Comments by "Stephen Jenkins" (@stephenjenkins7971) on "The Militarization of the South China Sea" video.

@r.282 That makes no sense since the US engaged with East Asia peacefully since the end of the Cold War.
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@pabloorqueraisa8898 And missiles pointed at literally everything else non-Chinese in China itself? Are we just gonna ignore that? I can assure you that US missiles are laughably outnumbered by China's missiles against everyone else.
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@andrewjensen8189 America isn't going to expand, it's making sure China doesn't fuck over its allies. That's all. Also, the US only engaged in neo-colonialism in the latter half of the 20th century. China has engaged in it its entire civilization extracting literal tribute from weaker nations around it.
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@pabloorqueraisa8898 Considering it didn't start any wars? That's the definition of "peaceful".
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@John-us9rm Uh, but the US never claimed the oil reserves, genius.
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@John-us9rm The Philippines asked some US bases to be abandoned, yes. Not all. Vietnam is currently a US ally, but was a former US enemy and has among the highest Pro-US population on the planet. Malaysia has close ties to the US, and unofficially the US is allies with Taiwan. You also forgot that the US has official defensive pacts with Japan and South Korea. 500+ bases are literally just bases that the native country owns that the US sometimes uses to house US troops if necessary, or train the native troops. They aren't strictly US bases. And the only colonial powers left in the world are France and China. Nothing you said disproves that the US cannot allow its allies to be bullied by China.
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@zszs100 News to me, but even if that's true, I never heard of Taiwan pushing other countries into accepting their sole dominion over the SCS. If they do in the future, then that's wrong, but they aren't doing it now. It's like Vietnam militarizing an island or two; yeah, that's not great, but they aren't declaring most of the sea as their own either.
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@pabloorqueraisa8898 ...That doesn't change anything I said. Having bases does not = having war.
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@ok-my4bn Except Duterte has done everything in his power to alienate the US and even threatened to kill the alliance while China was stealing Filipino territory. It's obvious that, at least until recently, Duterte wanted a Chinese alliance and he deflected any complaints about China by claiming China would destroy them.
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@onkarambre8307 India as a concept existed, but it never existed as a unified entity. Much like no "germany" existed before the 19th century.
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@elnorton7113 The US doesn't sail aircraft carriers into other country's territories without their permission unless they are hostile.
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1) Taiwan isn't actively militarizing that territory, so it can be handled diplomatically. 2) The US military has little presence in East Asia outside of Japan, SK, and the Philippines and China cannot claim to be surrounded. 3) It's a breach of the sovereignty of other nations in the region. Multiple of which are stable democracies.
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@John-us9rm It's not China's sea at all, wut?
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@fredfrond6148 No one can defeat a determined foe by playing defense. If you ever bothered to open a history book, you'd see that the US never invaded North Vietnam and only played defense in South Vietnam to not expand the war; the US crushed the North Vietnamese militarily, but politically the war wouldn't end so the US lost heart and backed off. A war where the US feels justified is a far cry from that.
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Every country bordering the sea has territory beyond their mainland, smart one.
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@John-us9rm To be frank, even if you're right, you don't need to be THAT aware of ASEAN history and geopolitics to see how they wouldn't want a powerful China taking all that maritime territory and having the ability to fuck their trade routes just because of China's paranoia or imperialism.
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wUm Ao Wargame simulations are always tipped in favor of the non-US foe so that any issues can be pointed out to the Navy, smart one. That's the point of the war games. Also, China has far more poverty and hunger than the US, so you're just being stupid.
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@kiraasuka9943 So because there are restrictions, some of which are done specifically due to an emergency, you don't have freedom? You're an idiot, bruh.
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@zaporoshti3392 Hyper sonic missiles have lots of claims behind them, but have never been use in active combat. So all we have is China's claims on them. No one should believe anything when it comes to military matters unless they have been tested; and China has proven duplicitous on this matter. There are a LOT of problems with hyper sonic missiles; the biggest being that they're inaccurate as all hell against moving objects -the speed of supersonic missiles means they get to maneuver, but hyper sonics are much worse in this.
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@zaporoshti3392 It has been shot in space, likely at stationary targets that can't intercept it. And nothing, not even modern missile systems has bullet-to-bullet precision. China has never tested it against actual missile defense systems for a reason. Stop inhaling propaganda.
