Trump sends carrier to South China Sea

Don't be ridiculous.

An article by two arms control experts just a few years ago in The Atlantic calculated that the United States could destroy the entire Chinese ICBM force with only 72 W-88 warheads carried by Trident II D-5 missiles launched from two Ohio class ballistic missile submarines in the Pacific.

And do it while killing only around 6,000 Chinese.

 

Good news. Hopefully they do some damage if the Reds attempt to do some baiting of the kind Obama wet his diapers over and did nothing about. Maybe even send it close enough to Korea and start knocking the Mad Midget's missile test launches out of the air, just for practice.

 

Obama was too much of a military genius to seek the help of his top military brass, or so we were told. He spent way too much time drawing inconsequential red lines, sending planes loaded with cash to our adversaries, and ignoring several difficult situations around the globe. I don't think President Trump will make those same mistakes...

Agreed. See my comments above.

That is exactly what some people will claim. It's a crazy idea. Trump will take the advise of his military advisors, which is a refreshing change. And sorry, but I don't buy for a second the notion that the top ranking military people want to take us into another conflict. Sorry, but that's nuts.

Correct. The shipping lanes of the South China Sea are much too important for us to let China start dictating how things get moved within those shipping corridors. Sorry, but if the Chinese think they are going to be able to tell us how we're to behave in those waters, they need to think again...

 

How does picking sides in a dispute where everyone is involved in illegal actions making fight LESS likely?