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originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: cavtrooper7
I can think of at least one air delivered system that if you weren't looking very carefully and closely you'd miss the signature.
originally posted by: Aliensun
a reply to: Eagleyedobserver
China's business of their economy has been already hit by the reduced trade. Perhaps these are "insurance fires" have been known to happen when a company gets a backlog of overstock that leaves them out on a long limb and a convenient fire comes along to recover some portion of the investment eaten up in producing those goods that remain in the storage yards, unsold.
Wartime Acts Of Sabotage
During wartime, one of the most effective weapons in any country’s arsenal is sabotage: attacking the war engine itself by crippling key supplies, manufacturing, strategic locations and even logistic routes.
Saboteurs are not always an obvious and visible enemy. Many are underground agents, unconnected to official military authorities. More often than not, though, they have been trained and unofficially sanctioned by intelligence agencies or senior members of the armed forces.
The German government turned to sabotage during World War I in an attempt to thwart U.S. trade with Europe. German agents working on U.S. soil targeted munitions factories and plants producing goods to be shipped to help the Allied troops on the battlefields of Europe.
originally posted by: kamatty
I think the only thing that is up is the sheer lack of health and safety in most parts of the country.
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: kamatty
I think the only thing that is up is the sheer lack of health and safety in most parts of the country.
China is SO unhealthy I would not even go there now on vacation, period. Everyone seems to want to put the reason to outside influences and I think it is all internal. That country is just totally out of control with basically zero oversight on everything. If a company wants to make children toys with lead, so be it. If a company wants to make baby formula with so much filler that the baby would starve on it, so be it. They take their garbage and grin it all up for fertilizer, batteries, car oil anything all goes into it. They reuse cooking oil that solidifies and collects in the sewers, they have mobile slaughter houses to process the dead and sick animals that they can not take to the real slaughter houses, the air there is the worst, by far, on the planet.....
Everything about that country has zero care for the harm to humans, animal or environment, so when you have close to 2 billion people safely and health is far down the list. This all speaks very plainly as to why some factory might just blow up as they operate with little care in just about everything they do.
originally posted by: amsterdamn87
Didn't even try to read the other pages seeing there's already 4, but I'm calling it...WW3 has one foot in the door, I sure hope WW4 isn't fought with sticks and stones.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: ChesterJohn
That particular one was called Thor's Hammer IIRC. There are still a number of issues with them being involved, not least of which is they would be fairly visible reentering and heading down to the target. There are much better choices, with even less signature than they would have.