‘You can’t just say that proxy wars aren’t wars.’

Anyone know what the deal is with the bright rusty-orange deck?

OK, so curious here. Fiery cross for example can sortie a larger complement of land based aircraft that a carrier can.

Not too clear on the distinction between completely unrelated things, are we?

Other than, you know, laws and changes to the ROE after the US wiped out a MSF hospital, you are still complaining after waiting provided an opportunity to eliminate the maximum number of opponents in a single strike?

Money doesn’t fix everything. Especially when the problem is a transition from a command and control economy to a market based one in the complete absence of any institutions that a normal mixed market economy (e.g. the rest of the West and 1st world Asia).

... and Australia’s dependency on raw material exports to China.

See the response to the March 2011 earthquake in Japan for an example of the resilience of the modern global marketplace. There was a feat that that would have significant consequences, but they were very temporary in nature.

Don’t know if you recall this, but China was clearly become the enemy that the United States tend to need to ‘stop’ at the start of the Bush Administration. Then 9/11 happened and the US got distracted for a decade or so.

I think you could see that in the expression on his face when people were yelling out of the crowd about killing Obama.

I had a similar thought. I also reflected how many times I’ve read now Trump supporters talk about Obama’s <insert inane reference to political thuggery in Chicago> in a pejorative sense. Of course, the lack of bodies floating down the Potomac might give one pause about making such a comparison, but not to worry.

OK, I’ll bite. What part of the ‘left’ (a curious other half of the whole to Republicans) has been voting for him, approving of him anything else that they would need to account for?

Out of curiosity, how many self-identified conservatives do you know? The older ones that I know (Vietnam service era, although most of them served in the Navy or AF and not so much on the ground) quite vocally make it clear that they believe that a) Torturing people has produced intelligence that was useful, b)…

Of course I have a problem with that. That hardly would seem to disprove that the UN is demonstrably anti-Israeli, largely because countries that hate Israel can take positions that allow them to pass anti-Israeli resolutions. One does not preclude the other. You do know who the members of the Humans Rights council…

OK, perhaps we’re reading Diaz’s comment differently. When I read this

Just to make sure we’re on the same page, you’ve replied to an assertion that the US Navy would sink most of the Chinese Navy very quickly by using 3 guerrilla insurgencies as examples of the US underestimating its opponents?

So... We just keep sailing past and flying over them. Just like we have been?

I’m sorry but that seems intensely silly. The US did not fight the Vietnamese, Iraq or Afghan Navy.

Actually, we’ve already admitted that in many cases we did indeed pick them up for no reason.

To be fair, you are highlighting a constraint of the power of POTUS. He did propose it, several times.