The head of United States Pacific Air Forces said Wednesday that the US needs to focus on sinking Chinese ships in a potential conflict with China as US military leaders are speaking more bluntly about a direct war with Beijing despite the risk of it turning nuclear.
Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach said the need to focus on sinking ships was the lesson of China’s response to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) visiting Taiwan last August. The trip provoked China’s largest-ever military drills around the island, which included a simulated blockade.
“You saw when Speaker Pelosi went to Taiwan, what [China] did with their ships,” Wilsbach said at a symposium in Colorado, according to Military.com. “They put them on the east side of Taiwan … as a sort of blockade.”
Wilsbach said the US wants to focus on deterring China from attacking Taiwan, although Beijing’s actions and rhetoric make clear more US military support for the island makes a conflict more likely.
He said if China does attack, sinking ships would be the first priority. “We’ve got to sink the ships,” Wilsbach said. “Sinking ships is a main objective of not only PACAF [Pacific Air Forces] but really anyone that’s going to be involved in a conflict like this.”
Why do I feel like there is another World War in our future, possibly?… I’m going to smoke a joint and consider such possibilities….Nice that ‘We’ plan ahead…
Donna, We are already in ww3. Euro American domination of the world has been going on for almost six centuries and it is ending now.
And that’s why I’ve been smoking joints for 50 years. At least that is my new excuse.
…Exhale…
It is already on. Nukes haven’t been used. Yet.
There’s so much initiative in winning a pretend war that WILL devastate the world and kill millions, and cause massive inflation and shortages at home but zero initiative to stop war and de-escalate. Washington has gone completely mad with war fever.
Our SENILE leader doesn’t want to end peacefully., but in a blaze of suicide by nuclear inferno…!!!!!!!!
Did it ever occur to him that China can do the same? Our fleets are easy tsrgets , far from home. A new generation of armed drone submarines are designed to target anything above and below water.
Whatever the case, it is much wiser to shut the lose trap and practice carefully measured communication.
It is such an uneasy feeling to know what kind of chikdren in grown up bodies are in charge of our security.
China has very advanced coastal defenses that make the idea of attacking with ships obsolete. Navy ships attacking China and Iran are sitting ducks from last century technology no matter how many computer whiz gadgets they carry.
It’s US Congress members and high ranking officials who own war stocks that are pushing war with Russia, China and Iran.
The MIC has taught them well. We paid for it.
Aircraft carriers and other ships are ‘sitting ducks’ once the missiles start flying. They had their place in WW2 but that was about 80 years ago, and they would be easy targets in 2023 wars.
Air craft carriers are the only way the US can gets it`s fighters over a target and get them back , how ever since the Chines now have untold numbers of hyper sonic missiles which can keep US carrier fleets well away from the conflict zone the US has a major problem , i remember some time ago the Russians announcing they had developed drone subs that can be left on the floor of the Oceans for when needed , i have no doubt the tech has been shared with the Chinese .
Commander needs to fight future wars of tomorrow, NOT WWII Battleships war. Any U.S, or allies ships anywhere near Russia or China will be on bottom 6 hours after any invasions or any nuclear detonations. Their fleets were a projection of power and might, but NOW an admission of archaic thinking in distant past & stupidity. Russian & Chinese hypersonics make US. & NATO ships TOTALLY defenseless as goldfish in .glasss bowls. Ships will be mass slaughter death traps…
Thats how the Brits projected power with their fleets of ships , interestingly the British Fleet in WW2 was totally dependent on stolen oil from IRAQ , however the end of WW2 also heralded the end of the British Empire , Churchill was pig sick because he thought America entering the war would save the Empire .
All these MF keep talking about preparations for war. On and on.
Notice he say`s any one else involved , that`s military speak for NATO lackeys to follow the US lead .
Why? The nuclear war will render their ships pointless, defending a homeland of corpses.
“Wilsbach said the US wants to focus on deterring China from attacking Taiwan, although Beijing’s actions and rhetoric make clear more US military support for the island makes a conflict more likely.”
Same scenario as with Ukraine. U.S. instills paranoia and builds up weapons in Ukraine and Taiwan against Russia and China to fulfill its prophecies.
It’s too late for Ukraine, but the leaders of Taiwan should start negotiating with China now without the U.S. being involved. I bet they could cut a deal where China will leave Taiwan autonomous if Taiwan kicks the Americans out.
Under Aholes it says see him.
You always know how to make me smile OB1. 🙂
Thank you, Donna 😉
Unfortunately for U.S., China was ahead of time, and they do have carrier sinking warheads and larger carrier group. Japan is jealous.
Unfortunately for U.S., China was ahead of time, and they do have carrier sinking warheads and larger carrier group. Japan is jealous.
Repeat after me “Taiwan is a province of the People’s Republic of China”.
Why should people repeat obvious lies?
Thomas , why do you deny this? One China, since 1949 finally accepted by the world including the USA. Many people still alive remember POTUS Nixon’s visit to China 1972 including Chas Freeman who was interpreter there. Antiwar???when the USA for no reason but hubris wants to engage China (including Taiwan’s population which has NOT been asked) in a terrible war which is completely needless.
“One China” is a fiction that “the world” has “accepted” in word, but never in action, for the express purpose of appeasing the PRC so that it doesn’t invade.
Taiwan is not now and never has been part of the PRC. That’s just an irrefutable fact of historical reality.
So that makes it all right for the USA to insist on “protecting it”, the way it “protects” so many other countries from their own people? All the color revolutions and worse, interference from the USA?
China has not tried to “invade” and is the mainstay of the Taiwan economy. The reasons the USA has for arming it are as usual just greed and desire for dominance of the globe.
People do it all the time! Look at the MSM in the West about Ukraine, all the lies “according to Ukrainian officials” accepted by the public. However, One China is the world’s accepted condition, and arming Taiwan helps only the USA’s greed and desire for dominance, avoiding peace at all costs!!
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