America Needs to Save Its Weapons for War with China, Top Think Tank Says


In general, the think tanks are a whole lot more concerned about China than they are about Russia.

Basically, everyone who understands anything understands that Russia’s current ability to do anything is dependent on China, so Russia is viewed as a function of the China problem. The think tanks are obviously extremely anti-Russia, but they basically claim that doing this war with Russia is just wasting resources. This is one reason why it is so offensive when Tucker Carlson or Josh Hawley goes out and says we need to stop the war with Russia to save resources for the war with China – it’s a line from these globalist and neocon think tanks.

RT:

The US doesn’t have enough stockpiles of munitions or the industrial capacity to replenish them for a major military confrontation with China, a US think tank has warned, citing a series of war games it conducted.

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has urged the stockpiling of ammo and of materials for producing them, and the offering to producers of better terms so that they have incentive to invest in new facilities.

The CSIS, a nonprofit that lists among its donors major defense contractors, including Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and General Dynamics, criticized the state of the US defense industry as inadequate for “today’s competitive environment.”

The production base cannot support a protracted, high-intensity conflict, the report released on Monday stated. The country ran low on certain weapons in the simulation, including Javelin and Stinger missiles, 155 mm howitzers and counter-artillery radars, as these had been sent to Ukraine.

In a possible conflict with China over Taiwan, which CSIS assessed may break out with little preparation time, this scenario may replicate.

“In nearly two dozen iterations of a CSIS war game that examined a US-China war in the Taiwan Strait, the United States typically expended more than 5,000 long-range missiles in three weeks of conflict: 4,000 JASSMs, 450 LRASMs, 400 Harpoons, and 400 Tomahawk land-attack missiles (TLAMs),” the report said.

The think tank predicted that LRASMs, Long Range Anti-Ship Missiles, would be of particular importance, considering that the Chinese navy would likely impose a blockade of the self-governed island.

The US used up its inventory of those weapons in the first week in every iteration of the modeled conflict, CSIS noted, adding that the weapon’s production time is two years.

CSIS is a center for American war policy planning.

They might be saying this because they believe it, or they might be using their leverage to try to pressure the US into upping the ante on China.

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Most of my understanding of geopolitics comes from reading these think tanks. It’s very boring, and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, but the fact is, the media and politicians just lie totally about everything, so if you want to understand what is going on, your only real option is to read the think tanks.

Frankly, it does appear that the US is totally draining its military stockpiles on a war with Russia that doesn’t really have any upsides for the larger picture of the globalist agenda. At this point, it’s already obvious that this war is not going to lead to a regime change in Moscow. In the best case, they can keep it going indefinitely on the western side of the Dnieper, and create some war weariness in Russia, but it’s just not going to result in any striking results, and it just means they have to keep pouring money and weapons into this agenda.

A bunch of these weapons manufacturing processes rely on parts from China. So it really is kinda silly.