{"id":139862,"date":"2023-04-11T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=139862"},"modified":"2023-04-10T15:33:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T19:33:58","slug":"and-we-are-somehow-the-bad-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=139862","title":{"rendered":"And we are somehow the bad guys…."},"content":{"rendered":"

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I know, this isn’t news. But China, Iran and North Korea are all getting stroppy – and from their public statements, we are the bad guys.<\/p>\n

Starting with China. Chinese Army naval and air\u00a0 forces are simulating sealing off Taiwan after one of their politicians had the temerity to visit the US.:<\/p>\n

Between 6 a.m. Sunday and 6 a.m. Monday, a total of 70 planes were detected and half crossed the median of the Taiwan Strait, an unofficial boundary once tacitly accepted by both sides, according to Taiwan\u2019s Ministry of National Defense. Among the planes that crossed the median were 8 J-16 fighter jets, 4 J-1 fighters, 8 Su-30 fighters and reconnaissance planes.<\/p>\n

Later Monday morning, Taiwan’s defense ministry reported another 59 flights by bombers, as well as multiple fighter jets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Military.com<\/a><\/p>\n

A bit further away, the USS Milius did a freedom-of-navigation sail-by near an artificial island China created (in international waters) which it now claims. (Reminds you of a squatter who not only won’t leave, but claims to own your house, huh?)<\/p>\n

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North Korea reports supposedly testing an underwater nuclear drone designed to explode off one of our ports and create a “radioactive tsunami”.<\/p>\n

The North\u2019s official Korean Central News Agency said the drone, named “Haeil-2” after a Korean word meaning tsunamis or tidal waves, traveled underwater for more than 71 hours before successfully detonating a mock warhead in waters near the eastern port city of Tanchon on Friday. KCNA said the test proved that the weapon could strike targets 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) away with \u201cfatal attack ability.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Military.com II<\/a><\/p>\n

I remember the good old days a few years back when the folks caught working on nukes used to blush and try to claim they were really defensive weapons\u00a0 so it was OK. The Norks don’t even do that, they straight-up brag that these are offensive weapons aimed at us. I can only assume they have one heck of a bunker system – there’s not that much of a country to flatten if they did launch on us. I guess MAD does not translate well to irrational people.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of whom, now we get to the Iranians. They are really torqued, calling us “warmongers”, because the submarine USS Florida is being sent to Bahrain via the Suez to support the 5th Fleet headquartered in Bahrain..<\/p>\n

…Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani accused the US of \u201cwarmongering and propagating instability and conflict in the West Asia region.\u201d<\/p>\n

The US submarine\u2019s arrival coincided with the firing of six rockets from Syria toward the Israel-held Golan Heights, an attack that triggered an Israeli response against Syrian Army positions. Most Israeli strikes in Syria have been against Iran and its proxies<\/strong>, which have boosted their presence and influence in the war-ravaged country over the past decade.<\/p>\n

Tit-for-tat violence also flared on other fronts. Israel hit sites in the Gaza Strip on Friday, which it said belonged to the Iran-allied Hamas movement,<\/strong> and retaliated against the firing of a barrage of rockets from southern Lebanon to the Upper Galilee in an attack claimed by the Iran-supported Palestinian Islamic Jihad group<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bloomberg via Yahoo<\/a><\/p>\n

Bold in the above added by me. Notice a LOT of Iran-supported, Iran-allied, etc. in all the stuff stirred up in the region. Almost like Iran (via the Revolutionary Guard) is fomenting as much trouble as possible.<\/p>\n

I think it was Will Rogers who described ‘diplomacy’ as ‘saying “nice doggie” – until you can pick up a rock.’\u00a0 I guess when you do pick up a rock, the mad dog(s) don’t like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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