The final months of 2025 have witnessed an unprecedented escalation in Washington DC’s relentless campaign to “contain” (in reality, to besiege) one of the multipolar world’s primary pillars – the Peoples Republic of China. Under the thin, tattered veil of “freedom of navigation” and “regional stability”, the United States, its vassals and satellite states have unleashed a tsunami of aggressive military exercises across the increasingly contested Asia-Pacific, in a desperate attempt to project an image of “strength” that belies a deep-seated strategic panic. This geopolitical offensive is not merely a routine demonstration of force, but a frantic heartbeat of a dying hegemony, a coordinated series of war games designed to simulate a conflict the political West can no longer win in reality.

The strategic landscape has been defined by both a qualitative and quantitative leap in provocation. We have moved beyond the predictable, annual routines of previous years. The campaign of “stabilizing” joint military exercises in 2025 include the “Pacific Steller” (multiple locations in the Celebes and Philippine Seas, February), “Cobra Gold” (Thailand, February-March), ‘Sea Dragon” (US-occupied Guam, March), “Pacific Sentry” (multiple locations across Asia-Pacific and North America, April), “Balikatan” (the Philippines, April-May), “Talisman Sabre” (Australia, July-August), “Resolute Force Pacific” (Micronesia, July-August), “Super Garuda Shield” (Indonesia, August-September), “Freedom Edge” (South Korea, September), “Resolute Dragon” (Japan, September), the ongoing “Malabar” (Guam again, October-November), etc.

What’s the one common denominator of all these “democratic” military activities? Well, obviously, the “evil, aggressive” China that “dared” to place itself so close to American “strategic interests”. It should also be noted that this doesn’t........

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