US has no reason for war with Russia, China: Analyst
The United States has no reason to go into war with Russia or China, says an American analyst, expressing concern about reports that explore different war scenarios.
James Jatras, a former Senate foreign policy adviser in Washington, made the remarks after US think tank RAND Corporation warned about the US military’s insufficient training and readiness.
In its latest report, titled "US Military Capabilities and Forces for a Dangerous World,” the California-based think tank warned that the American military was standing little chance to win a possible conflict with Russia in Europe or with China over Taiwan.
Thanks to their major technology advancements over the past years, Russia and China have now reached a level that they can top the US in certain areas of military prowess, the 190-page document’s authors said, warning that limited budget and a lack of enough forces to support the “ambitious” US military plan were hindering American forces.
“It is very disturbing to think that some of the analyses we are getting here in the United States are over the question of how to prevail in a war with either Russia or China, when it is clear that the number one goal should be to avoid either one of those conflicts,” Jatras told press TV on Sunday.
Despite spending billions on sending troops and equipment to Russia’s borders in the Baltic region, the NATO military alliance could not withstand a “determined, short-warning Russian attack” either, the RAND report concluded.
Jatras noted that in case the US enters war with China or Russia a nuclear annihilation would be inevitable.
“There is no way we could have, for example, a war with Russia that would not end up being a nuclear war with the massive nuclear arsenal that both Russia and the United States have that were inherited from the first Cold War,” he argued.
The analyst said Washington had no reason to be anticipating a military conflict with Beijing either, noting the US had no interests that were worth the risk of war with China.
“So the fact that our military structures are not suitable for such a war begs the question of what are the political and strategic goals that are worth risking such conflicts,” Jatras concluded.
The China war scenarios laid out in the report focused specifically on a conflict over Taiwan and a possible attempt by Beijing to retake the breakaway island republic.
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