Following the growing trend of Pentagon statements condemning Russia for “unprofessional” or “unsafe” reactions to aggressive US operations in their sphere of influence, the Pentagon today accused China of “unsafely” intercepting a US spy plane in the South China Sea.
The Pentagon didn’t say where the plane was exactly, but claimed it was on “routine patrol.” The US has been sending a growing number of warplanes and warships near Chinese-claimed reefs and islands to “challenge” their claims to that territory.
China is one of nine nations with maritime claims in the South China Sea. The claims of many nations overlap. The US backs every single nation’s claims, except for China’s, and is obliged by treaty to back Philippines claims.
China has not responded to the reported “incident” today, and while the Pentagon claimed their plane had to reduce altitude to avoid a collision, it appears to just be another excuse for the Pentagon to berate a rival power.
China is one of nine nations with maritime claims in the South China Sea. The claims of many nations overlap. The US backs every single nation’s claims, except for China’s, and is obliged by treaty to back Philippines claims.
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‘obliged by treaty to back Philippines claims”? You gotta be kidding me? We are going to get dragged into a futile, dangerious, pointless, stupid war with China over some claims by ‘The Phillippines’ over some stupid little islands that no one ever heard of? How many ‘tripwire’ treaties have we obligated ourselves to defend whoi and for what really? what is the real reasons?
How long before we must go to war again over this nonsense?
The army fans the flames of russophobia to justify its budget demands. The Navy fans the flames of sinophobia to justify its budget demands. The media happily obliges both to sell more copies. The politicians ride the resulting tide of xenophobia to gain positions of influence and power. Everyone wins. Right?
Without these distortions and phobias, the whole lucrative and incestuous system would collapse. Then what would all of our revered professional warriors and war enablers do?
Paradoxically, the more sites like this call these guys’ bluff, the harder they must work to raise the fear factor. The trick for them is to come as close to the brink of war as they can without going over the precipice, because if they did, crap inevitably happens, and their marks would be much less likely to be fooled next time around. However, it’s also true that there is a sucker born every minute, so they don’t have to worry too much about running out of simpletons to fool, or for too long. If this is the best we can get with “the audacity of hope” in charge, then it’s really pretty hopeless, for the victims.