Comment on Andrew S. Erickson: China Deploys World’s First Long-Range, Land-Based ‘Carrier Killer’: DF-21D ASBM Reaches IOC

China Deploys World’s First Long-Range, Land-Based ‘Carrier Killer’: DF-21D Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile (ASBM) Reaches “Initial Operational Capability” (IOC) | Andrew S. Erickson

Americans have been on a 20 year binge, a Holiday from History. They reacted to 9-11 by going shopping and maxing out the credit cards. Mein Gott ein Himmel do people realize that the rest of the world is run by adults? Some are good and some are evil but they will not give points for cuddly intentions. The Chinese have been studying us, buying or renting our politicians and businessmen and methodically preparing a very 18th-20th century expansion of power. Given our behavior, our pathetic complacency, it is hard to expect them not to.