Do you know the Enemy are here ? More than a decade ago Green Day, the american punk band knew what was coming up.
Now we got proof that we're inching clother to the final count down:
US Coast Guard spots Chinese warships off Alaska
US Coast Guard says a group of Chinese warships, including its most advanced Type 055 destroyer, were spotted sailing in the waters off Alaska late last month. US Coast Guard says a group of Chinese warships, including its most advanced Type 055 destroyer, were spotted sailing in the waters off Alaska late last month
Four Chinese warships, including one of its most advanced destroyers
, were spotted sailing in the waters off Alaska late last month as the Chinese navy steadily expands its range, according to photos posted on a Pentagon information service.
The photos taken by the US Coast Guard showed the four Chinese naval vessels shadowed by two US Coast Guard cutters in international waters within the US’ exclusive economic zone in the Aleutian Islands on August 29 and August 30, according to the Defence Visual Information Distribution Service.
According to the photo captions, the US and Chinese vessels had “safe and professional” interactions and their verbal communications were in accordance with international standards, including the Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea, a non-legally binding agreement to prevent clashes at sea.
Paranoia anyone ? It's no problem for US and UK Aircraft carriers to sail in chinese waters near Taiwan and claim it's all about freedom in intl. waters ? If this continues we'll see another Tonkin Incident,soon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident
Do you know the Enemy are here ?
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Green Day were always fucking crap commercial powerpop punky nonsense. That song could have been about anything it's so vague and pointless. Wah hey!
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Well, France is not pleased with the U.S. and Australia over plans to develop new nuke subs...
More money wasted on guns and ammo... The song should be Pete Seeger's...
BBC News - "Aukus: France recalls envoys amid security pact row"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58604677
More money wasted on guns and ammo... The song should be Pete Seeger's...
BBC News - "Aukus: France recalls envoys amid security pact row"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58604677
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It is a wise decision to stick with the English demographics. Driving my Peugeot around France, it was a challenge to find someone who could communicate in English outside the big cities.
The Chinese are everywhere these days, keeping just outside US territorial waters with their advanced spy ships.
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2021/09/1 ... ar-hawaii/
The Chinese are everywhere these days, keeping just outside US territorial waters with their advanced spy ships.
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2021/09/1 ... ar-hawaii/
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In July in Australia…. I think we can just expect China to be everywhere …
“We have been monitoring its approach to Australia for several days as part of Australia's broader surveillance effort."
Mr Dutton said he did not expect the presence of the Chinese naval ship to impede the Talisman Sabre exercises.
"We fully expected a ship of this class to arrive in our region during the exercise and have planned for its presence, as we do for every iteration,"
“We have been monitoring its approach to Australia for several days as part of Australia's broader surveillance effort."
Mr Dutton said he did not expect the presence of the Chinese naval ship to impede the Talisman Sabre exercises.
"We fully expected a ship of this class to arrive in our region during the exercise and have planned for its presence, as we do for every iteration,"
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USA has their"Exceptualism", just as the current Chinese Government does. I wasn't around 1000 years ago, but I guess at that time the Chinese "exceptualism was much like USA's this past 75-100 years: they not only believed they were the greatest country on earth, they didn't even care much what other countries thought. They were the Centre, the rest, merely periphery.
Confidence is always attractive, but as it shades into the arrogance of the bully, much less so. Thus, in my lifetime, all we periphery have a love/hate relationship with USA. That this board, generally, feels some of this towards China, and more and more each recent year, is also crystal clear.
China today, contrary to most of its long history, seems hyper-sensitive to what the world thinks. Some pro Chinese commenters here are likely normal, justly proud ethnic Chinese, not paid pro Chinese media influencers, but that such influencers exist in high numbers on Facebook shows they care at least as much about cyberspace as they do about Australia's training exercises.
More surprising to me is the need of the Chinese Government to domestically portray their country as the underdog, the bullied, not the bully. I guess with full control of all media that is an easy sell inside the country, but it surprises me to hear hints of this in rare K440 comments. Influencers who stick to proclaiming China's greatness don't have too hard a sell, we can see that China has a glorious history and an absolutely amazing last 10 -15 years. However, those trying to push the underdog line outside the mainland trip the credulity alarms immediately. Then again, maybe they aren't talking to me, but telling, again and again, what they hope at least a few outland ethnic Chinese want to hear, "You are great. If you are not now rich and powerful, it is not your fault. Draw near to Big Brother, you will be."
