I am just wondering, whether we would act againt the illegally constructed island bases.
That is the real issue.
Probably not at this time, but with open hostilities they would easily be wiped out by missile strikes. After all, they are islands of a sort, targets that don’t move, and locations precisely known. The significance of the fake islands is not military but diplomatic/legal, designed to Validate and expand the Chinese Territorial claims in the Seas between the mainland and the inner ring of islands.
We should have put the Kabash on that when it started
several administrations ago. I believe it was GW that
allowed that ship to sail.
It should have been objected to at the first ground-
breaking.
What will have to happen now is that when hostilities
do break out, we’ll have to go in and destroy those
bases.
That base(s) is a direct threat to all ocean front nations
in that region, and the islands were contested by at least
two other nations.
I liken it to Japan grabbing islands in the Western
Pacific in it’s lead up to war.
How dumb do you have to be not the see that, and not
to object to it at the U. N. or the World Court.
Our dumb asses bought into those two entities, and don’t
use them when they could.
It’s as if our elected officials know less about global
world history and policy than we do.