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Taiwan Issues Rare Confirmation That U.S. Special Operators Are Training On The Island (Updated)

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Taiwan Issues Rare Confirmation That U.S. Special Operators Are Training On The Island (Updated)

U.S. Marine Corps special operators from the Marine Raider Regiment recently began conducting drills on the island, Taiwan’s Naval Command confirmed to Taiwan News on November 9, 2020. While U.S. forces have trained in Taiwan, this fact has generally not been publicized by either American or Taiwanese officials since 1979. That year, the U.S. government officially recognized the Communist regime in Beijing as the sole legitimate authority in China and formally severed diplomatic ties with the Nationalist government in Taipei. At the same time, the United States has reserved the right to continue supporting Taiwan and its military until there is a final settlement over its status vis-a-vis the mainland.

This all suggests that a particular focus is being placed on infiltration and interdiction missions, as well as reconnaissance, reflected also in this latest exercise with the Raiders. In particular, in a conflict scenario, Taiwan is expected to deploy special operations teams to various islands in or near the Taiwan Strait from where they would be able to harass Chinese forces, delaying their advance, or perhaps even launching raids on the mainland. These forces could also act as an early warning force of an impending invasion via the collection of critical intelligence during clandestine amphibious operations.

No War But Class War!

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

No War But Class War!

Trump, like President George W. Bush, received a medical deferment for alleged bone spurs to avoid enlistment in the Vietnam War. This is suffice to say, another example of the rich using their bourgeois entitlement to avoid having to personally participate in the wars they start.

And this is part of the problem with the sanctimonious response to Trump’s admittedly petty remarks. The truth is Trump is only saying out loud what most of the capitalist elite and the bourgeoisie really think about the American war dead. Indeed, they do consider veterans and those killed in the United States’ imperial wars — people drawn primarily from the poor and working class — “losers” and “suckers.” If the elites truly cared at all about the working-class Americans drawn into the military via the largely unacknowledged economic draft the country has maintained for decades, they would not risk their lives in wars for empire and conquest in the first place.

“The master class has always declared the wars. The subject class has always fought the battles,” Eugene V. Debs declared during his famous anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio, on June 18, 1918. “The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose — especially their lives.

Congress Wants the Military to Report Extremism in the Ranks. Here’s Why That Will Be Tough | Military.com

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“It’s hard enough to keep an eye on all these social media sites for terrorism and extremist purposes,” he said. “You are going to keep an eye on what everybody in the military is doing? There is no way you are going to be able to do that.”

It’s also easy, he added, for people to remain anonymous online.

“If you go home and do it and you are careful, and maybe you use [information technology] that hides your IP address and you don’t use your real name — it’s going to be hard to identify people,” Jones said.
— Read on www.military.com/daily-news/2019/09/14/congress-wants-military-report-extremism-ranks-heres-why-will-be-tough.html