I think you are actually unable to read and answer simple questions.
This is a waste of time. Unless you are willing to explain how us seizing Scarborough in 2012, and forcing America to abandon their mutual defence treaty, was due to us being "unready", "weak", or an example of "all bark and no bite".
I've already admitted we are not ready, so how did that happen?
You can't even comprehend my explanation why the U.S. didn't intervene when the Philippines kicked us out and comprehend the strategy that by allowing China to show its aggression, that it would have the Philippines allowing American forces back onto its soil even when it is unpopular to some Filipinos. Think about it. What does it benefit to the U.S.? Or can't you not comprehend enough?
U.S., Philippines accord to allow greater American military presence - LA Times
The U.S. and Philippine governments have worked out a new defense cooperation agreement that opens the way for the first large-scale return of American military forces to the island nation since their eviction in the early 1990s, according to the White House.
A day before President Obama is scheduled to arrive in Manila, advisors to the president said Sunday that the two sides had completed and will sign a framework accord that will allow U.S. troops, warships and aircraft to operate from Philippine military bases and training camps on a rotating basis.
Demonstrations erupted outside the U.S. Embassy in Manila last week to protest the new security agreement with the Philippines’ former colonial ruler. Leftist groups long have accused Washington of interfering in local affairs, and blamed the U.S. for many of their nation’s post-colonial woes, including widespread poverty and decades of political repression.
The accord, which was negotiated over eight months, does not authorize building permanent U.S. bases or stationing large numbers of troops in the Philippines, which would be prohibited under the country’s constitution without a formal treaty.
In some cases, however, portions of the Philippine installations will be refurbished and used to pre-position U.S. supplies and equipment in the event of regional crises or humanitarian disasters.
U.S. Ambassador Phil Goldberg will sign the accord with the Philippine’s defense minister, Voltaire Gazmin, early Monday before Obama arrives in Manila, U.S. officials said.
The security arrangement is still a work in progress, however. Officials said its timing, scope and duration were still subject to negotiation.
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Officials say the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement can take effect without specific approval by the Philippine Senate, which in 1991 rejected an extension of a long-standing base agreement and forced Washington to close Clark Air Base and Subic Bay Naval Base, two of the Pentagon's largest overseas facilities.
More than two decades after that ouster, the new agreement marks an improvement in U.S. relations with Manila, as well as recognition of the growing regional tensions with China over resource-rich islands and shoals in the South China Sea.
Right! And the Americans lacked the balls to shoot it down!!
It was clearly an act of intimidation if not war as it was within the ACs 'airspace'.
A Poseidon doesn't have air to air missiles.
And since America's relative power keeps shrinking as time goes on, how can you do it later when you could not even do it now?
