{"id":42918,"date":"2023-06-16T06:45:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T14:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=42918"},"modified":"2023-06-16T06:45:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T14:45:30","slug":"conflicts-of-interest-us-navy-preparing-for-war-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/16\/conflicts-of-interest-us-navy-preparing-for-war-with-china\/","title":{"rendered":"<I>Conflicts of Interest<\/I>: US Navy Preparing for War with China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On COI #432, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman cover the Empire\u2019s latest escalations against Russia, China, and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle breaks down the \u201cpowerful offer\u201d Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he received from European countries set to arm Kiev with F-16 fighter bombers, a former secretary-general of NATO saying some eastern European countries may send troops to fight in Ukraine, NATO preparing its largest air deployment exercise in its history simulating an attack on Russia, Secretary of State Antony Blinken\u2019s speech at AIPAC, Blinken\u2019s upcoming visit to China, Congressional hawks looking for additional supplemental spending on the military build-up against Beijing, as well as the US accusing the Chinese of \u2018aggressiveness\u2019 in the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Connor details a top US admiral \u2013 the head of INDOPACOM \u2013 saying he\u2019s been tasked by the president and the Pentagon chief to win direct a war with China over Taiwan, Israel\u2019s major military exercises eyeing a multi-front war with Iran, the head of CENTCOM participating in the Israeli war drills, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s slamming of the IAEA and threats of war against Tehran, Blinken\u2019s meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the top US diplomat\u2019s speech at the GCC ministerial meeting where he called for an expansion of the Abraham Accords, and Iran reopening its embassy in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCXsiX0NOIXbKLd8kNPbKjjQ\">YouTube<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/libertarianinstitute.org\/kyle\/coi-432-us-navy-preparing-for-war-with-china\/\">audio-only<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-5Lm1AF1REw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On COI #432, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman cover the Empire\u2019s latest escalations against Russia, China, and Iran. Kyle breaks down the \u201cpowerful offer\u201d Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he received from European countries set to arm Kiev with F-16 fighter bombers, a former secretary-general of NATO saying some eastern European countries may send troops [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-42918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42919,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42918\/revisions\/42919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42918"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=42918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}