In the USA: China has sharply increased its power while we are at war with terrorism

The American press published an article by Colonel Wesley Hollman, Vice-President of the National Defense Industry Association of the United States, who reflects on the military power of China that has grown many times in recent years. Colonel Hallman, who served in the American army 27 for years, believes that the Chinese owe their present power ... to the United States of America.

The argument of Hallman in this case is as follows.

US 11 September 2001, underwent a terrorist attack. After that, the American military budget was drafted in such a way that a substantial part of it was directed to the implementation of antiterrorist operations in Afghanistan. Then the United States began to “look for chemical weapon"In Iraq, bringing their troops there and bogged down in the war. The United States continued to confront international terrorism, infusing more and more new funds. At the same time, the national debt continued to grow and today it is already striving for 22 trillion dollars.

Based on this, Hallman concludes: China simply took advantage of the fact that no one has been holding it back all these years. He increased his military component, updated the technical fleet of the army, acquiring new weapons.

Colonel Hallman:

We can say that Japan won the First World War, because it used the diversion of European forces to expand its influence in the Asia-Pacific region. So it is now. China took advantage of the situation and expanded its sphere of influence. He captured the islands to create military outposts on them.

Today, as Hallman notes, China’s economy is already second, but it is striving to become the first in the world.

According to the vice president of the National Defense Industry Association of the United States, while America was burning up resources, fighting international terrorism, China achieved 600% growth in military spending and is seeking dominance.

Comments

[NEXUS]

Fought terrorism or created controlled chaos, creating terrorism?

Then the US began to “look for chemical weapons”

And what, have you found? Test-tube Powell shocked the UN and a couple of million lives at a loss.
The USA is the main world terrorist.

[Rurikovich]

Quote: NEXUS

Fought terrorism or created controlled chaos, creating terrorism?

From the language removed ...

[210ox]

They fought ... Spawned terrorists around the world ..

[cniza]

They made and are making money in the war ...

[Mr Credo]

while America burned resources while fighting international terrorism, China has achieved a 600% increase in military spending and is striving to dominate. ### They fought ... Brought terrorists around the world .. ### Well, the American himself answered (in the first two lines) they fought international terrorism, but modestly kept silent that they fought with terrorists for the interests of American capital! In the fight against terrorists, capital would suffer and suffer losses. And what did the Americans lose? Afghan began to grow opium. Iraq and Libya have fallen. Syria is on fire. Where is the US suffering? But from a joint war with terrorists, the whole region and others are on the way very successfully! Is it really bad for the states if problems grow and multiply in other countries and regions of US competitors? The task of the states is to create problems for competitors, weakening them with problems. And they are doing this very successfully and the money they spent is not in vain. The whole problem of the states and China is that the states could not create problems for China. Separatism did not take root in China. On the transport routes to China, no war breaks out. There are almost no wars in countries supplying raw materials to China. This is what the American is annoyed with. They scrambled digging holes in China, and he successfully passed them! It's a shame however!

[Arh]

And now all the mattresses can’t catch FIGs in China, and now peer off into the sartir !!!

[Machito]

The USA is the successor of Fascist Germany with the emblem of the Roman Empire. RF - Byzantine Empire with a double-headed eagle

[Herald of the Revolution]

Quote: NEXUS

Test tube Powell shocked at UN

Well, if, according to you, they lied even at the UN, what prevented them from lying again and still finding (planting) chemical weapons in Iraq? By the way, there was such an uncle who lived there in Iraq, "chemical Ali", he was nicknamed, do you know for what such merits they called him that? So it was not a lie on the part of the United States, but rather a gross mistake ...

[NEXUS]

Quote: Herald of Revia

Well, if they were even lying to the UN in your opinion, then what prevented them from lying again and still finding (toss) chemical weapons in Iraq?

To ask such a question, you first need to understand what you are asking ...

On October 25, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair acknowledged in an interview with CNN that the invasion of America and its allies in Iraq in 2003 was one of the reasons for the emergence of the Islamic State terrorist organization (its activities are banned in Russia) and apologized for the mistakes made.

Secondly..

Colin Powell, who held the post of US Secretary of State at the time of the invasion of Iraq, demanded that the CIA and the Pentagon explain why they had not warned him about the unreliability of the main source of information about Saddam Hussein having biological weapons.

