Donald Trump's closest advisor Steve Bannon thinks there will be war with China in the next few year

[workinclasszero]

Donald Trump's closest advisor Steve Bannon thinks there will be war with China in the next few years
Mr Bannon's comments on his radio show are re-surfacing as the 'special counsellor' assumes unprecedented power in the White House
Andrew Griffin

Donald Trump's closest advisor thinks that the US will be at war with China in the next few years.

The far-right figure, who has been given unprecedented power in the White House and has suggested in the past that he supports white supremacy, suggested that the two countries are headed towards war over the South China Sea.

“We’re going to war in the South China Sea in five to 10 years, aren’t we?” Mr Bannon said on his radio show in March 2016. “There’s no doubt about that. They’re taking their sandbars and making basically stationary aircraft carriers and putting missiles on those. They come here to the United States in front of our face — and you understand how important face is — and say it’s an ancient territorial sea.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-steve-bannon-china-south-sea-war-chinese-us-president-special-counsellor-a7556546.html

[Trust Buster]

1. I think they will go after Iran first. Trump is in hock to China for $650 million.

[mainer]

6. maybe that's the reason for war -- to get out of hock

and destroy his creditor.

[workinclasszero]

28. Putin wants them destroyed or greatly weakened as well

I bet.

[workinclasszero]

7. I thought I read that Russia is friendly with Iran

If so Putin's puppet won't lay a finger on it IMO.

[Trust Buster]

8. Yes, but Tinkle Bell's other puppet master, Netanyahu, tried and failed to have Obama attack Iran.

[Initech]

2. We cannot afford another war, and we cannot allow a Nazi to declare one.

If we do, it's over.

[Ilsa]

3. And we cannot let our children be their cannon fodder. nt

[global1]

4. Well Put My Head Between My Legs And....

kiss my ass good-bye!!!!

[The Blue Flower]

5. Umm, NO

How could President B possibly sell this to the American people?

[halobeam]

10. let's see.. perhaps blame them for some sort of attack

and within an hour, find all their ID's amongst a shit ton of destruction?

That's outrageous I know, yeah... could never happen.

[workinclasszero]

14. See we have been making the same mistake all along

The fascist Trump and his brownshirts have told us all along what they would do in power and everybody denied it.

Surely Trump will pivot after getting the nomination, right? Nope.

Well now that Trump won the Electoral college election, surely he will pivot and start acting like a president of all the people, right?

Nope, its shock and awe against the public, non-stop.

So here Bannon has clearly stated that we will be in a war with China but surely he was just bullshitting right?

Uh...right???

China takes it seriously as they have said. These insane bastards are getting ready to start WW3 with a nuclear armed huge country.

I believe Russia is behind this as well. A war between the USA and China would take both countries out of Putin's way.

Mother Russia would be the last remaining superpower of the entire world in the aftermath of a nuclear exchange between China and the USA.

[Turbineguy]

9. Then obviously,

we need to get rid of these clowns to prevent that war.

[NightWatcher]

11. China can cripple us without firing a shot. These people are nuts.

[wishstar]

12. Putin and US/Exxon won't allow China to achieve access to oil/gas in South China Sea

There will be swift retaliation from US if China persists and becomes more aggressive in staking out claims there.

Trump has already announced he wants billions more for major expansion of US Navy. Massive US Naval presence will ensure our domination of S. China Sea to further the interests of US and Russian oil oligarchs. Keeping China dependent on Russian and US gas and oil and ensuring energy prices don't fall is top priority, regardless of cost to American taxpayers.

[Cha]

13. Catapult his damn ass to China.. he can start his own war if he wants

it so bad

[vlyons]

15. Not if we don't want to have war with China

Population of China 1.4 billion. Population of USA 324 million. The japanese sent 27 divisions into China at the beginning of WWII. Don't these people read history? RW hawks are itching to wage war against Iran, not China.

[workinclasszero]

20. China military official: War with US under Donald Trump 'becoming practical reality'

China military official: War with US under Donald Trump 'becoming practical reality'
Sino-US relations are becoming more tense under America's new administration
Will Worley Saturday 28 January 2017

War with the US under Donald Trump is “not just a slogan” and becoming a “practical reality”, a senior Chinese military official has said.

