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so, here we are


1 posted on 05/30/2020 12:31:32 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
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To: RomanSoldier19

We and our allies need to keep a major naval presence.


2 posted on 05/30/2020 12:34:58 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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I have to wonder what their ROEs are. Back in 2001, Wrong Way smacked into the the EP-3, forcing it to land. What would a Navy ship on the wrong end of an AShM launch be permitted to do other than activate its anti-missile systems, and put some distance between itself and the source of the ordnance?


3 posted on 05/30/2020 12:38:32 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: RomanSoldier19
The news of China's aggression just keeps on coming.

Wuhan, Himalayan border with India, Hong Kong, threats to Taiwan, the South China Sea.

China is probing/behaving like it is trying to force military action by the U.S.

4 posted on 05/30/2020 12:39:21 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RomanSoldier19

Let’s hope our Navy CinPac is not commanded by the Minneapolis mayor and chief of police


5 posted on 05/30/2020 12:41:05 PM PDT by llevrok (Vote while it is still legal)
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I went to the source link, and the pop up ad was a video celebrating the anniversary of the PLA??!!!!!


10 posted on 05/30/2020 12:54:14 PM PDT by datura
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To: RomanSoldier19

Send in a carrier task force.


11 posted on 05/30/2020 12:55:53 PM PDT by stevem
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Our Navy ran away? Grrr...
13 posted on 05/30/2020 12:59:03 PM PDT by Chgogal (Wuhan Virus, Chinese Virus, Kung Fu Virus - Wuhan Chinese Kung Fu Virus aka CCP virus.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

We should jack the tariffs every time they give us trouble.


15 posted on 05/30/2020 1:03:20 PM PDT by marron
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Expelled. LOL Yeah sure Mr. Moto.


17 posted on 05/30/2020 1:07:05 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: RomanSoldier19

i did not realize our great USN has standing orders to run away


24 posted on 05/30/2020 1:17:36 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, theyÂ’re excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: RomanSoldier19

Having been on several Freedom of Navigation exercises, I can assure everyone here this ship did not deviate from its planned course.

And was most certainly not “expelled”.

But Newsweek seems to have an affinity for the Chinese characterization.


25 posted on 05/30/2020 1:20:28 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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China is going more and more kinetic.... it seems to be a redo of when Hitler first attacked the West and then found the Soviets smiling and watching to be threatening as he found himself caught in the momentum, and so attacked the Soviets by surprise.


32 posted on 05/30/2020 1:35:24 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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"Chased off" and "expelled" is Newsweek's and China's characterization of it. Allowing the enemies of America to frame the context of any situation or encounter is weak-minded and effeminate.

I'm not an expert on Naval strategy, but I suspect the movement and response of the US warship was a "testing of the waters' probing both the response and the capabilities of the Chinese. I think it accomplished the mission it went in there to do.

33 posted on 05/30/2020 1:38:30 PM PDT by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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interesting thread about the chinese student issue

https://twitter.com/Xy5Z89/status/1266821646192717824


34 posted on 05/30/2020 1:40:52 PM PDT by RummyChick ( Yeah, it's Daily Mail. So what.)
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Bookmark


42 posted on 05/30/2020 2:01:29 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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In the 1930s, Japan built runways on islands in the SW Pacific. (Islands lost by Germany through WWI reparations).

Nothing bad happened for years.


45 posted on 05/30/2020 2:10:33 PM PDT by Does so (George Floyd a CO-poisoning victim?)
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The old stomping grounds of the Gulf of Tonkin Yacht Club...


48 posted on 05/30/2020 2:22:01 PM PDT by Tallguy (Facts be d@mned! The narrative must be protected at all costs!))
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To: RomanSoldier19

Perhaps a few MOABS on the fake islands


50 posted on 05/30/2020 2:26:59 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (I'd rather be anecdotally alive than scientifically dead...)
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Bkmk


57 posted on 05/30/2020 3:01:57 PM PDT by sauropod (Quarantine is when you restrict sick people, tyranny is when you restrict healthy people.)
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waiting for the Filipino Navy to step up. OK where are the sarcasm marks?

Serious question: do the Vietnamese and Filipinos have navies?


68 posted on 05/30/2020 4:05:18 PM PDT by stuckincali
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