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This Tyler Durden does not write as if he knows much, if anything, about the US Navy or the International Law of the Sea. Ever since before World War Two, US full-sized carriers have had compliments of 85 to 100 combat aircraft and when they sailed on deployments they were escorted by a anti-aircraft/surface protective compliment of ships: destroyers, cruisers and after Pearl Harbor, battleships plus replenishment oilers for fuel and supplies.

During peacetime, if you were sailing outside the 12 nautical miles (13.8 mi/22.2 km)of all countries' Territorial waters, you had the international right to do so at your discretion. These days it is the Chinese Communists sole intent to make the entire South China Sea, an area of some 1,400,000 square miles (3,500,000 sq km) their very own "Territorial Waters" completely under their sovereignty where no other nations' ship may enter without their expressed permission.

This we cannot allow and since the Obama Administration did practically nothing to discourage Red China's actions, islands-building or ambitions there, our navy making normal unfettered access patrols there is imperative to support international Law of the Sea.

Tyler Durden's main interest here appears to show how President Trump is upsetting the apple cart by sending in a carrier of which he know nothing about--

Talk about you typical Not Only Fake... But Incomplete, Misleading, Not Informative News?

Gadzooks, campers-- Durden does not know his Five Ws, much less... the US Navy's deployments nor his arse from his elbow.

Carrier groups have been noticeably present in the South China Sea in recent years. The Stennis Group last April inspired talk the there was a ‘disconnect’ between the US military’s long-standing ‘freedom of navigation’ operations and Obama’s wimpy White House views.

The Reagan Group was there in June 2016. The Chinese actually tried to hack the Reagan in July.

Eactly right, Bender2:

Zero Hedge
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Zero Hedge
Type of site
Financial blog; news and opinion (original and aggregated)
Available in English
Slogan(s) On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero[1]
Website zerohedge.com
Alexa rank Increase 1625 (October 2016)[2]
Launched January 2009; 8 years ago
Zero Hedge is an English-language financial blog that aggregates news and presents editorial opinions from original and outside sources. The news portion of the site is written by a group of editors who collectively write under the pseudonym “Tyler Durden” (a character from the novel and film Fight Club).

Zero Hedge’s content has been classified as conspiratorial, anti-establishment, and economically pessimistic,[3] and has been criticized for presenting extreme and sometimes pro-Russian views.[1][4][5]

History and authorship[edit]
Zero Hedge was established in 2009.[6] According to the Boston Business Journal, the website “publishes financial news and opinion, aggregated and original” from a number of writers “who purportedly hail from within the financial industry.”[6] Posts on the website are signed “Tyler Durden,” a character in the Chuck Palahniuk book and movie Fight Club.[6][5]

In 2009, shortly after the blog was founded, news reports identified Daniel Ivandjiiski, a Bulgarian-born former hedge-fund analyst who was barred from the industry for insider trading by FINRA in 2008, as the founder of the site, and reported that “Durden” was a pseudonym for Ivandjiiski. One contributor, who spoke to New York magazine after an interview was arranged by Ivandjiiski, said that “up to 40” people were permitted to post under the “Durden” name.[5] The website is registered in Bulgaria at the same address as that of Strogo Sekretno, a site run by Ivandjiiski’s father, Krassimir Ivandjiiski.[9] Zero Hedge is registered under the name Georgi Georgiev, a business partner of Krassimir Ivandjiiski.[10]

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