The remarks were published on the People’s Liberation Army website, apparently in response to the aggressive rhetoric towards China from America's new administration.

They communicated a view from inside the Central Military Commission, which has overall authority of China’s armed forces.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-donald-trump-war-us-military-official-practical-reality-president-latest-a7550601.html

[vlyons]

21. What I meant was that we can avoid war through diplomacy

But that assumes that the Trump admin knows anything about diplomacy, which I doubt. Too many war mongers in control now. If you see a reinstatement of the draft, you'll know that they plan to wage war.

[bdamomma]

23. diplomacy????

they don't know what that word means.

[Blue_true]

35. If we go to war with China, we will need a Draft. nt

[HAB911]

16. check out this interview about Bannon's love of war

[tanyev]

17. And now he can make sure it happens.

[mnhtnbb]

18. In the mid-60's--maybe '63 or '64--two friends and I were playing with a Ouija board

We were middle-school age girls--and we asked it if there would be WW III --got a yes--and then
asked it what country would be involved.

I've never forgotten the answer: China. Honestly. China. It was not even in our experience to think of it. We were all 13 or 14, white,
middle class kids in a northern NJ suburb. China.

I still get chills thinking about it.

[braddy]

19. Adults were sure thinking about war with Communist China in the the 1950s and 1960s.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

22. If Trump declares war on China

or anybody else not actively threatening hostilities against us, he MUST be removed!

[bdamomma]

24. tRump is mentally unfit

so is Bannon.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

25. A war with China can only end with us nuking them or suing for peace.

[workinclasszero]

27. Agreed

And seeing as how Trump has already expressed interest in using nuclear weapons in war...

9 terrifying things Donald Trump has publicly said about nuclear weapons
Trump said he might use nuclear weapons and questioned why we would make them if we wouldn’t use them

https://thinkprogress.org/9-terrifying-things-donald-trump-has-publicly-said-about-nuclear-weapons-99f6290bc32a#.e3aam0ncf

China has a huge friggen army, the only..I repeat...the ONLY way we could fight a force that large and hope to win would be with nuclear weapons.

But we keep making the same mistake over and over again with Trump.

Surely he wouldn't do something as crazy as this..right?

Even though his closest advisor in the white house and now on the NSC in a position usually reserved for Generals in the military, has been and still is, beating the war drums against China.

I'm telling you we are going to go to war against China and it will either start as a nuclear surprise attack against them by Trump/Bannon or it will quickly escalate to that level as we cannot hope to defeat a huge military as China has any other way.

[Blue_true]

37. Us nuking them? You realize that China is

A nuclear power, don't you? They will nuke us back.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

39. They have 275. We have 8,000. A first strike by us would neuter them.

[Blue_true]

38. If China nuke us, I only hope they use wisdom

And aim their nukes at the deepest red parts of America, hopefully, the good people in those regions would have left for safe places.

[thinkingagain]

26. At this rate

We will be at war with everyone it will be
Trumps America "Trumpica" against the world

so sad

[workinclasszero]

29. Trump and Bannon have been following Hitlers path all along

Yet people still don't get it.

They will when it will be way to late to do anything about it.

We are probably well past that point if I'm being honest to myself.

Some people hold out hope that the republican party will come to its senses and stop the monster.

No way that will ever happen. They sold their souls to the devil a long time ago and won't turn back now.

[MarvinGardens]

30. Question for those with military knowledge.

If Trump tried to launch a surprise nuclear attack against another nation, would the military obey?

[braddy]

33. It all depends, but if you mean like on a sudden, out of the blue whim, then no, a president would

be ignored and the system would want to look into what was going on with such an order, and the man or woman giving it.

[workinclasszero]

36. Yes I believe so

[TrekLuver]

31. I just told this to my Trashpot loving co-worker and this would break the camels back...If

Trumpbannon thinks for one moment that this will be popular with the American people....no matter what their political affiliation they are fucking crazy.

Doesn't the Senate have to approve a declaration of war?

[MarvinGardens]

32. Congress has the power to declare war.

Yet presidents have brought us into wars without one. Congress could assert greater power here if they wanted.

[Orsino]

34. Fascists are eager for war, and vor enemies external or internal.

Any excuse to divert scrutiny.