“NATO does not have plans against China because China is not seen as a threat bu

–“NATO does not have plans against China because China is not seen as a threat but as a challenge.”– Admiral Rob Bauer, Royal Netherlands Navy

That’s a half truth
NATO has no plans.
The USA has plans.
The USA doesn’t share those plans with NATO.
Because Europe is an unreliable ally in the Pacific.

The purpose of a general staff is to maintain a portfolio of plans for both likely and unlikely scenarios, updated regularly, so that we are ‘ready’ for any given conflict.

The USA strategy as ‘an enormous island’ away from the ‘world island’ of Eurasia, is to use the distance as a barrier, use every possible incentive to prevent war, and to exhaust the opposition in every dimension.

Unfortunately, the USA, in trying to integrate china into the ‘rules based order’ ceded its manufacturing capacity to China. Which china now uses as a proxy for violence just as the USA uses the financial system as a proxy for violence.

So USA is repatriating that manufacturing back to the USA, which in itself will cause economic, political, and military uncertainty in china, and restore american capacity for isolation especially given american energy and resource independence.

The Americans like the european colonial powers, like the romans, and like the greeks, have ‘rediscovered’ that we cannot ‘domesticate’ other civilizations, because they cannot cooperate on equal footing. And if we cannot cooperate on equal footing it is in the interest of less evolved civilizations to conflict.

As such civilizations and the races they serve (civilization = race), cannot comingle politically, only economically by trade, and strategically by alliances.

cc: @TLDRNewsEU