Ever-rising US-China tensions have fueled concerns of military engagements, especially in the South China Sea. This has the Pentagon sending in Cold War-era bombers to menace Chinese ships and targets on the various islands.
The bombers, B-1B and B-52s, are flying mostly out of Guam, and are seen as a replacement for US aircraft carriers, which would be too imperiled by Chinese missiles to use in these areas. Pentagon officials emphasize that the planes can bomb as many targets as a whole carrier group.
Historically, the US focus has been on carriers, and sending carriers into the South China Sea as a “message.” China has given its own message in recent days, firing “carrier-killer” missiles into the same areas, underscoring that they could hit these large, expensive ships if fighting breaks out.
Using bombers from Guam takes the missiles somewhat out of the equation, but also changes the focus, encouraging China to establish more air defense in the islands to prevent US bombers from hitting as they please.
A little like the unprofitable servant of the gospel, the US would be wise to stay friends with China because this bankrupt nation of ours just might again need a little foreign investment when the next crash comes. Today’s policy of threatening and antagonizing and containing China is just about the dumbest thing we can possibly do for oh so many reasons, a nuclear war for instance. Just what would we do if China outguns us? Do they just sit and wait to get vaporized?, No America not a chance, A war with China is an all out war with no winners.
Sadly, I think you are wrong. The Pentagon think-tank war-game’rs calculate this is the time, before they achieve parity, to reduce China to the point of accepting vassalage. And, correlatively, that we can easily survive a nuclear exchange (10 to 20% loss), China not.
But – Russia will not allow itself to be left standing alone.
Wanna bet? And the US would have fixed it beforehand. Think “Hitler-Stalin Pact”.
No, it feels like, the only leash restraining our dogs is not the annihilation of “friends”, Japan, Taiwan, India, S. Korea, Philippines, …, nor even our own West Coast Litoral, but a mental incapacity at the thought of the awesome new dimension of the destruction, …as well perhaps the massive cloud of radiation that bloweth where it listeth. There aren’t sufficient Strangeloves on the war panel to out-vote their small minded colleagues.
More jingoistic pap!
desperation expected in an empire that will collapse in the next few years
Translation: China is way ahead of us in restarting its economic activities.
“Pentagon Sees Cold War Bombers as Crucial to Threatening China”
“Bombers in South China Sea are more practical threat than aircraft carriers”.
While senior Trump officials launch diplomatic and rhetorical broadsides at Beijing, the U.S. Defense Department is turning to the firepower of its heavily armed, long-range bombers as it seeks to counter Beijing’s bid to control the seas off the Chinese coast.
A new low from a so called super power.
The statement shows more desperation than strength.
The US rapid decline is wrapped in threats, black mail, aggression and sanctions towards foreign countries.
While at home, the morally bankrupt US falls apart in every way, day by day.
The empires downfall happens at a faster rate, than the melting of the ice at the poles.
An admission of it’s inability to control China’s trade routes.
Apparently every thing in the far east looks like a nail…..
Those bombers are loaded with Cream of Mushroom soup cans….devastating power
“And you have people coming over with bags of soup — big bags of soup. And they lay it on the ground, and the anarchists take it and they start throwing it at our cops, at our police”
Can you fill me in – I don’t get the cultural reference?
Google..”throwing cans of soup” I doubt you’ll thank me after you hear the speech.
Google..”throwing cans of soup” I doubt you’ll thank me after you hear the speech.
I am an Australian and I instantly understood the reference, seriously the ranting is becoming worse. I wonder does he think that he will not be prosecuted if he acts as if his is mentally impaired by mini strokes!
Calling the B1B a cold war bomber, hides the fact that Obama used them to bomb the hell out of the Arab world.
https://youtu.be/mJ4ffTLdSZU
Sadly there are people in our government who likely sit up at night masturbating to this film and the prospects for our global future.
Obviously the lobbyists for Lockheed-Martin and others have been hard at work.
We have far more to fear from the Chinese in the economic and financial sector than on the open seas.
The best reason to vote for Jo Jorgensen is that the other two choices are both World War 3.
Oh, Yeah, those Chinese are really gonna quake in their boots when those “heavily armored” 60s era planes come over. Maybe the U.S. could send some heavily armored Knights along in case of mechanical failures or maybe some soft spot in their heavy armor. I wonder what the thickness of the armor on a B-52 would be to deal with modern missiles?? Maybe 2, 3, or 6 inches. Those planes gonna make a lot of co2 on that run. I know I would feel safe if the armor was a foot or two of Titanium, but I don’t think the plane would fly very well or be happy structurally. Don’t forget what happened to Chalks in Miami. The wing fell off. It was very bad for business.