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US Will Send Warships To China Islands "Twice A Quarter", Pentagon Says
Last week, the US did a silly thing. The Pentagon sent the USS Lassen to Subi Reef in the Spratlys just to see if Washington could sail by China’s man-made islands in the South Pacific without getting shot at.
(Subi reef)
(USS Lassen)
As ridiculous as that sounds from a kind of “let’s not start World War III” perspective, it’s an entirely accurate assessment of Obama’s “freedom of navigation” exercise. There was no reason whatsoever for the US to be there and the pass-by served no purpose at all other than to test Beijing’s patience.
To be sure, China isn’t innocent here. They’ve built 3,000 acres of sovereign territory atop reefs in disputed waters and built runways, ports, and cement factories on their new “land” which understandably makes Washington’s regional allies like The Philippines a bit nervous.
Still, it isn’t as if the PLA is about to invade Australia and it seems likely that if one could listen in at The Pentagon, US officials could probably care less about these “sandcastles." But America’s “friends” in the region think that “this is the time for courage” (to borrow and alter a classic Gartman-ism), and so, Washington felt compelled to sail a warship by the islands just to prove it could. China didn’t fire on or surround the US-flagged guided missile destroyer, but the PLA did follow it and Beijing subsequently expressed its extreme displeasure at the “exercise.”
As we noted before and after the “incident”, most “experts” believe the US will need to keep up the patrols if they’re to be “effective.” Sure enough, The Pentagon now says destroyers will sail within 12 nautical miles of the islands twice every three months. Here’s Reuters:
The U.S. Navy plans to conduct patrols within 12 nautical miles of artificial islands in the South China Sea about twice a quarter, a U.S. defense official said on Monday.
“We’re going to come down to about twice a quarter or a little more than that,” the official said. “That’s the right amount to make it regular but not a constant poke in the eye. It meets the intent to regularly exercise our rights under international law and remind the Chinese and others about our view.”
Yes, because Washington doesn’t want to “poke anyone in the eye.”
So, as The White House attempts to put on a brave face amid mounting threats to US hegemony, The Pentagon is apprently set to antagonize Beijing for no reason at all other than to appease America's regional allies who are effectively asking if Big Brother is still dedicated to playing world police officer.
We close with China's warning, issued last week:
"If the United States continues with these kinds of dangerous, provocative acts, there could well be a seriously pressing situation between frontline forces from both sides on the sea and in the air, or even a minor incident that sparks war."
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Sum Ting Wong?
Ho Lee Schmuk
Another retreat into meaningless Kabuki Theater.
The Laughingstock Doctrine
<-- War is imminent
<-- War is not imminent
<-- War is a racket
<-- War is a racket
Uncle Sam is the schoolyard bully who's tough until some skinny dork gets the guts to punch him in his fucking nose. Don't be surprised if it turns out to be a skinny Asian dork.
Remember the Mines, ermmm Maine..
“Twice a Quarter” sounds like an extended PERIOD.
Do we bring an extra-thick tampon, or should the Chinese have one ready for us every 6 weeks? ;-)
Looney
" Yes we can! "
Meaningless drivel. If those islands have missles they can take out the ship easily. 12 Mile limit if useful, oil, fishing etc. Stalemate temporarily on drilling in the south china sea as if anyone plans to drill for oil anytime soon. China has the high ground for now and hard to see it giving up the high ground. So meaningliess drivel, MIC lost long time ago. Zombie MIC
Hard to believe Obama is allowing the US Navy to do its job, but in this case he is, for some reason. Weird.
True, but the perception of the MIC as indefatigable is what is being changed.
"US Will Send Warships To China Islands "Twice A Quarter""
...and we will taunt you over the loudspeaker with the phrase "hey chink, want sum flied lice"?
We feel this is appropriate to exercise our rights under international law...written by us....
What rights? The USA hasn't ratified freedom of navigation.
