PikeCowboy
Junior Member
China has to be able to weather it like the US did the Cuban missile crisis.
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AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
It really doesn't matter if the US believes them to be nuke silos or not. Trump talked of increasing the US's arsenal early on. The US now is just using this as justification for upgrading and making more like they wanted to do beforehand. Does anyone think they can reason with a US that thinks it's completely okay that they can have as many nukes as they want but pees in their Sunday school skirts if anyone else has one?
solarz
Brigadier
Again, trying to intimidate China into submission. Obviously these guys have learned nothing.
It's a nation that one cannot trust to make a crucial agreement, in particular the security agreement, unless a country want to experience what Mikhail Gorbachev had with the promise of no "Eastward Expansion"
only a great fool will buy in their commitment/agreement for any serious huge concern!Additionally, just look at the JCPOA, one govt agreed, then the next one just cancelled it -- how stupid then any country that's willing to make any critical huge decision relying on the nonexistent D.C. commitment?
How many times one wants to be cheated???
How many lives does one have???
It's a nation that one cannot trust to make a crucial agreement, in particular the security agreement, unless a country want to experience what Mikhail Gorbachev had with the promise of no "Eastward Expansion"
US breaks agreement all the time, starting with the native Americans. To Soviets, China through Iran and Iraq. And so on. No body learns because nobody remembers. And certainly the western MSM is not going to remind them about it.
+90% of Japanese public is against nuclear weapons. So unless Japan wants Tokyo to get targeted by North Korea nukes, then Japan is not going to accept hosting US nuclear weapons, no matter how much US asks for it. Japan might be the first nation to get nuked twice in history if it accepts US nuclear weapons!
The "subsidies" the Balts receive from the US State Dep and alphabet agencies are way more than their export earnings to China.
What do they export again besides young women to Frankfurt, Paris and Dubai?
A gamer believed to be a Challenger 2 commander has apparently decided that preserving British state secrets is less important than proving to a game company that its digital model of his country's main battle tank is inaccurate.
A funny and potentially criminal episode unfolded this week on the forums of ‘War Thunder’, a popular competitive video game in which players take control of various real-life military vehicles. Projects like this one attract the attention of accuracy nerds, who push designers to get every little detail right.
It seems one such person may have breached the UK Official Secrets Act, by leaking a portion of the still-classified manual for the Challenger 2 main battle tank. On Wednesday, the user on the forum a link to excerpts from a Challenger 2 AESP (Army Equipment Support Publication) as he argued his point to developers.
The alleged leak was by the UK Defence Journal on Friday. The military-focused website said the poster identifies as a Challenger 2 commander and may be stationed at the Royal Tank Regiment in Tidworth, England.
Forum moderators took with the link. The British MoD confirmed to them the classified status of the manual, prompting the link’s removal and a warning that disseminating the excerpts “can carry up to a 14-year prison sentence if prosecuted.” Some users said they hoped the in-game model of the vehicle would still be fixed, but others pointed out that the game’s designers refuse to use reference materials that are not legally available to the public.
Adding to the irony of the situation is the fact that ‘War Thunder’ is developed and published by a company called Gaijin Entertainment, which has distinct Russian origins. It is headquartered in Budapest, but it was launched in Moscow in 2002 and has Russian nationals among its key executives.
‘War Thunder’ was first released in 2012. The studio is also known for its contribution to the ‘IL-2 Sturmovik’ series of combat flight simulation games, having developed the 2009 instalment subtitled ‘Birds of Prey’.
While passion for game accuracy is understandable, pursuing it too hard may result in quite serious consequences. Oleg Tishchenko was tried in the US in 2019 for attempting to purchase F-16 flight manuals on eBay, which he said he needed to make his product, ‘Digital Combat Simulator’, better. The US had him extradited from the former Soviet republic of Georgia, after he flew there for a dancing festival.
Tishchenko pleaded guilty to two of the five counts brought against him and was sentenced by a federal court in Utah to one year and one day in prison. By the time of the ruling, he had spent more than 12 months in federal custody, so the judge ordered his immediate deportation to Russia.
Actually, Japan is the first country to get nuked twice in history.