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| US Coast Guard vessel give-away |
| 2013-05-10 |
| No problem, our borders are secure and free of drug smugglers, illegals, and terrorists right? It's a 40 year old ship. The Nigerians want it, they can have it. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 Whuzzabout the Philippines - two hand-me-down, ex-HAMILTON-class vessels aren't gonna do much agz the PLA, PLAN, CMS-SOA, etc. vee China's new increasingly militarized offshore Sansha province in the disputed SCS. Things continue to be highly tensive ... * INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > [GAM News Online] PHIL SOLGEN:"WE WANT LEGAL, NOT JUST MORAL, VICTORY IN WEST PHIL SEA ROW [wid China = SCS]". PHIL Solicitor-General Francis Jardeleza. "Legal" by itself isn't enuff either, as the PHIL must have a strong economy in order to have a strong Military, etc. that can reliably defend what the UNO = UNCLOS + other Internationally recognized Regulatory Bodies/Orgs can't, or won't. * TOPIX > CHINA WARNS US [again] NOT TO TAKE SIDES IN DIAOYU ISLANDS ROW. * SAME > CHINA'S ARMY OF WA. China's silent intervention in Myanmar is increasingly not-so-silent, or neutral, anymore??? * CHINA DAILY FORUM > JAPAN DECLARES PROPAGANDA WAR ON CHINA, KOREA, AND RUSSIA OVER DISPUTED TERRITORIES. * CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > PHILIPPINE NAVY STRAFES CHINESE [fishing] BOAT, KILLING ONE. * RELATED DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > SHOOTING CALLS FOR STRONG COUNTER-MEASURES - OPED- GLOBALTIMES.CN. This may NOT end well. ARTIC = denotes or infers that the PHIL may had shot at a Taiwanese Fishing boat out of angst agz mainland China over the disputed SCS. THE PHIL HAVE A MUCHO BEEF AGZ BEIJING, THUS THEY INVADE SABAH = MALAYSIA, + NOW FIRE AT A TAIWANESE FISHBOAT??? * SAME > PHILIPPINE COAST GUARD ADMITS SHOOTING AT TAIWAN BOAT | INQUIRER.GLOBALNATION.NET. ------------- FYI CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > AFP [Armed Forces of PHIL = PHIL Navy] READY TO REPEL CHINESE FLEET[fishing = circa 30 ea. vessels], repor headed to the disputed Spratly Islands [China = Nansha Islands]. Don't think Taiwan, let alone Beijing = mainland China, is gonna stand for the PHIL using de facto heavily armed Navy warships to oppose unarmed Fishing Boats. * DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > JAPAN PROTESTS TO CHINA OVER OKINAWA CLAIM. * SAME > BLOGGER = opined that any INTER-CHINESE [PRC-ROC] REUNIFICATION SHOULD INVOLVE THE FORMAL ANNEXATION BY POST-REUNIFIED CHINA OF THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE PHILIPPINES??? Oh my. * SAME > [Ladakh]INCURSION WON'T PUSH INDIA INTO SIGNING BORDER DEAL [wid China]: KHURSHID - TIMES OF INDIA. How ironic that the "Great/Major" Powers try to avoid confrontation only to see lessor Powers/Nations renew the flames, e.g. Afghan-vs-Pak border clashes + ASEAN??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-05-10 03:16 |
| #1 probably cost more too make it a reef or scrap iyt than too give it away |
| Posted by: chris 2013-05-10 00:52 |