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U.S. adding 4 military bases in Philippines - prelude to potential war with China
Posted on 2/4/23 at 12:04 pm
Posted on 2/4/23 at 12:04 pm
"The additional sites under the EDCA bring to nine the number of military bases the United States would have access to. The United States has announced it was allocating more than $82 million for infrastructure at the existing sites.
The EDCA allows U.S. access to Philippine military bases for joint training, pre-positioning of equipment and the building of facilities such as runways, fuel storage and military housing, but not for a permanent presence.
Austin and Galvez did not specify the sites that would be opened to U.S. access. The former Philippine military chief had said the United States had asked for access to bases on the main northern island of Luzon, the closest part of the Philippines to Taiwan, and on Palawan in the southwest, near the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea."
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The EDCA allows U.S. access to Philippine military bases for joint training, pre-positioning of equipment and the building of facilities such as runways, fuel storage and military housing, but not for a permanent presence.
Austin and Galvez did not specify the sites that would be opened to U.S. access. The former Philippine military chief had said the United States had asked for access to bases on the main northern island of Luzon, the closest part of the Philippines to Taiwan, and on Palawan in the southwest, near the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea."
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Posted on 2/4/23 at 12:05 pm to Stidham8
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U.S. adding 4 military bases in Philippines - prelude to potential war with China
More globalism.
Posted on 2/4/23 at 12:06 pm to Stidham8
This comes days after a 4 star general predicted war with China by 2025.
“I hope I am wrong,” Minihan, who heads the Air Force’s Air Mobility Command, wrote in an internal memo, which circulated on social media, to the leadership of its 110,000 members. Chinese President Xi Jinping, he explains, “secured his third term and set his war council in October 2022. Taiwan’s presidential elections are in 2024 and will offer Xi a reason. United States’ presidential elections are in 2024 and will offer Xi a distracted America. Xi’s team, reason, and opportunity are all aligned for 2025.”
The subject of the memo is “February 2023 Orders in Preparation for — The Next Fight,” and Minihan goes on to direct troops to undergo a monthly progression of readiness, including ordering personnel to “consider their personal affairs” and to “fire a clip into a 7-meter target with the full understanding that unrepentant lethality matters most. Aim for the head.”
The sensational remarks have provoked consternation on both sides of the Pacific. “All these are things that you say when you’re getting ready to go to combat,” retired U.S. Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis tells TIME. “Either he knows something that we don’t, or he’s just really trying to get everybody fired up. But I can tell you, for sure, it’s very out of the ordinary.”
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“I hope I am wrong,” Minihan, who heads the Air Force’s Air Mobility Command, wrote in an internal memo, which circulated on social media, to the leadership of its 110,000 members. Chinese President Xi Jinping, he explains, “secured his third term and set his war council in October 2022. Taiwan’s presidential elections are in 2024 and will offer Xi a reason. United States’ presidential elections are in 2024 and will offer Xi a distracted America. Xi’s team, reason, and opportunity are all aligned for 2025.”
The subject of the memo is “February 2023 Orders in Preparation for — The Next Fight,” and Minihan goes on to direct troops to undergo a monthly progression of readiness, including ordering personnel to “consider their personal affairs” and to “fire a clip into a 7-meter target with the full understanding that unrepentant lethality matters most. Aim for the head.”
The sensational remarks have provoked consternation on both sides of the Pacific. “All these are things that you say when you’re getting ready to go to combat,” retired U.S. Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis tells TIME. “Either he knows something that we don’t, or he’s just really trying to get everybody fired up. But I can tell you, for sure, it’s very out of the ordinary.”
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Posted on 2/4/23 at 12:06 pm to Stidham8
Mainly for safe spaces to host Asian drag shows and tranny brunches
Posted on 2/4/23 at 12:07 pm to Stidham8
The Philippines is Chinas Mexico
Posted on 2/4/23 at 12:07 pm to Stidham8
Good, stick all our nukes up their fortune cookie
Posted on 2/4/23 at 12:08 pm to Stidham8
Our government can’t stop or prevent a balloon from flying across the country. Mark me down as skeptical that we’ll ever win a war again. No matter how many foreign bases we operate.
Posted on 2/4/23 at 12:08 pm to 93and99
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More globalism.
China needs to be held in check. They are well on track to becoming what Japan was in the 1920s and 1930s.
Posted on 2/4/23 at 12:10 pm to Stidham8
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This post was edited on 2/5/23 at 9:51 pm
Posted on 2/4/23 at 12:11 pm to Stidham8
Thanks for the update. Loon
Posted on 2/4/23 at 12:12 pm to Stidham8
If we just had about $60B to defend ourselves.
Posted on 2/4/23 at 12:12 pm to Stidham8
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China needs to be held in check.
Yep, the situation with the balloon is evidence that our government is right on top of that.
Posted on 2/4/23 at 12:14 pm to Stidham8
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China needs to be held in check.
When does your latest Amazon order arrive?
Posted on 2/4/23 at 12:15 pm to Stidham8
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Stidham8
Is Russia still winning IYO?
Posted on 2/4/23 at 1:26 pm to Stidham8
We have to protect the pinay pussy. At all costs.
Posted on 2/4/23 at 1:30 pm to Stidham8
I have zero confidence in the us military to actually win a war.
Posted on 2/4/23 at 1:30 pm to TigerOnTheMountain
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When does your latest Amazon order arrive?
Hell yeah! Boycott Amazon! That’ll show China who’s boss.
Posted on 2/4/23 at 1:30 pm to TigerOnTheMountain
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. Mark me down as skeptical that we’ll ever win a war again
There won’t be any winners from the next war. Just mutually assured destruction of the human race. George Carlin said that this planet is going to shake humanity off like a bad case of fleas.
Posted on 2/4/23 at 1:41 pm to Stidham8
Good. An important strategic alliance.
and every young soldier or sailor needs some time off in the PI.
and every young soldier or sailor needs some time off in the PI.
Posted on 2/4/23 at 1:46 pm to Theduckhunter
You predictably missed the point. China has the ability to impact the lives of our citizens in a way that is inconceivable to most of you idiots. People like you will happily learn mandarin the moment you’re slightly inconvenienced.
This post was edited on 2/4/23 at 1:46 pm
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