[Ancesthntr]

“How strategic are those islands? They’re like little dots in the ocean. One good storm, and they’re washed away.

I fail to see the advantage of them.”

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They are claiming 200-mile zones around them as their “territorial waters,” enabling them to drill for oil to the exclusion of others. Building the islands up effectively gives them a bunch of aircraft carriers (though not mobile, of course). They have planes and anti-aircraft missiles there primarily to intimidate everyone else in the area, and secondarily to actually fight to defend those islands. No, they wouldn’t be successful, but the forces there are a trip-wire, much like our Blackhorse Brigade in the Fulda Gap was when the threat of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was real.

[nikos1121]

I think it was there attempt to “test the waters” with Obama. The asshat does nothing. So they move in. If Hillary were in, they’d take more.

I think their experiment is over.

I don’t think there’s an issue until they take action against us, like they when they stole the research sub.

Trump is going to free us up from being energy dependent.
I think he’s going to work with China to take North Korea out of the equation. I read where he’d like to see the two Koreas united again. Wouldn’t that be something.