Obama will not finish his second term! Current Events Linked to Ancient Biblical Prophecy!
http://motivationdose.com/is-america-babylon/
"U.S. Will Provoke World War III Every Month And A Half", says Pentagon.
@ Looney:
A woman's period (menstruation cycle) occurs once every 28 days and lsts for 5, on average (in time with the orbit of the Moon around the Earth). This would equate to 'two times a quarter, or maybe a little more' (more like 3.2 times a quarter-year).
This cycle may be disturbed by the introduction of androgonetic modifiers ('birth-control pills'; EGG-KILLING CHEMICALS). A constant low--level menstruation is one of the side-effects.
Since Obama really IS a woman in a man's body, I thought that this video link might help clear up any questions regarding the '2 times a quarter, or maybe a little more' question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yALNSd0iME
Having TWO sex partners (Wookie, and Reggie) only makes it harder for the she/he-in-thief to keep from becoming impregnated. Mr. Yellen, of course, is awaiting his turn with, um, IT... (or, he has already done it lots of times with the 'he-she'...).
Meanwhile, where does the US get the right to drill for oil in sites that are more than 12 miles away from its own coasts?
Buying gold ain't enough, best start your own damn gold business!!
American Water Torture!
Hu Li Fook
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-sdO6pwVHQ
USSA = 1930's Germany.
Only a matter of time before the world unites to put us down like rabid vermin.
International Zionist bankers bribed , whined ,cajoled, threatened and arm twisted the world to gang up on brave little Germany yet again. The master plan, "Oh look, what a coincidence 1946 State of Israel created"
Yeah, you should probably get out while you can..........please.
We don't need anymore whining than we already have. If you don't love it and do something about what's wrong, then you should gtfo.
China is also sending some warships to the US ;)
http://redefininggod.com/
Why the constant US-bashing? One could just as easily say the Chinese are testing our patience by constructing military bases on reefs in international waters.
But no, it's ZH. So it's always, always, always America's fault. That, after all, is what the Russian government pays for.
Shut up hasbara troll. Though I must admit, I'm surprised they found someone with a high school diploma willing to work for your wages doing the boring and repetitive crap that makes up your worthless, unproductive life. You are a waste of calories.
If all the warmongers were honest, they'd just admit the US government is mad the Chinese did it first. If the roles were reversed, the US would claim it was putting military bases in international waters to help maintain world peace or save the fucking whales or some other disengenuous lie, and people like you would be spouting the same nonsense.
(sigh)
I guess the guys are tired of Latvia-bashing
Just try exercising your rights as a citizen twice a quarter, see where it gets you.
Shore leave?
Shore nuff.
shorely you jest
Do the Chinese have the same technology that the Russians used to shut down all the radars on the destroyer Cook in the Black Sea?
Let's just leave them alone and do nothing, I'm sure they're not up to anything sinister.
- Neville Chamberlain -
That one was widely used to justify the 2003 Iraq invasion. ISIS thanks you.
It is a great honor to be awarded this Nobel Peace Prize
- Barack Obama -
So, WW III will take place twice a quarter now?
Keep that up and we'll be moving into NEW quarters soon.
Because mother nature is a bitch...
Tsunami in South Chinese Sea, 1782
The destructive force of this tsunami lands it on this list. It traveled 120 km into the Chinese mainland, killing over 40,000 people in the process. The tsunami itself was caused by a tectonic earthquake on the ocean floor and it destroyed many crops and farming areas. Other outside information concerning the damage done is unknown.
Standard Disclaimer: Probably due for another any day now.
Make new reefs with sunken US ships
Is all this posturing leading up to a false-flag event this week? What with Chinese cruise missle ships docked in Florida, and BOTH our cruise-missile detecting blimps now out of action, and the USSA poking them in the eye with these island trysts (and blowing up their factories?)...this guy puts together a plausible scenario:
http://redefininggod.com/2015/10/globalist-agenda-watch-2015-update-84-2...
