The headline of the story that goes with this picture is “Inside China: Nuclear submarines capable of widespread attack on U.S.“. The first two paras read as follows:
Chinese state-run media revealed for the first time this week that Beijing’s nuclear submarines can attack American cities as a means to counterbalance U.S. nuclear deterrence in the Pacific.
On Monday, leading media outlets including China Central TV, the People’s Daily, the Global Times, the PLA Daily, the China Youth Daily and the Guangmin Daily ran identical, top-headlined reports about the “awesomeness” of the People’s Liberation Army navy’s strategic submarine force.
That is the map that accompanied the story. There are many many ways in which Obama as president is a disaster with this being near the top. Meanwhile Gillard took our defence expenditure down below where it was in 1938. Now picture the geo-political world twenty years from today.
UPDATE: Two further stories on Drudge about American foreign policy idiocies.
From the first:
Retired Army Maj. Gen. Patrick Brady, recipient of the U.S. military’s highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, as well as other top retired officers, say President Obama’s agenda is decimating the morale of the U.S. ranks to the point members no longer feel prepared to fight or have the desire to win.
“There is no doubt he (Obama) is intent on emasculating the military and will fire anyone who disagrees with him” over such issues as “homosexuals, women in foxholes, the Obama sequester,” Brady told WND.
And from the second:
Israel is fuming with the White House for confirming that it was the Israeli Air Force that struck a military base near the Syrian port city of Latakia on Wednesday, hitting weaponry that was set to be transferred to Hezbollah.
It is more than just incompetence although there’s plenty of that as well.
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