According to Lianhe Zaobao, the United States claimed on January 22 that Israel made the latest proposal to Hamas through Qatar and Egypt. The content is simple, proposing a two-month ceasefire between the two sides in exchange for the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in the 1007 Asak flood operation. Hamas rejected the offer.
Subsequently, Israel added additional conditions to the release of Palestinian personnel detained by the Israeli side. Hamas still refuses. Hamas's condition is that Israeli troops must fully withdraw from Gaza and cease fire, otherwise there will be no talks. In Hamas's eyes, the two-month ceasefire between Israeli forces is nothing more than a trick.
From a political point of view, Israel is in such a hurry to return the hostages, and it is the domestic hostages' families who have hindered Netanyahu**. Hamas's refusal to release hostages is more likely to exert sustained pressure on Israel**. Moreover, the Israeli army can only cease fighting for two months, and after that? Two months later, the tanks were repaired, the troops were rested, and the wounded were recuperated.
Obviously, it is the Israeli military that wants peace talks now. The Israeli army has even offered to allow Hamas leader Sinwar to go on an overseas expedition. It's kind of funny, you defeat Hamas first and then put forward conditions. also let people go abroad, I think it is the army that wants to go abroad.
Indeed, the Israeli army has indeed made another big news that can be called foreign-looking. According to Reuters on January 23, Israeli troops were reimbursed 24 Israeli troops at a time in Khan Younis, south Gaza, on January 22. From Hamas's point of view, the course of events is simple.
At around 11 p.m. that day, three Israeli soldiers were leaning against a seven-story residential building. There was an Israeli tank next to it. Two Hamas took the opportunity to fire two Yassin 105-mm rockets from close range. One killed 2 tank crews, and the other hit 3 soldiers leaning against the wall. As a result, the building suddenly erupted violently**. On the same day, the Israeli army released news that a total of 24 soldiers had died in a residential house in southern Gaza. What's going on?
It turned out that there were 13 Israeli soldiers in the seven-story residential building who were busy putting explosives and preparing to blast and demolish the building. The rockets that hit 3 people leaning against the wall just triggered the nearby explosive packs, causing a series of violent **, the building was blown up, and all Israeli soldiers in the house died. Together with the three others who were killed, a total of 24 Israeli soldiers lined up to see Jehovah on the same day.
Yes, the Israeli army fought very hard. Comparatively, however, it is the United States that is more difficult than Israel. The United States now has a kind of embarrassment that it is difficult to ride a tiger.
From the perspective of civilization, there are three major civilization zones in the world. White Anglo-Saxon civilization, Islamic civilization in the Middle East, Chinese civilization in the East. The Anglo-Saxon civilization represented by the United States relies on Israel, which has been installed, to constantly create contradictions, divide Middle Eastern countries, and control Islamic civilization. Therefore, in the face of Israel's anxious state, the United States must save it.
The United States has deterred the Houthis in the Red Sea, carried out terrorist attacks in Iran, and attacked Iranian military bases in Syria, but all of them have not worked well. The biggest headache for the United States is that these military operations in the Middle East waste too many resources of the United States, and the East is the serious threat to the US military.
In Europe, the United States has a series of brothers from Britain, Poland, France, and Germany firmly controlling the whole of Europe. Ukraine can also be its own scapegoat. In the Middle East, the entire Islamic world, which the United States can stir up with Israel, is turned upside down. Hamas in Gaza, Allah in Lebanon, the Syrian army, Shiite militias in Iraq, and the Houthis in Yemen are the epicenters of these problems. And behind all this, is the United States.
However, in Southeast Asia, the words of the United States are not good. The United States has only one disobedient island in the southeast, and a Philippines that Americans dislike. After all, the 1998 Southeast Asian financial crisis, the United States seized the opportunity to loot, and the whole of Asia has a painful memory. More recently, in 2016, the United States held an arbitration in the South China Sea, but the result was also unsuccessful. Now, Southeast Asian countries can maintain their concentration and not be led by the nose.
Faced with a sense of powerlessness in East Asia, the United States has adjusted its strategy, refocused its focus on East Asia, and continued to maintain strategic deterrence in the Middle East through air strikes and terrorist attacks.
According to the U.S. Naval Association**, the USS Roosevelt left the North Island Naval Air Force Base in San Diego, California, before heading for the western Pacific. The USS Carl Vinson, the US Navy's aircraft carrier Carl Vinson, which was on a mission in the Middle East last year, is also currently being transferred to the Asia-Pacific region. The USS Washington will fill the vacancy of the upcoming USS Reagan.
Among the three US aircraft carrier battle groups in the Asia-Pacific region, the USS Lake Erie missile cruiser and the USS Halsey, USS McCain, and USS Inoue missile destroyers can carry a large number of anti-ship missiles and cruise missiles, and their combat performance is very strong.
The United States used three aircraft carrier battle groups to surround us, which completely exceeded the expectations of the outside world. From January 15 to 17, during the critical period of the Middle East melee, the United States still led nine ships into the East China Sea, and held joint military exercises in the East China Sea with Japan and South Korea, becoming more and more aggressive in strategy and tactics.
Even if the Middle East melee is a headache for the United States, the United States can still judge the most qualified opponent very clearly. Only the country in the East can truly replace itself.
So, do these U.S. strategies work?
The current situation is that due to the economic globalization of the world in the past, the United States has successfully handed over the dirty, hard, tired, and unprofitable heavy industries such as chemical industry and iron and steel to downstream countries, and has retained high value-added finance, science and technology, and the Internet, thus completing deindustrialization. Most typically, the production capacity of the United States is insufficient.
The most frequently used in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is the 155mm howitzer. Before the conflict, the U.S. production capacity was 1450,000 rounds per month, which will increase to 30,000 rounds in the second half of 2023. This number feels good, but it is not enough to compare with Russia. Before the conflict, Russia's production capacity was 1.7 million rounds per month, and in the second half of 2023, this number has soared to 2.5 million rounds per month. 80 times that of the United States.
The United States does have too many high-tech, advanced intelligence systems, and endless drones and missiles. However, fighting a war is a systematic project that relies on strong industrial hematopoietic capabilities. Moreover, once a war with a major power starts, it will be a battle of life and death, and both sides will do their best.
In fact, in terms of hematopoiesis, the best examples are Japan and Germany. As a defeated country, Japan and Germany were destroyed. Someone once looked at the ruins in Berlin, Germany, and sighed that it would take 20 years to clean up the ruins. Tokyo, Japan, was burned to ruins by the fire of Li Mei. As a result, only 10 of you, Germany's GDP became the second largest in the world, and Japan's became the first in East Asia.
In addition to the support of the United States, the most important thing is that Germany and Japan have long had a sound education system and cultivated a huge industrial population. The U.S. "National Interest" once compared the United States with ours based on the production capacity of the military industry. In the end, it was concluded that even if it was a full-scale conflict, we would lose a lot, but within 10 years we would be able to recover our life.
Now there are 3 messages. First, in 2023, the total tonnage of the US Navy will be 7.26 million tons, and China's 2 million tons will rank second in the world. Second, in 2023, the total tonnage of China's new ships will be 160,000 tons, and the United States will be 110,000 tons. Third, the Chinese Navy has reached 38 10,000-ton ships, and the tonnage of these 38 ships alone has reached 1 million tons; Importantly, most of these 38 ships were commissioned after 2000 or even 2010, and they were all new ships.
According to U.S. Defense News, the Constellation-class frigates, which began construction in 2022, will need to be delivered to the United States in 2026. At this speed of shipbuilding, I'm afraid that Japan and South Korea will be in a hurry when they see it.