Posted on 03/12/2015 10:26:02 AM PDT by CMB_polarization
Colonel Le The Mau, a senior military official at the country's Military Strategy Institute, told Sputnik Việt Nam that the United States' demand that Vietnam stop allowing Russian refueling planes to land at Cam Ranh airbase amounts to interference in the country's affairs.
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Yet another screwup from the Democrat Party’s White House choices.
Odd, I just don’t see this admistration “demanding” any
thing of anyone but the American people.
The proper response is to physically incapacitate the airfield.
But that would take balls, of which Obola has none.
Things are bad when even Viet Nam is yelling at you.
Vietnam and Democrats...
They go together like stupidity and failure.
The submarine at the St Petersburg-based Admiralty Verfi shipyard
You seriously suggest, that Russian tankers using Cam Rahn bay airbase, is sufficient provocation that we bomb the airfield in Vietnam?
Is that the world standard now? Should Russia feel justified to bomb anywhere a US tanker launches from?/
It’s an international airport now. Bombing it would not be advisable.
Really Sputnik?
Hey, here is a clue, 0bama has no balls, he didn't say or do anything. 0bama's enemies are the Tea Party, and Americans in general, not communists, fascists or Islamists.
This kind of stuff is fodder for the Russian people.
5.56mm
Should have been carpet bombed on the way out.
"...Asked about the Russian flights in the region, the State Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Washington respected Hanoi's right to enter agreements with other countries.
But the official added: "We have urged Vietnamese officials to ensure that Russia is not able to use its access to Cam Ranh Bay to conduct activities that could raise tensions in the region."
We built that air base. We have helped make Viet Nam a viable economy-we buy a lot of stuff from them, not the Russians.
We should have some say about it, if there is a threat to one of our military installations.
US military tankers do not take off from regular airports to my knowledge, at least they are not fueled at one. If the Russians wish to bomb a US airfield, then they can expect an appropriate military response.
The point is, thanks to the knuckleheads in the White House now, no one respects us or fears us.
Is it too much to ask a trading partner like Viet Nam to stop co-operating with a country that is provoking us at one of our military installations?
My view is we built that airport,with a lot of American blood, and we can take it out.
Your mileage may vary.
Got it. You missed 1975 apparently. There was this thing that happened, and we don’t get to direct who flies in and out of the airports there any more.
I cant believe you think bombing that airport is even slightly sane.
We should at least make sure before we bomb it that no Nam vets are there at the airport, arriving for one of the popular battlefield tours. You cool with that?/
Because a bomber flew around Guam. You really need to become aware that bombers and patrol planes, (yes, ours too) fly every inch of legal airspace we can get to. It isn’t cause for war.
And if you love war so much that you want to bomb someone, there is a school of thought that the threat in the South China sea is China, not Russia.
No, I didn’t miss 1975.
Unfortunately, I didn’t miss 1965 through 1974 either.
That’s why I feel the way I do.
As for things that happen, and that a country doesn’t get to do something anymore feel free to tell your thoughts to Vladimir Putin in the eastern Ukraine.
When a small country is asked nicely to do something by a much more powerful country for a very good reason, the small country can do one of two things.
It can comply because of mutual advantages or it can tell the big country to get lost.
Either response is well within the rights of the small country to say.
But each has consequences, some of them unintended.
Because the Communists in Viet Nam gladly take our money but just told us to F off, I have to assume they don’t care about the consequences. After all, we leave a lot of money on the table.
So, in the real world, a message has to be sent to the small country, so that it is clear whether their response has been received in a positive or a negative manner.
Also, a strong response sends a message to other countries to listen closely the first time. The world is not a bunch of well mannered altruistic groups of people.
My response is exactly what the world has done for 5,000 years.
It is crude, but effective.
An airport can be rebuilt. But the message sent is now understood, and bad behavior toward the big country won’t happen again.
The US would not have even asked Viet Nam for its assistance had not the Russian flyovers at Guam become a nuisance, just like they are in England and Europe. The Russians routinely endanger other countries’ military personnel by their antics.
When the US gets pushed around, and we do nothing, expect more of the same.
If it hadn’t been for Democrats in the Congress, this gang would have been hanged long ago.
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