Neocon central targets China for the next big war

My recent run-in with the Neocons' Neocon Frank Gaffney: they're gunning for China!

Last Sunday, 12 November 2023 I had the (dis)pleasure of participating in a Zoom call with Frank Gaffney, founder and president of the Center for Security Policy. Gaffney has had a long and distinguished career in shaping US foreign policy as one of the founding members of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the Reagan administration working under Richard Perle. He is a columnist for Washington Times and a frequent media guest whose appearances invariably convey passionate advocacy for imperial wars for more than twenty years now. 

Neocons’ Neocon

Gaffney’s warmongering goes back to 2001. It was in fact he and the former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak who led the charge calling for a Global War on Terror, only hours after the September 11, 2001 attacks took place in the US. At that time, one of Gaffney’s fellow Neocons, Jude Wanniski boasted about being part of the “Warrior Class,” associated with Richard Perle. They referred to themselves as Richard’s “String of Perles,” and included, in addition to Gaffney, such luminaries as Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Lewis Libby, Condoleezza Rice, and William Kristol.

Over the years, I have listened to many of Gaffney's interviews and remarked two things about the man: (1) he’s been a consummate islamophobe, tirelessly peddling fear of Islam and the rise of a global Caliphate, which was about to swallow up the free and democratical West unless we urgently came together to wage war on them all, starting with Iran; and (2) he has zero compunction about lying through his teeth to push all of his audience's emotional buttons that he and his fellow think tankers could think of.

It’s hard to know… why not just kill them all, just to be sure? Better safe than sorry!

In addition to drumming up fears about the imminent rise of the global Islamic Caliphate, Gaffney has also been fear mongering about the evil despotism of Russia. Back in 2013, before President Barack Obama knew where exactly Ukraine was on the world map, Gaffney led the charge lambasting his administration over their lukewarm support for Ukrainian democracy. In fact, it was Gaffney and his merry band of Neocons who played the key role in shaping Obama administration’s policy of escalation in Ukraine and orchestrating the Euromaidan coup in Kiev in February of 2014.

Incidentally, this is especially worrisome with regards to the hostilities in Israel. Namely, Gaffney had predicted that US defense of Israel against an alliance of Muslim powers would trigger World War III which would not be confined to the Middle East and which could involve the use of nuclear weapons (see: Gaffney: Rise of Sharia Rule Will Bring War to the Middle East, NewsMax, October 24, 2011).

Gaffney’s ultimate call to action

I was a bit surprised to find that Gaffney had meanwhile transitioned to demonizing China. The presentation was his usual: he used every talking point to inspire fear of the evil "CCP" which is apparently planning to depopulate much of the western world, colonize it and enslave the surviving populations (not an exaggeration). Gaffney concluded his presentation with a slide titled, "The Ultimate Call to Action," which read, word-for-word, as follows:

“PRAY: we are in the throes of a Spiritual War against the greatest evil in human history, the Chinese Communist Party - and face the distinct possibility of a shooting war, as well, with seriously deficient leadership, both civilian and military. With God's grace, our victory is assured. Without it, we are probably doomed. So, seek His help as if your life depends upon it, as it surely does.”

Even knowing Gaffney's work, I found myself a bit shocked: I thought that the global Caliphate was the greatest evil in human history. I was willing to entertain that perhaps Russia was still greater evil than that, but now I was confused about whom I should fear the most. Gaffney did his best to pretend that he was a God-fearing American patriot, but when I challenged him about some of the patently false claims and gross omissions, he insinuated that I was a communist sympathizer.

Gaffney’s presentation slide (the highlights are his too)

How many wars did China start?

I mentioned that since 1946 one nation initiated more than 80% of all wars in the world - more than 200 of them - and I asked him how many wars did China initiate? The correct answer is zero, but he could come up with three: Korea, Vietnam and Laos. Err, yes, China participated in those but who initiated them? He also spoke about 100 million Chinese killed during Mao's Cultural Revolution, but he didn’t mention that Mao was recruited and brought to power with the help of the Yale University's network in China and that he worked in collusion with Western banking interests in a similar way that the Bolsheviks in Russia/Soviet Union did (the Bolsheviks also killed between 30 and 60 million Russians in the process).

Gaffney also forgot to mention that in more recent times the Chinese leadership turned what was the world's poorest nation in the 1960s to one of the world's leading economic powers and lifted 850 million Chinese out of poverty. According to Gaffney, they were able to do this only because "we" gave them the money - $3 or $4 trillion. I further told him that the "Tienanmen square massacre," which he brought up in his presentation, never happened and that he couldn't possibly not know that, but he simply ignored that comment.

