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2014-04-19 China-Japan-Koreas

Chinese Editorial: US Soldiers 'Not Worth Anything'

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Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-04-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 See also INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > 2000 PLA TROPS COULD INVADE JAPANESE SENKAKU ISLANDS IN FIVE HOURS - WSJ.COM, using Russian-made ZUBR-class fast LCACS.

USMC Okinawa Chief LTG John Wissler.

* WORLD NEWS > [WaPo] ENVOY: US HAS GIVEN CHINA A "MISSION IMPOSSIBLE" ON NORTH KOREA, i.e. US demanding that China assert influence on its neighbors to stop NOKOR from dev Nukes or else face a US response(s) which ultimately may hurt China's national security interests.

US-Japan [Taiwan?], ASEAN Missle Defense? Japan, ROK [North Korea?] Nukes?

"PUDGY" = KJU NOW "OUR MAN" IN NE ASIA???

* WORLD NEWS > [Ria Novosti] RUSSIA TO BUILD 150 MILITARY FACILITIES ON KURIL ISLANDS.

Ironically, as much as this action by Russia will p.o. Japan IT MAY P.O. CHINA MORE???

* BIGNEWNETWORK > [Voice of America] JAPAN SENDS TROOPS TO REMOTE ISLAND [Yonaguni near Taiwan], RISKS ANGERING CHINA.

Japan begins fortifying the Okinawa/Ryukyu Archipelago.

* RELATED ... ...
> DRUDGEREPORT = JAPAN STRENGTHENS DEFENSIVE FRONT LINE | JAPAN SETS SIGHTS ON STRENGTHENING SOUTH CHINA SEA SURVEILLANCE. Yonaguni again.
> JAPAN TIMES = JAPAN SDF SHOULD UTILIZE SHIMOJIMI AIRPORT, as the airport has become strategically important vee the growing "China threat" to Japan = Japanese -claimed islands.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-04-19 01:54|| 2014-04-19 01:54|| Front Page Top

#2 I am oftentimes blessed with dreams of family and of soldiers. There are no better dreams than those of family and of soldiers.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-04-19 03:10|| 2014-04-19 03:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Especially to their CINC?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-04-19 07:08|| 2014-04-19 07:08|| Front Page Top

#4 You know there was a reason they joined the armistice in Korea. Regardless of all the propaganda, they did feel the losses to the strategy Ridgway implemented along the fighting line coupled with the interdiction campaign. This is lower primate territorial posturing with making big sounds to scare an opponent and build up one's own confidence before doing something stupid.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-04-19 08:16|| 2014-04-19 08:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Sorry P2K, build up one's own confidence before doing something stupid.

we beat them to stupid 5 years ago.

Posted by AlanC 2014-04-19 08:26|| 2014-04-19 08:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Our soldiers are still excellent and could easily kick the crap out of the Chinese soldier.

Our leadership however is not worth anything.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-04-19 11:08|| 2014-04-19 11:08|| Front Page Top

#7 The Chinese sense the favorable climate which has been created in Washington in the last few years. They are getting frisky. The Russians are also getting frisky.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-04-19 17:59|| 2014-04-19 17:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Losing in Afghanistan/losing to Afghanistan has consequences.

Sorry spectacles like this may make sense in Afghanistan, but they're being watched by a global audience.

The US suffered and a massive attack on her own territory and responded weakly and feebly. Why should anyone expect US action over unpopulated rocks in a far away sea.

The awful truth is that rational adversaries have very good reason not to fear the US and the West anymore.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2014-04-19 18:40|| 2014-04-19 18:40|| Front Page Top

#9 The Jimmy Carter "Miss me yet?" is brilliant.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-04-19 19:16|| 2014-04-19 19:16|| Front Page Top

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