This banner arrived in the mail today from the printing company. The layout design was done by Ellen Davidson and Tarak Kauff from Veterans for Peace. Thanks to both of them for their good help.
The Global Network will carry this with us to Kyoto, Japan from July 29-Aug 2 for our 23rd annual space organizing conference that is being hosted by peace activists from across the Kyoto Prefecture.
The US recently deployed a 'missile defense' radar in Kyoto Prefecture and the Ukawa village has been resisting the deployment for some time. During the conference we will take a side trip to join the villagers in a protest against the radar that is being aimed at China.
The US is now deploying "missile defense' systems throughout the Asia-Pacific on land and on-board Navy Aegis destroyers. These interceptors play an important role in US first-strike attack planning.
They are now deployed in Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Okinawa, Guam, Australia, and the Philippines. Taken together these interceptor systems serve as a loaded gun pointed at the head of China. Beijing has responded by building more nuclear weapons to ensure they have a "survivable retaliatory capability" and have moved many of their more vulnerable land-based nuclear weapons onto submarines so they are harder to hit in a possible Pentagon first-strike attack.
The US Space Command has been annually war gaming such a first-strike attack on China and Russia for many years. In the computer war game the US fires weapons from space and through space in order to take out the "enemy" nuclear forces. Then when China or Russia attempt to fire their remaining retaliatory forces the US 'missile defense' systems are used as a shield against them giving the Pentagon a theoretical successful first-strike.
The US walked away from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty with Russia soon after George W. Bush became president. The ABM Treaty prevented either side from deploying 'missile defense' systems near the other nation which would give one side a strategic advantage.
Since the US withdrew from the ABM Treaty the Pentagon has been encircling both Russia and China with the destabilizing systems.
Why isn't the US reengaging in the ABM? #smh undoing stupid takes so much more effort than just doing things right.
ReplyDeleteU.S. not interested in peace nor stability....wants advantage over Russia and China and this gives them such an advantage....hard for Americans to accept that the U.S. is wearing the black hat.
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