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Everything Old is New Again*: China buying Russian Backfire Bombers

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Curt7/12/2012 10:10:37 am PDT

re: #1 Destro

How about the USA gives up on being a world empire. It ever to occur to anyone the Chinese maybe doing this because a US fleet passes back and forth across her shores every now and then and American politicians every now and then say we should be at war with China in some capacity?

Empire means you take over and exploit the local resources, for your own good, not paying fair market value for them, or…just taking them. Lemme see…England, Germany, France, The Netherlands, Spain, Russia….those were empires of which you speak.

In your opinion, then China has a beef with any country that has their naval vessels drive by? Every navy an empire…

Consider this: Our military has been built on the postulated threat. It wasn’t and hasn’t for a very long time, ever been constituted, or expanded in order to go to war first. If so, it would have looked very, very different. The requirements of countering threats existing, or reasonably foreseen drives force structure. In China’s case, we have been reducing not only our Navy, but all other components of our military. So…if they see us as a threat…they certainly take it at an entirely different context….and I submit it’s not threat based, but like Japan in the 30s-40s: Positioning to ensure they control the resources for energy and industrial production. Consider their relationships all over Africa, which lends an entirely new context to this discussion.