The Guardian newspaper revealed that the source, named Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, who received the pseudonym “Curveball” from his German and American curators, admitted to lying. He said that he had fabricated his testimony about the Iraqi secret biological weapons program. In response to the information in this publication, Powell said that all questions should be addressed to the American departments, which were preparing the basis for the outbreak of war.

Thirdly..

Powell previously expressed regret over the role that he unwittingly played, reporting false information to the UN. He said it became a black spot on his career. But in his recent statements, he began to put pressure on the intelligence agencies and their former leaders, demanding that they report what they knew at that time and why they did not reject such a bad source.

And fourthly ... Tony Blair admitted that the invasion of Iraq and the annexation of England to the USA in this war were erroneous.
And about ..

Quote: Herald of Revia

So it was not a lie from the United States, but rather a blunder ...

These were pure lies, as the source of information was unreliable and the CIA knew about this several years before.

[Rurikovich]

Quote: NEXUS

These were pure lies, as the source of information was unreliable and the CIA knew about this several years before.

"Onizhedeti" This is what Herald of Revius most likely means And continuing his thought - maybe we will forgive America They are white and fluffy ... Well, by their nature, they cannot lie, for they bring light in the form of democracy to the masses
For members of the forum - this is sarcasm, a joke

[Mr Credo]

Yes, we know about white and fluffy! Who is this white and fluffy? This is a fox baby!

[bouncyhunter]

Andrei I get the impression that nothing in this world happens without the participation of the USA ...

[NEXUS]

Quote: bouncyhunter

Andrei I get the impression that nothing in this world happens without the participation of the USA ...

pasha Do you get the impression? There has long been certainty. Moreover, mattresses themselves speak in plain text about this.

[bouncyhunter]

Do not carp at the words ...

[Bykov.]

Quote: Herald of Revy

Well, if, according to you, they lied even at the UN, what prevented them from lying again and still finding (planting) chemical weapons in Iraq? By the way, there was such an uncle who lived there in Iraq, "chemical Ali", he was nicknamed, do you know for what such merits they called him that? So it was not a lie on the part of the United States, but rather a gross mistake ...

And who gave Iraq XO? Of course, in order to spend the Iranians? But still who? And why, when that same Chemical Ali, poisoned the Kurds, the entire advanced world community, led by the USA, simply kept quiet, unlike the USSR? And with the test tube at the UN, there was no mistake - it was a deliberate lie.

[NEXUS]

Quote: Bulls.

And who gave Iraq XO?

It was not a chemical weapon, but a biological one ...

He said that he had fabricated his testimony about the Iraqi secret program to create biological weapons.

[arhPavel]

Well, if you think they even lied to the UN

/Hand face
"... according to your ... according to your ..."

lived there in Iraq such an uncle "chemical Ali" was nicknamed him, do you know for what such merits they called him that?

We are in the know. And not only we, everyone who wants to can find information who supplied equipment and resources for the production of chemical weapons there, who incited them to use, and who used the VETO right in the UN Security Council.
And you, in my opinion, are not.

It's just a tin plate that people have in their head.
No words are simple.

[rocket757]

To Powell shook a test tube with a biological, such as anthrax. What does this have to do with chemical Ali? Like all this all the same WMD?

Quote: Herald of Revia

By the way, such an uncle lived there in Iraq "chemical Ali" he was nicknamed

All the same, the story is muddy, the stripes just act as they want and how they can! That’s the whole dilemma, it will be so in our world until the horns are broken.

[Nyrobsky]

Quote: Herald of Revia

So it was not a lie on the part of the United States, but rather a gross mistake ....

And yet it was a lie. In 2003, on February 5, Powell was shaking a test tube at the UN, and on May 17, he made a statement that - "The information provided by the CIA on the production of biological weapons in Iraq was inaccurate and deliberately misleading, which makes me deeply disappointed and regret it." But the war in Iraq has already been going on since March 20 ...

[GibSoN]

Fought terrorism or created controlled chaos, creating terrorism?

You should write scientific dissertations ... Any order is the power of power! Miracles happen only in a fairy tale. Tell us how to create a world in the world, without offending anyone? Or Stalin, a wizard hero, created blessings and everyone in the dandelions bathed?

PS At the same time, I want to note that I personally have nothing against Stalin! Just stating a fact.

