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| PHILIPPINES, AT SEA : A China Coast Guard ship (R) and a Philippine supply boat engage in a stand off as the Philippine boat attempts to reach the Second Thomas Shoal, a remote South China Sea a reef claimed by both countries, on March 29, 2014. The Philippine ship finally slipped past the Chinese blockade to reach Second Thomas Shoal, where a handful of Filipino marines are stationed on a Navy vessel that has been grounded there since 1999 to assert their nation's sovereignty. AFP PHOTO / Jay DIRECTO |
A couple of things....
* Spare me the craziness! A certain writer at Information Dissemination states over and over, uses insane statistics etc...that China is not "pushing" its neighbors around. What is it going to take for people to be shaken out of the complacency? Just because you want everything to be all right with the world doesn't make it so.
* This outer base that the Philippines has on the derelict LST has to be abandoned. It serves no purpose except as a point of vulnerability. Better a floating platform with a sea search/scan radar on it than a bunch of Philippine Marines that can be taken out with the Chinese version of the Hellfire missile.
Our leadership has not learned the lessons of the past.
If you want peace then prepare for war.
We would probably have to build it for them, and Washington doesn't appear to be seen as taking sides.
ReplyDeleteThe problem with the Philippines is that they are too scared to send one Naval vessel to resupply the barge.
ReplyDeleteHow did a mail boat evade that coast guard vessel? The Chinese must have let them go once their antics were photographed....
ReplyDeleteThey were smart bringing along the AP.
DeleteNews reports here suggest the Filipinos navigated into waters too shallow for the much bigger Chinese boats to follow, thus giving them the slip and successfully reaching the base (the beached LST).
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXLua972VFk
ReplyDeleteSomewhere around 0:15 , there was a P-8A flying overhead.