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@zaporoshti3392 That makes zero sense. First of all, the Germans had enemies from across the planet and did not have the resources to maintain total war. Secondly, Germany had practically no allies to rely on. Thirdly, Germany's economy was hardly a match for its adversaries even at its height. A comparison to the US makes no relevant sense whatsoever as the issues facing the US are paltry compared to what Germany did in WW2. You keep crying about "Western media" when Westerners have access to non-Western media all the damn time. Meanwhile, you need a VPN to even see non CCP-backed media. Even at its worst, Americans are nowhere near brainwashed as the standard Chinese citizen. Idk what you're talking about. People in these countries still buy US bonds all the time, and it's considered among the safest investments. What world do you live in? Hyper inflation? LOL. Jesus Christ.
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@zaporoshti3392 Dude, you're off your meds. Get help. People have been claiming that the US was going to collapse due to the "ponzi scheme" of an economy that was like a balloon for decades now. They have always been wrong. The US economy has already slowed down quite a lot, so any bubble that exists is purely in the stock market, but even those stocks have fallen some. Not to mention all of those recovery funding that has reached the average joe. China's population on the other hand is a tangible real issue. It's population is growing older far faster than the US' is, and with constant immigration the US will stay young. China's star rises, and will crash the second this demographic issue becomes too large to ignore -I suggest you focus on that ticking time bomb instead of hoping for something that in reality isn't going to happen. The US $ is remaining the gold standard for decades to come.
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@hhh-uw4ut Uh, no matter how you argue it, Taiwan is independent. It has independent policy. Buys US weapons and equipment. Supports US actions in the Pacific, etc. It's more like: "Taiwan is allied with the US, and China can't do anything about it"
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@JeffreyJefferson That's because all animals are stupid and never had the capacity to improve their lot in life, idiot. Only humans have that capacity. The second the fish can make their lives better, they will war with each other for it.
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@zszs100 Major presence which never bothered China outside of the Korean War and doesn't encircle China and never threatened China. Major presence which is a fraction of China's actual military size. China feeling "threatened" is an excuse which is easily noticeable when China conveniently forgot to feel threatened decades prior. Obama's pivot only changed the US' priorities of importance, it didn't actually shift the numbers of men or anything. It was focused specifically on the growing economic growth of the region and the importance of its allies there; it had nothing to do with China, hell that pivot included getting closer to China too. It wasn't until early 2018 that China was even a topic of contention in the overall government of the US. And this was after continuous border disputes, claims of genocide, China's growing strength without democratic reforms, China's economic imperialism both in poorer nations and in the US itself, etc. The island chain was made for the USSR and China with the idea that both were rivals or hostile. China was seen as a key ally following President Nixon and China had received ZERO repercussions for its imperialism until recently by the US. The fact that Chinese obsess over this just tells me how much the CCP had successfully brainwashed so many. This was a proposed strategy by thinktanks, and is completely centered on the US' defense; NOT on any future assault on these possible rivals. These island chains cannot block China's economy barring full-scale war nor has there been any threat of such an attempt even now as that is a literal declaration of war. Democracies are intrinsic in the UN declaration for human rights. Democracies aren't always right, but they are intrinsically more moral than any dictatorship by nature. The fact that you think there is a "democracy card" as if it can be negotiable reflects terribly upon you, frankly.
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What? No, the US did not do anything like that in WW2.
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@John-us9rm It invaded Iraq and allowed the Iraq government to sell rights to its oil to US rivals such as Russia and China, who have far more than the US. So this oil conspiracy makes zero sense, and I've heard all about the petro dollar and US hegemony -and the former has not made sense since Nixon left office and the latter is just the current state of geopolitics.
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@John-us9rm There is nothing that forces Iraq to sell in only US dollars. Everyone uses US dollar because it's the most stable currency on the planet, and Iraq often uses its own currency as well. Even China often uses the US Dollar. The only time countries don't use the US Dollar is when they're making a political point. I told you I know about the stupid petro dollar theory, and it makes no damn sense. You have to believe the US attacks every major oil-producing nation so that they use US dollars...except the US dollar gets its power from the US economy and its stability in use across the international economy. NOT from oil. People who argue this don't know how the economy works at all.
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@heinzpechliwanis1411 Except no one is suggesting war, idiot. They're saying that they shouldn't stand down. Do you bend over to a bully when they demand things?
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