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No idea. If it was just some crew member (it doesn't sound like he's reached that point in his life where he can be called a crewman just yet) then they should have found someone with a lot more bass in his voice.
Better yet. Canadians came from thousands of miles away to see a Burke getting brake checked
Wonder if it should have been done to the Canadian ship instead. Interesting what the response will be. What do you think?
Not worth the time and energy to do this to a Canadian ship
Why not. Just to show that there are consequences for being US vassals.
When Mao gave the order to "only attack ROC ship, don't attack US ship" he was taking a gamble. He's always been a gambling man but he doesn't take risk without reason. He correctly judged that it's not in US's national character to stick their neck out for their underlings and he was proven right.
But the whole reason why he gave that order was because China wasn't strong enough to take on US at that time. Now that things are more even this restraint is no longer necessary. Beating the master in front of the dogs has a much greater effect if you can get away with it than vice visa.
On the contrary, It will be more brinkmanship to do this on the Canadian ship on this occasion. The onus will be for the US ship (Choon Yoon) to respond and will look weak if otherwise. Also will show that the US cannot be reliable.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
If the US knew it was losing and it was over for them, the US be for scorched earth. They would take everyone down with them. That's what the Chinese don't understand how Americans think. So thinking the US thinks more about the well-being of the world as a whole doesn't calculate in their thinking so appealing to Americans' sense of humanity doesn't work. Just look at what's happening now. The US is okay with sacrificing it's allies' well-being for what the US wants. That's what US allies are complaining about.
What China should be doing instead is talking about how much Americans are personally going to lose. As Mao said, "One death is a great tragedy. Ten thousand deaths is only a statistic." What made Americans turn against the Iraq War? It was when the American media was no longer lionizing every KIA the US suffered and the only people left to morn were only the family. This is when Americans say to themselves, "Why did these Americans have to die?"
You want to look at it at a smaller scale? Just look at how the West is changing their language from decoupling from China to de-risking. You think they did that because they saw how it would hurt everyone since China is the world's economic engine? No they did it because they suddenly realized how much they were going to lose if China decoupled with them. Like I said before in this forum, they can stop selling advanced technology to China. What is their definition of "advanced technology"? It's as simple as they have it and no one else does. It means also what they still expect to sell to China are the things that China can get somewhere else meaning the West makes zero-money from the largest and still growing market in the world. They're going to lose big time.