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The contradictions between Texas and the U.S. federal ** have reached the point where there is no way to reconcile themTexas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick said in an interview that we are serious about protecting our borders, and said that we will continue to build barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The standoff between the Texas National Guard and the U.S. federal army has not yet easedAs many as 25 states have publicly voiced their support for Texas' actionsAmerican backyard**, the more it burns, the bigger it gets.
Has the United States really entered a period of concentrated outbreak of internal and external contradictions, and is in a difficult situation at home and abroad?
Domestic contradictions have been going on for a long time
The U.S. Supreme Court forced a ruling to allow Texas to remove all border barbed wire, which appears to be a battle for border jurisdictionIn fact, the political differences between the Democrats and Republicans cannot be reasonably resolved. Partisanship has become a chronic disease in the United States.
The Republican-run state of Texas wants to have greater power over border control, while the Democratic forces behind Biden ostensibly do not allow Texas to challenge the authority of the U.S. federal governmentIn essence, it is a conflict of interests between the Democratic Party and the Republican PartyIt's a question of whether the federation has said it or not.
In order to run for the next term, the former Trump of the United States is also using the Texas border issue to put pressure on Biden, who is busy and may lose the next election if he is not careful.
The federal system and factional system in the United States seem to have achieved the separation of powers, but it is very easy to let the conflict of interests between parties override the overall interests of the countryIt is to cash out for one's own partisan interests in the name of federal lawFor the American elite, who are keen on the supremacy of the law, this set is already very familiar.
The United States is a diversified country with different interest groups, such as the military-industrial complex, the industrial and commercial interest groups, and the large corporate interest groups, all of which have their own interests and demands. Democrats and Republicans have become defenders of their interests, unable to agree on most issuesIt makes it difficult for the United States to concentrate its national will, and it also consumes a lot of state-owned assets in vain.
In addition, the power of the local ** in the United States is too great, and a large number of National Guards are retained, although they do not bear the name of the army, but the equipment level of the National Guard cannot be underestimated at all, and it is not inferior to the regular army of the US army.
This allows their interests to be protected by their respective armed forcesThis is a headache for the United States, and the Texas incident is a concentrated outbreak of contradictions.
If Texas wins in this incident, it must be the price that the United States federal ** must make concessions, and if it is not careful, the Republican-run states will continue to escalate their pressure measures, which will lay a mine for the future handling of contradictionsNo one can guarantee what will happen next time.
Such unoptimistic expectations will seriously overdraft the future of the United States, and it will be more terrible than an armed confrontation, and the chain reaction of dominoes will make the United States unbearable at all.
The United States is in a difficult situation at home and abroad
At a time when the domestic problems of the United States are concentrated and erupting, the real trouble of the United States is not only that, and the arrogance and hegemony of the chosen son not only make the United States lose the support of the people, but also cause the United States to suffer a heavy blow to its national strengthThe war in Afghanistan alone has cost the United States hundreds of billions of dollarsIt also lost a valuable opportunity for global strategic layout.
There is now a consensus in the United States that China is the number one adversary of the United States, and China's rapid economic development has brought about a greater increase in comprehensive national power than the United States expected, and as a result, it has brought about a simultaneous increase in military strength and political influence.
In terms of military strength alone, over the past 20 years,The People's Liberation Army (PLA) has basically realized the mechanization of the whole army, and has made significant progress in informatization and modernizationMost of the PLA's 2 million navy, air force, army and rocket forces have completed the rearmament, and they are generally equipped with third-generation and first-class equipment.
For a long time, the US military blocked the squadron through the first and second island chains, and closed the land and sea passages of the squadron to other geographical plates, and now, the first and second island chains are leaking everywhere, full of loopholes, and the US military no longer has the ability to block the squadron.
In the face of the strong counterattack of the Russian army, round after round of aid to Ukraine has almost emptied the United States, and it has to allocate part of the emergency supplies to Ukraine to support Israel.
In the face of the Houthis, which are not a formidable opponent, the US military cannot stop the Houthis from attacking Western cargo ships and blocking the strategic passage of the Red Sea, exposing the nature of the US military as a foreign power and a middle-class cadre in front of the worldThe U.S. military can only barely maintain the security of strategic passages with limited tactical strikes and escorts.
Twenty-one Western ships have now been hit by Houthi fire, and that number continues to rise.
In the past, the U.S. military would have launched a military operation against the Houthis in Yemen with a powerful task force and used the shortest possible time to restore unimpeded access to the Red Sea.
The United States understands very well from top to bottom that as long as a wrong war is waged,It is possible to end the future and national fortunes of the United States, and once it makes a strategic mistake, the United States will fall off the altar.
At present, the problem of Texas is far from over, and the United States must think about how to solve this crisis in the shortest possible time, and must also learn how to deal with other countries, including China, otherwise, it will only decline faster and faster, and we will wait and see. Project Sword
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