China is structuring it’s Navy to support global expansion, and is having to build ships to help compensate for their lack of forward bases.
The reason they don’t have forward bases is because we still have enough “super power” resources to protect the other nations in the area that China wants to conquer and use as forward bases.
In modern warfare, you can’t just sit at home for 30 years and wait for the enemy to arrange the world’s resources, alliances, military, and global bases to their liking, and save you for last.
Russia is engaged in a military action against the West and the NATO nations, they are threatening Finland with attack, they have a long range goal that is not about minding their own business.
And here is probably where the two FR sides of the issue divide. You see a compulsion and loyalty to ‘the West’ whereas others see a stark difference between what ‘the West’ was 40 years ago, and what it is today.
The progressives claim the mantle of ‘the West’, where most countries have mass abortion access, feminism, homo rights, trans rights, spit on traditions, have Orwellian hate speech laws, and more often than not support the worst radicals in the Middle East. Did you read the story about hundreds of Jihadists heading to Iraq... from the UK?
So while many Freepers are not supportive of Putin, they’re not crazy about the Euroleftists either
Russia is going to attack Finland? Uh, sorry. I’m not buying that one bit.
You know, there would be no end to war if America preemptively attacked anyone who could possibly represent a threat someday. While I agree China is on a nationalistic, expansionist campaign, at what point are the threatened nations, like Japan, Vietnam, Australia, Taiwan, and the Philippines responsible for defending themselves? Must America always take on everything herself? I don’t oppose alliances, but that doesn’t mean America should do 90% of the heavy lifting for everyone else.
Rewriting history are we? Russia has never attacked westward dummy...OTOH western powers have attacked Russia many times. Sweden...France...Germany...US/UK thru Communist Bolshevik funding...
If it weren’t for the Russian people and their strong Christian faith...Europe would have been lost to the darkness of Mongols Germans ad nauseum.