Current Events > My cousin is on that Navy aircraft carrier that went to North Korea.

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3khc
04/09/17 10:58:34 AM
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http://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/08/politics/navy-korean-peninsula/

What is going to happen? Slightly worried.
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littlebro07
04/09/17 11:00:34 AM
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Why are we trying to piss off two countries backed by two of the most powerful countries on Earth
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treewojima
04/09/17 11:00:58 AM
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most likely nothing. unless either Kim or Trump get twitchy and press the button
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Balkov
04/09/17 11:01:34 AM
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littlebro07 posted...
Why are we trying to piss off two countries backed by two of the most powerful countries on Earth


Because we're a lot more powerful than both of them combined. Still a bad move imo
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littlebro07
04/09/17 11:04:18 AM
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Balkov posted...
littlebro07 posted...
Why are we trying to piss off two countries backed by two of the most powerful countries on Earth


Because we're a lot more powerful than both of them combined. Still a bad move imo


Combined? Individually I could see but together they'd probably wreck our shit
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Balkov
04/09/17 11:11:39 AM
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littlebro07 posted...
Balkov posted...
littlebro07 posted...
Why are we trying to piss off two countries backed by two of the most powerful countries on Earth


Because we're a lot more powerful than both of them combined. Still a bad move imo


Combined? Individually I could see but together they'd probably wreck our shit


They don't have the money, technology or force projection capabilities to do any significant damage to us.
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Makeveli_lives
04/09/17 11:13:16 AM
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Balkov posted...
littlebro07 posted...
Balkov posted...
littlebro07 posted...
Why are we trying to piss off two countries backed by two of the most powerful countries on Earth


Because we're a lot more powerful than both of them combined. Still a bad move imo


Combined? Individually I could see but together they'd probably wreck our shit


They don't have the money, technology or force projection capabilities to do any significant damage to us.

As far as we know. Granted I do think we'd win but its not like we're taking candy from a baby
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Neo7
04/09/17 11:13:40 AM
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It's the annual joint exercise thing that US and South Korea always do.
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Actually, I dont give a damn.
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Hexenherz
04/09/17 11:17:21 AM
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littlebro07 posted...
Balkov posted...
littlebro07 posted...
Why are we trying to piss off two countries backed by two of the most powerful countries on Earth


Because we're a lot more powerful than both of them combined. Still a bad move imo


Combined? Individually I could see but together they'd probably wreck our shit


Russia doesn't have the ability to strike US territories without the use of ICBM/SLBMs (and that would not be their first inclination, especially over a country like Syria). China is developing the ability at a more rapid rate but it still isn't a concern right now.

Furthermore, no one at all is really blaming the US for its stance against North Korea. China itself has come out in the past couple years as an opponent of the direction North Korea is heading in, so attacking NK might upset the Chinese a little bit but it's not going to provoke any sort of war with China as a whole.
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Hexenherz
04/09/17 11:18:25 AM
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Makeveli_lives posted...
Balkov posted...
littlebro07 posted...
Balkov posted...
littlebro07 posted...
Why are we trying to piss off two countries backed by two of the most powerful countries on Earth


Because we're a lot more powerful than both of them combined. Still a bad move imo


Combined? Individually I could see but together they'd probably wreck our shit


They don't have the money, technology or force projection capabilities to do any significant damage to us.

As far as we know. Granted I do think we'd win but its not like we're taking candy from a baby


This is silly - we know quite a bit, especially about Russia and their obsolete technologies and inability to effectively coordinate military action as evidenced by the 2008 Georgia invasion and their current activity in Syria.
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3khc
04/09/17 11:22:00 AM
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I just want to know how safe the ship is. The article says strike group. Are we attacking or what?
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Balkov
04/09/17 11:24:06 AM
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3khc posted...
I just want to know how safe the ship is. The article says strike group. Are we attacking or what?


Its probably just a show of force. Plus even a single strike group is on par with entire navies of most countries
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Hexenherz
04/09/17 11:24:48 AM
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3khc posted...
I just want to know how safe the ship is. The article says strike group. Are we attacking or what?

That's just what a group of ships is called. You have a Fleet that's responsible for operations within a specific Area of Responsibility (say, the Pacific Ocean), and then within that fleet you have carrier strike groups that are comprised of groups of ships. It doesn't indicate or imply any sort of hostile action, it's just the name of the group of ships.
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