The Marines will begin moving 16 F-35Bs to Iwakuni Air Station in Japan early next year.
What active service will they see in Japan???? Is the US planning to attack N.Korea?
It might be a smart move. But God only knows we do not have a CIC present or prospective that could be expected to do an even reasonable job of it.
Given that waiting for the Soviet state to collapse by it's self went so well; no WWIII, why not do the same with N.K?
Let's face it, everwhere the US has invaded has gone wrong. Where it has not we seem to have conquered.
What active service will they see in Japan???? Is the US planning to attack N.Korea?
They will be hidden far away from US media, so that all the deaths and accidents involved with the deployment can be kept hush hush.
That seems a little cynical. Do you actually believe we will not hear of such accidents? Given the hype surrounding the F35, I'd say we'll hear about significant problems, as we already have pre-deployment.
LOL there have been massive problems and they are still not fixed. It is a flying death trap from Pentagon accounts.. computer failures in mid-flight, potentially killing ejection seats, and so on and so on. The F35 is a political project within the military and especially congress and is being pushed into service.
I was not really worried much about NK. It is just that we are headed for a WW3 in any event, if we do not get a new and robust system of mutual international security in place. And the approach Obama has taken has wasted 8 years of a very narrow window of opportunity we had, when the world believed it was important. Now, everyone is building their armies and negotiating treaties and secret pacts and we are almost where the world was in 1913.
We have just stripped away the Ukraine from mother Russia. Well, most of it.
The Russians are dependant upon money from the export of gas and oil.
They have a small effective army and a large sit still and look almost like an army.
Obama has managed to not start any new wars. He looks good from here.
What active service will they see in Japan???? Is the US planning to attack N.Korea?
LOL there have been massive problems and they are still not fixed. It is a flying death trap from Pentagon accounts.. computer failures in mid-flight, potentially killing ejection seats, and so on and so on. The F35 is a political project within the military and especially congress and is being pushed into service.
What we look like is like a power that has lost its way and it is not willing to stand to its friends, values or even threats. The USA looks like a bumbling giant about to fall and one from whom one must push aside and never trust on.
Cough...China...cough...Russia...cough.
Must be catching a cold.
I would rather have a giant reluctant to start fights than a trigger happy fool wandering about killing people because it thinks it looks better.
The thing about getting what you want without starting big fights is that you often have to let the other side claim the victory. So the Russians can claim the victory of keeping 20% of the Ukraine.
The Russians were quite right to take the land, if you look at it that way. But it is not about "a giant reluctant to start fights than a trigger happy fool wandering about killing people because it thinks it looks better". You see, if it were, there would be no reason to worry, as a world war would be unavoidable anyway. Then it would only be a question of when to get it out of the way.
Cough...China...cough...Russia...cough.
Must be catching a cold.
Eh??
Russia lost 80% of Ukraine.
I don't want there to be WWIII or any other wars for that matter. So a cautious giant is a lot better than a trigger happy fool.
Obama is highly respected around here. Wanker Bush is not.
Russia didn’t lose anything. Their empire imploded and those that were no longer subjugated were set free. Now Putin decided on a little 19th century imperialist land grab.
But that is only the beginning. We are right on the path towards a security structure that inevitably must breed wars. Not little ones like those of the past few decades, but real wars like the ones of the first half of the last century. This has nothing to do with this or that country and how it acts. It is due to the structure of the game now developing.
1. Ukraine was a satelite of Rssia untill recently. It was as much part of the Russian empire as South Korea is part of the US Empire. Now it isn't. Well 80% of it.
2. What the F.K are you talking about?
Ukraine has been a sovereign and independent nation since 1991 ... 25 years.Ukraine was a satelite of Rssia untill recently.
Simpleχity;1066283720 said:Ukraine has been a sovereign and independent nation since 1991 ... 25 years.
This really isn't too difficult to understand, although I strongly advise that you study the pertinent history.Less sovereign than South Korea. Slightly more sovereign than Kazakhstan. Now it's mostly a satellite of NATO and the EU.
Simpleχity;1066289053 said:This really isn't too difficult to understand, although I strongly advise that you study the pertinent history.
With the signing of the Belavezha Accords and the Alma-Ata Protocol in December of 1991, Russia and the 10 former USSR republics all became independent and sovereign nations.
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