The United States has issued a formal complaint to China on Thursday, claiming two US pilots were injured in Djibouti by Chinese laser beams. The White House is also threatening ‘consequences‘ for China over the incidents.
The Pentagon says that in the past several weeks, there have been a series of incidents in which US warplanes operating out of an airbase in Djibouti had “military-grade” laser pointers shined on their cockpits as they landed.
This amounted, so far, to two “minor injuries” to US pilots’ eyes. The Pentagon says that the laser pointers pose “a true threat to our airmen” and that they take the matter very seriously. Officials added they were confident whoever shined the lasers was Chinese but offered literally no evidence of that.
The US airbase in Djibouti is the only permanent US military base in Africa. China opened a naval base in Djibouti just a few miles away. It’s not clear how the Pentagon decided the lasers were Chinese, beyond them having a base sort of nearby. They are, however, sticking to that story. China has not responded.
Uncle Sham should be happy those laser beams weren’t attached to any sharks.
Children…just a bunch of over-militarized bullying children. As with most bullys, there will come a day when the abused jump up and B*tchslap the bully…justifiably righteous.
Not sure if it is ok not to respond to an accusation or condemnation? And especially, if the condemned person or country knows it has not done the act the accuser is accusing an individual or country of having done it.
Russia, as we know, responded [very well, according to me] to UK govt when it accused Russia of having poisoned the Skripals
with one of the deadliest chemical mixtures.
Most likely the Chinese did this . highly not likely done by a African farmer This world has so many powerful weapons . That we people need to change to a love and help you neighbor program or we are going to sooner or later suffer terrible consequences