Thanks for the link Jonathan!!
via Washington Times
What apparently incensed the Chinese was what Gen. Wissler said next: “You wouldn’t maybe even necessarily have to put somebody on that island until you had eliminated the threat, so to speak.”The Chinese military is supremely confident of its invincibility in the Pacific and is taking Gen. Wissler’s remark as a great insult.Uh wow. Read the entire article but wow.
The first return salvos were fired by the Communist Party-owned and operated newspaper Global Times.
“These U.S. warships roaming around here [in the East China Sea] are slowly being considered by us Chinese as our moving targets right in front of our eyes, and the [U.S.] bases in Okinawa as a whole are also no longer a big deal [to us],” said the newspaper in an April 15 editorial.
“When facing China, these U.S. soldiers are really not worth anything,” the Global Times said. “If China and the U.S. were to start an all-out fight, these American Marines would be more like a marching band, charging with others, but with their musical instruments in hands.”
This isn't typical Chinese behavior. Usually they're much more reserved but this is basically tossing down the gauntlet and letting the entire region know that they don't fear US Marines.
Good.
That'll make it sweeter when we jump down their throats and feast on their hearts.
But did you notice something in General Wissler's statement? He is fully advocating the approach of Air Sea Battle....not EF21....in describing how we'll take back those islands.
Just a heads up for all you sycophants that worship at the feet of the Commandant and the much weakened Ellis group.
wow, the Global Times editorials are getting more and more belligerent.
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Also, here is an interesting thread I found about Iraqi M1s
Watching the Chinese PLAN search for the MH370's black boxes, from a raft, using a hydrophone zip tied to a pole, made me feel much more confident of their capabilities, or lack thereof.
ReplyDeleteMessage to the DC and PacRim appeasement crowd: Never trust communists.
ReplyDeleteAnybody still trying to brag with LST-renderings is more than a few decades behind hard realities.
ReplyDeleteRomantic pictures though here and elsewhere of a nice and orderly arrival, 'beach-masters' no doubt, traffic-cones, and demerits for unauthorized lane-changes.
However, even in the poorest outer reaches of the Philippines archipelago might those good folks be in for ugly surprises to these flamboyant displays.
Marching Band ?.....this from a country that releases more Trumpet Blowing Propaganda pics than anyone else on this planet.
ReplyDeleteHehe, Global Times are always boastful and brash. With that said, Gen. Wissler's comment wasn't taken too seriously by the PLA, because everyone knows each others deck of cards pretty well, they also understand the comments are for Japanese public consumption. So they're cool.
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