The lack of a U.S. carrier in the Pacific may be short-lived if the Navy deploys another in the next couple of months. But it shows how the open-ended operations with Iran are running some American sailors ragged, analysts say, while the Trump administration further retreats from the Asia-Pacific region and focuses on the Western Hemisphere.

“The administration says that the Pacific is supposed to be the most important behind the Western Hemisphere,” said Greg Poling, director of the Southeast Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Instead, the U.S. is “doing the exact opposite” of its previously expressed goal of pulling out of the Middle East.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    China is the one superpower who isn’t wasting their resources on a pointless war, and are investing heavily in infrastructure and their people, and their manufacturing base for EVERYTHING is unparalleled.

    They are taking over the world without firing a shot. Why would they screw that up just to take a tiny island that is no more than a symbol. Let the Westerners think they have some sort of power over them, they know the real truth.

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      You are saying that like the US and Russia weren’t in way better positions before their respective wars.

      What the commenter you’re replying to is saying, is that we can’t trust dumbfuck dictators to not make the stupid decision of invading someone else, no matter how idiotic it might be.

      Why would they screw that up just to take a tiny island that is no more than a symbol.

      Dictators have startet wars for way less.