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Damning Pentagon Leak Reveals Huge Blow to U.S. Defenses (www.thedailybeast.com)

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Damning new data from inside the Pentagon suggests that U.S. forces are currently expending more resources defending Israel from missile strikes than Israeli forces themselves...

Three officials with knowledge of Defense Department assessments told The Washington Post on Thursday that the lopsided effort “underscores the extent to which Washington has shouldered the burden of countering Iranian ballistic missile strikes during Operation Epic Fury.”

U.S. forces, according to those assessments, have used up to half their total inventory of certain high-altitude interceptor systems, while Israel has deployed its own at a slower rate....
The situation has apparently sparked alarm among American allies in Asia, particularly South Korea and Japan, which depend on U.S. anti-missile defense systems to deter attacks from hostile states such as China and North Korea.

Hostile states, who haven't bothered anyone. Just like Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, Libya, Iraq, Syria...

Crosspost from https://lemmy.ml/post/47835338

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[–] TheFonz@lemmy.world 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

No. It's very simple really and your attempt to downplay it is really pathetic. China has been aggressively expanding fishing and territorial operations in international waters. So this lame whataboutism you can shove it where the sun don't shine.

[–] Semjeza@fedinsfw.app 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Its funny of you to call my response to a post calling out China "whataboutism" when part of the idea of the original post is that the countries called out as hostile have done far fewer wars than the PoV nation-Empire The USA.
How dare I complicate a "China = bad, US = good" by exploring that the PRC might have reasons that make sense for it's actions.
How dare I not assume that China's aggressive expansion of fishing started in the 1970s when Korea and the US were engaging in anti-Communist war games around the DPRK and PRC after the Korean War.

Vietnam, Philippines, and the RoC are also part of the mess which is the South China Sea dispute (which really kicked off in the 70s too, with the discovery of oil there (how dare I write this aside insinuating which country is known best for its violations of international law, norms, and rules for a little bit of the black gold)) which to be clear I'm not on the PRC's side on (or indeed any of the claimants on the whole. The South China seas is a mess, and needs to be settled; obviously the PRC has much greater clout and military power than the other claimants, so it won't follow any arbitration that doesn't give it most of what if wants - following the precedent set by the US with the UN and ICJ (there's that "whataboutism" again, right? How dare I draw parallels and recognise similarities between hegemonic powers).

[–] TheFonz@lemmy.world 1 points 23 minutes ago

You're desperately trying to pivot the conversation about current issues to historical context hoping that that a absolves anything. It doesn't.

I never said the US was good, but, again, nice try to derail the conversation. I never absoved the US of past actions either. You guys do this a lot, I notice. These are all debate tactics to derail the discussion. They don't work any more. We can see through the bullshit. It doesn't change the fact that China is violating international waters. So shove it. Every country did bad things a hundred years ago. It's not an excuse to do what China is doing in the present.