Nah, China is too patient to lose those ships although it would be funny if they launched a couple right into DC
China needs to dump US T bills for gold and silver. They are worthless anyway with all that QE...
2 or 3 times per quarter should suffice. No need to poke them in the eye or anything.
and here we go with the last sighs of the Empire... amazingly ridiculous ...
Wake me up when they send a carrier group.
Nice - lots of targets.
I would have liked to have seen Montana.
Wasn't the US ship already at the chinese island 24h ago?
You now how it is, you have some Chinese and a few hours later you're hungry again.
Proves nothing. Total fucking joke. Embarrasing to say the least.
Why not stop contributing to global warming, pollution and global tension and just "NOT".
Save some money ... but of course, money is meaningless as long as the banks run the world, so that does not matter quite so much.
Good. Then the US will be distracted from me running non-taxed shine from the South up to somewhere in Wisconsin or Minnesota or North Dakota or Montana or Idaho. I will be driving the number 43 car. Or the number 3 car. Or whatever vehicle I want to drive. Hey government, let me tell you something, and do not forget it, you will never see me and you will never know what I will be driving or where I am going or why. Do you govtards know why? Because this is still America and I can and I will.
I am part of the remnant and so are some of my vehicles.
I could easily add something like this at any time. I have ten days to transfer title by YOUR fucktarded STATE laws. What are you federal fucktards going to do about it? Shut the fuck up US government already. You fuckers couldn't stop anyone if you tried. This is getting embarrassing.
Mani
Do you trade shiny for the shine?
As you will find out sooner or later, you can't get an internet connection in prison.
Nurse is calling for you: chlorpromazine is time to take. While you again into staffroom sneaked and computer to turn on...
Do not skip medications, the orderlies in white coats to restrain.
And don't you spit on Napoleon - with roommates to live peacefully!
Do you need your chinese moped, that no one knows what the hell brand it is, back? I fixed it. Maybe if you fuckers built something worth a shit I would care. You build cheap junk over there. Or do you want to ride a Harley and stop being a pansy ass? Shut your face. No, I really do have that many vehicles. My guess is that you have NO vehicle because you are a broke ass loser that needs to shut the fuck up. You go take your meds.
When it finally turns you will find that the Russians don't like Chinese people either and you fuckers are on their land harvesting timber. How long do you think you chineee get away with it? The Russians know. The chinee are useful idiots and you are fucking with the wrong people China. The Russians are not your friends China. Remember Mongolia? To Russians that is all China and they have not forgotten what happened.
So is this Obama's fault as well?
Is he being too weak or too agressive?
I can never keep up with the Hedgetards.
Yes, you definitely showed us.
What the fuck is the matter with you? Are you slow? Who gives a fuck if it is Obama or Bush or any of the rest of these assholes who claim to have the whole situation under control. You call us "Hedgetards"? Don't you get it yet? WE DON'T LIKE GOVERNMENT TELLING US WHAT TO DO, HOW TO LIVE OUR LIVES AND STEALING OUR MONEY.
There, now you know.
In the magical world of ZH, it doesn't matter what O does - he's wrong. If the US had decided not to send ships by those Chinese bases, then the Putin-suckers would have been going on and on about how a real man like their beloved Vlad-o wouldn't have backed down. If Obama has fish for dinner, they would jabber about how real mean like their beloved only eat red meat. If Obama leaves the house wearing a shirt..... well, enough said.
It's understandable really. Face it, when these guys spend all day in Mom's basement, with her checking in every hour to make sure that they're really looking for a job and not just surfing......They need an idol to identify with- someone that they can achieve through vicariously. They need somebody to tell them that it's the system's fault that they have gone nowhere in their lives. Vlad-o and the Russian spin machine give them both. That's why conspiracy theories get so much traction, even though they don't make a lick of sense. They fill a very deep emotional need for those who can't compete in the real world.
