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In Dramatic Escalation, China Sends Five Navy Ships Off Alaska Coast For First Time Ever
Just as China celebrates the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II with an extravagant parade designed to showcase the country’s military prowess and project Xi Jinping’s power to nervous onlookers in the West, the Pentagon says it has spotted five Chinese Navy ships in the Bering Sea, just off the coast of Alaska.
Here’s WSJ:
Five Chinese navy ships are currently operating in the Bering Sea, off the coast of Alaska, the first time the U.S. military has seen such activity in the area, Pentagon officials said Wednesday.
The officials said they have been aware in recent days that three Chinese combat ships, a replenishment vessel and an amphibious ship were in the vicinity after observing them moving toward the Aleutian Islands, which are split between U.S. and Russian control.
They said the Chinese ships were still in the area, but declined to specify when the vessels were first spotted or how far they were from the coast of Alaska.
The Pentagon official said there were a “variety of opinions” on how to interpret the Chinese ships’ deployment.
“It’s difficult to tell exactly, but it indicates some interest in the Arctic region,” the official said. “It’s different.”
"Different" indeed, as in "uprecedented", and while we won’t endeavor to jump to conclusions, we would note that the PLA hasn’t exactly been shy when it comes to challenging the US from a maritime perspective of late and of course, the US has had its ships and carriers to the east and south of China for decades, so it would appear that Xi is intent on giving Washington a taste of its own medicine.
But don't worry, the Commander in Chief is on the scene - literally.
Finally, what better diversion from its crashing stock market on its national military holiday than for China to invade the US?
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I think the little Chinese sailors have a thing for the Eskimo woman who chews whale blubber all day....hence no teeth.....they just want to rub noses together
and eat some Eskimo Pies...
Methinks I smell a war on the horizon. The obvious answer when your economy is in the gutter and you owe another country a lot of money is to simply blow them to smithereens. It's not like anyone intends to pay their debts anymore.
That's one hell of a way to remove the debt. If only we could blow the FED to smithereens as well
Probably just soaking up some USA radar so they can reverse engineer it for some ECM.
USS Donald Cook ring a bell?
Remember when everyone laughed at the trinkets and crap made in Japan in the 50's?
Same thing will happen in China, in fact it already is.
The very cheap crap they send to Walmarts in the USA because they want repeat customers (after it breaks)
The good stuff they sell to Europeans who don't like buying crap.
Do you like fish sticks?
he likes your mom basement troll
You are a gay fish.
A 'Freedom of navigation exercise" is what we call it when we do it. We definitely don't call it a 'dramatic escalation'.
Yep, just like Teddy's "Great White Fleet".
They wanted a closer look at all the dead Fuki radiated salmon on the Alaskan shores maybe?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x4vvHUx6Uk
Doesn't China already have the keys to the white house?
They already own the senate and congress.
i am pretty sure they were just talking to the NK subs
5 ships, a polite way of saying "stop blowing up our chemical plants"
Huge non- story.
This is scariest than those 5 ships: China set to parade its ‘carrier-killer’ missile through Beijing
* I think RT will be streaming the parade.
Live: China holds V-Day parade
Vagina day parade? I want to watch that!!!
Tuning in now....
People like to imagine that the Chinese would invade Alaska. But they always forget that we now live in the nuclear age. Nobody can invade the US without nuclear retaliation.
WWII was 70 years ago. I don't expect to see any similar large scale war anytime soon.
Not sure why the Chinese vessels are near the Aleutian islands..very desolate and barren..wonder if they got lost..nothing to see up there..
No problems. That's just the Chinese "Big White Fleet" sailing the Northern Pacific pissing on fire hydrants. This occurs every 100 years or so.
Here is what is going on - in the Pacific China & the US are jointly trying to see off some resiliant ETs who are trying to settle here.
The US is over stretched so China is taking up some of the slack by covering the US whilst it is over stretched.
China is restocking its ships from places like san-fran:-
See Veterans today for more up to date info.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/09/17/ufo-war-chinese-and-us-navy-off-...
