Pentagon-Funded Think Tank Simulates War With China On NBC by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2022-05-16 at 22:32:58 )

Pentagon-Funded Think Tank Simulates War With China On NBC by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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NBCs Meet the Press just aired an absolutely freakish segment in which the influential narrative management firm Center for a New American Security (CNAS) ran war games simulating a direct United States hot war with China.

CNAS is funded by the Pentagon and by military-industrial complex corporations Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin, as well as the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office, which as Antiwars Dave DeCamp notes is the de facto Taiwanese embassy in the United States.

The war game simulates a conflict over Taiwan which we are informed is set in the year 2027, in which China launches strikes on the United States military in order to open the way to an invasion of the island. We are not told why there needs to be a specific year inserted into mainstream United States of American consciousness about when we can expect such a conflict, but then we are also not told why NBC is platforming a war machine think tanks simulation of a military conflict with China at all.

Go inside our exclusive war game with CNASdc -

The year is 2027. The briefing: China is poised to attack Taiwan

Which side would prevail? Would China attack the United States mainland? Could nuclear war break out?

Watch the full episode on PeacockTV-Meet the Press (MeetThePress) May 15, 2022

It happens that the Center for a New American Security was the home of the man assigned by the Biden administration to lead the Pentagon task force responsible for re-evaluating the administrations posture toward China. That man, Ely Ratner, is on record saying that the Donald Trump administration was insufficiently hawkish toward China. Mr. Ratner is now the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs in the Biden administration.

It also happens that the Center for a New American Security has openly boasted about the great many of its other "experts and alumni" who have assumed senior leadership positions within the Biden administration.

It also happens that CNAS co-founder Michele Flournoy, who appeared in the Meet the Press war games segment and was at one time a heavy favorite to become Bidens Pentagon chief, wrote a Foreign Affairs op-ed in 2020 arguing that the United States needed to develop "the capability to credibly threaten to sink all of Chinas military vessels, submarines, and merchant ships in the South China Sea within 72 hours."

It also happens that CNAS CEO Richard Fontaine has been featured all over the mass media pushing empire narratives about Russia and China, telling Bloomberg just the other day that the war in Ukraine could serve the empires long-term interests against China.

"The war in Ukraine could end up being bad for the pivot in the short-term, but good in the long-term," Fontaine said. "If Russia emerges from this conflict as a weakened version of itself and Germany makes good on its defense spending pledges, both trends could allow the United States to focus more on the Indo-Pacific in the long run."

NBC News teaming up with neocon think tank CNAS whose top donors from 2020-2021 were Northrop Grumman and the Pentagon. Other notable donors include Raytheon, Taiwans de facto embassy in the US, and Lockheed Martin.-Dave DeCamp (DecampDave) May 15, 2022

It also happens that CNAS is routinely cited by the mass media as an authoritative source on all things China and Russia, with no mention ever made of the conflict of interest arising from their war machine funding.

Just in the last few days here is a recent NPR interview about NATO expansion with CNAS senior fellow Andrea Kendall-Taylor, a Washington Post quote from CNAS fellow Jacob Stokes about the Chinese threat to Taiwan, a Financial Times quote from CNAS "Indo-Pacific expert" Lisa Curtis (who I have previously noted was cited by the mass media for her "expert" opposition to the United States Afghanistan withdrawal), and a Foreign Policy citation of the aforementioned Richard Fontaine saying "The aim of United States policy toward China should be to ensure that Beijing is either unwilling or unable to overturn the regional and global order."

As we have discussed previously, citing war machine-funded think tanks as expert analysis without even disclosing their financial conflict of interest is plainly journalistic malpractice. But it happens all the time in the mass media anyway, because the mass media exist to circulate propaganda, not journalism.

This is getting so, so crazy.

That the mass media are now openly teaming up with war machine think tanks to begin seeding the normalization of a hot war with China into the minds of the public indicates that the propaganda campaign to manufacture consent for the United States-centralized empires final Hail Mary grab at unipolar domination is escalating even further.

The mass-scale psychological manipulation is getting more and more overt and more and more shameless.

This is headed somewhere very, very bad.

Hopefully humanity wakes up in time to stop these lunatics from driving us off a precipice from which there is no return.

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