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US Air Force is preparing for a great power war against Russia, China

In the wake of this escalating militarization of the European continent, the US Air Force massively increased its presence at Russia's doorstep too

Illustration by Ajay Mohanty, ILLUSTRATION, CHINA, US, TRADE WAR
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Illustration: Ajay Mohanty

Jakob Reimann | FPIF
In September, at the Air Force Association’s annual Space & Cyber Conference, Heather Wilson — Donald Trump’s Secretary of the US Air Force — presented the Trump administration’s new roadmap for the US Air Force: the historic expansion of the already, by far, largest air force in the world.

Wilson identified the perceived context of the new expansionist developments right at the start of her 30-minute speech — Russia conducted its largest military exercise on “Russian soil in four decades,” she said, and China sent its first operational aircraft carrier into the Pacific and has “militarized” the South China Sea

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