The US Military Continues to Threaten Beijing
The US Military Continues to Threaten Beijing
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The US would be wise to unleash a drone “Hellscape” on the Chinese military if it ever attempted to reunify with Taiwan by force. This isn’t the opinion of some junior staffer or a congressional aide, but rather, a promise Adm. Samuel Paparo, the head of US Indo-Pacific Command, made to the Washington Post earlier this summer.
According to the commander, the American strategy for such a scenario, quite literally known as “Hellscape,” would revolve around inundating the Taiwan Strait with thousands of drones while additional US assets and American allies made their way to the region. That’d be a solid plan if there was evidence to suggest that Xi Jinping was angling to seize Hawaii, or maybe one of the Carolinas, but Taiwan is merely an American client state, not an actual part of the United States.
It is inevitable that the allies of both nations – some of which also have nuclear weapons – would join a conflict between the US and China. People in the West have grown accustomed to tolerating and/or ignoring conflict on the other side of the world. However, it would appear that most of those people haven’t fully considered how absolutely catastrophic a direct confrontation between Washington and Beijing would be. This is a danger the top US military official in the Indo-Pacific doesn’t care to consider.
“I want to turn the Taiwan Strait into an unmanned hellscape using a number of classified capabilities,” Paparo told the Post’s Josh Rogin on the sidelines of an event hosted by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a DC think tank. “So that I can make their lives utterly miserable for a month, which buys me the time for the rest of everything.”
Rogin doesn’t just fail to push back against this dangerous, irresponsible proposal; he agrees with it, writing that “time is running out to turn these plans into a reality.”
The US military and the corporate media have decided that if a conflict between Beijing and Taipei breaks out, the question won’t be whether the US should go to war, but rather, how swiftly.