ANALYSIS – A sobering new 145-page report from the bipartisan Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture warns that China and Russia together pose an “existential challenge” to the United States.
The report adds that without immediate action, the U.S. will be “ill-prepared” to defeat the rising double nuclear threat and calls for a dramatic overhaul of America's nuclear arsenal and strategic posture.
I have also written about this before.
In addition to speeding up our nuclear weapons modernization program, the report calls for increasing weapons production, including B-21 stealth bombers and intercontinental missiles and expanding the country's nuclear weapons industrial base to upgrade 1940s-era Manhattan Project facilities.
“While it requires significant investment to maintain a strategic posture sufficient to prevent war with a major power, it will be far more expensive, in lives and resources, to fight such a war,” the report says.
This is one of the best and most accurate strategic reports of this type that I have seen in a long time.
Its conclusions don't make Joe Biden's national security policies look very good, but to me, the fact that it was produced by a bipartisan commission of six Democrats and six Republican nuclear experts makes it virtually unassailable.
Apparently, the Chinese Communists Chicoms weren't too happy about the report either, warning the U.S., according to Newsweek, that “those who play with fire will perish by it,” adding: “This is something that is worth Washington's careful consideration.”
Voicing the regime's views in the Global Times, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the unnamed author wrote: “The idea of ‘preparing for possible simultaneous wars with Russia and China,' once a fringe fantasy, has gradually made its way into Washington's agenda, which is deeply unsettling.”
The Chicom mouthpiece added: “If Washington were to adopt even a small portion of the recommendations in this report, the harm and threats it could pose to world peace would be immeasurable and would ultimately backfire on the US itself.”
The CCP article condemned the U.S. report as reckless for “promoting a nuclear arms race under the banner of ‘deterrence,'” describing this as “a disastrous step backward in history.”
However, the U.S. report describes Russian and Chinese actions as “militarily troubling and increasingly aggressive,” which has increased “the risk of conflict with two nuclear peers.”
As I have written about repeatedly, the report also notes that at its current rate of nuclear expansion, China is expected to reach nuclear parity with the U.S. by the mid-2030s, if not sooner. Meanwhile, Russia will continue to own the world's largest nuclear weapons stockpile.
Team Biden, though, as with almost everything else, downplays the danger. As Time reports, it “has sought to tamp down on fears of facing two major nuclear adversaries.”
Biden's National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said in June, unconvincingly in my book: “The United States does not need to increase our nuclear forces to outnumber the combined total of our competitors in order to successfully deter them.”
Time added more on Biden's perceived weakness on this critical issue, quoting an anonymous Republican staffer: “The Administration's stated and preferred policies really have not measured up to the really dangerous times that we're living in.”
That's one way of putting it. Another might be that Biden's profound national security weakness is endangering our nation's very survival.
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.
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