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So, basically, China is doing exactly what we would do. Especially if we didn’t have carriers. We can’t act all offended when other countries feel the need to answer our own military posturing.

The economic sanctions have actually not had the huge effect they were planned to have, although the effect is still tangiable.

No no, based on these articles, only Russia does that, and the coalition is doing this for world peace only.

Seems like Tyler’s attempt to play on the instinct of many Americans to assume that if another major power is neck deep in turds of a foreign conflict then the U.S. has to follow suit or risk being seen as “weak.”

Agreed. Turkey knows that ISIS doesn’t have planes, but then again, maybe ISIS isn’t Turkey’s enemy.

When built by the Soviets, the designation of the Kuznetsov class (not its original class name) was “heavy aircraft carrying cruiser.” This for one obvious reason...to contravene the Montreaux Convention and get through the Dardanelles Straits.

It’s called reverse engineering.