That is something the USA would not do thirty years ago. Then, the USA sent two aircraft carriers through the Taiwan Straits in 1995 and taunt China to respond. It was a humiliation and China spent the next thirty years figuring out a way to deal with such a threat.
It was to jolt China into finding a solution to the aircraft carrier problem and it was the beginning of the impetus that created the Chinese DF series of aircraft carrier killers, some capable of travelling at Mac 10 with AI controlled maneuverability that defies jamming. This has in turn turned the tables around with the USA now figuring out how to deal with such DF missiles travelling at hypersonic speed and approaching vertically from above, while interceptors were created to handle missiles coming from the sides.
China has deployed such DF warship killers all along its Eastern Coastline making sure that no USA aircraft carriers would dare to taunt China again unlike in the past.
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Trump is boasting about the success regarding the rescue of a crew from an F15 jet shot down over Iran. It is claimed that Israel is involved and the CIA is also involved. There is now a propaganda war between USA and Iran about what constitutes success and the price being paid.
According to Iran, four USA planes were shot down during this mission, two Blackhawk helicopters and two others. The USA denied such losses as would be expected. Amidst such denials, what is glaring is the fact that there was an admission later, that a plane or planes were stuck and had to be destroyed, how many has not been specified. When denial is impossible with evidence going to be exposed, this self-destruct mantra must be the best alternative. Same as claiming friendly fire that brought down two other planes in Kuwait, two F18. Nothing to do with Iran of course. Ahem, friendly fire cannot be used inside Iran of course, so a different mantra must be invented in order not to lose face. And if the loss of the four planes is true, it was truly a costly mission to rescue one man.
This was the same scenario when they tried to rescue some important personnel at the underground bunker of a Steel plant in Eastern Ukraine and Russia took out about five rescue helicopters, with the rescue mission unable to succeed. It was a heavy price to pay.
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