Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "The US is building 9 military bases in the Philippines, just across China. How will it use them?" video.

  1. It's called deterring Xi Jinping from waging war. Almost certainly if it came to a shooting war, the Philippines is key to blockading ports and airports on China's southern mainland, and in keeping supplies and troops going to Taiwan's aid open. Xi's generals better think twice before engaging Taiwan.
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  2. The carriers are important in fleet on fleet battles, like in the WW2 Pacific War, but the USN probably need only deploy 2 carriers in the entire Western Pacific at any one time. Why risk these multi-billion dollar supercarriers from being hit by PLA anti-ship missiles or PLAN sub torpedoes? The PLAN carriers are utterly useless; not right type of carrier based aircraft and no practise by the PLAN sailors and airmen in launching and recovering aircraft. They are moving show targets. That's all.
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