[NEXUS]

Quote: GibSoN

Any order is the power of power!

And tell me, dear, for 70 years of the existence of the USSR in Europe, at least somewhere there was a war?
Or for example ... Vietnam, which was flooded with mattresses by napalm. Was everyone happy from such a democracy? You can recall Korea .. And in the same Iraq, by the power of Washington what was created?
Strength, power, strife. And the chaos, even controlled (although this is toftology, maybe chaos cannot be controlled in principle) of the USSR and now the Russian Federation once projected onto other countries?

[GibSoN]

And tell me, dear, for 70 years of the existence of the USSR in Europe, at least somewhere there was a war?

You better tell me, dear, what, after the collapse of the USSR in Europe, the war began?

Or for example ...

No template examples needed. Vietnam and Korea happened not without the participation of the USSR. In Soviet times, there were at least as many hot spots as they are now, they just weren’t written about in the Izvestia newspaper ...

[NEXUS]

Quote: GibSoN

You better tell me, dear, what, after the collapse of the USSR in Europe, the war began?

And in Ukraine, what do you think? And in Yugoslavia, what was this?

Quote: GibSoN

No template examples needed. Vietnam and Korea happened not without the participation of the USSR.

Seriously? Dear, you don’t have to make candy out of excrement ... not the USSR, but the USA got into Vietnam and Korea. And the Union just didn’t allow these countries to not be gouged into the trash.

Quote: GibSoN

In Soviet times, there were at least as many hot spots as they are now, they just weren’t written about in the Izvestia newspaper ...

Get out of the way ... hot spots created highways, and we just answered. Afghanistan say ... so in those days, drug trafficking was reduced by several times, and the Union built schools and roads and hydroelectric power stations there ... and what the USA built in Afghanistan for this time, do not tell me, citizen?

[GibSoN]

And in Ukraine, what do you think? And in Yugoslavia, what was this?

Exactly what was when the USSR was. This also applies to all other examples. Conflict of ideologies and interests.

Afghanistan you say ... so in those days, drug trafficking was reduced significantly, and the Union built schools and roads and hydroelectric power stations there ... and what the USA built in Afghanistan during this time

Well, if you are so knowledgeable, tell us what the USA was built there ?! You can even use Google’s enemy ..

[NEXUS]

Quote: GibSoN

Exactly what was when the USSR was.

The congress is counted.

[GibSoN]

The congress is counted.

You really thought that I would discuss with you about this ?! )) Well, it's just funny! Believe in anything. The time of the 50-70s has almost passed.

[Alex20042004]

The USA is the main sponsor of terrorists around the world.

[A good one]

"... America was burning resources in the fight against international terrorism."

Paper was made of wood, and wrappers were printed from it with dead presidents.

[Mountain shooter]

How quickly create the image of the enemy! They themselves raised a dragon on the border with Russia, and now they are afraid of their own brainchild? Is it too late?

[Mr Credo]

Are you scared? And what harm did the dragons do to the Americans? How do Americans suffer from them? If IS is an enemy of the United States, then why the United States does not impose sanctions against them? Where is the overlap of financial flows and freezing accounts? Where are the sanctions against individuals and companies collaborating with the IG? Or is this unknown to the states? And why do states save the lives of IS leaders? Can Americans answer these questions?

[pvv113]

while America burned resources fighting international terrorism

How states are fighting terrorism has long been clear to everyone

[Susanin]

China has dramatically increased power while we fought terrorism

About Russians, as always, not a single word ha ha ha
If only China had mated with the West, and we would have supplied weapons to them as well .. And the USA is also for S-300 gold And (import))))))

[spektr9]

But the Russian Federation has dramatically increased power? It’s more profitable to fight with a weaker rival, so now all the hacking in Russia

[Ros 56]

Pontovils are cheap, you didn’t fight terrorism, but sawed loot under the guise of fighting against barmales. And now they tell tales to the whole world, and their lackeys howl after them like jackals.

[sharp-lad]

They really fought and continue to fight terrorism! In place of what would fight against terrorism.

[Lara Croft]

So it is now. China took advantage of the situation and expanded its sphere of influence. He captured the islands to create military outposts on them.

Did he capture them today?

He was building up his military component, updating the army’s technical park, acquiring new weapons.

