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China to extend military reach, build lighthouses in disputed waters
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| May 26th, 2015
| Megha Rajagopalan
Posted on 05/26/2015 7:59:39 PM PDT by Mariner
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We need o send a Surface Action Group (DDG/CG) through there 8 or 10 times to figure out if they can and will fight.
Mostly, we need to know if they can.
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posted on
05/26/2015 7:59:39 PM PDT
by
Mariner
To: Mariner
this is getting a little serious.
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posted on
05/26/2015 8:02:50 PM PDT
by
dp0622
To: Mariner
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posted on
05/26/2015 8:04:18 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Claire Wolfe should check her watch. It's time.)
To: Mariner
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posted on
05/26/2015 8:05:04 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Mariner
Under the present Regime, we have to know if our Military will be allowed to fight! Fight they will, and with a will, if not ham-stringed from behind!
"I am an American fighting man. I serve in the forces which guard my country and our way of life. I am prepared to give my life in their defense." |
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posted on
05/26/2015 8:05:48 PM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in Battle!)
To: ClearCase_guy
“Lighthouse?”
A symbol of ownership and control.
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posted on
05/26/2015 8:06:41 PM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
To: Mariner
Lighthouses are so like 19th century and such.
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posted on
05/26/2015 8:07:36 PM PDT
by
Repeal The 17th
("We The People" have met the enemy; and it is "We The People".)
To: Mariner
so +1 food and +1 gold from ocean tiles? /civ anyone?
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posted on
05/26/2015 8:12:02 PM PDT
by
HenryArmitage
(it was not meant that we should voyage far.)
To: TigersEye
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posted on
05/26/2015 8:12:03 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: tcrlaf
"A symbol of ownership and control."
Correct.
A REAL claim.
One they intend to enforce with force of arms.
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posted on
05/26/2015 8:12:37 PM PDT
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: Mariner
Oh, to have a president with a set.
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posted on
05/26/2015 8:14:04 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(Blue lives matter)
To: Repeal The 17th
“Like, lighthouses aren’t, like, dangerous. They don’t like, have guns an’ other scary stuff. Lighthouses provide jobs, an’, so, they, like, prevent terrorism.” - Marie Harf
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posted on
05/26/2015 8:14:36 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Mariner
If building an island in the middle of the ocean establishes a claim to waters, lets dredge one up too.
The answer is to let them enjoy their island, and never recognize the claim to the adjacent waters. Sail around it, and fly above it anytime you please.
Basically announce that we will treat is as no more than a Chinese ship. In fact, we should communicate with the islands exactly as though they WERE a ship.
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posted on
05/26/2015 8:17:10 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
To: Mariner
Their strategy is smart —building carriers takes a LONG time, and even longer to figger out how to use them.
Dredging?
Yeah, you suck up sand from over there, then dump it over HERE —just keep sucking and dumping to all hell.
Once you’ve got a real ton of those and their corresponding exclusion zones, it’s like they’re a whole bunch of super cheap, stationary carriers, and you can bug passing ships and planes AD INFINITUM.
They intend to make life for non-Chinese in the South and East China seas utter hell —permanently.
I guess the next big step will be when they shoot down either a Japanese or American recon plane.
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posted on
05/26/2015 8:17:47 PM PDT
by
gaijin
To: Mariner
Chicoms, like all bullies, are wussies when they find resistance. The Philippines not too long ago was capturing Chinese fishing vessels violating their waters and blowing them up. Chicoms didn’t do squat.
To: Mariner
Obama will do nothing and they know it.
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posted on
05/26/2015 8:26:24 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(A free society canÂ’t let the parameters of its speech be set by murderous extremists.)
To: doc1019
That’s why they’re doing this, because of our current POTUS.
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posted on
05/26/2015 8:28:50 PM PDT
by
Rennes Templar
(NSA: The only government agency that really listens.)
To: Army Air Corps
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posted on
05/26/2015 8:32:03 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(If You Are Ignorant, Don't Vote!)
To: TigersEye
The Matra Durandal comes to mind.
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posted on
05/26/2015 8:33:57 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: TigersEye
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posted on
05/26/2015 8:37:41 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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