Nothing more dangerous than an armed coward who feels cornered. Putin’s emasculated him on a world stage. Now he needs to prove how tough he is.
Three or four nations other then the USA have stated vested interests in that are, both strategic and mineral (oil). This was a known problem as far back as during the Vietnam war.
Since Obama has shrunk and sabotaged our military and while China and Russia have grown theirs in size, technology and capability, I would not be surprised to see Obama put our military into a position where it gets seriously spanked...To show our weakness...
The US Navy has always protected the freedom of navigation for commercial shipping, and with the free flow of goods to/from some of our allies at stake, we must cruise about and though these islands.
Obucketoshiite is not messing with some third world shiite hole.
This is a real world power he is messing with and is dragging us closer and closer to a real confrontation.
If he ever figures where and how to draw a red line on the water, we are all screwed.
For what purpose? To anniliate the rest of our fleet? Steady Navy!
Oooooh what a tough guy.
Obama has already backed down to the Chinese when he (Obama) allowed the Chinese to build the artificial Islands and then proclaim them sovereign Chinese land! Kind of like shutting the barn door after the horses got out!
More bull$hit from the old media!
Did you post the entirety of the article, because the link doesn’t work?
I mean, the link doesn’t bring me to the article.
You yankee need to protect our ships, so yankee can get nice China trinkets. On sale! We ship yankee poonjab doggy yumyums...Yankee and doggy be happy and proud. You go shop now yankee!
anyone else getting a bad link ?
Obama is trying his best to bring Al Mahdi with as much chaos as possible
The US has already overflown the island alot with P-8 Poseidon’s. The chinese sound very unprofessional when warning the US. Oneeven says You Go! Go! LMAO. One of the Americans on board chuckles at what he’s hearing on the radio. The americans on the other hand sound very professional and handles it correctly. Here is one of the videos a few weeks ago.
I would have responded to the chinese, I will take a number 1 with extra soy. LMAO. Here is the vid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaKbZW0pqkM
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he got spanked by the iranians and the russians, so now he’s going to go shake his money maker at the chinese.
This is rather dim. Its obvious why they are doing it, they are claiming an entire ocean right up the the Philippine beaches.
“further, it’s not entirely clear why anyone should necessarily care if Beijing wants to build “sand castles” in the middle of the ocean”
This is disingenuous at best and downright ignorant at worst. The Spratlys sit just off the coast of Brunei, and not coincidentally on top of a theorized very large petroleum deposit. The South China Sea serves as a major trade conduit for all those nations bordering it, as well as international cargo moving from the Pacific west to Europe. All the other nations bordering the SCS have claims to at least part of it, but lack the muscle China does.