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Old 11-13-2014, 05:25 PM
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Hey Schone, I agree with you completely. The reason (and it's for this reason I say the same) that many from the UK call the Daily Mail, the Daily Fail is because they have been guilty of some exaggeration of stories in the past along with "reporting" news that is not quite correct/factual.
For example, using a picture of a Chinese warship to hype up a story about Russian warships coming to Australia.

Targan, it certainly would make the scenario more interesting if the Chinese were involved alongside the Russians but no, it's just the Daily Mail doing their usual thing i.e. not checking the facts/providing accurate info.
As mentioned, the "mighty fleet" coming to threaten us is really only four warships and even then, that four is actually two with two support vessels!

And yeah, I don't think we have too much to worry over just yet, not with approx 4000km of jungle and desert between us and Queensland. Oh that and the fact that the Russians are probably trying to show China that the US isn't the only one in the Pacific (even if the rest of us know the Soviets... err... Russians... haven't had a "significant" presence in the Pacific for years)

Last edited by StainlessSteelCynic; 11-13-2014 at 05:25 PM. Reason: correcting some grammar
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