Oooopps! U.S. Aircraft Carrier Went In Wrong Direction For Days to the Korean Peninsula (24)
SistaCallie: POLITICS 04/18/2017 03:15 pm ET | Updated 30 minutes ago
U.S. Aircraft Carrier Went In Wrong Direction For Days After White House Threat
Trump said he was “sending an armada” to the Korean Peninsula, but that didn’t happen.
U.S. Aircraft Carrier Went In Wrong Direction For Days After White House Threat
Trump said he was “sending an armada” to the Korean Peninsula, but that didn’t happen.
Nobody noticed that the fleet's route was wrong?
It's difficult to believe.
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SistaCallie: POLITICS 04/18/2017 03:15 pm ET | Updated 30 minutes ago
U.S. Aircraft Carrier Went In Wrong Direction For Days After White House Threat
Trump said he was “sending an armada” to the Korean Peninsula, but that didn’t happen.
By Paige Lavender , Eline Gordts
US NAVY PHOTO BY MASS COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST 2ND CLASS SEAN M CASTELLANO/RELEASED
The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson transits the Sunda Strait on April 15, 2017.
When U.S. officials claimed two weeks ago that an American aircraft carrier was heading toward waters near North Korea, it was actually sailing in the opposite direction, The New York Times and Defense News report.
Facing growing tensions between the U.S. and North Korea, an American official told Reuters on April 8 that the U.S. had sent a Navy strike group to the Korean Peninsula as a show of force directed at the regime of Kim Jong Un.
U.S. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster told Fox News the next day that the group was being rerouted from Singapore toward the Korean Peninsula as a “prudent” show of force.
“We are sending an armada, very powerful. We have submarines, very powerful, far more powerful than the aircraft carrier,” President Donald Trump told Fox on April 12. “We have the best military people on Earth. And I will say this: He is doing the wrong thing,” Trump added, referring to Kim Jong Un.
But Defense News pointed out on Tuesday that photos released by the U.S. Navy showed the USS Carl Vinson passing through the Sunda Strait in Indonesia, about 3,500 miles from the Korean Peninsula, last Saturday. The carrier was moving away from North Korea when the Pentagon had said it was moving toward the peninsula, the Times confirmed on Tuesday.
North Korea has recently ramped up work on its nuclear program, hoping to develop a missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead to the United States. Trump has vowed to “solve” the North Korean problem, but is facing few good options to confront the threat.
Pyongyang test-fired missiles during Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to the U.S. in March, and again on April 4 ahead of a visit to the U.S. by Chinese President Xi Jinping. Following the April launch, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson released a three-sentence statement acknowledging the launch: “The United States has spoken enough about North Korea. We have no further comment,” it read.
Tensions further escalated in the runup to April 15, the 105th anniversary of the birth of North Korea’s founder, Kim Il Sung. Experts warned that Pyongyang might conduct a missile test. Satellite imagery at the time indicated that Pyongyang might have been preparing for a sixth nuclear test in addition to a massive military parade.
While North Korea did end up test-firing a missile on Sunday, the projectile exploded almost immediately after launch.
Following the launch, Vice President Mike Pence said Trump would take a more aggressive stance against Pyongyang than previous administrations.
“We’re going to abandon the failed policy of strategic patience. But we’re going to redouble our efforts to bring diplomatic and economic pressure to bear on North Korea. Our hope is that we can resolve this issue peaceably,” Pence told CNN.
A Navy news release said the U.S. Pacific Command directed the carrier group to sail north to the western Pacific after departing from Singapore, The Denver Post reported on April 8.
On April 11, Defense Sec. James Mattis addressed the carrier’s movement, saying there was “not a specific demand signal or specific reason we’re sending her up there.”
U.S. Aircraft Carrier Went In Wrong Direction For Days After White House Threat
Trump said he was “sending an armada” to the Korean Peninsula, but that didn’t happen.
By Paige Lavender , Eline Gordts
US NAVY PHOTO BY MASS COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST 2ND CLASS SEAN M CASTELLANO/RELEASED
The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson transits the Sunda Strait on April 15, 2017.
When U.S. officials claimed two weeks ago that an American aircraft carrier was heading toward waters near North Korea, it was actually sailing in the opposite direction, The New York Times and Defense News report.
Facing growing tensions between the U.S. and North Korea, an American official told Reuters on April 8 that the U.S. had sent a Navy strike group to the Korean Peninsula as a show of force directed at the regime of Kim Jong Un.
U.S. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster told Fox News the next day that the group was being rerouted from Singapore toward the Korean Peninsula as a “prudent” show of force.
“We are sending an armada, very powerful. We have submarines, very powerful, far more powerful than the aircraft carrier,” President Donald Trump told Fox on April 12. “We have the best military people on Earth. And I will say this: He is doing the wrong thing,” Trump added, referring to Kim Jong Un.
But Defense News pointed out on Tuesday that photos released by the U.S. Navy showed the USS Carl Vinson passing through the Sunda Strait in Indonesia, about 3,500 miles from the Korean Peninsula, last Saturday. The carrier was moving away from North Korea when the Pentagon had said it was moving toward the peninsula, the Times confirmed on Tuesday.
North Korea has recently ramped up work on its nuclear program, hoping to develop a missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead to the United States. Trump has vowed to “solve” the North Korean problem, but is facing few good options to confront the threat.
