Posted on 10/22/2021 1:04:38 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Agroup of 10 Chinese and Russian naval vessels is conducting a joint patrol along a route that increasingly suggests it might take them all the way around Japan's Home Islands. Even if none of these ships ultimately sail a full loop around the Japanese archipelago, this operation is still a significant display of the ability of these two navies to work together. This all follows a number of major maritime exercises in the Pacific involving the U.S. Navy and its allies and partners — including Japan — this year, as well as multiple instances in which Chinese and Russian naval forces have separately operated unusually close to American territory.
The Japanese Ministry of Defense announced today that it had monitored the Chinese and Russian ships passing west between Smith Island and the island of Torishima, an area situated some 300 miles south of the Home Island of Honshu. The vessels first entered the Pacific Ocean, traveling east through the Tsugaru Strait that separates Honshu and the Home Island of Hokkaido to the north, on Oct. 18, 2021.
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We are so screwed.
Maybe if they sail around Japan fast enough, over and over, the ships will turn into syrup to use on pancakes.
Millennials. They don’t even remember 911.
Japan ain’t Jericho.
based on it’s 2000 year history, i think it might take a bit more than that to cow Nihon in to submission.
If history has taught me anything it is that you do not want to get the Japanese angry.
Pshaw. What- they going to come at you with their stuffed toys or something? They’re like the Americans, a mere ghost or shadow of who they were until about the 1970’s.
Pei-Ping....and Pingski.
Surely Gen. Milli Vanilli’s BFFs in ChiCom Land told him all about this.
Can’t do that…the wake would tip over Guam causing Milley to send a strongly worded letter.
The Japanese might reply “Do not waken the sleeping giant.”
Or maybe these days they would say “Do not waken the sleeping senile one who eats ice cream.”
Taiwan is lost, the CCP will take it whenever they want because Judas Joe was paid off by the Chinese long ago.
10 ships does not an armada make. That says, the ChiComs are obviously trying to cow Japan. Here’s hoping that Japan answers in kind.
Putin is a lover of history. Wonder if he skipped over the years 1904-5.
Well, we have a new tough as nails Tranny Admiral who’s going to put those Chinese in their place. Just you watch!
Hmm...Japan took Port Arthur from Russia in 1904. Maybe they can settle the Kuril Islands ownership dispute this time around.
It would be a pity if they ran into a mine field.
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