DBTrek wrote:Cry me some tears for red China and North Korea, Smitty.
Has nothing to do with sympathizing with either, the issue is really that the MIC is pushing for three big programs, one is GMD in Alaska, the other two are THAAD-ER and Aegis BMD, so Korea is providing the justification to expand these programs, it's the same game the US was playing with missile defense in Europe, claiming that the missile defense in Poland and the Czech Republic was "cuz Iran", so the Chinese are going to react the same as the Russians did, in that they know that it is pointed at them. Their biggest concern is actually the AN/TPY-2 radar, because it's so long ranged, it can see very deep into Chinese airspace.
It's not even that the US wants a war with China, it's just the MIC Missile Defense programs trying to survive and thrive in the real war, the Pentagon Budget War.