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2013-04-01 China-Japan-Koreas

Guided missile destroyer moved to Koreas

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Posted by DarthVader 2013-04-01 15:20|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Fitzgerald is designated as an ABM platform.

Posted by Pappy 2013-04-01 16:41|| 2013-04-01 16:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Okay, I hear all the sabres rattling but what is the real chance that something is going down?

Is NKor really going to try and sink some big US ship, invade another island or seriously shoot at SKor or Japan?

This almost feels like something Zero would like to plan as a distraction from other failures.

I can't imagine China letting the Norks do anything. They're winning the global economic battle slowly and are in that for the long game.

Posted by AlanC 2013-04-01 16:51|| 2013-04-01 16:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Caught a quick glimpse of the ship on FOX NEWS this AM - looked like an AEGIS-CAPABLE "OLIVER HAZARD PERRY/PERRY"-CLASS vessel.

AEGIS read, ANTI-AIRCRAFT + BMD-CAPABLE.

What us different from past DPRK bellicosities is that DPRK overlord China aka "Mahanist" China has failed to diplomatically or peacefully procure "strategic access" = overseas PLA Milbases into WESTPAC + SOPAC vee the "First Island Chain", espec as per stalled reunification efforts wid TAIWAN AKA THE ISLAND THAT WILL MAKE-OR-BREAK CHINA'S "MANIFEST DESTINY" AS THE WORLD'S ONE-N-ONLY SUCCESSOR TO THE "WEAK/DECLINING" SOON-TO-BE-GLOBAL-EX-NUMBER-ONE USA, SO NOW IS WILLING TO FORCE THE ISSUE WID AGGRESSIVE MILITARY OR MILPOL FORCE. As wid any new or resurgent Nation-State in World History, Old World Power China wants its New "Manifest Destiny" ASAP AMAP ALAP, + not have to wait until Year 2050 or 2100 to achieve it.

IMO the DPRK covertly does NOT genuinely want war, but as Rising China's vassal it may have no choice but to militarily support China's war for strategic access thru the "First Island Chain".

THE KEY OR DECIDING FACTOR, THEN, IS WHETHER CHINA IS COVERTLY WILLING TO RE-PRIORITIZE, DELAY OR AMEND, ITS AGENDA = "MANIFEST DESTINY" IN ORDER TO AVOID A MAJOR MIL CONFLICT THAT HAS THE POTEN TO DEVOL INTO A LIMITED OR FULL-SCALE NUCLEAR CONFLICT???

This situation isoccurring at atime when both the DPRK + ROK desire to prevent any kind of Chinese takeover of North Korea, while the US on its part faces the the prospect of being suborned under ANTI-US OWG + VARIOUS "GLOBAL FEDERAL UNIONS" E.G. NAU 2015, TRANS-PAC, TRANS-ATLANTIC, ETC. + ANY RELATED INTERIM LEVELS OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE/GLOBAL GOVERNING AUTHORITY(S).

Where the US is led by a POTUS Obama + Admin that many ordinary or mainstream Americans + Netters proclaim NOT to trust to promote or defend America's interests vee "ulterior motives".

E.G. DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > INDIA WILL LOSE ITS GEOPOLITICAL BATTLES AGZ CHINA WID A WEAK ECONOMY?

Substitute INDIA wid Debt, Sequester-ridden USA???

* WORLD NEWS > [WND.com] IRAN: 2013 WILL BE THE "FALL OF AMERICAN EMPIRE", BASIJ COMMANDER [BGEN. Mohammad Reza Naghti] GIVES MICHELLE OBAMA "WET GUNPOWDER" AWARD, as the Personage most unlikely, unknowingly, or unsuspectingly to aid Islam or Radical Islamism, BUT DID.

Comments + Award to FLOTUS Michelle approved by Iran El Supremo the Grand Ayatollah Khamenei.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-04-01 23:03|| 2013-04-01 23:03|| Front Page Top

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