Posted on 12/22/2020 8:36:42 AM PST by ameribbean expat
South Korea on Tuesday said it had scrambled fighter jets after nearly 20 Russian and Chinese military aircraft entered its air defense identification zone.
According to Reuters, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said that it identified four Chinese warplanes and 15 Russian aircraft entering its Korea Air Defense Identification Zone (KADIZ).
In response, the South Korean military dispatched fighter aircrafts, although the Chinese military eventually told South Korea that its planes were conducting routine training.
The JCS confirmed in a statement that the incident appeared to be “a joint military drill between China and Russia,” but added the event “requires further analysis,” Reuters reported.
South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported that the country’s foreign ministry told both China and Russia Tuesday that their planes should not again enter the KADIZ.
This comes after the South Korean military announced in July of last year that it had fired hundreds of warning shots at a Russian military aircraft conducting a joint air patrol with China when it entered the KADIZ.
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I was up in the wilds of Wyoming a long time ago, hunting and tracking and it was a good food gathering effort.
While skirting a rock outcrop to get a view of the valley below I was stopped dead in my tracks.
Before me was an old sidecar, russian, old n rusty, and in the chair was a guy in a hunting vest rifle shouldered and he was dead still.
I waited, he fired, then turned and thanked me for my being patient.
His face was well worn with eyes dark but alert and was at my best guess around 60 or so. He had just cross shot a mountain lion out of a tree some 250 to 300 yards away as I saw it drop.
Still somewhat stunned by finding him on the track I was on my jaw hit the dirt as he slid the rifle into its sheath in the chair, grabbed one handlebar and the side of the bike seat and swung up onto the seat.
WTH... No legs. He yelled at me to come see him at his camp back a ways, engaged the reverse gear and backed around the track, and was gone on a cloud of dirt and laughter.
The area after the shot was alerted and gone to ground so I headed to his camp but bugger me, I could see him threading his way up the valley and I watched as he hooked that animal up onto his lap then into the chair.
Off he went again, it took me a good 2 hours to get to his camp.
A cold brew was waiting and after a thank you and a brew I asked what drove him to be doing as he was doing because that to me was astounding.
He sat back s while, spat and said he needed to eat, and that cat had taken his goat the night before.
He then told me I was the first person to not comment on his appearance etc.
He suffered his plight during WW2 and his family had saved to bring home the sidecar.
I asked how he got on the Bike..
” I bloody well drag my ass up there, falled off more times than flint, but I never give up”
Ty for letting me remember that mountain man again, he taught me how to conquer even the most impossible challenges in life.
Respects
“Russian and Chinese”
Coordination.
Very interesting.
Testing the edges of crumbly Western Civilization by the fascist block is back on the Front Burner.
Russia and China were both using North Korea as their mean little lap dog in the ‘50s, too.
Russia and China, together again, causing havoc. Ah...the good old days. They probably worked together on the voter fraud, and government hack.
China has been busy in Africa, South America, and the Caribbean.
I won’t be surprised to see a naval base crop up there, with
elevated armaments to follow.
I do believe that China is inferior to us at this time, but there
is one haunting reality about military preparedness.
We have a better air force than China for instance, but they
have massive numbers of inferior aircraft.
As for our carriers, I fear the development of superior
killers that can take them out.
Despite the nation’s age, China will acts like an adolescent
nation, it’s goals and choices.
The United States had no desire to take land from China, or
to stifle it’s economy. Hell, we built what is China today
with our policies.
So now China takes advantage of it’s new found wealth given
to it by the United States, and plans how to crush the United
States.
It is abusing it’s neighbors on all sides. That has been it’s
past and now current model.
You touch on a good point. China has so angered it’s neighbors
and frightened them as well, that those neighbors may be
quite willing to take measures to defend themselves.
Vietnam seems to have China’s number, when it comes to
military conflict. They mop up with them every so often.
Things are getting interesting.
I hear ya...
I don’t like talking about W., D.C. in those terms, but to be
honest the politicians there have caused our nation a lot of
grief.
We have citizens there that wouldn’t deserve this, even if they
are a part of the problem in other ways.
Bad times...
Once a group of six high school classes was asked if they recognized the sentence, “When in the course of human events.”
Not a single one of those students knew it, recognized it, or even had an inkling of its origin.
Blank stares were the answer.
It was amazing.
(This was in a day of discussion in which each class took part separately with a group of older adults.)
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