World Health Organization’s overreach: it’s all China again…

Gaffney also talked about the World Health Organization (WHO) and their plan for a global takeover as though the whole thing was a Chinese Communist Party plot. Of course it must be, all you have to do is follow the money: China provides a whopping 0.69% of WHO’s budget, dwarfing western sources. Here’s the figures from just before the pandemic:

China’s cut was just south of $30 million, so clearly, the CCP must be running that whole show. Incidentally, among the private, voluntary contributions to the WHO, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation accounts for over 88% of the total donations. Other contributors include the Bloomberg Family Foundation (3.5%), the Wellcome Trust (1.1%) and the Rockefeller Foundation (0.8%). They must all be obedient, secret CCP members.

I would challenge you to watch the following 23-min. presentation by Dr. David Martin and try to use your imagination to work out how the “CCP” would have been shaping the evil agenda for so many decades (link to the tweet is below the image):

https://twitter.com/iluminatibot/status/1724149613035426241

Gaffney went on to wax lyrical about our freedoms, democracy, rule of law, human rights, prosperity, faith in God and so on. When I asked him if he'd seen the state of US cities like Portland, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Oakland or Baltimore and how they compare to the state of China's cities and asked him where he’d feel safer raising children, he called me a Marxist. Why argue with a challenge when you can simply dismiss it with some derogatory label to anyone who disagrees with you?

The myth of Chinese social credit system

One of the greatest fear inducers among freedom-loving westerners must be the idea of the social credit system. Most western media pundits invariably precede every mention of the social credit system with the qualifier, “Chinese-style…” But once more, what we have here is more scare mongering. Here's how Arnaud Bertrand, a Frenchman who actually lives in China, commented on this:

"The Chinese social credit system is easily one of the most egregious disinformation narratives peddled on China by western media. Even myself I couldn't believe the extent to which they totally invented a system that had no basis in reality."

Geopolitical blogger Brian Berletic (whose commentary is invariably excellent and well researched) provided a more in-depth contrast between the Chinese realities and western fear mongering in this 26-minute video report: China's "Social Credit Score System" - Fact or Fiction? (Spoiler alert: it’s fiction).

Beware the lying war pigs

In 2017 I published the book "Grand Deception," with the intent of unmasking the groups and networks in the west that are responsible for the state of permanent warfare by relentlessly pushing us into one war after another. Here's a (abridged) passage from the book:

“Mark Twain warned us long ago how the war psychology can creep into people’s hearts and his words are worth pondering in full: “The loud little handful--as usual--will shout for the war. The pulpit will--warily and cautiously--object--at first; the great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war, and will say, earnestly and indignantly, 'It is unjust and dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it.' Then the handful will shout louder. ... Before long you will see this curious thing: the speakers stoned from the platform, and free speech strangled by hordes of furious men who in their secret hearts are still at one with those stoned speakers--as earlier--but do not dare say so. And now the whole nation--pulpit and all--will take up the war-cry.... Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.”

For more than 20 years now, Fank Gaffney has been at the cutting edge of the loud little handful contriving and promoting war narratives. During our Zoom call it was clear that he was successful in inspiring fear of China in some participants who thanked him profusely… "for all you do." Our call concluded with a prayer since apparently, "with God's grace, our victory is assured." 

Fire in a madhouse

Terrence McKenna predicted 25 years ago that in the west, we would reach the "fire in a madhouse" stage of hysteria. When intelligent and otherwise well intentioned people thank Frank Gaffney for all he does, I think we have already arrived there. I was nevertheless encouraged by the fact that I wasn't the only one calling out Gaffney: in fact, I would say about a half of all participants on the call weren’t buying his “red scare”. This is a very important antidote to the process Twain described above. Thanks to the internet and its long memory, many people today see through the deception and propaganda and the war drives aren't succeeding as they did 100 and 75 years ago. That is massively encouraging.

It’s not really about China

Should we be totally relaxed about China? As with any power, our level of caution should be reasonable and rational rather than paranoid and irrational. Nothing about China’s foreign policy suggests that they are planning to depopulate and enslave western peoples. Nothing about China’s history suggests that they have imperial ambitions to subjugate, colonize and plunder the world. So let’s not be paranoid and let us not be fearful. Fear robs the mind of reason and distorts judgment. It can also cause us to see monsters where there aren’t any and react aggressively to our own ultimate detriment.

It is important to realize that the primary target of perpetual warfare would not really be China. It would be the American and European populations. A new world war would deflect people's attention from the metastasizing crises at home, direct their anger at a foreign enemy, and for the same high price also provide the government with an ideal smokescreen for a radical crackdown on dissent against all opposition.

James Madison rightly warned us that, "If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." Well, the United States has been fighting foreign enemies pretty much non-stop since the end of World War 2 and throughout, the civil rights and liberties at home have been steadily rolled back.

Unless we like the prospect of our children knowing even fewer freedoms, we should reject the lies and the fear and try instead to identify the real enemy with better discernment. “Truth eludes us,” spoke Solzhenytzin, “if we do not concentrate our attention totally in its pursuit.”

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