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manqiangrexue

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Ive been saying that these kind of miliary accidents seem to be happening more frequently.
So I posted yesterday that they had 1 confirmed dead. There's a big difference between 1 dead, the rest rescued and 1 dead the rest missing. It's the latter, and they've been in the ocean for over a day now so it's looking like they all died. And apparently, according to an eye-witness, it exploded in mid-air and then fell into the sea, making survival even less likely. Another interesting facet is that there seems to be some controversy as to how many were on board, with the initial report saying 8, then corrected to say 6, and now, they're saying 1 dead, 7 missing. Published under an hour ago:
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"Japan suspended flights by its Osprey aircraft Thursday, officials said, the day after a U.S. Air Force Osprey based in Japan crashed into the sea during a training mission.

Tokyo says it has also asked the U.S. military to ground all Ospreys operating in Japan except for those searching for victims of the crash.

The U.S. Osprey crashed Wednesday off Japan’s southern coast, killing at least one of the eight crew members. The cause of the crash and the status of the seven others on board were not immediately known.

NHK quoted a Yakushima resident saying he saw the aircraft turn upside down, with fire coming from one of its engines, and then an explosion before it fell into the sea."
 
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ficker22

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The more I think about it the more this China getting old before it goes rich line feels like it’s a lie created by China because of how perfectly it plays to the west’s three biggest collective character flaws: Magical thinking, kicking the can down the road, and belief in manifest destiny.

It’s the perfect excuse for the current generation in the west to not have to make the hard choices and pay the high prices (in treasure and blood) to fight China today, when all they have to do is wait and do nothing and China will magically collapse decades down the line, thereby proving the divine superiority of the western white race once again.

So please keep looking down on China and toasting to the ‘inevitable’ collapse of China western colonialists for a decade or two more, because by the time they realise their mistake, what they think and do will no longer matter because by that time China will be able to crush them like a bug with little risk and cost to itself either economically or militarily.
Those guys aren't even dumb or bad people, two were staff officiers and all have at least master in engineering, but when their only source for china is MSM...
 

Bellum_Romanum

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Viewing the world that way is silly. The world is ultimately divided by class, not nation, especially in the era of capitalism. What Kissinger did had nothing to do with benefiting everyday Americans, but with beating down communist insurgency and preventing it from inspiring those in the west. He was an enemy of humanity.
If the Soviet Union won along with its pseudo-communist system, are we going to believe that America as we know today wouldn't ceased to exist? America loses the cold war, means America confined within its own hemisphere or become simply a regional power, and not the preeminent power of the world we know of America today.

Ruthlessness does not automatically equate enemy of humanity because that would pretty much qualify every great historical person and countries who achieved greatness through means of brutality, war, and treachery.

China isn't an angel, the modern PRC leaders past and present aren't either, so I don't know what you mean that am being silly. I am a realist.
 

zhangjim

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Dont think @zhangjim was genuinely mourning him though.

Sounds more like, "sigh, a 'somewhat reasonable voice' in US (in context of current day US) has now passed away, now there's even more 'free rein' for the crazies and unreasonable".

Which I say is kinda reasonable/understandable, as Kissing er is more realistic and 'less unreasonable' compared to most of the current leadership in US (although, he didn't get listened much to, kissinger when was a live that is).
That's true. Good and bad can only be reflected through comparison.
What we see now is only a group of arrogant and insolent people, such as Pompeo and Blinken. And their boss: a 'genius' who nobody knows everything more than him, and a drowsy incontinence prone old man.
 

Biscuits

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Viewing the world that way is silly. The world is ultimately divided by class, not nation, especially in the era of capitalism. What Kissinger did had nothing to do with benefiting everyday Americans, but with beating down communist insurgency and preventing it from inspiring those in the west. He was an enemy of humanity.
Tbh China knew exactly what it was doing with Kissinger and America. The USSR had to go in order for China to take the first steps towards realizing a socialism based world order.

Without Kissinger there would be no 25 years of American world dominance. But there would also not be an energy independent and secure China.

We gave them the present and they gave us the future. And based on how things are going, no one can say that we were cheated. Hence, China's leaders also met Kissinger not as a representative of the enemy, but as someone who contributed to the creation of the new China.
 
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