{"id":60237,"date":"2015-06-05T15:52:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T19:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60237"},"modified":"2015-06-05T15:52:34","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T19:52:34","slug":"irony-writ-large-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60237","title":{"rendered":"Irony &#8211; Writ Large"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saw this headline just now:<\/p>\n<h5>V<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/vietnam-seeks-western-warplanes-to-counter-potential-chinese-threat-768875\">ietnam Seeks Western Warplanes to Counter Potential Chinese Threat<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><em>&#8220;Vietnam is in talks with European and US contractors to buy fighter jets, maritime patrol planes and unarmed drones, sources said, as it looks to beef up its aerial defences in the face of China&#8217;s growing assertiveness in disputed waters.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At least one of the touted reasons we went there 50 plus years ago was to curb the influence of China in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Gotta wonder if they&#8217;ll also offer us the Navy base in Da Nang to help fend off the EVIL Empire??? The Philippines has been said to be considering similar.<\/p>\n<p>My first thought was to simply suggest they try to put together useful aircraft made from all of the ones they shot down. Kinda think that might be feasible. If not&#8230; it IS fun to consider.<\/p>\n<p>I am running out of words here folks.\u00a0 The more I think about the notion of VietNam pilots in F-15s and the like, the more I giggle. Like&#8230; Maybe <strong>THEY&#8217;LL buy our A-10s?<\/strong> They are no longer needed by our forces, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I could go on&#8230; Bet you can too.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw this headline just now: Vietnam Seeks Western Warplanes to Counter Potential Chinese Threat &#8220;Vietnam is &hellip; <a title=\"Irony &#8211; Writ Large\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60237\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Irony &#8211; Writ Large<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}