Biden's Ukraine aid a 'blank check' to China to 'bleed us dry,' expert warns

[beijingwalker]

Biden's Ukraine aid a 'blank check' to China to 'bleed us dry,' expert warns​

By Bailee Hill | Fox News
February 21, 2023 9:00am EST

A global political expert issued a stark warning on President Biden's handling of Ukraine, arguing China sees continued U.S. aid efforts in Europe as a "blank check" for the CCP to continue its path of "unrivaled hegemony."

The American Conservative Senior Editor Dr. Sumantra Maitra joined "Fox & Friends First" Tuesday to discuss how Biden is playing into the hands of the Chinese strategy one day after he announced an additional half-billion dollars to aid Ukraine in its war against Russia.

"They want the U.S. to be bogged down in Europe," Maitra said of China. "Contrary to the conventional wisdom that if the U.S. isn't involved in Ukraine, then rival powers will see it as weakness, the Chinese do a very different calculation. To them, as long as the U.S. is bleeding in Europe by producing and supplying to the point of inflation and insolvency, the U.S. cannot pivot to Asia."

As concerns grow over a potential proxy war with Beijing, Maitra noted that China would be able to "outproduce" the United States in manufacturing capacity given its massive population of more than 1 billion people.

"What we plan to do to Russia and Ukraine, the Chinese plan to do to us in international relations. We call this strategy bloodletting," Maitra said. "If Russia, Europe and [the] U.S. bleeds dry in a regional war of attrition in a region which is at best of a peripheral interest of the direct American homeland, China continues its path of unrivaled hegemony."

"I think it's about time we start to think, not from our point of view of morals of what we are doing is right for Ukraine, but from a point of strategic interest. Look, if we continue to do this in Europe, we are giving China a blank check to kind of bleed us dry."

Biden met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a surprise visit to Kyiv on Monday. He announced the aid package there, which includes shells for howitzers, anti-tank missiles and air surveillance radars.

The president was previously scheduled to arrive in Poland on Monday per his public schedule, but instead took a covert, 10-hour train ride to meet with Zelenskyy.

"Biden has promised that he'd continue to support Ukraine without a strategic outline, a fixed objective, a theory of victory or a fixed end date, and Americans don't really like a strategy without an end game," Maitra said.

"We are now at a precipice where we are risking a nuclear war of sorts or a war of attrition, with China ramping up production supplies in support of Russia," he continued. "Neither are good, and the president doesn't really know how to back out of it."

Maitra's comments came after Secretary of State Antony Blinken noted during his visit to Ankara, Turkey, that there are growing concerns surrounding potential Chinese aid to Russia in the form of "lethal assistance," and that could have a significant impact on U.S.-China relations.

"As President Biden said going back many months, when the aggression first took place, and he spoke to President Xi Jinping, he told him at that point that there would be real consequences in our own relationship were China to provide lethal assistance to Russia in this aggression against Ukraine," he said Monday.

Chinese officials were infuriated after Blinken suggested Beijing would be sending weapons to Russia, but did not deny that they would consider doing so.

And although Beijing reiterated the need for a peaceful settlement to avoid nuclear war, questions loom as a top Chinese diplomat is expected to meet with Russian officials, including potentially Vladimir Putin, this week.

Biden's Ukraine aid a 'blank check' to China to 'bleed us dry,' expert warns

Global political expert Dr. Sumantra Maitra warned Biden is giving China a 'blank check' with aid to Ukraine that will lead to Beijing's 'unrivaled hegemony.'

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[VCheng]

"They want the U.S. to be bogged down in Europe," Maitra said of China. "Contrary to the conventional wisdom that if the U.S. isn't involved in Ukraine, then rival powers will see it as weakness, the Chinese do a very different calculation. To them, as long as the U.S. is bleeding in Europe by producing and supplying to the point of inflation and insolvency, the U.S. cannot pivot to Asia."

It's okay. We will deal Russia first, and then China. China can delay that only for so long.

Or both together, not a problem.

 

[beijingwalker]

Biden giving China a 'blank check' to 'bleed' US dry​

 

[大汉奸柳传志]

Murika looks dried up already

 

[Dalit]

Just a wondeful time to be around. The Americans are caught up in some of the biggest challanges they have ever faced. I don't think the Americans will succeed in facing some of the challanges. That too feels splendid.

 

[rambro]

Usa/nato is just like amber turd
Russia/china is like johnny Depp

 

[beijingwalker]

 

[Azadkashmir]

britain has its own problem, no money for eating restriction on food items yet plenty of money for gay zelenski ukraine.

 

[tower9]

It's okay. We will deal Russia first, and then China. China can delay that only for so long.

Or both together, not a problem.

Average Americans are already struggling to deal with the soaring cost of living.

Now you want to confront not only the world's largest commodity producer but the world's largest manufacturer? What do you think inflation would look like in that situation?

You're such a troll.

 

[BHAN85]

Master says (March 2022): https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/putin-ukraine-world-war-3-risk-by-george-soros-2022-03

And puppets repeat, with some delay, because they are all a bunch of retardeds.

 

[Meengla]

Average Americans are already struggling to deal with the soaring cost of living.

Now you want to confront not only the world's largest commodity producer but the world's largest manufacturer? What do you think inflation would look like in that situation?

