Posted on 09/19/2021 12:10:32 PM PDT by george76
Let their Chi-com friends buy submarines for them.
This. The French should give the Viet Cong submarines.
The U.S. is broke. We have more debt I'd venture to say than France.
And, we need to fun our own military. Although . . . with Biden and Milley in charge maybe we should just wait and see.
If we were going to do this why not give them to the Philippines are the Indian Navy?
We gave weapons to the Mujahedeen against the Russians. That worked out so well for us.
No, just no!
We could buy them for ourselves.
Diesels are, while somewhat less mission capable,a substantial increment more stealthly.
And we as a Navy are somewhat less capable when it comes to diesel/electric.
If they only operate them in Afghani territorial waters, why not?
Bolivia could also use a couple...
Or if France is inclined to throw their money away let them do it.
Maybe not, but surely there would be a provision that the Vietnamese tell General Milley BEFORE they fire a torpedo so he can then call his Chicom counterpart to let him know a fish is on the way!
Give some to Vietnam, and some to Taiwan and watch Whinny the Xi foam at the mouth.
Thanks
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. I like the idea.
“Interesting idea. Worth the read.”
I agree. Unlike China, Vietnam actually tells their people to be friendly to Americans, and they are...genuinely friendly. Of course they’re still Communist, but they’ve already fought a war with China (and beat the crap of them). The war was fought because Vietnam, while still Communist, simply couldn’t sit by while the “Killing Fields” slaughter of Cambodians was going on next door, so they put an end to it, angering China in the process and thereby being invaded by China (and they gave the Chairman a nice black eye in the process).
Only problem that I have is with the price - $90B for 12 subs...uh, no.
On the surface, this idea has merit.
IIRC, a similar idea was suggested during the Bush 43 administration. Taiwan was disappointed, predictably.
That’s the only idea that makes sense. But it’ll never happens because Joe Biden is a friend of the CCP.
Heres my take. This whole nuke sub deal was another gift to China by Joe. It takes years to build these nuke subs. By the time their completed , China will have already attacked or be in complete control of the world’s economy.
Nothing absolutely nothing I mean nothing to any communist government
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Well first you have to be willing to accent 43% more pay that the average taxpayer who supports you and you have to be willing to accept bribes and also pay them when necessary. After you accept all that then you may be a shew in.
The Vietnamese hate the Chinese.
The U.S. doesn’t have the money to buy anybody ANY submarines, including the U.S.
Tell France and Vietnam to go over to Afghanistan, get our equipment back that Biden and his marxists pals left there.
Then, they can sell the equipment and buy some French subs.
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