How did you celebrate Pearl Harbor Day?

[Dukasaur]

I went out for sushi.

[mrswdk]

Pearl Harbor was a direct retaliation from the Japanese in response to the economic warfare America had been engaging against them for years. Japan's economy relied on natural resource imports and America, desperate to be the Pacific hegemon, was deliberately choking these supplies off from Japan through a series of trade embargoes. This led Japan to militarily occupy north eastern China and parts of South East Asia, in order to secure its own supply of resources. Eventually, as America became even more aggressive, Japan declared all out war on both China (in a land grab) and America (in a display of defiance towards the oppressor). Four the next four years, China suffered under the Japanese invasion while America tinkered with battles for control of tiny Pacific islands, and later Japan suffered as tens of thousands of civilians were slaughtered with nuclear weapons.

For years China has diplomatically lauded the minuscule role played by about 100-200 American airmen in (futilely) fighting the Japanese in China, rather than publicly acknowledging the fact that the Japanese invasion, its subsequent terrors and the total devastation felt across Asia from 1933-1945 was the direct result of American meddling in the region. Now it's 2016 and America is once again meddling, but this time the bear it is prodding is bigger than the last one. I spent yesterday preparing a countdown timer, ticking down the days until China sinks every single one of America's warships to the bottom of the South China Sea.

[Dukasaur]

Pearl Harbor was a direct retaliation from the Japanese in response to the economic warfare America had been engaging against them for years. Japan's economy relied on natural resource imports and America, desperate to be the Pacific hegemon, was deliberately choking these supplies off from Japan through a series of trade embargoes. This led Japan to militarily occupy north eastern China and parts of South East Asia, in order to secure its own supply of resources. Eventually, as America became even more aggressive, Japan declared all out war on both China (in a land grab) and America (in a display of defiance towards the oppressor). Four the next four years, China suffered under the Japanese invasion while America tinkered with battles for control of tiny Pacific islands, and later Japan suffered as tens of thousands of civilians were slaughtered with nuclear weapons.

For years China has diplomatically lauded the minuscule role played by about 100-200 American airmen in (futilely) fighting the Japanese in China, rather than publicly acknowledging the fact that the Japanese invasion, its subsequent terrors and the total devastation felt across Asia from 1933-1945 was the direct result of American meddling in the region. Now it's 2016 and America is once again meddling, but this time the bear it is prodding is bigger than the last one. I spent yesterday preparing a countdown timer, ticking down the days until China sinks every single one of America's warships to the bottom of the South China Sea.

I don't disagree with any of that. I am curious about this countdown timer, though. With China's government confined to one small island, and the mainland occupied by bandits, do you think China will be able to build up a decent navy on any realistic time scale? It seems that China has a lot of work to do to scour its own land of vermin before taking on the foreigners.

[Bernie Sanders]

China needs to pirate more American know how to rule the waves in the Pacific and China's claim to the South China Seas.

[mrswdk]

Pearl Harbor was a direct retaliation from the Japanese in response to the economic warfare America had been engaging against them for years. Japan's economy relied on natural resource imports and America, desperate to be the Pacific hegemon, was deliberately choking these supplies off from Japan through a series of trade embargoes. This led Japan to militarily occupy north eastern China and parts of South East Asia, in order to secure its own supply of resources. Eventually, as America became even more aggressive, Japan declared all out war on both China (in a land grab) and America (in a display of defiance towards the oppressor). Four the next four years, China suffered under the Japanese invasion while America tinkered with battles for control of tiny Pacific islands, and later Japan suffered as tens of thousands of civilians were slaughtered with nuclear weapons.

For years China has diplomatically lauded the minuscule role played by about 100-200 American airmen in (futilely) fighting the Japanese in China, rather than publicly acknowledging the fact that the Japanese invasion, its subsequent terrors and the total devastation felt across Asia from 1933-1945 was the direct result of American meddling in the region. Now it's 2016 and America is once again meddling, but this time the bear it is prodding is bigger than the last one. I spent yesterday preparing a countdown timer, ticking down the days until China sinks every single one of America's warships to the bottom of the South China Sea.

I don't disagree with any of that. I am curious about this countdown timer, though. With China's government confined to one small island, and the mainland occupied by bandits, do you think China will be able to build up a decent navy on any realistic time scale? It seems that China has a lot of work to do to scour its own land of vermin before taking on the foreigners.

In other words we both await the inevitable annihilation of the American warmongers' Pacific Incursions Fleet, and to pass the time you will needle me about the Taiwan pirates and I will react with the appropriate amount of indignation.

Just don't forget, I'm getting the tickets but you're buying the popcorn!

[mrswdk]

把我们的血肉建成我们新的长城！(^0^)

[KoolBak]

Good luck with that...

[mrswdk]

• Asia-Pacific military spending has been increasing for some time now, and will match American spending within the next few years.
• Beyond the short term, even as Asian spending continues to go up American spending will continue declining.
• Despite looking big on paper, America's spending is spread all over the world - the same can't be said of any of the other players in the Asia-Pacific region, whose power is solely concentrated in Asia.

Before long America's floundering military will be little more than a bit part in the world's most militarized region, capable only of clearing its throat bloody loudly and hoping that everyone else pays attention to it. But of course they won't, except for when China lights up a few American warships as target practice.

Seeing Trump get elected was pretty fun, but that was nothing compared to how much fun it will be watching footage of the first time that American ships or planes venture into Chinese territory, as they are wont to do, only to find out that the previous warnings have been replaced with heat-seeking missiles. Pew pew, man down!

[tzor]

I went out for sushi.

How odd. I went out for sushi as well.

All you can eat sushi in fact.

(Mind you it was a TGIO party for November's National Novel Writing Month.)

[notyou2]

I gave my wife a pearl necklace.