As promised, I'm answering some of you rant:
| Joelcool7 said:
Well Russia sold an air carrier to a third party in which it landed up in China's Government's hands. Yah it is still Russia selling it to China. Unless your niave enough to believe Russia really has no idea who they sell their weapons too. Its like when the American's armed the Taliban, no the US didn't directly hand the weapons to the Taliban they sold the weapons through middle men. That's a horrible comparison, I'd suggest that Chinese are "tad" more predictable, responsible and open to conversation than Taliban.
Of course Russia isn't always directly supplying countries with arms but to honestly believe they are not selling them knowingly to these countries is absurd. To my great regret, we do not make shady arms deals, all deals, which've finished with actual delivery, are official and usually covered by press. But if you're interested how shady arms deals are made, here's the link. I wouldn't be surprised if Pentagon turns out to be the biggest AK dealer. Or read smth on how France and Qatar supply Libyan insurgents with arms and ammo. Its like if an M2-A1 Abrams tank landed up in North Africa. Would their be any doubt that America knew where the tank was headed? And thats just a single tank this is a freaking Air Carrier and Russia only has a few of em. This's "Goergia" all over again. How exactly you've managed to misspell smth as short as M1A2? Anyways as if anybody is interested in M1. |
On sidenote. As I see it media seem to focus on the problem of "Chinese threat" more than it deserves. Previously I thought this idee fixe of certain journalists was for internal use only, but now I see some western media outlets is pushing it as well. And people are gladly eating what they're being fed. This whole story around Shilang (which is not combat-ready and never ever will be, I can guarantee you that), looks to me as a red flag, one of many indications of a media trend. And this ain't coming from China, which is trying to avoid "world domination" role it's been pushed to by all means, though wouldn't be against of idea to cut Americans from it's sea borders (and you don't need aircraft carriers for that, Chinese are investing in different military tech for that purpose).
