"Pacific NATO": the United States took the first step towards war with China

Our already not too safe world was "blessed" with the creation of a new military-political bloc - AUUKUS. And even though its "founding fathers" - the heads of government of Great Britain and Australia in company with the President of the United States, try to use "innocent" euphemisms, calling their own brainchild a "security partnership", the essence of the new education and its programmatic goals are quite obvious. The unofficial definition of "Pacific NATO", which has already sounded in many world media outlets, fits them perfectly.

Before us is a military alliance, at an accelerated pace, put together by Washington to confront its main irreconcilable enemy today - China. This is well understood by both all its participants and those against whom they are going to "be friends." Let's try to understand in more detail the possible consequences that this step, aimed at further escalating tension and confrontation, may have not only for the Asia-Pacific region, but for the whole world as a whole.

An attempt to bring back the era of Anglo-Saxon domination

In this case, a very characteristic feature of the new structure, the birth of which was announced with great fanfare by Joe Biden, is that only the states of the so-called "Anglo-Saxon world" have become its members. No French, Germans and "other Swedes"! And, even more so, no Asians. What should they do here, sir - in the company of the most highly civilized gentlemen on the planet, who for centuries have proudly "borne the burden of a white man" ?! At first glance, such a turn looks rather strange after the desperate diplomatic efforts that the United States has been making in Southeast Asia almost from the very moment when Biden stepped onto the threshold of the White House in the status of its master. Let us recall that almost all the persons of the "first magnitude" of the new American administration have recently made long voyages in this region - US Vice President Kamala Harris, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and his deputy Wendy Sherman, head of the Pentagon Lloyd Austin, as well as wrote at one time in the editorials of the newspaper "Pravda", "other officials."

The activity of this massive "landing", contrary to custom, was not limited to the "hilling" of such traditional allies of Washington as Japan or South Korea. Vietnam, Singapore, Laos, Thailand - attempts to find "like-minded people" and future companions were made extremely intensive and in the widest "field". It is quite possible, and even, most likely, some fruits of this vigorous activity have borne. However, obviously not the ones that the US counted on. There is nothing to be surprised at: after all, the leitmotif of all the numerous negotiations that were conducted, for the most part, behind tightly closed doors, was the upcoming confrontation with the most significant power in Southeast Asia - China, whose rise and strengthening overseas intend to stop literally at any cost.

Among the rest of the countries in the region, there are hardly those who, being of sound mind and firm memory, would agree to get involved in a quarrel with Beijing on the side of the Americans. What the heck?! The Celestial Empire, objectively speaking, is a giant who will crush the "small-caliber" opponents who have turned up under their feet and will not notice. Moreover, it does not necessarily have to be concretely by military force. The Chinese comrades have learned remarkably to defend their interests extremely toughly without firing a single shot, and who doesn’t know this, like their closest neighbors. At the same time, practically every country that Washington is trying to put into an anti-Chinese "system" has fully learned the "charms" of American "friendship" - with military occupation, napalm and bombing, up to nuclear. There is no doubt that the recent events in Afghanistan, which only the lazy did not dubbed "the second Vietnam", had a very considerable influence on the restrained position of Tokyo and Seoul (not to mention Hanoi).

At the same time, the PLA is far from the Taliban and to stay with her face to face while the "allies" who have made a mess will hastily skedaddle on the surviving aircraft carriers ... anywhere in the world. However, there were. Australia, which has never really fought with anyone, expressed its full readiness to become a springboard and stronghold for a future conflict with China. Given that the other two members of the tripartite alliance are the United States and Britain, there is every reason to consider AUUKUS a "closed military club for gentlemen," determined to revive the long-gone era of their global domination. It is clear that such plans cannot lead to anything good a priori.

A union that began with a scandal

As it was announced during the videoconference with the participation of US President Joe Biden, as well as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison, dedicated to the creation of AUUKUS, this alliance aims to "establish an order based on international rules in the Asia-Pacific region." ... As the head of the White House specified, its participants "will carry out a prompt response to the development of the strategic situation in the region in order to ensure its freedom and openness." Tellingly, none of the leaders even mentioned China in a half-word in their speeches, however, there can be not the slightest doubt about whom exactly London, Washington and Canberra intend to “write the rules” for and whose actions they “react” to. ... "Response means", I must say, are very specific. Mr. Morrison, apparently relaxed in the company of his "senior comrades", was more than frank about this.

