Posted on 11/29/2013 6:40:17 AM PST by Zakeet
I agree that Obama wants something to distract attention from his domestic failures, but he didn’t initiate this confrontation.
You mean, like when the Soviet Union shot down Korean Air Lines flight 007 in 1983 in the Sea of Japan (a commercial airliner carrying a U.S. congressman)? There was no war then between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. And with Obama firmly in control, there will be no war with China. Heck, Obama would blame our allies if their plane were shot down by China.
I agree that we will not go to war with China, but Japan might.
Might means yes or no. If Japan were to respond to hostilities by China, then they would have to go all in. Otherwise, China would retaliate with commercial attacks on Japan. As in riots against Japanese goods, stores and people in China. We've seen a little of that when Japan bought the Senkaku islands from a private owner recently. It would be in Japan's best interests to counter-attack with all their might, and try to get western allies to back her.
If Japan would not counter-attack due to hostilities by China, then they might lose their only hope of resisting China as China gets stronger militarily in the near future. I can see a strong China in perhaps 15 to 20 years, that would try to subjugate Japan and Japan would be powerless. So I believe Japan should counter-attack if China initiated hostilities to Japanese aircraft.
I personally believe that Japan would retaliate. Whether the U.S.A. would back them as allies is questionable under Obama.
Good summary. I agree.
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