The US military is preparing for war on China, and has missile systems in the Philippines aimed at major Chinese cities. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the USA is making "Japan into a war-fighting headquarters". Ben Norton discusses the extremely aggressive policies of Trump, Biden, and beyond.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4f43dPOWgo

Trump's nuclear trade war targets China - but will blow back on USA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9k7132Iyeo

US Defense Secretary Hegseth wants to overthrow China’s government, in ‘crusade’ against left (and Islam): https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/03/07/us-defense-secretary-hegseth-overthrow-china-crusade/

Topics

0:00 USA prepares for war on China

0:54 US missile systems in Philippines

2:01 Cuban missile crisis

2:59 Bipartisan warmongering

3:47 Economic war

4:51 Trump boosts military budget

5:05 (CLIP) Trump: $1 trillion military budget

5:36 Deficit, DOGE, & Elon Musk

6:24 Pete Hegseth: an imperial "crusader"

7:04 (CLIP) Hegseth promises "lethality"

7:18 Hegseth's "American crusade"

8:16 Pentagon memo on war with China

9:01 Heritage Foundation

9:46 Pentagon memo on war with China

11:57 Trump's goal with Ukraine

12:27 (CLIP) Trump: divide Russia & China

12:42 Pentagon dubs China top "threat"

14:37 China's challenge to US hegemony

16:40 Taiwan as US imperial outpost

18:25 US troops & weapons in Taiwan

18:53 US-China three communiqués

20:47 USA backs Taiwan separatism

21:16 (CLIP) Marco Rubio on Taiwan

21:49 Taiwanese authoritarianism

22:56 Polls on Taiwan separatism

24:17 Taiwan's semiconductors

25:47 Hegseth's trip to Japan

27:16 USA promises peace through war

28:03 Trump admin's top 3 military goals

28:18 US aggression

30:31 Hegseth's trip to Philippines

31:26 (CLIP) USA has "real war plans"

32:12 Philippines as US imperial proxy

34:31 Silicon Valley prepares for war

35:11 Billionaire Palmer Luckey

38:54 Pentagon contractor Anduril

39:35 CIA-backed Palantir

40:02 Oligarch Peter Thiel

40:57 Venture capital & military-industrial complex

42:35 USA is an oligarchy

43:45 US war on China

45:02 Outro