Chinese Coast Guard Attacks and Seizes Filipino Resupply Boats
The Chinese are significantly escalating their provocations against the Philippines military as they try and resupply troops stationed on the Second Thomas Shoal:
The Philippines military chief demanded Wednesday that China return several rifles and equipment seized by the Chinese coast guard in a disputed shoal and pay for damage in an assault he likened to an act of piracy in the South China Sea. Chinese personnel on board more than eight motorboats repeatedly rammed then boarded the two Philippine navy inflatable boats Monday to prevent Filipino navy personnel from transferring food and other supplies including firearms to a Philippine territorial outpost in Second Thomas Shoal, which is also claimed by Beijing, according to Philippine officials.
After a scuffle and repeated collisions, the Chinese seized the boats and damaged them with machetes, knives and hammers. They also seized eight M4 rifles, which were packed in cases, navigation equipment and other supplies and wounded a number of Filipino navy personnel, including one who lost his right thumb, two Philippine security officials told The Associated on Tuesday. The two officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of a lack of authority to discuss the sensitive conflict publicly.
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You can read more at the link, but it is easy to imagine how this can escalate because the Philippines military next time will probably come in more forcibly to defend their resupply boats against the Chinese piracy.
“wounded a number of Filipino navy personnel, including one who lost his right thumb”
Now imagine him as the Fonz.
I’m imagining the Filipinos treating Chinese like they treated the Japanese in WW2…
From Redstate: https://redstate.com/joesquire/2024/06/19/is-the-chinese-military-crumbling-under-xi-it-seems-like-it-n2175671?bcid=e1442d344ea409a0ee321161b0f77461
Setnaffa… be careful… this smells much like western propaganda… fine if you want to build team spirit by laughing at the enemy… not so good if you really believe their missiles are full of water rather than rocket fuel.
We have watched the media tell this exact style of lie for the entire Russian invasion of Ukraine… but I have European friends who keep believing every Russian advance is their last one before they are forced into a hasty retreat.
Sadly, pattern recognition is a lost art.
This is why I have little faith in the sanity of populations when BUT BIRD FLU IS DIFFERENT!
Seriously though, I only trust commies to be good at slaughtering people. They always fight like crap. And the only reason they have any success id that “democracies” elect discount commies to run the store…
Commies fight like crap is more propaganda.
My evidence would be Soviets in Berlin, Chinese capitolists fleeing to Taiwan, Vietnam, two Koreas, etc.
Communists need to be thrown out of helicopters the moment they start pushing their communist insanity off on me (just like the vaxtards) but they should not be underestimated in their desire or ability to do so.