If the American side tried to get away with rather general phrases about the "exchange of strategic information", as well as "providing the allies with critical of technologies, including in the field of cybernetics, as well as artificial intelligence ”, the Australian Prime Minister, in joy, gave everything as if in spirit. It turns out that after joining the bloc, his country expects to receive technologies and weapons capable of "providing it with an unprecedented military potential." I must say that Morrison has grounds for such loud words - after all, we are talking about creating an entire fleet of nuclear submarines for Canberra and transferring “various types of missiles” to it, including cruise Tomahawk for equipping the naval forces. This militarization of Australia, indeed, will fundamentally change the strategic "alignment" in the region.

Incidentally, an incredibly loud scandal is associated with the future Australian submarine fleet, which instantly marked the "birth" of AUUKUS. The thing is that, according to intergovernmental agreements reached back in 2016, the French defense corporation Naval Group was supposed to be involved in its creation, to which the Australians were going to pay, according to various estimates, from $ 30 to $ 50 billion for 12 submarines (not nuclear, but ordinary). Now there will be only 8 of them, but with nuclear reactors, and they will be laid down at a shipyard in Adelaide, Australia. The construction of these ships, of course, will be the Americans, who will get a very impressive amount, which has now grown to at least $ 66 billion.

To say that in Paris, having learned about all this, they flew into a rage is to say nothing. Indeed, literally two weeks ago, the heads of the defense and diplomatic departments of Australia officially confirmed their intention to purchase exactly French submarines! The head of the country's diplomatic department, Jean-Yves le Drian, casting aside etiquette, unleashed thunder and lightning on the heads of the treacherous "partners", declaring that their decision was "unpredictable, cruel and one-sided." Regarding Washington, the head of French diplomacy spoke out no less harshly, saying that the current head of the White House "is doing in the best traditions of Trump, stabbing his own allies with a knife in the back." There is no doubt that this incident will greatly contribute to the strengthening of the positions of those politicians Of the Old World, which today insist that relying on the United States to ensure the security of Europe is by no means possible, but instead it is worth developing its own defense projects that are separate from them.

Quite expectedly, the creation of AUUKUS and, in particular, the specific details of the conclusion of this pact, related to equipping Australia with nuclear submarines, caused the most negative reaction from China. Beijing has already announced that the emergence of this military bloc will only aggravate the situation in the region, as well as a new round of confrontation and the arms race. The actions of the United States were described there as a direct and unequivocal violation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Scott Morrison's fervent assurances that "Australia is by no means striving for possession of atomic weapons" cannot deceive even the most naive, let alone those who do not believe a single word from the West, Chinese comrades. The same Tomahawk cruise missiles that this politician raves about are quite capable of carrying a nuclear charge. And, by the way, the head of the Pentagon Lloyd Austin has already announced that "a major agreement has been reached with Canberra on a significant expansion of the US military presence in the country." After that, who will prevent the Americans from bringing to Australia, including atomic ammunition, which "at the right time" will be on the ships of the local navy?

Ultimately, the picture is the most unpleasant. Judging by all these military preparations, and even going on, as they say, "fire rates", the United States and Great Britain are indeed leading the case towards an armed confrontation with China - fortunately, the "unsinkable aircraft carrier" and a considerable source of "cannon fodder" for it have already been found by them ... In no case will Russia be able to stay away from a military conflict of such magnitude, and even taking place in the very immediate vicinity of its borders. It is clear that at a certain stage the Americans and their allies are likely to demand from her at least neutrality. However, this is clearly not the path that our country should follow. Rather, it needs to make every effort to prevent the outbreak of war, which will inevitably develop into the Third World War. Including - and through the conclusion of a direct military alliance with Beijing. The very possibility of such a step arouses panic among the US military and politicians, and its implementation will completely cool their "hot heads".