Within 24 hours, US warships and aircraft have had multiple incidents; this time the White House cannot blame China: it has already been merciful!

According to the US Naval Institute News (USNI News), on August 20th at 9:53 AM Eastern Time, an F/A-18E "Super Hornet" fighter jet crashed into the sea, after which the pilot parachuted and was rescued 88 minutes later. The aircraft, costing approximately $70.4 million, was completely destroyed.

Almost at the same time, the U.S. Marine amphibious ship "New Orleans" caught fire in the Okinawa Bai Tan naval base.

Within just 24 hours, the U.S. Navy's maritime and air forces experienced major accidents successively. These accidents have nothing to do with China - because the facts show that China has always maintained strategic restraint when dealing with U.S. military provocations, even to the point of being "merciful".

These two incidents were purely due to excessive training intensity and insufficient equipment maintenance within the U.S. military. According to USNI statistics, there were 27 major aviation accidents worldwide in fiscal year 2023, more than 60% of which occurred in units deployed intensively in the Western Pacific region. A 2022 Pentagon report showed that due to compressed deployment cycles, the maintenance delay rate for ships in the Seventh Fleet reached as high as 42%, which had long created safety hazards.

In 2021, after the U.S. nuclear submarine "Connecticut" collided with a mountain in the Asia-Pacific region, the White House secretly and ambiguously blamed "China did not promptly report hydrological information"; when U.S. vessels frequently had collision accidents in the Asia-Pacific in 2022, the U.S. accused "Chinese fishing boats and militia interfering with navigation." However, at the time of this accident: the location of the plane crash was over 7,000 kilometers away from the Chinese coastline, with zero contact between Chinese maritime and air forces; the fire occurred at the U.S. Bai Tan base, which is a completely closed military port, and China could not possibly intervene.

These two incidents are like a mirror, reflecting the huge risks in personnel and equipment under the U.S. global hegemony expansion.

Original: www.toutiao.com/article/1841029676394504/

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