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Originally Posted by Oberon
It's the nipping that's the problem. How does one nip a superpower? 
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Run them in to Bankruptcy.
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Originally Posted by nikimcbee
I play devil's advocate and say: I think china and Russia should conduct their next naval operation off the west coast of Washington, say 100 miles out.
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I assume you mean the State of Washington. Joint Sino-Russkie naval ops on the Potomac would be strange...
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Originally Posted by ETR3(SS)
Sure if Canada was claiming that water was theirs and China and Russia wanted to tell them, no it's not. Can't really play devil's advocate when the situation is changed. Also there was rumor of an Oscar II sitting outside the Juan De Fuca Strait back in the late 90's I think it was. So it's not like they haven't been this way before.
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Some fisherman found the towed array she lost out there.
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Originally Posted by Oberon
Well, Russia's already resumed the flyovers and airspace probes.
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Billion dollar/pound 21st century jet fighters escorting a thousand dollar bomber from the 1950's. If the Russians keep doing this they will run us in to bankruptcy just from keeping our fighters in the air.