{"id":1123546,"date":"2023-07-07T22:29:49","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T22:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/?p=13101"},"modified":"2023-07-07T22:29:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T22:29:49","slug":"john-bolton-accidentally-explains-why-us-policy-on-russia-and-china-is-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/07\/07\/john-bolton-accidentally-explains-why-us-policy-on-russia-and-china-is-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"John Bolton Accidentally Explains Why US Policy On Russia And China Is Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p\nid=\"6bd9\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph ll lm fo ln b lo lp lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi fh bj\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\"><a\nclass=\"af mj\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/john-bolton-accidentally-explains-why-us-policy-on-russia-and-china-is-wrong\"  rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\"><em\nclass=\"mk\">Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure\nclass=\"ml mm mn mo mp le\"><\/p>\n<div\nclass=\"mq mr l eb\"><\/p>\n<div\nclass=\"acv mt l\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"\nclass=\"ek n fc dx bg\" title=\"John Bolton Accidentally Explains Why US Policy On Russia And China Is Wrong by Caitlin Johnstone\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/media.html?src=https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2023\/07\/07\/john-bolton-accidentally-explains-why-us-policy-on-russia-and-china-is-wrong\/https%3A%2F%2Fw.soundcloud.com%2Fplayer%2F%3Furl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fapi.soundcloud.com%252Ftracks%252F1558317034%26show_artwork%3Dtrue&amp;display_name=SoundCloud&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fgoing_rogue%2Fjohn-bolton-accidentally-explains-why-us-policy-on-russia-and-china-is-wrong&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi1.sndcdn.com%2Fartworks-qcwww5xAPymzVEMM-x4OOqA-t500x500.jpg&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=soundcloud%22 width=\"680\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p\nid=\"2a02\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph ll lm fo ln b lo lp lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi fh bj\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">\u2756<\/p>\n<p\nid=\"3f11\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph ll lm fo ln b lo lp lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi fh bj\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">Professional psychopath John Bolton has an article out with The Hill titled \u201c<a\nclass=\"af mj\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/national-security\/4075978-america-cant-permit-chinese-military-expansion-in-cuba\/\"  rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\">America can\u2019t permit Chinese military expansion in Cuba<\/a>\u201d which inadvertently spells out exactly what\u2019s wrong with the way the US empire keeps amassing heavily armed proxy forces on the borders of its large Asiatic enemies.<\/p>\n<p\nid=\"b2f4\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph ll lm fo ln b lo lp lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi fh bj\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">Citing a\u00a0<a\nclass=\"af mj\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/Ozc7g\"  rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\">Wall Street Journal report from last month<\/a>\u00a0in which anonymous US officials claim that Havana has entered negotiations with Beijing for a possible future joint military training facility in Cuba, Bolton argues that the US must use any amount of aggression necessary to prevent this facility\u2019s construction, up to and including regime change interventionism.<\/p>\n<p\nid=\"73b3\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph ll lm fo ln b lo lp lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi fh bj\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">\u201cThe potential of significant Chinese facilities in Cuba is a red-flag threat to America,\u201d Bolton writes, arguing that such activities \u201ccould well camouflage offensive weapons, delivery systems or other threatening capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p\nid=\"f21d\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph ll lm fo ln b lo lp lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi fh bj\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">\u201cFor example, hypersonic cruise missiles, already harder to detect, track, and destroy than ballistic missiles, are natural candidates for installation in Cuba, a prospect we cannot tolerate, along with many other risks, like a Chinese submarine base,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n<p\nid=\"868d\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph ll lm fo ln b lo lp lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi fh bj\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">All of which are arguments that could be made pretty much note-for-note by Russia and China about the ways the US has been\u00a0<a\nclass=\"af mj\" href=\"https:\/\/caityjohnstone.medium.com\/the-single-dumbest-thing-the-empire-asks-us-to-believe-8721fb436641\" rel=\"noopener\">threatening their security interests<\/a>\u00a0with war machinery in their immediate surroundings.