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Mon Nov 8, 2021, 06:17 PM

bluewater (5,376 posts)

30. ikr

The Military Industrial Complex never rests.

It must be fed, continually.

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52 replies	Author	Time	Post
Satellite images show China built mock-ups of US warships [View all]	Omaha Steve	Nov 2021	OP
Of course they knew it would be seen by satellites.	NurseJackie	Nov 2021	#1
Not much concern on my part of the annual paper mache boats parade. Also don't see how	Alexander Of Assyria	Nov 2021	#3
Correct	4Q2u2	Nov 2021	#5
Various law enforcement agencies in the US have built mock city blocks.	Igel	Nov 2021	#31
Ha! The last one seems possible, too.	NurseJackie	Nov 2021	#33
I believe it was to test their new steerable IRBM warheads ability to hit that size target. nt	EX500rider	Nov 2021	#35
AP, another problem with the recent warmongering....China does this every year.	Alexander Of Assyria	Nov 2021	#2
We use real ships on the sea.	marble falls	Nov 2021	#4
Yes, and many many more than any other country, at obscene cost.	Alexander Of Assyria	Nov 2021	#6
Actually China has a larger navy by number of ships.	EX500rider	Nov 2021	#36
Larger, not near better. 14 carrier groups versus 4 for starters.	Alexander Of Assyria	Nov 2021	#46
This is the China that TFG accused	bucolic_frolic	Nov 2021	#7
Well, I suppose China sees the US ships in South China Sea and...	TreasonousBastard	Nov 2021	#8
Except the US is not dredging up islands in the Caribbean and then calling it US territory.	EX500rider	Nov 2021	#37
What China has done in the South China Sea,	Calista241	Nov 2021	#43
Yes...you get it...it's called the China Sea, not the USA Sea...for a reason.	Alexander Of Assyria	Nov 2021	#47
So I guess the Gulf of Mexico belongs to Mexico? Or not...	EX500rider	Nov 2021	#49
Don't see Chinese warships plying the Gulf of Mexico, it's international waters tho, so they	Alexander Of Assyria	Nov 2021	#51
And I don't see the US trying to claim the Gulf of Mexico	EX500rider	Nov 2021	#52
It's interesting just a few weeks after we get out of Afghanistan China has become a big	doc03	Nov 2021	#9
ikr	bluewater	Nov 2021	#30
General Mattis's 2018 National Defense Strategy prioritized China.....	reACTIONary	Nov 2021	#42
The media is just paying attention to it now.	Calista241	Nov 2021	#44
The march to WW III continues.	OneCrazyDiamond	Nov 2021	#10
Th march parade gonna need more than paper floats.	Alexander Of Assyria	Nov 2021	#12
They use the news	OneCrazyDiamond	Nov 2021	#13
Chinese Parade	Fred Garvin	Nov 2021	#19
Since America outspends the next 8 nations combined on military...who has whose balls?	Alexander Of Assyria	Nov 2021	#34
They'll have a chance at destroying the models, I guess.	Gore1FL	Nov 2021	#11
China has one deep blue fleet, we have eleven	AZLD4Candidate	Nov 2021	#14
Your information is quite out of date	sarisataka	Nov 2021	#16
Okay. I just lived there for 12 years. what do I know?	AZLD4Candidate	Nov 2021	#22
Well, you were unaware	sarisataka	Nov 2021	#26
If the DPRC is anything like the USSR,	Igel	Nov 2021	#32
China Has ICBM's	Fred Garvin	Nov 2021	#18
Still a paper tiger.	AZLD4Candidate	Nov 2021	#24
Don't over estimate them, either. The US hs more ICBM missile subs than the Chinese ...	marble falls	Nov 2021	#40
Chinese wrinkled uniforms?	Fred Garvin	Nov 2021	#20
Those are the color guard. Everyone in China knows that is done for propaganda	AZLD4Candidate	Nov 2021	#23
This is pretty standard Chinese military practice	ThoughtCriminal	Nov 2021	#15
Oh, I feel so threatened!	Mysterian	Nov 2021	#17
Needs to be read:	LudwigPastorius	Nov 2021	#21
The best and the brightest syndrome here	soryang	Nov 2021	#39
This just proves what we already know	jgmiller	Nov 2021	#25
The ignorance of posters on this thread is remarkable.	Evolve Dammit	Nov 2021	#27
While I don't dismiss the Chinese military as a peaceful or as a harmless paper tiger	Sapient Donkey	Nov 2021	#28
imagine that, China preparing to protect itself from a proven aggressive / rogue superpower.	KG	Nov 2021	#29
I wonder who Taiwan & India & Tibet & Philippines etc think is the "rogue superpower" in the area	EX500rider	Nov 2021	#38
A mock warship pulled in a straight line on tracks	Red Mountain	Nov 2021	#41
We use standard containers for our weapons testing.	Calista241	Nov 2021	#45
I imagine it is for testing the terminal target guidance system for the DF-21D ballistic missile	EX500rider	Nov 2021	#50
Loks Nice except	jrandom421	Nov 2021	#48

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