Clueless Diatribe.
Those of us who don't use selfie sticks know that there is something wrong with a person who does.
Everybody in Latvia lives in mom's basement, Mr Potato Head.
i loved you in the Toy Story Trilogy
fyi US insists everybody else obey the international law of the sea based on the UN Law of the Sea Convention which the US itself has not ratified and most likely won't ever.
If you are stupid enough to run for president when you are clearly out of your depth, well then yes,
Twice a quarter? Lol. Since when did the US Navy think in terms of Quarters. Sounds more like something the bankers have suggested. LMFAO
China was for centuries kicked around, looted and raped by the western powers. If anyone thinks the Chinese civilization, now that it is back, is going to bend it's knee to Washington's lunatic hegemons in the year 2015, I got news for you. China will not have the USN rubbed into it's face every few months. Look for China to draw a line, and risk confrontation to hold that line.
Congress is full of a rotten old group of corrupted old people, rich, greedy, out of touch with reality, basking in money printing power. In reality, Congress is the last place common sense is found. When men like McCain rule the power base, you know how far gone they are.
Sure, and everyone said China would never allow the ships to violate it's waters the first time. That China would never lose face in that way.
As I said the first time. China should not have made noise and threats if they were not ready to back it up. Now they are a bit of a joke, the US navy will start sailing around them on a regular basis and may soon begin stopping and sitting there. Then the other nations join in. Australia is already talking about sailing around and then there is Vietnam and Japan.
China got bullied and kicked again and the announced plan is to continue to do so. But you are correct, either China draws a line and prepares hostile confrontation or they will get bullied, pushed and slapped to the extent their citizens start to view their country differently. (Note how China could not address the covert bombing of their factories and strives to cover this up by claiming they were accidents. In an effort to save face with their citizens.)
Yep, the value of these sand castles is questionable, my guess is they are complete wastes of capital, but when you have your workers working as slaves its all good, but they do have egg on their faces now due to the empty threats they have issued over a total non-event.
Here the US did no harm at all, all they did was sail through some internationally recognised waters, and still the US-bashers were so pathological in their hatred they were offended. Hopefully quite a few countries will follow suit and asser their right to go where they please, the communist/dictatorship (or whatever it is) China can go screw itself.
But what about that Gabbard gal from Hawaii? Is she CIA? Your point is well taken though. You are no fool Jack. I am right there with you. I can have an endorsement for state senate if I want it. I have already turned it down once before. No one seems to have the answer I am looking for. Either we sit here and bitch online or we become part of the problem. What to do? It has been proposed in the past that all that is neccessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing. I believe that to be true. But what makes me a good man? What right do I have to tell anyone how to live their lives? I do not see that I have that right.
My whole agenda would be delegislation. There are too many laws. Enough is enough.
No can tell me if it is worth it. Most ZHer's that I am friends with say it won't matter what I do and they are probably correct. Other folks I know say that I should run. I am unsure. All I know is that my platform would be "Leave people alone and quit with the income taxes already".
Watch for an "event" as China begins planting mines near the 12 mile limit and a US ship goes down with all aboard.
It'll be even funnier when a Chinese ship hits their own mine and goes under. Their is way more Chinese traffic in those waters than US traffic.
when the dust settles Americans will be lucky to have a bowl of rice per day
Kids, the US leadership. When will they grow up?
One of these days, they won't come back.
Duck and cover.
Are you going to bark all day little doggie, or are you gonna bite?
The frequency of visits by the USN has to do with legal reasons, to ensure the Continuity of Claim against Chinese claims.
If China wants to have them as true sovereign territory, they will have to defend them as sovereign territory:
"SOVEREIGN IS AS SOVEREIGN DOES" are words to live by.
All else is -- dare I say it? -- SHOW-BOATING.
Lunatics playing fast and loose with your life and mine.
I'd object, if there was any mechanism for doing so.