Exaggeration. Most of the compounds of the SV PLA are infantry units with a small number of armored infantry fighting vehicles (approximately 40-50 armored personnel carriers / infantry fighting vehicles per division) and exercises recently held in the Russian Federation and in the picture to the article showed that the PLA’s military unit was not provided with bulletproof vests ... 80% of the combat aircraft fleet are 3rd generation aircraft. The only thing where the rapid growth of modern military equipment is felt is the Navy.

[Thunderbolt]

After that, the US military budget was imposed in such a way that a substantial part of it was aimed at carrying out anti-terrorist operations in Afghanistan.

The presence of the American army with allies in Afghanistan can also be viewed as a measure of limiting Chinese expansion. By blocking this strategic "corridor", they thereby opened a "Second Front" against China. For these reasons, the Chinese are trying to get closer to the Pakistanis, and in Afghanistan itself, the Chinese support for the Taliban is felt All the more acute. Worked out schemes since the Soviet war in this country. Where do you think the guerrillas are fed from? China through a dummy agent Pakistan.

[Rurikovich]

Quote: Thunderbolt

The presence of the American army with allies in Afghanistan can also be considered as a measure of limitation of Chinese expansion.

The presence of the American army in Afghanistan should be seen primarily as a defense of their interests in the form of the destruction of the Taliban, which really fought against drug trafficking and almost destroyed the drug business of Afghanistan. Tolgo silly will not notice that the American army actually protects the opium poppy plantings, which, after defeating the Taliban, have grown by orders of magnitude, and only then does what they attribute to it various sorts of esperds and analysts - China opposes or fights terrorism there

[Thunderbolt]

And you do not find that the amount spent on the Afghan campaign is many times higher than the profit from the poppy?

[Rurikovich]

Those who thought through a scam to solve all the problems of America with the war against the so-called terrorism, think differently. Dividends are much higher than costs. They tell you about the costs, what would you think as they need.
How many years has the US been in Afghanistan? Do you think they are heroically fighting bearded men?

[Thunderbolt]

It’s hard to convince me with one picture. Are you aware that the cost of this war is already reaching $ 1.5 trillion? How many fields do you need to plant in order to stay in profit?

[Rurikovich]

Quote: Thunderbolt

Are you aware that the cost of this war is already reaching $ 1.5 trillion? What do you think, how many of these fields need to be planted in order to remain in profit?

Read

In Afghanistan itself, the cultivation and production of drugs has become rampant. Afghanistan now accounts for 90% of global opium production. Last fall, Afghan peasants harvested 6,7 tons of opium, from which 375 tons of heroin can be produced. According to the Minister for Combating Drugs of Afghanistan, Zorar Ahmad Mokbel, about 240 tons of heroin will be exported through Iran and Pakistan, and about 110 tons through Central Asian countries. According to the UN, revenue from Afghan drug exports last year reached $ 2,4 billion, representing 15% of Afghanistan’s GDP.

And the picture doesn’t lie about the real godfather of Afghanistan
It's only over a year, Karl! 2,4 billion green American tugriks for 2012. Now is the 18th in the yard. How many have arrived hypothetically in six years?
You will be told about losses while modestly keeping silent about profits. that’s how public opinion is formed when they don’t want to think

[Thunderbolt]

I am not Karl. ) Somehow weak. Some kind of pathetic billions against trillions. And it is very curious that the Americans sent part of the traffic through Iran. Or it’s still not the CIA, but everyone who can nibble off their piece /// without excluding the Americans / //? Count on the calculator when such a military campaign pays off. N and a yo. Hence, the conclusion is that the United States primarily pursues geostrategic goals in Afghanistan to maintain and develop its influence. The proceeds of the drug look very small compared to the amount spent the bad guys from the Pentagon to this event.

[Rurikovich]

Quote: Thunderbolt

I am not Karl.

But "Thunderbolt" is also not a name

Quote: Thunderbolt

Somehow weak. Some kind of pathetic billions against trillions.

I am begging you! A country that does not hesitate to lie on every corner will tell the truth about the costs and at the same time continue to sit in a country that causes them losses !?
I personally do not believe This is the same as talking about the lack of funds for the disposal of their chemical weapons with a military budget of 700 trillion. tugriks and printing non-stop new money

[URAL72]

Stormbreaker! It's simple - the money comes from the budget, and the profits from the drug trade, into the pockets. Everything is the same as ours - government spending with a flick of a magic pen turns into personal income of officials.

