From The Guardian.
From The Guardian.
wonder how many people will die for those sandbars
China has tanker plane and carrier programs in beta and can’t project power across water against challenge for shit, meanwhile the USMC has specialized in Pacific island conquest since the Spanish-American War, preemptive strike isn’t inherently absurd
Diplomatically though, do it right and you reaffirm SEATO in the face of TPP collapse, fuck it up enough and most of the world’s shipbuilding capacity’s in the Co-Prosperity Sphere, maybe this administration should get its sea legs first
(what China has is a missile program to scare carrier groups out of homeland strike range and a big noisy sub fleet for merchant raiding, but I’m not sure what the valence of Pacific trade is right now)
