Mattis: US National Security No Longer Terrorism

The new national security focus of the Trump Administration is the old one, Mattis reveals.

Fighting terrorism is out of favour and is replaced by revisionist powers Russia and China. The take-over of the Trump presidency by the neocons is now complete.

The new policy is barely distinguishable from the Wolfowitz Doctrine first propounded in the early-mid 1990's which stated:

Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power.

Mattis also made a point to Congress to fund the military adequately. Cigars all round plus a huge round of applause from the defence industry.

Eighteen months after Trump charmed parts of America with his plans to be friends with Russia. The future is the past.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42752298

 

It sounds like you are crying about something...

 

OP

He's obviously demonising Russia and China to distract us from the unstoppable march of Global Islam.

 

Crying? Not sure how you arrived at that, but then again I'm rarely surprised anymore how words mean different things to different people.

It was more of a sigh of predictability.

 

Well, we pretty much did decimate ISIS. But for the US Financial Markets(seriously, look at our debt), the military is always going to be geared towards trying to maintain US Hegemony and world approval of the US Dollar. However, I feel as though the time for neocon doctrine has long come to an end. They had their opportunity in the mid-2000's and were bungled down(mostly by 'democratic' thoughts, instead of outright taking territory.). Now in today's world, there's a fierce anti-US movement from Eurasia to lower Asia. Nations aligning with Russia and China, in the interests of protecting their own spheres from a perceived US invasion of their natural interests.

Like it or not, we Americans should recognize we're no longer in a position to dictate or change global power.

 

No, you didn't pretty much decimate ISIS, Russia did. You just bombed the desert!!

 

Yes, because a guy who served in both Iraq wars, Afghanistan, was head of CENTCOM (and thus in charge of the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq & Syria) and was considered too eager for war with Iran is precisely the sort of guy who would do that. Trump too.

Do you even think about this stuff, or do you just jump on when you finish your homework and type the first thing that pops into your head?

 

Decimated ISIS? Maybe, maybe not. Many of them have moved to other theatres of operation. But the US certainly helped thrust them on to the world.

I agree with everything else you said, though.

 

He's doing what he's been told to do - change the narrative.

 

By whom? be specific.

 

How the **** would I know that; how do I know what goes on in the Washington corridors of power? I'm conjecturing, and conjecture and speculation are what forums are all about.

 

As I thought, just making stuff up without the slightest shred of evidence. I'll give you this, the quality of your posts is remarkably consistent.

 

You have no more idea of Washington politics than I do, so why keep provoking me to make you look stupid, as I usually do?

 

I have a much better idea of Washington politics than you (so do my teenage nephew & my cats for that matter) and the only one looking stupid here is the person suggesting that General Mattis is trying to 'distract us from the unstoppable march of Islam'.

The longer you keep talking the dumber you look.

 

It's so easy to bag the Trump administration (sorry it is - especially since I'm not a fan) but Mattis is rock solid, this is his hour and he is worthy. I like it... I like it alot. Trump can try and be friends with Putin all he likes but the reality is Putin has taken every precaution to stand aggressively against the US and NATO and undermine them. It's like trying to be friends with someone openly conspiring to kill you....
China equally two- faced... the smiling mask of let's trade and behind the scenes building a formidable military using their substantial wealth to buy influence away from America, not to mention their aggression in the South China Sea.

So what do you do... you keep your knives sharp, exactly what Mattis is proposing.

Iran is different, the threat is Hezbollah's narcotics trade and I believe Sessions is dealing with it

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...up-hezbollah-investigation-team-idUSKBN1F01V3

 

mind blowing. new american century indeed.

 

There's a reason the warriors have political masters. Generally the commander in chief sets policy and boundaries. Does anyone think trump has demonstrated any ability to do so? It comes from his chief of staff, you know that ex CIA guy.

 

Bull ****, when it comes to bombing brown people, America is # 1 in the world.

 

Ah I take his comment about radical Islam as truth albeit spoken glibly. Our persecution of them since the tower attack, then Iraq, Afghanistan and finally Syria has only to my mind only spread them out of our direct vision. Africa, Asia, Russia, Europe, all have these people.

Other countries and continents need to deal with them is my point.

I find solace in the fact that I am 100% certain that Mattis can say our focus from a national security standpoint is not on radical Islam but rather maintaining a ah balance so other super powers don't control too much.... That we still have plenty of resources being allocated to ensure Islamists don't hurt the homeland.

It was a pretty slickly prepared statement actually. I doubt China or Russia is much concerned. Sounded like to me a diplomatic way of saying.. We see you.

 

I'm reading the strategy report now, and this sounds a little different than the way your OP makes it out to be.
page 4 regarding China

https://www.defense.gov/Portals/1/Documents/pubs/2018-National-Defense-Strategy-Summary.pdf

 

There was never really a war on terror. Terrorism is a shadow that the state puppets to tell you that whatever they're doing is the lesser evil. The error you make is taking the narrative at face value.

 

Agree with your third paragraph. Radical Islam receives the attention it requires, but it US needs to be prepared to deal with more conventional threats from China, which is now the rising power, and Russia, which is in long term decline, but still poses a significant threat to its 'near abroad'.

There is no 'distraction', just an acknowledgment that the world has multiple threats, each requiring their own strategies.

 

This is an interesting excerpt:

page 8
https://www.defense.gov/Portals/1/Documents/pubs/2018-National-Defense-Strategy-Summary.pdf

 

What, you don't believe radical Islam is on the move, when atrocities perpetrated by jihadists are occurring almost every day, and is a matter of great concern for every government of every country on the planet, one of which has already succumbed (I refer to Sweden) on the planet? I mean as y'all say over there . . . are you for real?

 

Mattis is doing exactly what the global elitists of the NWO have told him to do, nothing more, nothing less??? Oh, and as to Russia being aggressive - wouldn't you respond aggressively if your neighbours were outside on your doorstep conspiring to destroy you and your family? In that respect, think 'Unnecessary and highly provocative NATO exercises right on Russia's border.'?