You're such a troll.

It will be painful for Americans in the beginning but America is the best country in the world to be totally self-sustaining, globally powerful AND prosperous at the same time.

 

[tower9]

It will be painful for Americans in the beginning but America is the best country in the world to be totally self-sustaining, globally powerful AND prosperous at the same time.

There is no way the US can fight a war with Russia and China and maintain its current status and living standards.

Credit card debt is exploding, savings rate is almost non-existant, the middle class is disappearing and we honestly haven't seen anything yet if there is a war with China. The cost of daily goods will explode through the roof. Not to mention that a major source of demand for the dollar will cease.

Then there is the economic health of the allies which will collapse dramatically.

 

[Meengla]

There is no way the US can fight a war with Russia and China and maintain its current status and living standards.

Credit card debt is exploding, savings rate is almost non-existant, the middle class is disappearing and we honestly haven't seen anything yet if there is a war with China. The cost of daily goods will explode through the roof. Not to mention that a major source of demand for the dollar will cease.

Then there is the economic health of the allies which will collapse dramatically.

As I said, it will be 'painful' but the domestic resources and geographical isolation of America provides a lot of 'cushion' to ride it out and even prosper--better than just about any other country in the world.

You seem to live in America? Then you'd know that America is 'performing' below its potentials but that's due to the oligarchy in Washington. There is no guarantee that Americans won't throw them out of power if there is a lot of economic pain. In my long experience living in America and being part of some Chambers of Commerce (and involved in City govt meetings), I have seen real democracy does work a lot on the lower ladders of power. That can bubble up to Washington in right circumstances.

Anyway, nobody can accurately predict the future. It is my own understanding that America can ride it out more than people give it credit for.

As for the Ukraine-Russia war, I had said that almost a year ago: The two biggest beneficiaries of this war would be China and America. I still hold that opinion.

 

[tower9]

As I said, it will be 'painful' but the domestic resources and geographical isolation of America provides a lot of 'cushion' to ride it out and even prosper--better than just about any other country in the world.

You seem to live in America? Then you'd know that America is 'performing' below its potentials but that's due to the oligarchy in Washington. There is no guarantee that Americans won't throw them out of power if there is a lot of economic pain. In my long experience living in America and being part of some Chambers of Commerce (and involved in City govt meetings), I have seen real democracy does work a lot on the lower ladders of power. That can bubble up to Washington in right circumstances.

Anyway, nobody can accurately predict the future. It is my own understanding that America can ride it out more than people give it credit for.

As for the Ukraine-Russia war, I had said that almost a year ago: The two biggest beneficiaries of this war would be China and America. I still hold that opinion.

Undoubtedly, America's geography has been a blessing. However, there is also a caveat. While its geographic position is a blessing in that the US is basically an impenetrable fortress, it is also a caveat if the economic center of the world shifts back to Eurasia, the US would be disconnected from the global economic center. I think this realization is a driving force behind why the elites of the US are so invested in waging wars throughout the world, to make sure other countries are constantly destabilized to prevent the rise of a rival. However, with China, the capitalist class thought it could keep it under control but it has backfired. So we are dealing with the aftermath of this situation which are rising tensions and the potential of conflict as we speak.

 

[beijingwalker]

U.S. could face possible weapons shortage as it continues to supply military aid to Ukraine, war game shows​

BY DAVID MARTIN
FEBRUARY 23, 2023 / 7:30 PM / CBS NEWS

With the war in Ukraine entering its second year — and the U.S. continuing to provide the embattled country with military aid in the form of rockets, guns and ammunition — the Pentagon is stepping up production of critically-needed supplies.

"For a couple of key items, the stockpile is getting low," retired Marine Col. Mark Cancian, with the Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS), told CBS News.

Cancian said Ukraine's use of artillery shells far outstrips the Pentagon's capacity to make them.

"They're using about as much in a month as we produced in the year," Cancian said.

Precision-fired munitions for the long-range HIMARS system are another need, so Lockheed Martin is gearing up to turn out one new rocket every 10 minutes at its plant in Arkansas.

The U.S. has committed $30 billion in weapons to Ukraine — but just a fraction of the Pentagon's staggering $858 billion defense budget.

"This is darn close to being the biggest defense budget that we have ever had," Loren Thompson of the Lexington Institute, a public policy think tank, told CBS News.

Since World War II, the only time the U.S. has spent more on defense than it is now was at the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And, according to Thompson, nearly one-third of the current defense budget is spent on weapons.

"That is an amount of money that outstrips the entire economy of most European countries," Thompson said.

And with the U.S. struggling to keep Ukraine supplied in its fight against a decrepit Russian military, there is concern about what could happen if the U.S. were to become involved in a conflict with China. CSIS recently conducted a war game that showed that the U.S. would run out of a key weapon — Long Range Anti Ship Missiles (LRASM) — while trying to stop a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.

"The U.S. ran out of these missiles in the first few days of the war," Cancian said of the war game.

Even though it ran out of some missiles, the U.S. was still able to stop the Chinese invasion in the war game. Dozens of ships, hundreds of aircraft and thousands of troops were lost, however, Cancian said.

U.S. could face possible weapons shortage as it continues to supply military aid to Ukraine, war game shows

A recent war game showed that the U.S. would run out of a key weapon while trying to stop a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.

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