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Re:Clean environment could become U.N. human right by bamboozled on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @08:40AM (#28772418)
Wrong. The US is not flying bombers capable of carrying nuclear warheads at large populations just to intimidate them.
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Re:Clean environment could become U.N. human right by fellodip on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @08:50AM (#28772491)
https://apnews.com/article/europe-europe-air-force-russia-7f...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/russia-mig-31-...

US does these things, its just not highlighted front page material in American press when it happens, so it goes unnoticed to American populations unlike when adversaries like Russia fly bombers near Alaska.

Also US conducted similar maneuvers as what China did to Taiwan but to Iraq preceeding the Iraq invasion.

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Re:Clean environment could become U.N. human right by iszomer on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @10:15AM (#28773447)
Tit for tat or a part of a consistent NATO combat exercises? If this is the new norm for a Chinese excercise, they clearly are overcompensating: a fleet of them versus a trio of bombers.
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Re:Clean environment could become U.N. human right by bamboozled on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @09:12AM (#28772709)
I re-read my original comment, I have no idea how the US was inject into this actually.
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Re:Clean environment could become U.N. human right by sofixa on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @08:57AM (#28772568)
It does as the sibling commenter pointed out, furthemore it used to fly bombers with nuclear warheads around the clock, nearly bombing itself and its allies numerous times in the process.
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Re:Clean environment could become U.N. human right by p_l on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @09:12AM (#28772710)
It also regularly played "chicken" with flying bombers into USSR space at one point, which nearly got us preemptive strike starting WW3
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Re:Clean environment could become U.N. human right by caoilte on Sunday October 10, 2021 @03:06AM (#28816418)
Interestingly (I didn't know) the Chinese planes weren't even anywhere near Taiwan. This is an image of their route from Taiwan's defence ministry

https://mobile.twitter.com/MoNDefense/status/144397595657879...

This was a routine Chinese air patrol that got propagandized by the US.

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