Posted on 05/10/2020 7:31:53 PM PDT by blam
While the global economy remains in a state of near ubiquitous lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, the US military has been busy. According to an update posted on the Pacific Air Forces website, a B-1B Lancer strategic bomber part of the 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron was one of two B-1s conducting a training mission in the South China Sea in support of Pacific Air Forces’ training efforts and “strategic deterrence missions to reinforce the rules-based international order in the Indo-Pacific region.“
The training missions follows what Stars and Stripes described on April 30 as a “show of force” by the U.S. military in the South China Sea “with a sortie over the contested waters on Thursday by two Air Force bombers.”
The B-1B Lancers from the 28th Bomb Wing at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., flew a 32-hour round trip to conduct operations over the sea as part of a joint bomber task force by the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and U.S. Strategic Command, the Air Force said in news release Thursday.
The mission further demonstrated the service’s new “dynamic force employment model,” which is intended to make its global bomber presence less predictable, the Air Force said.
Meanwhile, according to a Friday report from the USNI, the US Navy “sent a pair of ships to patrol in the vicinity of a mineral rights dispute between Malaysia and China in the South China Sea for the second time in a month.”
According to the report, the Littoral Combat Ship USS Montgomery (LCS-8) and replenishment ship USNS Cesar Chavez (T-AKE-14) conducted a presence operation in the South China Sea on Thursday near Panamanian-flagged drill ship West Capella, in what appears to have been a show of force/deterrence.
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Israel’s nuke capability was outed decades ago.
Israel and Taiwan are not comparable on the greater world stage.
Israel and the Jewish people are and have been despised for millennia. Taiwan is only despised by Communist China.
Any invasion would have to be by air, since a majority of the coast is too difficult for any amphib landing.
South China hot zone - bump for later....
You can bet China’s sleeper special forces would already be on the inside before the outbreak.
Is it worth risking a grinding war - and a possible nuclear exchange - for Is it worth risking a grinding war - and a possible nuclear exchange - for some far-away island? ?First of all Barack, we made a commitment to defend/assist them. I don't think Trump will let them down.
2nd of all it's not just "some far-away island". It would be the beginning of more if it's not stopped there.
they won’t have subs either
Newspapers in 1978 published joint development of the bomb by four Western allied nations denied membership in the UNITED NATIONS. Those four were S.Africa, South Korea, Israel and Taiwan. There were explosions off S Africa....
Do a little study on the Demographics of China and the South China Sea trade routes....then you’ll understand why it’s significant to us.
Just like their virus?
Surely they’re all obeying the island’s harsh gun control laws.
> First of all Barack... <
Ah, a personal insult. That’s too bad. Because I would have liked to continue this conversion. But I do not like to trade insults, even when I think a person is wrong. It doesn’t add anything to the topic. And it’s childish.
So I’ll pass on saying anything more. Have a nice evening.
Thank you. I had never read anything like that anywhere. Then again, in 1978 I was a young teen far more interested in girls, my GPA, and playing sports than reading about such things as this.
> Do a little study on the Demographics of China and the South China Sea trade routes....then you’ll understand why it’s significant to us. <
No doubt about it. It is a very significant area. I suppose I wasn’t clear enough. Because that’s not my point. My point is that would a soft (Democrat) president risk a major war to defend that region?
A JFK-type president probably would. But eventually we will get an Elizabeth Warren-type President. Would such a president be as willing?
Nope, they won’t.
They would be pining for those halcyon days of the Cultural Revolution.
Taiwan was Formosa which was Nationalist China and was recognized as the Legitimate China until the sage Jimmy Carter stabbed them in the back and recognized Communist China as the one China. Each one of our Service Members that the Communist Chinese killed in Korea brought to Carter’s and the Democrat’s hearts.
Chinese ‘leaders’ want to expand their hellhole because they feel the need to make MORE people miserable.
Jerks.
Ever hear of people trying to break into China? Only the thugs at the top live well there.
Chinese ‘leaders’ want to expand their hellhole because they feel the need to make MORE people miserable.
Jerks.
Ever hear of people trying to break into China? Only the thugs at the top live well there.
China wants a war because they think if they expand their thuggy totalitarian hellhole that their frightened slaves (citizens) will be happy.
Control freak psychopaths run China...
Wooo Hooo! Another war! That’s right! Yeah! Just what we need.
Damn I hate the idea of another war, maybe we can just kiss the Chinese ass or maybe better yet we can start to strangle them economically, what option are you set on?
Control Freaks have run this world for Millenia. This is what has set the USA apart for all these years. Our Constitution which puts the power in the hands of We The People is what has set our country apart from all the rest.
But, we have a great many people in this country that despise our Constitution that empowers the people and limits the government.
Those people want to Fundamentally Transform our country to a central control government which has been the norm throughout history, whether kings/queens or dictators, so that we become subjects and not free peoples.
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