The best way to start a war with anyone is to claim the opponents started a war against you. This, essentially simple, technique is precisely what the Deep State has employed:
“China’s stealth war has already begun… The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is working to undermine the U.S. across economic, technological, informational, diplomatic, and gray-zone military domains… China’s most destructive maneuver has been to subvert the miracle of free-market capitalism by turning international investment and trade into a weapon against the U.S. and its democratic allies… China is also waging the most expansive espionage and intellectual-property theft campaign in history… Militarily, the U.S. is not at peace with China, even though shots have not yet been fired… graduated pressure is designed to avoid crossing the threshold of open conflict while steadily achieving tactical and strategic gains. The same is true of China’s support for Russia, Iran, and North Korea – partners and proxies in Xi’s aggression… China’s information warfare is even more pervasive. Through censorship, cyber operations, propaganda, the TikTok algorithm, and manipulation of Chinese nationals overseas, Beijing seeks to shape American public debate, weaken confidence in U.S. institutions, divide the electorate, and delegitimize democratic alliances… Diplomatically, Beijing has pursued a systematic effort to erode U.S. alliances at the expense of its political leverage”[*].
This leads directly to the conclusion so crucial for initiating a war:
“America’s failure to recognize that China is already fully engaged in a confrontation with the U.S. is Beijing’s greatest strategic advantage… Americans love peace, but today the necessary first step is recognizing that we are at war… The second step is dramatically speeding up basic defensive measures already underway. But defense alone is a path to defeat… Modern warfare strongly favors offense… America needs to start working on a final crucial step. It needs its own multifront strategy – a comprehensive, asymmetric, offensive plan to diminish Communist China’s power to make war”[*].
In fact, as the Van Deman team just reported (https://t.me/RHVDIIS/879), the United States has already accomplished everything needed for war – the required military force in the Indo-Pacific region is largely in place, and the necessary military-political ties with allies have been forged.
It appears we should now anticipate the United States recognizing Taiwan’s independence.
* https://www.hudson.org/national-security-defense/chinas-stealth-war-has-already-begun-nikki-haley-john-walters
“China’s Stealth War Has Already Begun” (Nikki R. Haley & John P. Walters, Hudson Institute, Dec 16, 2025).