This new regime certainly won't make climate concerns any better.

Is it too oversimplistic to surmise that Trump and his cronies think we need to manufacture a war in order to boost the economy as well as return America back to pre-Roosevelt times? (Teddy Roosevelt, that is) Make America a sweatshop nation again

Uh, dude, relax a little. America could beat China quite easily in any ground or naval conflict short of a total invasion (of China), which they could probably still accomplish, but at great cost). Plus, you know, no conflict is purely ground or naval, and America's air power is still pretty overhwelming (just like their naval power).

China knows this as well. They're fine with bullying their neighbors, because America hasn't cared enough to do anything about it. They also know that if they push too hard, they have enough nukes to take out some of their Asian neighbors (poor Japan), but would be utterly annihilated in turn.

The real risk there, of course, would be sparking other "non-involved" nations to launch their stuff too, like everyone's friends from Eastern Europe.

It's pretty concerning, naturally, that China's being governed by a paranoid weak man trying to look strong, and America's...getting Trumped. But it'll be okay.

Or, at least, non-apocalyptic.

Probably.

It's been apocalyptic since Reagan at least, it's just a slow-burn kind of apocalypse. Most of us will probably make it, but the generation being born right now is fucked.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/28/the-world- passes-400ppm-carbon-dioxide-threshold-permanently

I suspect any open conflict with China (which would probably include Russia) would result in large swathes of American infrastructure and interwebs being destroyed by hackers within days.

As much as the US milindustry likes to thump its chest, I doubt too many high ranking people that would actually be at risk of dying on the front lines want to test if said billion dollar boondoggles work as well in real war as they do against target drones, mock attacks and goat herders on mopeds.

Given the trailer, this movie has to be a pro-China puff piece masquerading as an anti-US documentary.

Thatguy is a true patriot who knows who his enemy is!

But seriously, Pilgers reputation is solid. He's been churning out cheapo docs like this for ITV for decades. Hes not very artful or subtle, and can be pretty basic, but hes certainly not anyones mouthpiece other than himself.

http://johnpilger.com/filmography

Eg. one of his last ones includeded a big criticism of the BBC and how their news has lost its journalistic impartiality, for example, they pulled stories on Israel / Palestine due to pressure from Israeli government.

http://johnpilger.com/videos/the-war-you-dont-see

To be fair, that's not new or unusual behavior for the news. Every modern war in the west has been heavily managed in the media with the exception of Vietnam, because that happened at an unusual period where the technology had outpaced warmakers' ability to manage it, but they figured things out by the end of the 70s, and honestly I'm probably overestimating the impartiality of the coverage of Vietnam because I wasn't alive to see that firsthand like everything that followed.


It has gotten progressively worse as the mass media has matured but it's not new.

Oh my god dude are you citing the guys own website as evidence of his credibility?

Don't ever change, my stars that is too perfect

I'll rest my case on the trailer and Purple Cat, who was glad to applaud US civilian losses in the WTC attacks.

I'm sure he thinks that I'm incapable of being critical of the US because lord knows I've never been critical of the US on this very site dozens of times or anything.

China is an innocent nation of peace.