And for those who like old reliable gravity engines:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=11&v=7KqOwJKWIAw
Will the price of oil drop below $1 a barrel now?
If Gordon Duff wrote it, take it with a grain of salt.
That is the craziest shit I bave read all day.
Gordon duff is the twilight zone of veterans.
I sure hope the Chinese aren't bluffing. And I believe the Russians have something like ths:
"China’s defence ministry has been notably silent on the missile, other than to confirm in 2011 that it was in development. Western defence experts estimate it has a range of 900km-1,500km and that it may be able to travel at up to 10 times the speed of sound — faster than anything that could intercept it.
Like an intercontinental ballistic missile, the DF-21D goes into orbit, but after re-entering the atmosphere it is capable of manoeuvring on to a target, making it theoretically capable of landing a large warhead on or near a moving ship. China can also make about 1,200 of them for the price of a single aircraft carrier, meaning they could easily overwhelm defensive countermeasures.
Some analysts say such missiles threaten to consign aircraft carriers — which form the basis of current US naval strategy — to the dustbin, just as aircraft carriers themselves did to battleships with Japan’s 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor."
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b94d907a-507a-11e5-b029-b9d50a74fd14.html
It's the best way I can think of to stop the crazies in Washington and NATO from starting a war with China and Russia.
So, you want to hit a ship, and you fire the missile up into orbit?
Have you heard of the new Chinese mine sweeper?
That's when they put their fingers in their ears, and stomp on the ground in a minefield.
Maybe they're looking for a Port to pull into? I mean, we did blow theirs up recently.
Or, they wanted to give Obozzo a Moment of Pause while he was in Alaska?
This is the beginning of the new normal for the island North America. After sanctioning Russia and the Whitehouse hypocritical theatre and bluster about Chinese hackers, then threatening sanctions against China, we should expect that the Chinese and Russians will walk softly and carry a big stick when it comes to dealing with the US government. It was once an American thing to walk softly and carry the big stick but those days are long behind us, the propagandists of America are the biggest loud mouths in the world and in the end, it is a sign of American weakness. Face it, it's the twilight of the American empire. Every war that the US has fought in the past 50 years has either been a loss or a significant strategic disaster. Perpetual war is just one more sign the empire is nearing its terminus. The national debt, social strife, poverty or should I say; wealth imbalance, corporatism, hyper surveillance, militarized police, 70% of young adults are not fit for military service (fat, lazy and/or weak minded), are all signs the country is sick.
Dude, I'm literally crying at your post, summed it up quite well, "I'm Walter Cronkite and that's the way America was" we are controlled by bankers, Wall Street and computers, I would like to kick some peoples asses, but who do we take up arms against??? red dawn
"Every war that the US has fought in the past 50 years has either been a loss or a significant strategic disaster."
Nevertheless, they've all caused a huge amount of death and destruction around the world and made a lot of people very rich...bankers, MIC et al
your not trying to stoke the fear factor by any chance? You unscrupulous, irresponsible twit.
I'm tired of this planet. Don't exactly want to die, just tired of all this crap.
Ill drink to that; not depressed exactly, but just *painfully* bored. What is O'Bungholio doing out there anyway... maybe guide the Chinese in...
Oooops! It was to be expected.
Hmmm..
Wasn't they having radar and identifier problems on the original 11 September?
http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/aerospace/2015-09-01/tcas-ads-b-u...
umm, five ships operating in international waters is a 'Dramatic Escalation' now? Of what, their fuel bill?
Alaskan King Crab season starts in October. Maybe they just want some crabs. Deadliest Catch might get real interesting.
I know how to get rid of crabs.
Pour whiskey all over your pubes.
Rub in a handful of sand.
The little bastards get drunk, and start throwing rocks at each other.
That's one way to put it.
I'm not the only one drinking heavily today.
"Gooks off the bow"
How do you view the Chinese Navy?
Good question!
Though the bottom of a glass-bottomed boat.
Maybe they wanted to go for a spin before the reposession?
