Posted on 03/30/2020 6:20:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
Has the Wuhan virus nudged China toward the virtues of peaceful co-existence? The first place to look for a sign of that is the Japanese Foreign Ministry record of intrusions into Japanese waters around the Senkaku Islands:
The big jump in incursions in late 2012 was due to President Xi’s accession to the throne. Going into 2020 there has been no change in Chinese aggression as indicated by the rate of incursions. The Chicoms are still baiting the Japanese.
They are also building a highway towards the Vietnamese border town of Po Thiung. In their last attack on Vietnam in 1979 the Chicom forces suffered from poor logistics and so probably won’t attack until that highway is completed. Unfortunately Google looks to me almost as if it were infested with Chinese agents of influence, since the imagery over the area on Google Earth hasn’t been updated for a couple of years.
In late February a Chinese warship lased a U.S. Navy P-8 flying 380 miles west of Guam, which is about two thirds of the way from the Philippines towards Guam. So China’s level of aggression hasn’t moderated at all.
Which means war with China is still coming, virus or no virus, because the situation in the South China Sea cannot be resolved any other way. China wants all the islands claimed by Vietnam, Malaysia, and the Philippines, for one, won’t give them up without a fight. The death and wealth destruction caused by the Wuhan virus is just a warmup to the main event – war with China.
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By all means!
” Rerease the Klaken!”
Give some nukes to the Norks. If you know what I mean. He he.
I got a few in the backyard that I got at a bargain that they can lease to own.
I’ve read over the years Japan allegedly has everything ready to assemble. At some point, both nations are going to have to acquire nukes, whether purchased from an ally, leased or home-built. The China threat is too much for the smaller Asian countries to “feel” the USA will protect them indefinitely.
I got a few in the backyard that I got at a bargain that they can lease to own.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I’d pay a few bucks to have some range time with you.
No matter what you or I think, this idea has near zero chance of becoming policy. Why?
The argument leaves in place the argument against “nuclear proliferation” as something that must be avoided and with a priority above any other.
I think that argument is false.
The knowledge and mutual recognition that MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) is the result of a nuclear conflict KEPT the missiles in the ground during the cold war. MAD has worked between India and Pakistan. No big military conflicts have emerged between them since they both became nuclear powers.
The U.S. would never “lease” it’s own nuclear arms. It would never put them in someone else’s hands. Even within NATO we have not put them in others hands, even when we have put them on other’s soil.
What we can do, and what is more likely the U.S. will eventually do, is give the green light to Japan, South Korea and Saudi Arabia to go ahead and build their own nuclear arms. Japan can likely do it readily and Saudi Arabia can buy all they need from Pakistan. South Korea will likely do it as a submarine based nuclear force, which will make it harder to be directly detected and directly hit by North Korea; making it more lethal. As for Vietnam. It will have to make its own decisions.
How in the bloody blue blazes do you lease a nuke? Do you get to trade it in for a newer model? If you use it, do you have to pay a usage fee? Do you charge for scratches and dents?
I’ve heard that the Germans had launch authority on Pershing missiles.
They’re pretty cheap for the first 100 miles but if you go over that it gets murderously expensive.
Brings new concept to wording in a lease. “Term of lease to end when lease property is no more — goes boom.”
I did not remember that Germany did have launch authority on some Pershing missiles supplied by the U.S. and made part of Germany’s own military commands.
The Pershings have been retired (1991???) and I am not sure what has replaced them.
Nope...just keep patrolling those areas.....both China and North Korea know better that to attack either Japan or South Korea\!!!
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WE NEED “NATIONAL DISTANCING” from this Squalorous Pestiferous Plague Pit of a Country
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No, we never gave the Krauts authority to start a nuclear war on behalf of NATO.
The Pershing 1a was deployed with three U.S. battalions in Europe and two German Air Force wings. Each battalion or wing had 36 mobile launchers. The constitution of West Germany prohibited owning nuclear weapons, thus control of the nuclear warheads remained in the hands of the U.S. Army”.
The Germans never got the Pershing II.
>No, we never gave the Krauts authority to start a nuclear war on behalf of NATO.
I heard this from one of the launch officers in the Luftwaffe. Maybe he was pulling my leg.
So if they use a nuke will South Korea and Japan have to pay a surcharge?
Of course, in the real world, that means a US Army officer was right beside him, giving him the thumbs up. That part of the world was on a hair trigger and it’s hard to imagine a longer process.
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