China is Targeting US? No, really??
Attention on deck! Listen up! It appears that China, our esteemed trading partner, and manufacturer of multiple hundreds of thousands of brands of US-bound electronics junk, is not only forming its very own Nuke Triad Club, but is also targeting our very own turf, the island of Guam.
Ain’t that just sweet??? After all those stories about the Norks in Norkiland targeting the US’s left coast and Guam, now we have to worry about the Chinese doing it, too?
From the article:
“The Pentagon, for the first time, has publicly reported what commanders in the Pacific have known about, and kept a wary eye on, for some time: China is practicing long-range bombing runs against U.S. targets.
“While the Defense Department annually reports on the rapid growth in capabilities of China’s air, land and sea forces, the 2018 report is the first to acknowledge the direct threat to U.S. territory.
“Recent developments on China’s H-6K variant of its Badger bomber give the bomber “the capability to carry six land-attack cruise missiles, giving the PLA a long-range standoff precision strike capability that can range Guam,” the report said. It also acknowledged frequent bombing practice runs that U.S. commanders at the newly renamed U.S. INDOPACOM in Hawaii have watched expand in numbers and distance.”
— Military Times article
There is a link in the article to another article on how China has been practicing bombing runs against the USA territory of Guam. Now, that’s just rude.
Here’s another link to an article regarding the proposed $716 billion DoD budget for FY2019. https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2018/08/20/this-week-in-congress-us-senate-debates-pentagon-spending-bill/
Maybe we should stop sending our technology to China for manufacturing. You know, keep it close to the buttons on the front of your blouse or shirt.
We did talk about that the other day: bringing all US manufacturing home to Mama, but no one brought up this very subject, which could have been addressed.
I know it would run up the cost of the iPad for Applefans, but – well, they’re obsessed with Appletoys, anyway, and I’m so unimpressed with all of that stuff that I’m still using a 15-year-old computer.
Category: Military issues, Reality Check
Anyone who thinks any major power isn’t training to attack the others is living in a dream world. It may be described as defensive retaliation, but it’s still attack training.
My surprised face has been getting a lot of use as of late.
You, too???
Not to mention China claiming the entire South China Sea as it’s own personal pond. Now that’s just greedy.
Ex, will you please check your mail. I sent you a new post earlier and it looks like the site could use some assistance today.
Poe
Roger that, Poetrooper.
In other news the North Korean Central News Agency today (in an official statement) said it had this message for the United States….
“메롱 미국!” Which roughly translated means..
“nanny nanny boo boo!”
Any way I could talk you into a Spew Alert next time? Diet Coke through the nose HURTS!!!
😉
Guam? Why would they want Guam.
I heard it was kinda tippy lately.
Well, they gotta have something!
Face.
This is all about Face. We could wipe them off the Earth in an afternoon. We could sink the entirety of the PLA Navy, and not run dry the magazines. Their Air Force is numerous, but despite posturing is -no- match for ours in an all-up fight.
They, like the Iranians, see their history as one of being the Great Power to whom all must kowtow. They want that back,a nd see us and some others as “in the way”.
They think we are mighty because of our peerless Armed Forces, but miss that our forces are peerless because of the -kind- of society we are. They cannot match us unless they become -like- us, and their increasingly sclerotic government is actually going in the wrong direction – Towards the Maoist autocracy path.
They are a net importer of food. This is a fatal weakness. They are a net importer of wealth. This is another fatal weakness.
Trump knows both, and knows how to exploit both of them. I suspect they believe otherwise.
Bad belief.
Not just that, it’s been said that the Chinese put quantity over quality when it comes to Military Hardware just like the Soviets did.
We could kill a billion of the Chinese and they would still out number us. IMHO they don’t think that we have the political will to get into a shooting war. We all, on this site, understand that, but the snow flaky marxo, commo,socio, demos think that the utopia is just around the corner. They don’t realize that the educated liberals will be the 1st ones into the extermination camps. DON”T TRUST NONE. As posted the other day, I personally make a very spirited attempt to not purchase any more than I absolutely positively have to that is made in China. Yes, I spend a little more, and yes I curry comb the country side looking for other sources, and yes there are some things I do with out. However, we all have to start some where. That 20 mile road march starts as a single step. If we, as a country, just quit buying or just doing without for awhile, the ripple effect will happen. Their long term goal is to take us over/destroy us from with in, with out contaminating the bread basket. I also personally think that the surprise attack is coming and it will start with a few EMP shots with multiple container ships slap full of PLA Troops off loading a ports all over the country.