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China Seems ‘Locked and Loaded’ to Sink Navy Aircraft Carriers
National Security Journal ^
| 8/31/2025
| Harry Kazianis
Posted on 09/01/2025 10:09:58 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
China is not planning to launch one or two missiles at an aircraft carrier; it is planning to launch dozens, if not hundreds. The PLARF possesses the largest and most diverse missile arsenal in the world, with thousands of launchers. In a conflict, they would unleash a massive, coordinated salvo attack designed to overwhelm any defense.
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TOPICS: Government; History; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: aircraftcarriers; china; spam; usnavy; vikingkitties; whuilovecrack; whyiloveblogpimps111
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To: In_Iowa_not_from
Wow, the USA thrived when the only revenue stream was tariffs. I take it you do not know history?
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posted on
09/01/2025 12:40:15 PM PDT
by
central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: In_Iowa_not_from
Marx was a free trader and so are you. Marx knew free trade was destructive and hastened the revolution.
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posted on
09/01/2025 12:42:27 PM PDT
by
central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: central_va
Wow, the USA thrived when the only revenue stream was tariffs. I take it you do not know history? The USA thrived in 1933? At the height of the Great Depression? Very interesting. I learned history in America. If you honestly believe that America was thriving in 1933, your history teachers did you a massive disservice.
To: whyilovetexas111
In today’s world there is no way to hide these things. They are sitting ducks to countries like Russia or China.
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posted on
09/01/2025 1:07:30 PM PDT
by
Revel
To: In_Iowa_not_from
Trade was 4% of gdp in ‘33. A tiny part of the US economy. So you fail.
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posted on
09/01/2025 1:10:16 PM PDT
by
central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: In_Iowa_not_from
>> I’m arrogant because I question the judgment of a politician?
No, you’re arrogant because you ascribe to President Trump thoughts and motives and outcomes that you cannot possibly know — and those alone form the assumptions for your flawed analysis and conclusions.
A junior high school debate team would run circles around your snotty ass.
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posted on
09/01/2025 1:12:08 PM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
To: central_va
Marx was a free trader and so are you. Marx knew free trade was destructive and hastened the revolution.
Ronald Reagan was also a free trader.
Here in America, as we reflect on the many things we have to be grateful for, we should take a moment to recognize that one of the key factors behind our nation's great prosperity is the open trade policy that allows the American people to freely exchange goods and services with free people around the world. The freedom to trade is not a new issue for America. In 1776 our Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence, charging the British with a number of offenses, among them, and I quote, "cutting off our trade with all parts of the world," end quote.
And that same year, a Scottish economist named Adam Smith launched another revolution with a book entitled "The Wealth of Nations," which exposed for all time the folly of protectionism. Over the past 200 years, not only has the argument against tariffs and trade barriers won nearly universal agreement among economists but it has also proven itself in the real world, where we have seen free-trading nations prosper while protectionist countries fall behind.
America's most recent experiment with protectionism was a disaster for the working men and women of this country. When Congress passed the Smoot-Hawley tariff in 1930, we were told that it would protect America from foreign competition and save jobs in this country—the same line we hear today. The actual result was the Great Depression, the worst economic catastrophe in our history; one out of four Americans were thrown out of work. Two years later, when I cast my first ballot for President, I voted for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who opposed protectionism and called for the repeal of that disastrous tariff.
Ever since that time, the American people have stayed true to our heritage by rejecting the siren song of protectionism. In recent years, the trade deficit led some misguided politicians to call for protectionism, warning that otherwise we would lose jobs. But they were wrong again. In fact, the United States not only didn't lose jobs, we created more jobs than all the countries of Western Europe, Canada, and Japan combined. The record is clear that when America's total trade has increased, American jobs have also increased. And when our total trade has declined, so have the number of jobs.
https://www.ntu.org/foundation/detail/ronald-reagan-on-free-trade-vs-protectionism
To: spokeshave
Also downstream are the factories that make the precursors for our pharmaceuticals.
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posted on
09/01/2025 1:15:41 PM PDT
by
dljordan
(The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
To: In_Iowa_not_from
It alive Reagan would now be a Protectionist and a tariff lover. The last 40 years have been a disaster . PS Reagan was wrong about a lot of things.
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posted on
09/01/2025 1:17:21 PM PDT
by
central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: Nervous Tick
The outcome is known because every time it’s been tried in the past it has failed. Tariffs are a tax. No country has ever taxed its way to prosperity.
To: dljordan
In the lead up to a hot war the lake behind the 3 Gorges Dam will be lowered to minimal levels. Actually doing that would be a bad sign.
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posted on
09/01/2025 1:19:26 PM PDT
by
central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: whitney69
we don’t have to launch nukes, we have sufficient conventional weapons to destroy all of their Command and Control network, >50% of their planes, >50% of their ships n 80+% of their infrastructure. Then Japan and Taiwan would get their turn to degrade what’s remaining. If the US could guarantee insertion n extraction, Filipinos would send in their Army. This wouldn’t happen over nite, it would take several weeks. But the only remaining PLA planes and ships would be those that could escape to Russia.
The Big Q is - would CCP escalate to using nukes?
2nd BIG Q is - would the 6 families allow chairman Xi to attack a flat-top or any US assets.
IOW - the 6 families KNOW they would be Hi Value targets regardless of what countries they and their extended family members may be in.
IMO - I doubt the families would allow anything to occur that would disrupt their Happy Life.
Another outlier - what if chairman Xi goes rogue on the families.
IOW - chairman Xi decides, damn the families, I’m taking out a flat-top or two.
Interesting times!
Oh BTW, no country would directly come to China’s aid bec their are no countries of significance that gives a sh!t about China
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posted on
09/01/2025 1:20:28 PM PDT
by
fastrock
To: In_Iowa_not_from
The USA from 1870 to 1910 the economy did pretty dam good running the country on tariffs. Granted there were a few down turns but tariffs were not the cause.
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posted on
09/01/2025 1:22:38 PM PDT
by
central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: Whatever Works
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posted on
09/01/2025 1:23:03 PM PDT
by
fastrock
To: central_va
PS Reagan was wrong about a lot of things.
Then tt's a good thing then that Trump is infallible. Free trade with international allies BAD. But 600,000 chicom students at American universities GOOD. Why? Because "trust the plan."
To: In_Iowa_not_from
The two things are not connected. The student visa shit is cray cray.
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posted on
09/01/2025 1:25:55 PM PDT
by
central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: central_va
The student visa shit is cray cray.
So we've finally found something we agree on. Very good.
To: In_Iowa_not_from
Will free traitors let manufacturing come back to the USA once the middle class is gone and per capita income is at 3rd world levels? How little do people need to make and how desperate do they need to be to satisfy free traitors like you?
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posted on
09/01/2025 1:35:13 PM PDT
by
central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: A strike
I have probably read about half a dozen articles from this one source, and I became immediately suspicious of the source’s intent due to the semi-hysterical tone of the articles.
This wasn’t the first one.
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posted on
09/01/2025 2:00:14 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
To: central_va
I work in manufacturing and have for years. Nobody likes shoddy Chinese garbage. But the obsession with an American ally like S. Korea or Canada “cheating” us or “stealing” our jobs is a creation of Trump’s imagination.
It’s the fedgov’s stupid rules and regulations (as well as companies and workers having to jump through hoops to protect ourselves from ridiculous lawsuits) that are the problem.
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