(P.S. Alexandra, sorry for the High Horse pontification. You called it right from the start. A character flaw.)
Confidence is always attractive, but as it shades into the arrogance of the bully, much less so. Thus, in my lifetime, all we periphery have a love/hate relationship with USA. That this board, generally, feels some of this towards China, and more and more each recent year, is also crystal clear.
China today, contrary to most of its long history, seems hyper-sensitive to what the world thinks. Some pro Chinese commenters here are likely normal, justly proud ethnic Chinese, not paid pro Chinese media influencers, but that such influencers exist in high numbers on Facebook shows they care at least as much about cyberspace as they do about Australia's training exercises.
More surprising to me is the need of the Chinese Government to domestically portray their country as the underdog, the bullied, not the bully. I guess with full control of all media that is an easy sell inside the country, but it surprises me to hear hints of this in rare K440 comments. Influencers who stick to proclaiming China's greatness don't have too hard a sell, we can see that China has a glorious history and an absolutely amazing last 10 -15 years. However, those trying to push the underdog line outside the mainland trip the credulity alarms immediately. Then again, maybe they aren't talking to me, but telling, again and again, what they hope at least a few outland ethnic Chinese want to hear, "You are great. If you are not now rich and powerful, it is not your fault. Draw near to Big Brother, you will be."
(P.S. Alexandra, sorry for the High Horse pontification. You called it right from the start. A character flaw.)
Anyway, a few boats in international waters does not a war make.
Why would you expect French people living in rural France to communicate with you in English?busybee wrote: ↑Sat Sep 18, 2021 12:52 pmIt is a wise decision to stick with the English demographics. Driving my Peugeot around France, it was a challenge to find someone who could communicate in English outside the big cities.
The Chinese are everywhere these days, keeping just outside US territorial waters with their advanced spy ships.
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2021/09/1 ... ar-hawaii/
Do they drive around rural Wiltshire and expect to be spoken to in French?
It has to do with the simple maintenance and upkeep of equipment. The defense sector is often conservative and isolated. The different countries fighting in Afghanistan were not always equal to diplomacy between members of the same force. Here I would argue that communication in a single language is essential for long-term success in a conflict. With all due respect to the French and their ingenuity, I suggest that they continue to build their own national interest from a recent history of conflict. There are still numerous French-speaking areas around the world on which they could concentrate.
NATO’s ‘Steadfast Noon’ exercises included in NUCLEAR war training for the German Air Force (which bunkers US Nukes at it's Buechel Airbase in order to deliver them with german fighter jets to where the americans want them to be delivered). This excercise happens regulary, pretty much like the prank invasion exercises of North Korea.
Biden's relentless diplomacy instead of relentless wars is nowhere to be seen on the horizon.
https://thefrontierpost.com/natos-stead ... air-force/
Biden's relentless diplomacy instead of relentless wars is nowhere to be seen on the horizon.
https://thefrontierpost.com/natos-stead ... air-force/
When the Rats leave the Bats move in.
Derelict church on US Army base in Germany soars again as home for bats
GRAFENWOEHR, Germany — The apse of a former church on a U.S. Army base in Bavaria has been transformed into a bat sanctuary — in every sense of the word.
Restoration of the St. Agid Bergheim Church in Hohenfels into a haven for a handful of bat species began in 2012, and with funding from the Defense Department, the Army began building a new apse onto the remnants of a 15th century Gothic chapel.
The holy bat habitat received a few finishing touches just before a Sept. 27 dedication ceremony attended by Army and German officials.
more: https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2 ... 47496.html
Derelict church on US Army base in Germany soars again as home for bats
GRAFENWOEHR, Germany — The apse of a former church on a U.S. Army base in Bavaria has been transformed into a bat sanctuary — in every sense of the word.
Restoration of the St. Agid Bergheim Church in Hohenfels into a haven for a handful of bat species began in 2012, and with funding from the Defense Department, the Army began building a new apse onto the remnants of a 15th century Gothic chapel.
The holy bat habitat received a few finishing touches just before a Sept. 27 dedication ceremony attended by Army and German officials.
more: https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2 ... 47496.html