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Russia and China conduct freedom of navigation exercises near Alaska (web.archive.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I heard you the first time.

They called it "highly provocative" (i.e. actions of aggressors) and sailed their warboats around as a show of force (basically "arranged for missile launches"). The parallels are pretty damn clear, even if the US's response was obscured with mealy mouthed politicking.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Retired military person called it provocative. Not the military.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

At a certain level "retired" is just for plausible deniability.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Lol. Maybe in authoritarian China. In the US that's just a sound byte of no influence.