Fake News Stories Never Die, They Just Get More Ridiculous
The latest chapter in the made-up "China planning to invade Taiwan" story
After Russia invaded Ukraine it was easy for government officials and their corporate media stenographers to convince credulous people that all official enemy governments were now likely to invade some official friendly government around the world. The favorite example was probably China invading Taiwan. Of course there was never any proof, and the only incident involving those governments has been the President of the United States explicitly threatening China over Taiwan for no reason. Never mind all that, we’ve got a Frankenstein’s Monster of a story to resuscitate to sell newspapers.
They take a fabricated story to begin with—China planning to invade Taiwan—and then continue to create new fake stories off a fake premise: “China’s afraid to invade Taiwan now because Iranian missiles were largely intercepted by Israeli and western defense systems.” There was no proof that China had any intention of invading Taiwan, and there is no lesson for them in the recent Israel-Iran situation. Iran sending missiles toward Israel that it knows will largely be repelled is not the same thing as China hypothetically invading Taiwan to forcefully reincorporate them. Nor are China and Iran’s military capabilities or standing in the “world-stage” comparable.
War is very profitable for governments, for military contractors, and for the corporate media. All of these entities conspire and work together to endlessly propagandize the public that a war-footing is always necessary for whomever they decide the official enemies are, and rest assured that they will find two new enemies for every one that they fail to convince you needs to be attacked.