ZitatAmerica must face reality and prioritise China over Europe
This does not mean abandoning US allies on the continent but is based on a sober assessment of military capabilities
Elbridge Colby
Colby ist ja jetzt Teil der US-Regierung:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/0…n/pete-hegseth-yemen.html
ZitatA Beleaguered Hegseth Wanders Into His Forever War
ZitatElbridge Colby, the under secretary of defense for policy, delivered a similar sentiment several months earlier. “It’s truly a mark of how off-kilter our foreign policy is that we are now embarking on ongoing military attacks in Yemen — Yemen! — without any real prospect they will be effective,” he wrote in a January 2024 post on X.
Mr. Colby, like others in the administration, has long argued for the United States to turn away from the Middle East and refocus on China and the Asia-Pacific. The irony has probably not escaped him, then, that much of the arsenal amassing around Yemen was pulled from Asia, where in recent years the United States has expanded military bases and relocated weapons for a possible conflict with Beijing. This month Navy Admiral Samuel J. Paparo, who oversees the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, told Congress that an entire U.S. Army Patriot missile defense battalion was recently transferred from Japan and South Korea to the Middle East. It took 73 cargo flights in all, he said.