Posted on 06/22/2021 3:26:49 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
The US is looking to set up a combat-ready standing force on Australia's doorstep, in an effort to push back against an increasingly belligerent China across the Indo-Pacific.
Ely Ratner, the man nominated by US President Joe Biden's to be the next assistant secretary of defence said establishing a permanent 'combat-credible forward posture' is essential to the US military's ability to deter aggression from authoritarian powers like China.
It is hoped that the standing force, which Australia would likely be asked to join, would protect Taiwan from being seized by force.
He told the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington last week that nations like Australia, who are at the forefront of Beijing's growing aggression, would need to play a pivotal role in the proposed 'standing force'.
'A distributed and resilient forward posture must be combined with new warfighting concepts; modernised, highly capable, and ready forces; and capable allied and partner forces to deter any adversary miscalculation, or to respond if necessary,' Mr Ratner said.
The Pentagon is becoming increasingly alarmed about China annexing the disputed island nation of Taiwan, after the totalitarian power stripped nearby Hong Kong of its independence with a litany of oppressive National Security Laws targeting pro-democracy activists.
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The US is looking to set up a combat-ready standing force on Australia’s doorstep,
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Where exactly is that?
Hmmm.....We know this wasn’t Joe or Bambi’s idea, so who is driving?
If this is biden’s doing it will be a welcoming committee that will hand out free money and voter registrations
US heavy bombers can cover the entire indo-pacific from there.
Taipei is less than 2,700 miles from Darwin.
Round trip on a single tank of gas for every bomber in the US fleet...to everything China cares about.
Taiwan will be a smoldering mess by the time Joe makes a decision.
They should just surrender today. We are not coming to help.
And now we want to wave our communist made America flags and call Biden weak.
All the US flags sold by me are made in the USA. No sign of any made in Red China.
And Taiwan is exactly how far from China? While the Doorstep generals are conducting woke training and drag queen contests, the Chinese will be across the water and exterminating the Taiwanese. Will be too late for the heavy bomber drivers to shed their drag queen costumes to be of much help.
On the doorstep means near Australia, not in Australia.
Happy to hear that. I’ll bet they’re priced competitively too, even with using American workers over communist slave labor.
“While the Doorstep generals are conducting woke training and drag queen contests, the Chinese will be across the water and exterminating the Taiwanese. “
China does not have the ability to take Taiwan, even if the US does not intervene.
Of course I can tell by your tone you are pining for the US military to be defeated.
Ely Ratner’s FIL is a Chinese businessman, in China!
“Jennifer Lu Yang and Ely Stefansky Ratner were married Friday at Superior
Court of the District of Columbia in Washington.
She is the daughter of Venissa Yang of Washington Crossing, Pa., and Michael Yang of Shanghai. The bride’s father is an independent venture capitalist in Shanghai, who helps fund start-up companies in China and elsewhere in”
Disperse the 21 million Taiwan folks around the 3rd world to show how capitalism works. replace them with 20 million of the most violent criminals from around the world’s jails. Give them guns and plenty of food on an ongoing basis. Allow them to declare themselves an independent country. Call it Palestine. Problem solved.
There’s more. Disable airport runways and mine the waters around the entire country. The chicoms would not invade a nation filled with crazy ‘palestinians’.
One Virginia Class Submarine would sink at least 20 ships before they get within 25 miles. Probably one there right now. And that is just the beginning.
One Virginia Class Submarine would sink at least 20 ships before they get within 25 miles. Probably one there right now. And that is just the beginning.
Back to Guadalcanal?
That’s the same question I was asking,probably Wake Island
This reads like something The Donald would have promoted.
Not sure if it is a leftover program from his administration that the Biden Bunch wants to eliminate or sharply modify.
Time will tell.
It seems too “America First!” to come from Biden’s group.
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