren’t
having it, bolstering their defenses — and it’s an impressive display.”
I defy you to find me footage more brazenly propagandistic than this, from
any point in history. This is supposed to be a news show, run by people who
purport to be journalists, yet they’re engaging in propaganda that looks like it
came from a Sacha Baron Cohen spoof of a third world dictatorship.
As I never tire of
pointing out, the claim that the US has been militarily encircling its
number one geopolitical rival defensively is the single dumbest thing
the empire asks us to believe these days. The US is surrounding China with war
machinery in ways that
it would consider an outrageously aggressive provocation if the same thing
were done in its neck of the woods, which means the US is plainly the aggressor
in this standoff, and China is plainly reacting defensively to those
aggressions.
While the first segment unquestioningly regurgitates Pentagon narratives and
gives supportive interviews to military officials, the second segment
unquestioningly regurgitates talking points from the western intelligence cartel
and gives supportive interviews to Five Eyes spooks.
“Showing off deadly weaponry in massive war games is a tactic China and the
United States both use to try to avoid full-on combat,” says 60 Minutes
Australia’s Nick McKenzie in introduction. “But the truth is the two countries,
as well as other nations including Australia, are already battling it out in an
invisible war. There are no frontline soldiers but there are significant
skirmishes. Until now these conflicts have been kept quiet, but key members of a
secretive alliance of top cops from Australia, the United States, the United
Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand are about to change that.”
“Their group is called the Five Eyes, and tonight they want you to know what
they see,” says McKenzie, which is the same as saying “We’re telling you what
the Five Eyes intelligence agencies told us to tell you.”
McKenzie literally just assembles a bunch of Five Eyes officials to tell
Australians that China is bad and dangerous, and then disguises the western
intelligence cartel advancing its own information interests as a real news
story.
“There is one threat that alarms our partners more than any other,” McKenzie
says over
dramatic music, asking “Which state actor is the key threat to democracy in
Australia and amongst the Five Eyes partners?” and presenting a montage of
western intelligence operatives answering (you guessed it) China.
“The Americans describe a growing menace on our doorstep flowing from China’s
increasing influence in the region,” McKenzie says, before asking an American
official, “Do you see the Chinese state preying on Pacific island nations?”
“I believe so, yes,” the official responds.
Western journalism, ladies and gents.
Australians are particularly vulnerable to propaganda because Australia has
the most concentrated media ownership in the western world, dominated by a powerful
duopoly of Nine Entertainment (who airs 60 Minutes) and the Murdoch-owned
News Corp. This vulnerability is being fully exploited as the time comes for the
western empire to beat the war drums against China.
We keep being hammered by this narrative that “massive weaponry is the best
deterrent to war,” when all facts in evidence say the exact opposite is true. It
was the military encroachment against Russia and the conversion of Ukraine into
a NATO military asset which
provoked
Putin to invade Ukraine, and all the militarization against China that we
are seeing is only inflaming tensions and
making war more likely.
And, I mean, of course it is; even a casual glance at the Cuban Missile
Crisis reveals that powerful nations don’t take kindly to having menacing forces
placed near their borders. So much of the propaganda indoctrination
we’re subjected to in the 2020s revolves around convincing people to believe
that Russia and China should react completely differently than the way the US
would react if foreign proxy forces were being amassed along its borders.
So yes, Amelia Adams, claiming that aggression and militarism is the best
path toward peace is absolutely “twisted logic”. It is as twisted as it gets.
Because it is false. This is obvious to anyone who hasn’t yet been successfully
indoctrinated into this omnicidal belief system.
We need to do everything we can to fight against this indoctrination now,
because if we wait until the war actually starts it will likely be too late to
resist.
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