by Sam Faddis at AND Magazine
The Peloponnesian War was the world war of the ancient Greek world. Athens and Sparta were locked in a decades-long struggle for supremacy among the Greek city-states. Athens seemed to be winning. Then at a crucial point in the contest, Athens took its eye off the main enemy and diverted its forces to a ruinous campaign in Sicily. It ended in disaster, and Athens, stripped of men, ships, and equipment ultimately succumbed to Sparta.
Are we repeating the mistake?
China is our principal enemy. Beijing is making increasingly aggressive statements about Taiwan and challenging the United States in the Pacific. We are struggling to reorient our forces and prepare for what may be a true shooting war in Asia in the near future.
And, even as the warning lights are blinking red, and analysts warn we might well lose a conflict with China, Joe Biden and his mandarins remain fixated on a conflict between Ukraine and Russia that should have been headed for the negotiating table long ago. Our money and our resources are flowing to Ukraine at the cost of our own preparedness. Should we do to war tomorrow with Communist China our own forces will find themselves woefully unprepared.
To date, the U.S. military has sent $27 billion worth of equipment and munitions to Ukraine…
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