[Thunderbolt]

I can agree that they have a good share, but that’s not the main goal of the war. They went to the rear immediately to three of their opponents. China, Iran and our Southern Military District sense this with genes.

[URAL72]

This end does not justify the means. There are no serious weapons that could threaten us. The goals you specified are present, but secondary. The main thing is the response to the blow to America, terrorism is really a screen. They dug a hole for themselves, savoring the "flight of the Soviets" from Afghanistan, but how do they leave? But I think it will have to be under the new administration. Then we will have a taste, although we are still fine - the annual costs for one Afghan alone are higher than our defense budget.

[Setrac]

Quote: Thunderbolt

Are you aware that the cost of this war is already reaching $ 1.5 trillion?

This is a hoax, Americans haven’t spent so much on Afghanistan, trim the sturgeon.

[Mr Credo]

And what? Don't they fight bearded men? Opium from Afghanistan seems to be taken out by US Army aircraft. Or bearded men on his donkeys being taken to Europe?

[Rurikovich]

Everything in the "world" (read - English-speaking) media is written in such a way that one cannot see the forest behind the three pines. The material is presented in such a way that the true culprits of all evil acts in the world are called righteous, and the innocent are indicated as guilty. The population learns not to think with their brains, but to believe what is said to them from above. That's why it turned out that terrorism began to be cultivated after the 9/11 staging, then Powell's test tube followed, then Hussein's accusations, the Arab spring staging ... Voila - an oil painting ... Terrorism is marching across the planet

[Mr Credo]

And human lives are thrown into this fire chamber of world terrorism as a tail for fire! There, in the name of whose interests is this world revolution going?

[HAM]

One question: when do you did not fight with "terrorism" ??

[parusnik]

Nyadaya, did not keep track of China, the terrorists did not give ... funded by the United States ... got out of control ..

[Waldemar]

They created chaos, robbed oil and did drug trafficking,

[voyaka uh]

These are not related things. The general is wrong. The Chinese army has grown sharply, but strictly in proportion to the sharp growth of the economy.
The fight against terrorism has allowed the United States in combat to master dozens of new types of precision weapons.
The same valuable experience as Russia has in Syria.
These weapons and systems will also be effective in wars against regular armies. So that
the Americans have nothing to cry.

[NEXUS]

Quote: voyaka uh

So
the Americans have nothing to cry.

They do not cry, but catch up on hysteria, replacing concepts and hiding their involvement in the entire mess that they have spread in the world.

[Rurikovich]

Quote: voyaka uh

The fight against terrorism has allowed the United States in combat to master dozens of new types of precision weapons.

American weapons hit the target for sure

Alex, America itself has created the conditions for the creation and testing of its weapons and the establishment of its order in the world. Only the blind do not see it

[sabakina]

voyaka uh, which ones? "daddy of all bombs"? Which, in fact, did not bring visible success .... It would be better to keep silent!

[Setrac]

From this

Quote: voyaka uh

The fight against terrorism has allowed the United States in combat to master dozens of new types of precision weapons.

it should not

Quote: voyaka uh

These weapons and systems will also be effective in wars against regular armies. So the Americans have nothing to cry.

Quote: voyaka uh

The same valuable experience as Russia has in Syria.

This is a valuable experience in Russia in Syria - because behind the back of the terrorists are the United States and Israel with their technologies, behind the partisans with whom the Americans are fighting and there is no one particularly valuable experience.

[Mr Credo]

It's right. Local wars allow you to create weapons, practice tactics, logistics in real time!

[K-50]

In the USA: China has sharply increased its power while we are at war with terrorism

Correct, did not fight terrorism, but nurtured. So true.

[Naughty]

Quote: bouncyhunter

Andrei I get the impression that nothing in this world happens without the participation of the USA ...

So who raised the retirement age in Russia It turns out that our State Duma has nothing to do with it. And we sinned on them

[sabakina]

I do not understand, the USA cannot defeat terrorists in slippers. How are they going to fight a nuclear power? The whole world in trash is our chip. What kind of them?

[Rurikovich]

Quote: sabakina

The whole world in trash is our chip. What kind of them?

"What for us?"

[Mr Credo]

Well, already won the nuclear power. No more USSR. And they defeated the donkey loaded with gold. So which weapon did the most devastating blow, nuclear or donkey?