I have an urge to get some shiny pandas all of the sudden....
Cleary the Chinese know the Chemical plant explosions were US sabotage and these ships are a response. The finger in fact
The Chinese are taking to heart .... my analysis .... that Russia stole Siberia from them .... Vladivostok Destiny if you permit me to coin a phrase .... these indigenous areas and the adjacent Arctic areas .... may have a claim from China, Korea and Japan .... Denmark has a larger Arctic interest zone ?
Japan took a couple Alleutian Islands during WW2.
We took them back.
There were very few Japanese survivors.
Give back all occupied islands to their respective nations. leave diego garcia , cretin , guntanamo et
It's all our turf.
Gooks can ride sum Woolley mammoths......
Call Putin for help https://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/11/gary-north/russian-plane-disabled-us... ah wait a minute didn't Soros, Nueland, Kagan, Krauthammer, Kristol, Cohen, Klein, Gerson. Wolfowitz and the Neo_clown show pull a little stunt in Georgia, Ukraine, Syria, Libyia, Iran,Iraq... I think the Chinese should just buy NATO.. The MIC or should I say the Military Offensive Complex (MOC) is available for short money.... Probably slightly more expensive than those 62 whore ass Senators... Well BP has all the drilling rights to Alaska public lands so I guess the whole revolution thing was lost to the British so we have melded into them thinking that just another battle of China and the opium wars.
"Major T. J. "King" Kong: Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff."
Major T. J. "King" Kong: I don't give a hoot in Hell how you do it, you just get me to the Primary, ya hear!
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)"Dallas" was changed to "Vegas" in defernce to JFKs killing
They could just hide an army in C-cans and let a Maersk ship bring a 15000 C-can division over. Oh wait, we still fill our Wallmarts from them. We can't interupt that now can we ?
Now we know why the Tranchurian President is in AK in the first place. Probably to coordinate "terms" with the Chinese and arrange a safe hole for he and Michael?
Undoubtedly they were trying-out crab fishing after watching episodes of "Deadliest Catch" translated into Chinese.
China's army has no battle experience whereas US army has plenty of it.
China would be crushed. But there would not be direct war between two nuclear states - than we all die as nukes goes out. Also nor China, nor US would not benefit from such war as both economies are too much linked together. So there is no reason for such war.
Would you buy a house without looking at it? Oh, wait, China still has some 'u.s. treasuries''?
Too soon?
I say rent them out. They must have better accomendations than any of the Pacific Princess fleet. Tourists must have their boats.
It it highly unlikely that China would invade the U.S (especially at this time). China has been building a blue water Navy for the last decade and they are likely testing their capabilities and C3, while also using it as an opportunity to show Obama he's not the only one with spy tech (he basically got checked).
After the Tianjin disaster which according to veterans today.com was caused by 2 cruise missles,it is clear the Chinese wont let anymore ´´ACCIDENTS´´ rain down on their big parade! No doubt these ships are merely supporting nuke armed Subs.
Boom, there it is
I have had this theory that the recent large explosions in China were actually hacker sites that our govt finally dealt with.
But that would require Owebama having a sack.
Nothing to see here guys, just a scientific mission. intelligence sources told me that Mulder and Scully are onboard and the whole thig is called "Operation Flying Container"...
War, war, war, war, 99 articles of war on the wall
Take one down pass it around, 98 articles of war on the wall.
Propaganda media wants everybody to embrace the warm fuzzy of war. Government wants ALL YOUR MONEY so that it can build more bombs, mortars, bullets and government contracts to keep you SAFE from the omnipresent, perpetual threat of the global boogeyman.
War, war, war, war, 97 articles of war on the wall,
Take one down pass it around, 96 articles of war on the wall.
Be afraid, very afraid, the media has determined you MUST BE AFRAID, Uncle Fraud needs your money, Uncle Fraud needs ALL OF YOUR PRODUCTIVITY to KEEP YOU SAFE!!
War, war, war, war 95 articles of war on the wall.
Take one down pass it around, 95 articles of war on the wall!