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This makes the Beiyang fleet look like world class navy.
U.S. military poised to secure new access to key Philippine bases
The expansion is part of a broader push in the Indo-Pacific to buttress U.S. force posture, reinforce alliances and deter China
I don't think Xi will be happy after getting played by Marcos.
Dmitry Medvedev:
Enemy countries do not have the courage to admit that their "hellish" sanctions have failed miserably. Does not work. The vast majority of industrial products and consumer goods were replaced by our own, Russian, and the missing ones - by Asian brands. Parallel imports also work, from which we get the same Western brands, and their owners get nothing. So everything is as always: the Americans make money on a humiliated Europe. Crushed Europe endures and loses money. At the same time, even the IMF predicts economic growth in Russia this year.
It remains only to adopt the rules on the use of their intellectual property. Without any licenses and payment of royalties. This, among other things, will be our retaliatory sanctions on their property rights. For everything from movies to industrial software. Thanks, by the way, to those who have developed various programs for the unlicensed use of their expensive intellectual products. In short, for piracy in personal sanctions mode. What, à la guerre comme à la guerre (at war as at war)...
Would a more direct and overt NATO involvement trigger more open Chinese support for Russia?.
Though if they send troops to Ukraine, they don't get to claim Article 5 anymore.
Though if they send troops to Ukraine, they don't get to claim Article 5 anymore.
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IMO only if NATO is directly engaged in the war. Or NATO dramatically steps up support to Ukraine or Russia looks likely to lose/get destabilised
Dreadful news.
"The expansion involves access to Philippine military bases, likely including two on the northern island of Luzon — which, analysts said, could give U.S. forces a strategic position from which to mount operations in the event of a conflict in Taiwan or the South China Sea".
"The expected EDCA expansion will follow an announcement earlier this month that the U.S. Marine Corps will be revamping a unit in Okinawa to be better able to fight in austere, remote islands by 2025. Under the plan, a new Marine Littoral Regiment would be equipped with advanced capabilities, such as anti-ship missiles that could be fired at Chinese ships in the event of a Taiwan conflict".
Please no military discussion on this as I already posted it on the Ukrainian war thread.
I am posting it here just to show what I meant when I said that the "send or not send Abrams to Ukraine" was a bad theater and I expected a bigger budget play for the fighter jets. Unfortunately, they are cheapskates and they are following the same script.
I am posting it here just to show what I meant when I said that the "send or not send Abrams to Ukraine" was a bad theater and I expected a bigger budget play for the fighter jets. Unfortunately, they are cheapskates and they are following the same script.
I had said before to not trust Marcos words.
If its true and not the usual western propaganda, that's a big win for the US.
Also this is another piece of news that reinforces my argument that the US is already seriously preparing/planning for war
You'd think for a group of countries vying for a fight with China they'd behave more frugaly instead of pretending they have weapons to spare or the industrial capacity to replenish them.
France is already struggling to fulfil export orders for the Rafales having to pull frames out of the AdA and here they are talking about giving jets to Ukraine.
Starting to think Europe fell for their own hubris.