Posted on 05/26/2015 7:59:39 PM PDT by Mariner
I didn’t know there was going to be homework.
Had to look that up.
Nice li’l piece of ordnance there. Programmable fuzes that
can delay the secondary explosion for several hours. Sweet!
hmmm
Yeah, those are nice firecrackers, eh?
“Their strategy is smart”
China knows that its competitors in the Spratley’s cannot afford to try and exploit the oil/gas there on their own, They would have to lease “rights” to Shell/Exxon, etc.
China though, can afford it, and has the tech readily available. Plus, they have the strategic need to localize some of it’s oil needs.
They have every incentive to do it, especially given the current US leadership., China may never have another opportunity to exploit it as they do now.
With their huge naval building program, they could afford to losea couple of older ships, to prove a point.
That's why we MUST provoke them.
We must know if they will and can fight.
whose mother’s sons will be sacrificed?
Huh?
Why, I suppose it will be some Chinese son.
The mission of the US Navy in at least the last 100 years has been to assure the free flow of goods on the open seas.
It has benefited us and the world greatly.
If we stop ensuring that, civilization itself collapses.
It's a binary choice.
They don’t have to fight, they only have to call in our debt.
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