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.

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.

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.

The punchline is: Lincoln Chafee is at least as credible as any of these people.

Bulldog, I’m more on the left side of most things, but I really don’t give a wet crap about pointing a finger at Bush or anyone else at this point. It happened and now we’re in it. I should also say that if in your opinion the Vietnam War was the worst thing to happen, I’ll respect your opinion and won’t try to change…

I did not realize you were a conspiracy theorist when I replied to you. Throw in a couple “damn Zionists” or “Hasbara” or “Western Aggression” next time and you can complete the lazy hypothesis.

“No WMD was found because there was none.”

I think that was “piece of granite.”

Indeed.

Isn’t it hilarious how propagandists and conspiracy nuts assert that people who don’t believe, or even know of, their cockamamie points of view/theories— are “absolute morons?”