Posted on 04/26/2022 5:46:04 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
One of the most senior US officials in the Pacific has refused to rule out military action against Solomon Islands if it were to allow China to establish a military base there, saying that the security deal between the countries presented “potential regional security implications” for the US and other allies.
Ambassador Daniel Kritenbrink, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, was part of a high-level US delegation to the Pacific country last week.
He said the US team, which also included the National Security Council coordinator for Indo-Pacific affairs, Kurt Campbell, had a 90-minute “constructive and candid” meeting with prime minister Manasseh Sogavare in which the US team detailed concerns about its recently signed security deal with China.
Temper tantrums and invasion threats over Solomon Islands deal with China will push Pacific allies away Read more “We wanted to outline for our friends in the Solomons, what our concerns are,” said Kritenbrink. “Prime minister Sogavare indicated that in the Solomon Islands’ view, the agreement they’ve concluded has solely domestic implications. But we’ve made clear that there are potential regional security implications of the agreement not just for ourselves, but for allies and partners across the region.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
“...But its bad if Russia does something similar.”
There’s a huge difference between saying “we’re not ruling anything out” and invading a weaker and smaller neighbor.
Nah, they’ll send Boyington
All they gotta do is resurrect him
The amount of lazy, reflexive anti-Americanism on this site is becoming embarrassing.
Would you explain why Ukraine is free to have alliances with the powers hostile to Russia, but Solomon Island can’t ally to China?
It’s like we’ve all been saying for months:
This administration is desperate enough to spark a war - false flag or otherwise (look at Ukraine) - that if it was up to me, we’d be “1 second to Midnight.”
For the record, we’re currently clocked at 100 seconds to Midnight:
https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/
Russia invaded a country that was not and could not threaten them in any way. Even if Ukraine had joined NATO, nobody was invading Russia.
China has no business or reason to put a base on the Solomon Islands except to use it to threaten, harass or otherwise invade Australia and other nations in the Pacific.
Yes the Solomon islands are a sovereign nation, but let us be honest they are only a sovereign nation because the United States freed them and allow them to maintain their sovereignty. They are completely incapable of remaining sovereign if it were not for the protection that the United States provides. If a nation cannot control its borders and defend itself then it is only a nation because others choose to let it be.
ROTFL! I don’t know how we could take on China right now. The Taliban has all of our war equipment.
It’s almost May. You said France would be a territory of Russia by now. It is, right?
When did I say it? If so then context is important.
We already took Guadalcanal, Gavutu, Tanambogo, and Florida Island back in the 1940s from the Japanese… Now we’re going to have to go back again and take them back from the Chinese?
Biden has allowed (almost) the Chinese to establish a base in the Solomon Islands????!!!
What a catastrophic failure .
Will he give them Guam and Hawaii next?
That is your speculation, not based on facts. Ukraine is openly hostile to Russia and NATO has a history of invasions, while China didn’t invade anyone in decades.
Can’t help you friggin idiots who don’t understand that Russia and China are a threat to our security. That means our lives and property.
We’re on this side. They’re on that side.
If you don’t understand that fundamental fact, no one should let you play with sharp objects.
China threatens to invade Taiwan every day.
Guess who and how made them enemies? First you tread on them for no particular reason and no is crying like a little girl. Isn’t it silly?
Someone here said that threatening and invading are two different things. The article stipulates the possibility of the American invasion of Solomon islands BTW.
Still waiting for China to invade like some predicted they would do at the same time Russia moved on Ukraine.
Step 1.
Wave rainbow flag
2
Purge military of cisgendered white supremists domestic terrorists
3
Release China bioweapon, force population and remaining trans military personnel to take clot shot
4
Send hunter to Collect China and russian payoffs
5
Abandon 83 billion in armament to talybon and create 4th largest equipped terrorist army in the world
6
Provoke and fund war in Ukraine to destroy district of cartels u.s. tax money foreign aid laundering incriminating evidence.
7
send 1/3 remaining u.s. heavy artillary to Ukraine to be destroyed on railroad tracks by Russia
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send last remains of stingers inventory to ukraine
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Provoke war with nuke armed Russia
1o
Provoke war with nuke armed China
11
Hide in bunkers while missler fly and reduce 8 billion world population to sustainable 500,000
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Stay in bunker , party hardy, wait for 7.5 billion dead rotting bodies to quit stinking
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Diddle the kids in utopia.
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Did I miss anything ?
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Yep, it’s like talking to treasonous morons.
“Gee, why do we not want China to have a military base from which they can attack Australia? I mean everything our enemies do is the same as what we do, so why don’t we surrender or maybe kill ourselves? Wouldn’t that be fair?”
These idiots don’t understand that Russia and China have nuclear weapons and powerful armed forces aimed at US, that they are ruthless abs threaten everything we have.
Did these fools ever listen to Rush Limbaugh explain that this world is ruled by force and the threat of force?
It’s a little thing called reality.
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