[Samara_63]

The Chinese economy is entirely dependent on foreign markets, unlike the United States ... The PLA is strong, but it will not enter the top five if you do not take nuclear weapons ...

[Samara_63]

War is soon inevitable, so Russia needs to take Kiev! And strike in the Baltic states, Poland, Romania ...

[Mr Credo]

Striking is not a problem. The problem will be later, because the economy will need to be supported and developed. And we have problems with this. The industry is all ruined.

[Samara_63]

If we don’t apply, then they will apply to us ...
Then what will happen? It’s hard to say, but it will definitely be better when they put it on us ...

[Mr Credo]

What is the point for us to strike at them?

[Samara_63]

To preempt a blow to us

[Keyser soze]

And strike in the Baltic states, Poland, Romania ...

It is necessary to have a bite ....

[XXXIII]

In the USA: China has sharply increased its power while we are at war with terrorism

They fought against Russia, not against terrorism, and China did not sleep, but saw all this d ....., but armed like the Roman Empire .....

[Operator]

For the information of the Vice President of the National Defense Industry Association of the USA, Colonel Wesley Hallman, you yourself financed the creation of the military-industrial potential of China, making it the main trading partner of America

[lucul]

Quote: bouncyhunter

Andrei I get the impression that nothing in this world happens without the participation of the USA ...

No need to put the cart in front of the horse - in this world nothing happens without the participation of the Zionists - it will be more accurate. The USA is just a tool, like a hammer or screwdriver.

[voyaka uh]

There is such an old joke (and he is about you, including):
"The Tutumutu tribe heard nothing about the Jews and blamed the evil forces of nature for all their troubles."

[ser65]

and laughter and sin ....

[APASUS]

It’s bad that China cannot be pulled straight to the events of September 11, otherwise it would have been all weird! Degeneration of the military elite in person.

[bald]

Well, are they not mocked - "fighters" against terrorism. China, at least, did not do that. And he armed himself from people like them, though mainly using other people's developments, and did not care about patents.

[Reserve buildbat]

Something I no longer understand, is Trump an agent of Putin or Jinping? Or (oh, horror!) Double agent?

[sharp-lad]

He is a triple agent! Not as much fighting for the interests of Russia and China, how many are trying to save the United States from a deep-seated USA that wants to get rid of all of humanity, which began to interfere with their plans and desires.

[GibSoN]

China will show Americans Kuzkin's mother again!

Does Trump pay you your salary? Or maybe he is crap in the doorway? Do you also pay taxes in the USA? Why so much attention to the USA ?! Do you really think that in the long run, the USA is influencing your life more than China ?! China may show Kuzkin’s mother, but rest assured that this very mother will personally affect you first of all. Start thinking about yourself, not about how it is in the USA or China.

[Boa kaa]

Quote: rudolff

China will show Americans Kuzkin's mother again!

The participant of the 100 parade on Red Square in Moscow in the 1972 year ... But he did not see such perfection of drill training ...
CHICK AS BEAUTIFUL !!!
Rudolph, thanks!

[Boa kaa]

Quote: rudolff

The combat step "in the knee" is a little different, paid attention?

Of course I did!
We have a "Prussian school": a straight leg at the knee and from the hip!
One can feel the long "blood connection" between the Romanovs and the Hohenzollerns ...
But ...

[GibSoN]

Absolutely sound reasoning. Actually, this is visible and so ... RF, all that remains is to brag about different things, so that at least some kind of attention would be paid. In general, the Russian Federation chose the smallest path for its losses. Confrontation with the West and friendship with China .. If it were the other way around, everything would be very sad.

[aszzz888]

In the USA: China has dramatically increased power, while we fought terrorism

... we plowed, said a fly sitting on a horse ... ...

[Baloo]

In the USA: China has sharply increased its power while we are at war with terrorism

Error in title?
China has dramatically increased military and economic power in response to US sponsorship and support of terrorists in the Middle East region and preparations for a nuclear war against Russia and China.

[Pacifist]

While the United States was engaged in a pretentious fight against terrorism sponsored by them, moreover, by dumbness and cruelty, surpassing their fosterlings, the others, having looked at this lawlessness, began to strengthen the Armed Forces, which was quite expected by all but stubborn in the United States.