<\/p>\n<figure\nclass=\"ml mm mn mo mp le\"><\/p>\n<div\nclass=\"mq mr l eb\"><\/p>\n<div\nclass=\"mu mt l\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"\nclass=\"ek n fc dx bg\" title=\"Glenn Greenwald on Twitter: &quot;Do sovereign countries have the right to host foreign militaries on their soil without their neighbors complaining, or do they not?Bolton, always a maniac, suggests this is worse than the Cuban Missile Crisis. Imagine how aroused he got when writing this: https:\/\/t.co\/gfDVCSlZE8 \/ Twitter&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/media.html?type=text%2Fhtml&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;schema=twitter&amp;url=https%3A\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1676980750325825542&amp;image=https%3A\/\/i.embed.ly\/1\/image%3Furl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fabs.twimg.com%252Ferrors%252Flogo46x38.png%26key%3Da19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p\nid=\"51cd\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph ll lm fo ln b lo lp lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi fh bj\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">Arguing that the US is \u201cbound by no commitment limiting our use of force,\u201d Bolton advocates \u201cRevoking diplomatic relations with Cuba; increased economic sanctions against both China and Cuba; and far stricter implementation of existing sanctions\u201d as an immediate response to this reported development, advocating regime change interventionism as an ultimate solution to Cuba\u2019s disobedient behavior.<\/p>\n<p\nid=\"ea7e\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph ll lm fo ln b lo lp lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi fh bj\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">\u201cHad Presidents Eisenhower or Kennedy acted more forcefully and effectively against Castro, we might have avoided many perilous Cold War crises, sparing us decades of strategic concern, not to mention the repression of Cuba\u2019s people,\u201d Bolton writes, adding, \u201cWith Beijing\u2019s threat rising, we should not miss today\u2019s moment without seriously reconsidering how to return this geographically critical island to its own people\u2019s friendlier hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p\nid=\"e9be\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph ll lm fo ln b lo lp lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi fh bj\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">Bolton notes that Guantanamo Bay \u201cremains fully available to us today\u201d for any operations the US should choose to avail itself of to topple Havana.<\/p>\n<p\nid=\"8cdd\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph ll lm fo ln b lo lp lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi fh bj\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">This would be the same John Bolton who in 2002 falsely\u00a0<a\nclass=\"af mj\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/YtvTm\"  rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\">accused Cuba of having a biological weapons program<\/a>\u00a0in a bid to sweep the island up in the same post-9\/11 war push he was helping the US construct against Iraq\u00a0<a\nclass=\"af mj\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/RJSFs\"  rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\">with extreme aggression<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure\nclass=\"ml mm mn mo mp le\"><\/p>\n<div\nclass=\"mq mr l eb\"><\/p>\n<div\nclass=\"mu mt l\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"\nclass=\"ek n fc dx bg\" title=\"Caitlin Johnstone on Twitter: &quot;The Single Dumbest Thing The Empire Asks Us To BelieveThe dumbest thing the US-centralized empire asks us to believe is that the military encirclement of its top two geopolitical rivals is a defensive action, rather than an act of extreme aggression.https:\/\/t.co\/LhZW6sQv9I \/ Twitter&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/media.html?type=text%2Fhtml&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;schema=twitter&amp;url=https%3A\/\/twitter.com\/caitoz\/status\/1653012076703674373&amp;image=https%3A\/\/i.embed.ly\/1\/image%3Furl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fabs.twimg.com%252Ferrors%252Flogo46x38.png%26key%3Da19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p\nid=\"f4c1\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph ll lm fo ln b lo lp lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi fh bj\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">Any time there\u2019s the faintest whisper of a foreign power setting up a military presence in Washington\u2019s neck of the woods, hawks immediately begin pounding the drums of war and exposing the hypocrisy of the US empire\u2019s insistence on its right to form military alliances and amass proxy forces on the doorstep of its geopolitical rivals. Empire apologists always dismiss Russia and China\u2019s claims that US military encroachments on their surroundings are an unacceptable security risk and say that no nation has a right to a \u201csphere of influence\u201d which its enemies are forbidden to enter, yet we can plainly see that the US reserves a right to its own sphere of influence from its own doctrines and behaviors.