To get China’s attention…
The United States plans to deploy more high-tech missile systems to the Philippines to help deter aggression in the South China Sea, where the treaty allies on Tuesday condemned what they called China’s “illegal, coercive, aggressive, and deceptive activities.”
Beijing has repeatedly expressed alarm over the installation in the northern Philippines of a U.S. mid-range missile system called the Typhon in 2024 and of an anti-ship missile launcher last year. It said the U.S. weapons were aimed at containing China’s rise and warned that these were a threat to regional stability.
Full article, HERE from Military Times.
China likes playing the ‘big dog’ with the little countries inside the second island chain, as it’s known. They DON’T like it when those little countries get teeth!
Much less like a country like the Philippines having a deterrence capability, which these and other missiles provide, especially when the Chinese Coast Guard and ‘blue ships’ constantly harass Philippine fishermen.
Or the ability to reach the Spratly Islands, which are among the ‘contested’ shoals/islands west of the Philippines that are in the Philippine EEZ, but China routinely claims and fishes.
When you add the ‘new’ discussions between the US and Philippines on basing issues, and ramping up of joint training, things are getting more like the pre-Pinatubo blow up, when the US had multiple bases there, including ships, aircraft, and ‘other’ activities.
In other news, closer to home, it’s fire season already…
Multiple fires are burning in the Panhandle, Oklahoma, and Kansas, HERE. Major highways were blocked, and some folks in the northern exurb of Amarillo has been evacuated.
We didn’t get winds much over 30mph yesterday, but Amarillo got gusts of up to 70mph, and a few semi’s apparently got blown over.
So stay safe folks, and do your fire preps NOW, don’t wait until the last minute. Things are replaceable, YOU are not!
Funny how when we provoke a fight it’s “deterrence.”
(((war)))
Here’s the visual. Ima gonna sit on yur property line with a weapon specifically designed to cause as much damage to you as possible, forever! Jus to make sure you ain’t a gonna din du nuffin!
Name the jew bankster MIC driven jew controlled ZOG
PS I’m old and FO, there’s not much more they can do to me.
All I wanted was peace. To be left alone.
The Chinese have dropped ZERO bombs in 40 years.
FUSA has dropped 11 million tons of TNT on dozens of countries
We are the baddies.
Dude,
You don’t get it, China views the 21st century as “Their century, they can finally pay people back for the “Boxer” Rebellion and the humiliations they endured since. THe CHinese have a long memory, they haven’t forgotten what the Japanese have done to them in WWII, and like the Japanese they need raw resources to support their industry. They are very influential in Africa, South and Central America, and making inroads in Canada. Plus all the industrial espionage they are doing here. If you think China is gonna leave you alone, you are sadly mistaken. And you are throwing in the zionist conspiracy theory cabal Really? got something better than that? LOLROFLMAO
P.S. Sorry Old NFO for the rant.
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Cleanup on aisle three!
Somebody’s puked here.
The winds around Amarillo stick in my mind from my October 2023 trip to the Grand Canyon, when my daughter was an infant. We left the campground on the edge of Amarillo in morning, heading west toward Santa Rosa, NM on I-40. The entire ride we were fighting winds, with steady winds of about 15 mph and gusts of up to 40. We felt like we’d be blown away when walking into the Midpoint Cafe, and walking around the Blue Hole. The winds finally died down that evening while we were camped again, about 13 hours after they’d started.
I don’t want to imagine what it is like with fires and fiercer winds. I hope everybody stays safe out there. I know cattle and property will be lost, but I hope nobody dies.
I rode through there a few times on a motorcycle. I soon understood why all the bushes and trees grew leaning southward. I rode a couple hundred miles with the front wheel turned into the wind.
Blowing dust can be a hazard. Yesterday saw a 40 vehicle pileup on I-25 at the South city limits of Pueblo. Four dead.
The fire in OK-KS is up to 45K acres. The road north of Amarillo was still closed as of noon because of that particular fire (Valle de Oro). Things are calmer today (25 gusting 45), so they can use the tankers on some of the fires. Several “precautionary” evacuations became “grab the Ps and run” very quickly [people, pets, pharma, papers]. I don’t like days like that.
All- Thanks for the comments, TXRed, thanks for the update!
Joey- You need to stop drinking the kool aid…