I would say we at much more friendly with Vietnam than unfriendly. Their upper branch political leadership, especially thr old folks, are naturally a little suspicious of the US, but the civilian population has totally moved past thr war, the business community loves the West, and even the military welcomes our…

we should go in and airlift it out.

“At the very least those islands would be wiped clean of any building or infrastructure the Chinese have been working to build”
I don’t want to see any ships sunk, but that sounds like an excellent outcome.

My bad. You’re right. I was mistaken about signs of volcanism on the moon.

personally i think there should be a flotilla comprised of warships from every nation this little stunt effects.

dont send the message that the US wont put up with it. send the message that EVERYONE wont put up with that shit.

Iowa class would be ludicrously expensive to operate. Each turret requires significantly more crew than an LCS, to say nothing of the rest of the ship. And frankly, for anything other than shore bombardment, it’s firepower is inferior to both the Burkes and Ticos. Terrible waste of money to bring them back.

Oh don’t be a fucking tool. We here in 7th fleet do this kinda shit all the time, sometimes it’s the Chinese, sometimes North Koreans. Admittedly the truth isn’t generally published to you guy in the public.

And women. In fact, several warships are commanded by them. But more importantly, just watching, listening and being seen doing our normal operations—especially with our partners in the region—goes a long, long way.

Multi-billion warships loaded with men AND women are sent to do just that, quite frequently, and have been for a great number of years.

You know, if China wants their fake land grab to last, they’d damned well better stop contributing so much to climate change. Otherwise, that shit will be underwater and irrelevant in no time.

Or if he did go all the way and put a major space proposal before congress, the Dems would stall/cancel it like they did Constallation. To be fair the Repubs cancelled X-33 when they entered office. NASA will continue to be a political chew toy and do nothing serious as long as people treat space as a partisan issue.

This was really hard to find....

It is a pusher and you know what? Sans its rotors it does look like one bad little sub. It apparently does have some low observable characteristics as well.

We actually are a leading donor in humanitarian response as well.

That Pike missile/grenade will revolutionize ground warfare. It will mean any private can kill like Chris Kyle. Even the humblest 4 man fire team will now be able to reach out and kill at a mile away, with Hellfire level precision. Moar funding for that weapon right now.

Fun fact: For all the Democrats being labelled “pro science” and Republicans being labelled “anti science”, Republican budgets have consistently had significantly higher support for NASA since the 80s.

Nice comment Jeb,

Nothing except for the water that can be collected, and split with readily available solar power into hydrogen and oxygen for use as a propellant in spacecraft used to mine asteroids at much less expense than hauling it into space from the surface of the Earth. The moon has a much, smaller escape velocity, and gravity…

“Bush’s support for a moon colony might seem out of touch with NASA’s current focus on the Red Planet”

He’s not wrong.