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China flies nuclear bomber over South China Sea to 'send message' to Donald Trump
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Is this real?
Sr Kitsune
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This made me laugh as a mexican, because this literally happened, just that Texas broke away from another country...
crowphoenix
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If it is, it is not on his twitter now. So, probably not.
LordOfLore
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No, the other articles posted later down page 1 had it as after. The original source made a mistake.
The Shadow
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This is timely and informative.
https://youtu.be/fs1CIrwg5zU
Looks like those fly-over states aren't such a bad place to live after all. -_-
https://youtu.be/fs1CIrwg5zU
Looks like those fly-over states aren't such a bad place to live after all. -_-
ZombieSupaStar
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It kind of does already, they invade Alaska in that future.
Meanwhile, what our B-1 bombers are up to:
We just moved bombers to Guam as part of the continuous bomber presence, and flew them quite near china as a show of force in reaction to NKs nuke testing, first time in a decade we've had b1 bombers in the pacific. Pretty sure that's a bigger show of force to china than a single Chinese bomber flying in the South China Sea. I know this isn't trumps doing, but I think it shows that the news reporting on this is pretty much hyperbole from Fox News, as it even says china has recently conducted similar flights. The US also has a strong presence in the region and does fly nuclear capable bombers around the region. There are also B2 bombers in Guam, both the b1 and b2 are cleared to used nuclear ordinance but official the b1 is no longer the nuclear bomber as the b2 took over that duty officially, but you'd think a b1 could be loaded with nukes if needed as it was once capable.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/12/politics/us-air-force-bombers-korea/
The bombers are from the 34th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, which dropped more than 2,000 "smart bombs" during more than 630 missions over Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan from January to July of 2015, officials at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam said in August.
Those missions covered more than 7,000 hours of flight time.
We just moved bombers to Guam as part of the continuous bomber presence, and flew them quite near china as a show of force in reaction to NKs nuke testing, first time in a decade we've had b1 bombers in the pacific. Pretty sure that's a bigger show of force to china than a single Chinese bomber flying in the South China Sea. I know this isn't trumps doing, but I think it shows that the news reporting on this is pretty much hyperbole from Fox News, as it even says china has recently conducted similar flights. The US also has a strong presence in the region and does fly nuclear capable bombers around the region. There are also B2 bombers in Guam, both the b1 and b2 are cleared to used nuclear ordinance but official the b1 is no longer the nuclear bomber as the b2 took over that duty officially, but you'd think a b1 could be loaded with nukes if needed as it was once capable.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/12/politics/us-air-force-bombers-korea/
The bombers are from the 34th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, which dropped more than 2,000 "smart bombs" during more than 630 missions over Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan from January to July of 2015, officials at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam said in August.
Those missions covered more than 7,000 hours of flight time.
NOLA_Gaffer
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And you guys thought 2016 sucked, hoo boy, 2017 is lookin' like it's gonna be comin' out swingin'.
CadetMahoney
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China wants Taiwan real bad.
Nemesis121
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Dumb ass man about to kill the world, it was nice knowing ya, just hope when China drops the nuke I am in the blast radius that vaporize me, don't feel a damn thing, just a flash and boom dead..
This is what I was looking for yesterday which made me question whether this actually happened.
GuyKazama
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China makes a big deal about everything. It is a great negotiating tactic.
EDIT: The reactions on here is a demonstration of its effectiveness. Not sure people realize the power of the US, but this is all politics and diplomacy -- just there is more public awareness than usual, due to the current media environment.
The independent sources Fox News which sources "Pentagon Officials."
Everyone else reporting on it is sourcing Fox News.
LordOfLore
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Rob Schmitz with NPR is reporting from Shanghai, and the info on the bomber flight is followed by "Rob notes" so my guess would be that's sourced from Fox News as well. Unless he independently talked to the same officials.
Luschient
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lol, China shook as hell
Herr Schwarz
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Didn't the states show off a nuclear submarine in Guam recently to show their taking it serious?
This seems to be on going sabre rattling that would of gone on with ir without Trump imo.
This seems to be on going sabre rattling that would of gone on with ir without Trump imo.
lol how can anyone be so naive?
More like China showing Trump he is playing with the big boys now.
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