It is the common and consistent aspirations of humankind to pursue independent development and prosperity in a peaceful and stable environment free from aggression and interference. But they are now facing serious challenges.
In the present world where only the strong can defend its dignity and honour and only victory can prove the validity of its cause, peace and prosperity are nothing but a mirage, if they are not on the firm basis of powerful military strength.
If you do not want to be the slave of the imperialists who are growing more outrageous, you must build your great military strength.
Aggression and war are an indispensable companion of imperialism and as long as imperialism remains in the world, the danger of war will never disappear.
The imperialists are apt to mobilize huge armed forces to put military pressure on small and weak countries. They do not hesitate to trigger wars and armed conflicts against the weak. And they try to threaten the great powers that they think would be a challenge to them by enlisting the force of alliance.
Their main purpose is to bring other countries under their control with the help of their military strength and dominate the world.
American history shows that the word “war” has long coexisted with the word “hegemony”. Even after WWII, the US staged many big and small wars, including those in Korea, Vietnam, Panama, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. War has become the primary means of the US that aims to plunder and dominate the world.
For the world supremacy, the US operated the huge military industry and formed an extensive network of military bases throughout the planet. Since 1945, it has built hundreds of them in over 80 countries and regions. And it deployed lots of forces and weaponry for attack such as aircraft carrier, stealth fighter and strategic nuclear submarine across the world. Also in the Asia-Pacific region it reinforces its troops and rallies vassal forces to pose military threats to the regional countries.
Weak military strength cannot prevent aggression and war moves by the imperialists. It was proved by the invasion of Grenada and Panama in the 1980s, air raid on Yugoslavia in the 1990s and military invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq in the first decade of the 21st century all committed by the US.
It is as good as inviting self-destruction to try to defend yourself by pinning hope on the “good will” of the imperialists or by depending on other’s strength.
In the present world where strength violently crashes into one another and victory and defeat are decided by strength, a country with feeble military strength becomes the weak and a target of aggression and plunder by the imperialists.
The imperialists neither present peace and prosperity to the peoples of other countries nor want them to live freely. They only try to force them into doing what they want.
There are such examples in the present as well as in the past. We should not think that today’s indiscriminate ravages of war in the Middle East are a matter of no concern to us.
Only when they build up their own strength and fight against the imperialists, can countries and nations defend their sovereignty and dignity and achieve economic growth.
Great military strength is the genuine peace and the absolute guarantee of prosperity.
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