This post assumes UFOs are real and that there is substantial truth to the coverup allegations.
The PRC is a superpower that only recently rose sharply from relative poverty. Now they’re poised to take Taiwan by force (given Xi’s orders to develop the military to such a point by 2027), asserting that they rightfully own Taiwan and that the West has opportunistically deprived them of it due to China’s historical lack of economic/military weight. From their perspective, China is finally taking on their big bully, America.
I think catastrophic disclosure could be weaved well into this narrative. Since China was until recently an economic/military subjugate of America, they’re in the unique narrative position on UFOs in that they not only did not have the same military capabilities to assess the nature of UFOs or capture them until recently, but that American secrecy on UFOs was strongarmed onto China until their economy recently became of comparable size to America. They can play the underdog and blow the UFO reality out of the water, claiming they’d finally been able to stand up to America and deliver the truth to the world.
China has developed a propaganda machine in America that it can use to propagate this to Americans. China also has a sophisticated internal information control and propaganda system it can exploit to safely shape this narrative to their citizenry without as much interference from counterpart Western disinfo. Taken together, China has a deeply asymmetrical advantage in first-move disclosure because of their ability to tightly produce and control information, and America’s Constitution that prevents us from doing the same in several ways. They can win the disclosure narrative.
Why would they want to disclose during an invasion? If we are plunged into war, it’ll likely be a war of attrition/exhaustion. The populace of each country will be a battleground where the country with the weakest public opinion of sustaining the war will determine who bows out first. This was an objective of the Doolittle raids on Japan following Pearl Harbor, which would turn out to do little (pun intended) in the way of physical damage to Japan, but warmed American confidence up to war by showing the ability to strike Japan in the same way as they had done to us.
And disclosure is an excellent way for China to destroy the American public’s opinion of the defense and intelligence communities when it matters most. This is due in part to just how long America has hidden the reality of UFOs, since 1947 or earlier. A shock revelation of UFOs from Chinese institutions and of American coverups from orchestrated Chinese intelligence leaks is going to destroy institutional credibility across large swathes of the American government, from the president to the military. I certainly am beginning to get enraged when I spend time considering the prospect that this is all true. What American would trust their government after this, not to mention the citizens of NATO allies and their respective governments? In the midst of a prolonged war where Americans are growing weary of the war efforts and NATO allies are starting to doubt or resent American leadership, catastrophic disclosure could fracture trust in every direction and sink our willingness to continue the war following a hypothetical revelation of the most comprehensive government-executive-military corruption and lack of accountability in American history (in my opinion).
On the flipside, China would reap massive benefits from this at home. China’s information shaping could easily ignite optimism in an exhausted populace, with the promise of magical technologies awaiting them once the war is over. Why not keep the war going a little longer if we’re going to live in a utopia in a few years, or might even have fantastical technologies ready at some point near in the future to win the war? The Americans couldn’t figure it out over 80 years, but we were the first to disclose after only a couple decades of economic parity with America, so obviously we’re ahead of them by a significant margin! And could you imagine Taiwan’s morale after this?
Disclosure can also serve as a distraction during wartime, keeping the populace entertained by a spaced stream of revelations. America can’t do this due to the 80 years of baggage that will surely anger their citizens as much as it excites them, while China has or can claim a clean slate. Additionally, since we’ve squandered those 80 years and apparently achieved nothing, Americans would doubt any claims of imminent fantastical warfighting technologies to seal a NATO win.
And if I was a non-participant neutral spectator country out in the world, who’s going to have credibility as a moral world leader after this? America, that hid this for nearly a century and poisoned by stigma/reputation all attempts from humanity to study these technologies in that time; or China, who bravely announced it to the world? Who would you want to ally yourself with: the country that didn’t want these world-changing technologies getting out and wants to keep them to themselves, or the one that does?
That’s why I think disclosure is inevitable and soon, and Schumer/Rounds/the SSCI might really be willing to rip the bandaid off no matter how painful it’s going to be. As close as we got to MAD during the Cold War, we simply didn’t face this because the Soviets were in the same boat, and nonetheless we never actually got into an armed conflict where reactive disclosure would actually have happened. But we could have planned for it in the event that a future altercation became an expectation, and so China can be doing the same.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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