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I find it quite amusing how large an issue the media can ignore during Obama's administration.
This is unquestionably problem that predates him.

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I find it quite amusing how large an issue the media can ignore during Obama's administration.
Granted, we are accustomed to inflamatory language from Iran, Syria, North Korea, ISIS and others from the third world, but this week's sabre-rattling bravado du jour comes from the government and military of China.
China has drawn a line in the water and is daring anyone to cross it. An international Tribunal at The Hague has found their claims legally groundless (so to speak).
Idiotically, this Nine Dashed Line is drawn far across even the continental shelves of the Indonesian islands that share the international waters. They have destroyed coral reefs that are tens of thousands of years old to create artificial islands that can serve as impromptu military bases - effectively quintupling the territorial waters of China in the region in only the years since Obama was elected.
The US has sent out a massive show of military force in defiance of China's threats of sovereignty over the entire South China Sea by sailing aircraft carriers and battleships directly to the disputed territories.
Now Russia has announced plans to join China in joint military War Games in the South China Sea in a display of solidarity with China and a vote of no confidence in The Hague ruling.
Chinese, Russian, and US carriers, destroyers, subs, and other battleships rubbing shoulders together in the same disputed pond.
"War" was not the word I chose in regard to this mess. It was the word chosen by Chang Wanquan the Chinese Minister of Defense within the last couple of days.
I wonder if we could manage to actually begin World War 3 between China, Russia, Syria, Iran, North Korea and everyone else without the Western News even mentioning it at all.
We just can't have a World War evolve almost entirely on Obama's watch just a few month's before the election. That would spoil everything.
To paraphrase..."to have your ships and ours, your planes and ours in SUCH proximity is inherently dangerous. Wars have begun that way Mr. Ambassador"
Ah...but if the media just ignores it, it isn't really happening.