<\/p>\n<p\nid=\"29d7\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph ll lm fo ln b lo lp lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi fh bj\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">Earlier this year Senator Josh Hawley\u00a0<a\nclass=\"af mj\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WrxAXbWBwS0\"  rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\">ominously asked an audience<\/a>, \u201c<em\nclass=\"mk\">Imagine a world where Chinese warships patrol Hawaiian waters, and Chinese submarines stalk the California coastline. A world where the People\u2019s Liberation Army has military bases in Central and South America. A world where Chinese forces operate freely in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean.<\/em>\u201d Which is\u00a0<a\nclass=\"af mj\" href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/imagine-if-china-did-to-the-us-what\"  rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\"><strong\nclass=\"ln fp\">exactly<\/strong>\u00a0what the US military has been doing to China<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p\nid=\"8292\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph ll lm fo ln b lo lp lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi fh bj\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">The single dumbest thing the US-centralized empire asks us to believe is that the military encirclement of its top two geopolitical rivals is a\u00a0<em\nclass=\"mk\">defensive<\/em>\u00a0action, rather than an act of extreme aggression. The idea that the US militarily encircling Russia and China is an act of defense rather than aggression is so in-your-face transparently idiotic that anyone who thinks critically enough about it will immediately dismiss it for the foam-brained nonsense that it is, yet because of propaganda that is the mainstream narrative in the western world, and millions of people accept it as true.<\/p>\n<figure\nclass=\"ml mm mn mo mp le\"><\/p>\n<div\nclass=\"mq mr l eb\"><\/p>\n<div\nclass=\"acw mt l\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"\nclass=\"ek n fc dx bg\" title=\"Arnaud Bertrand on Twitter: &quot;US presidential candidate Marianne Williamson when asked about reports of China helping train Cuban troops:&quot;Do you know how many military bases we have surrounding China? 313. Americans need to wake up.&quot;I actually didn't know it was SO many. Insane...https:\/\/t.co\/OLt6v34Q4K \/ Twitter&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/media.html?type=text%2Fhtml&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;schema=twitter&amp;url=https%3A\/\/twitter.com\/RnaudBertrand\/status\/1676018705535483906&amp;image=https%3A\/\/i.embed.ly\/1\/image%3Furl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fabs.twimg.com%252Ferrors%252Flogo46x38.png%26key%3Da19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07\" width=\"680\" height=\"761\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p\nid=\"1ea5\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph ll lm fo ln b lo lp lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi fh bj\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">The point of highlighting hypocrisy is not that being a hypocrite is some special crime in and of itself, it\u2019s to show that the hypocrite is lying about their motives and behavior, and to dismantle their arguments defending their positions. If the US would interpret a Chinese military presence in Cuba as an incendiary provocation, then logically the far greater military presence the US has amassed on the borders of Russia and China is a vastly greater provocation by that same reasoning, and the US knows it. There exists no argument to the contrary that doesn\u2019t rely on baseless \u201cwell it\u2019s different when\u00a0<em\nclass=\"mk\">we<\/em>\u00a0do it\u201d assertions.<\/p>\n<p\nid=\"edd7\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph ll lm fo ln b lo lp lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi fh bj\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">Demanding that Russia and China tolerate behavior from the US that the US would never tolerate from Russia or China is just demanding that the world subjugate itself to the US empire. Those who argue that Russia should have tolerated Ukraine being\u00a0<a\nclass=\"af mj\" href=\"https:\/\/jmss.org\/article\/view\/76584\"  rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\">made into a NATO asset<\/a>\u00a0or that China should just accept US military encirclement because something something freedom and democracy are really just saying the US should be allowed to rule every inch of this planet completely uncontested.<\/p>\n<p\nid=\"39eb\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph ll lm fo ln b lo lp lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc md me mf mg mh mi fh bj\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">If what you really want is for the US to dominate every inch of this planet completely uncontested, don\u2019t try and tell me that your actual concern is for the people of Ukraine or Taiwan or anywhere else. Don\u2019t piss on my leg and tell me it\u2019s raining. 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