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Chinese Admiral threatens to sink two US aircraft carriers, killing 10,000 sailors

OscarLevant

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How is this Trumps fault?
 
This has been going on for years.
 
China - the sleeping giant who has quietly been taking over the world and we gave them the goods/means to do it.
 
The Admiral is posturing. China doesn't yet have the military acumen/depth to challenge the US with kinetic warfare.
 
The Admiral is posturing. China doesn't yet have the military acumen/depth to challenge the US with kinetic warfare.

So-called Western Military Experts are accumulating a record for being wrong about global military matters....you best not hang your hat on them!
 
How is China going to feed itself with all shipping into its ports stopped?
 
It isn't Trump threatening WW3. It's Chinese Admiral ****face.

If China's leaders had brains, they'd 86 this loser before he does something stupid and put China in America's crosshairs.

Hmmmmm....I could make the same case for us and Donald. Just sayin'
 
I started reading that Daily Mail article but then got distracted and clicked on the side link to "Padma Lakshmi looks fabulous in bikini."

It's hard to imagine she used to be married to Salman Rushdie.

I don't trust the Daily Mail. But China has been way out of line regarding the South China Sea. Their claims are just ridiculous. It's worth standing up to them. I doubt they want to go to war over it. It's would be idiotic and they're not stupid.
 
Apparently you have forgotten 9/12.
 

Odd thing for a Zen Socialist to say.
 

I agree, my friend.
That little misunderstanding we had with the Chinese in Korea was totally preventable.
I have never seen China as our enemy. We have a much longer history of cooperation with them than animosity.
Our ASW (Anti-submarine) capabilities are head and shoulders above theirs.
Our ship's damage control is far superior than anyone's. This is why our ships have taken hits, but still were kept afloat.

China may be communist now, but they are far from the hard core communism they were back in the 50's.

but....(pulling my tin foil hat down on my head tight)...but...Mt. Etna DID erupt on December 26th, 2018, signalling another major world issue a few weeks later.

The last time Mt. Etna erupted, 9/11 happened a few weeks later.
When I saw it happening at that time, I brought all my kids to the TV and told them something bad would be happening very soon.
It did.

Gold was $320 and ounce. I bought 12 one ounce coins then. Sold all 12 when it reached $1,000 an ounce.

We WILL be experiencing some kind of major world issue soon, because of Mt. Etna erupting on Dec 26th. I just don't know if this is it or not.
but it IS going to happen soon.

Mt. Etna is your gauge.
 

It has EVERYTHING to do with Trump. China and Russia see that Trump is weak, and the are testing him.
 
It isn't Trump threatening WW3. It's Chinese Admiral ****face.

If China's leaders had brains, they'd 86 this loser before he does something stupid and put China in America's crosshairs.


They perceive Trump as weak, and they are testing him. It has everything to do with Trump.

They see Trump denigrating our military leaders, they see that as weak, because no way in holy hell would a chinese
leader do that about one of it's own military brass. Trump's epic buffoonery has led to this climate where a chinese admiral would be so adventurous to say something like that.
 
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It has EVERYTHING to do with Trump. China and Russia see that Trump is weak, and the are testing him.

I'm pretty sure they've also figured out that he's unstable and dangerous. They'll just wait for him to leave office to make a push.

I do think that their obsession with Taiwan, Tibet and the South China Sea is silly.
 


The quote is on a few clips from various news orgs, I just quoted the first website that had the same quote. It's not just daily mail news.
 

It has nothing to do with Trump, this is our future enemy telling us that they think that we have made a fundamental mistake by still having the carriers be the backbone of our military strategy....they are projecting confidence because that is what peoples do before they go to war.

THe really sad/scary thing is that they might be right:

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/imagine-what-if-china-sunk-navy-aircraft-carrier-31847




EDIT: They also say this:
 
The Admiral is posturing. China doesn't yet have the military acumen/depth to challenge the US with kinetic warfare.

Yeah, but Trump is too lazy to put in the time or effort to know about China or Americas military might or possible strategies. If Trump does anything, it will be what he always does in such a situation: Tweet and say whatever the thinks his base wants him to tweet and say. Trump never actually does anything, he's demonstrated he is almost certainly a coward at heart. Hell, he's too cowardly to even fire people himself.

Undoubtedly China knows this, and are likely trying to elicit a specific response from Trump.
 
I for one am not going to start digging a fallout shelter based on the Daily Mail; looks like both countries have their own lunatics to reign in. Unfortunately, our lunatic is the president.
 

China took advantage of the weakness of the Obama Admin and built up its military in the South China Sea during those years. The reason why this admiral is going bananas is because the Trump admin is contesting, militarily, their claims. Which is a far stronger reaction than China received from President Obama.
 

These guys are questioning career USA military officers and longstanding doctrine?
They must be stooges of Putin.
 
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