Sad part is most Americans support Zios on this one... Americans support their Zio masters in keeping USA numba 1 with fake ponzi scheme money, overthrowing governments, etc etc all for keeping USA Number 1 Fuck ya..
USA ... world needs to take them down a few pegs.
The few enlightened Americans may as well leave unless you are willing to like GeorgeWashington... but not fair as well.
What the author fails to realize is that of the claimants to rights in South China Sea -- namely Brunei,Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines -- only the Philippines have their panties in a twist.
At this point i believe two things
1) China would be willing to share with the South China Sea nations the profits from resources obtained from contested areas. However, it is not the time to discuss with any neighboring countries the sharing of resources in the SCS, with the big unwelcome nose of America barged into any conference room.
2) my second belief is that representatives of the US, like Victoria 'Shit for brains' Nuland roam the globe threatening every country they can obtain a visa to enter to do what the US wants them to do, to quote Miss Piggy, "or else."
Those were her very words, recently in the West Balkans to the leaders of Montenegro or Bosnia if they pursued a policy the Negro did not want pursued or if an election did not go the way the N-Man wanted.
There is no doubt in my mind that the US has threatened the South China Sea Six with trade sanctions and removal from the favored trading list or blah blah blah.
By getting these nations to mumble complaints, the US enters the phone booth, dons its Super Nation outfit and steams into the waters of the Spratlies.
3) which brings me to my last point. How far over the 12 mile limit did the Lassen sail? I don't know. Do you?
Is that the deal that the the Negro made with Xi at the White House dinner?
Insofar as the China's artificial islands are concerned, China recognizes not a 12 mile limit but a 10 mile limit and therefore the Lassen did not breach any boundaries and the Lassen didn't get it in too far.
Certainly this could be nutz, so on the next bi-quarterly Club Dread cruise, let the US navy take a video, of a distinguishing landmark on one of the islands. And let the cameraman pan across the deck of the ship to the island so we know it wasn't shot by a drone.
Stupid, irresponsible, ham fisted foreign policy.
"hey, let's see if they'll shoot at us"
Looking for a fight like half drunk teenagers out cruising parking lots.
I don't know who's stupider, the fool giving the orders or the fool following them.
China has my permission to blow the USA warships out-of-the-water twice per quarter until they buy a clue and stop wasting our time, newsprint, pixel points, and bandwidth.
Up yours, NATO.
Meanwhile in the sonar control room of a US sub somewhere in the Pacific...
Carlos: 'Ayo Jamal! Think we gots somtin 'ere!'
Jamal: 'Nigga what it is??'
Carlos: 'Aint got no idea man, finna turn it up nd find out.'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONKNwtlaF44
Jamal: 'Where dat comin from?'
Carlos: 'idk man but its getting louder!!'
Jamal: '....awwww sheeeeeet....'
Those times have gone when euroPeonBastards could invade, loot , capture & colonise Asian territories.
Do it now evil Americans and you invite yourself to extiction & forgotton for a thousand years.
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Satan America & its eoroPeons policy :
In order to make an omlette(money) you need to break the eggs(Russia, China , OPEC , ........)
"If the United States continues with these kinds of dangerous, provocative acts, there could well be a seriously pressing situation between frontline forces from both sides on the sea and in the air, or even a minor incident that sparks war."
Not to mention that this war threat, given by a Chinese general on an official press conference was approved by the Chicom government... So next time Murica pokes them in the eye, it will not go so smoothly, China will do SOMETHING... What, I don't know... but it will not go unoticed.
Mines and Diesel Subs.
If DPK or ISIL guest stars in this Cluster Muster, all bets are off.
I am sure China has its subs lined up the E and W coast, and go through regular rotation. I just wish they would just let loose.
Who wouldn't want to be on one of those frigates (ie: missile sponges) during one of these eye poke missions? I'm sure a lot of sailors are thinking "what the fuck are we doing?" but can't say it.