Pyongyang test-fired missiles during Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to the U.S. in March, and again on April 4 ahead of a visit to the U.S. by Chinese President Xi Jinping. Following the April launch, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson released a three-sentence statement acknowledging the launch: “The United States has spoken enough about North Korea. We have no further comment,” it read.
Tensions further escalated in the runup to April 15, the 105th anniversary of the birth of North Korea’s founder, Kim Il Sung. Experts warned that Pyongyang might conduct a missile test. Satellite imagery at the time indicated that Pyongyang might have been preparing for a sixth nuclear test in addition to a massive military parade.
While North Korea did end up test-firing a missile on Sunday, the projectile exploded almost immediately after launch.
Following the launch, Vice President Mike Pence said Trump would take a more aggressive stance against Pyongyang than previous administrations.
“We’re going to abandon the failed policy of strategic patience. But we’re going to redouble our efforts to bring diplomatic and economic pressure to bear on North Korea. Our hope is that we can resolve this issue peaceably,” Pence told CNN.
A Navy news release said the U.S. Pacific Command directed the carrier group to sail north to the western Pacific after departing from Singapore, The Denver Post reported on April 8.
On April 11, Defense Sec. James Mattis addressed the carrier’s movement, saying there was “not a specific demand signal or specific reason we’re sending her up there.”
OK....I am buying a bunker. Its enough, I am convinced.
All these threads by
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The Korea Herald reported Monday that the USS Carl Vinson is due to arrive in South Korea’s eastern waters on April 25, in time for another important date in the North Korean calendar: the anniversary of the army’s foundation. Quoting unnamed South Korean officials, the Herald said “the strike group will join the South Korean navy in a massive maritime drill designed to counter provocation from the North.”
CNN also cited U.S. defence officials as saying the aircraft carrier will arrive off the Korean Peninsula at the end of April.
CNN also cited U.S. defence officials as saying the aircraft carrier will arrive off the Korean Peninsula at the end of April.
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Bogart_1960: OK....I am buying a bunker. Its enough, I am convinced.
All these threads by bonkers bunker people, I am ordering one..
All these threads by bonkers bunker people, I am ordering one..
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Trump continuously proves himself to be a con and a great habitual LAIR! Not good at all for the president of the United States. especially during such time as there might be a war!..WOW!
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epirb: Just another Trump knocking thread to pass the time of day .
maybe they got stuck in reverse lol
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SistaCallie: It matter not if you believe this news report or don't believe it...just keep beleiving Trump and we'll a;; see where t ;eads YOU!
Lol wut?!SistaCallie: What's going on May 1st???
My my my, reneging on a bet already....Let me remind you of it. You agreed to a bet that stated if Trump was still in office after his first 100 days was up, you ban yourself for 6 months. That begins May 1st. Comprende?------ This thread is Archived ------
SOMEONE sure got quiet when the bet was brought up. For transparency:
I offered the bet on page 1, it was excepted on page two.
I offered the bet on page 1, it was excepted on page two.
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just more disinformation & WAPO is just one to print it...
and CNN has the puppets to broadcast it...and OP always falls for it.
there are accurate backchannel reports but
they are need to know basis only. not repeating
it here. but i'll give you the "soft shoe"
from the dept of the Navy itself.
From U.S. 3rd Fleet Public Affairs
USS CARL VINSON, At Sea (NNS) -- Adm. Harry Harris, commander, U.S. Pacific Command, has directed the Carl Vinson Strike Group to sail north and report on station in the Western Pacific Ocean after departing Singapore April 8.
Carl Vinson Strike Group, including Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 2, Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108) and USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112), and Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain (CG 57), will operate in the Western Pacific rather than executing previously planned port visits to Australia. The Strike Group will remain under the operational control of U.S. 3rd Fleet as part of the 3rd Fleet Forward initiative.
Deployed from San Diego to the Western Pacific since Jan. 5, the Strike Group has participated in numerous bilateral exercises with the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force and Republic of Korea Navy, various maritime security initiatives, and routine patrol operations in the South China Sea.
and CNN has the puppets to broadcast it...and OP always falls for it.
there are accurate backchannel reports but
they are need to know basis only. not repeating
it here. but i'll give you the "soft shoe"
from the dept of the Navy itself.
From U.S. 3rd Fleet Public Affairs
USS CARL VINSON, At Sea (NNS) -- Adm. Harry Harris, commander, U.S. Pacific Command, has directed the Carl Vinson Strike Group to sail north and report on station in the Western Pacific Ocean after departing Singapore April 8.
Carl Vinson Strike Group, including Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 2, Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108) and USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112), and Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain (CG 57), will operate in the Western Pacific rather than executing previously planned port visits to Australia. The Strike Group will remain under the operational control of U.S. 3rd Fleet as part of the 3rd Fleet Forward initiative.
Deployed from San Diego to the Western Pacific since Jan. 5, the Strike Group has participated in numerous bilateral exercises with the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force and Republic of Korea Navy, various maritime security initiatives, and routine patrol operations in the South China Sea.
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DECEPTION AT ITS BEST!
ASIA PACIFIC
Aircraft Carrier Wasn’t Sailing to Deter North Korea, as U.S. Suggested
By MARK LANDLER and ERIC SCHMITT APRIL 18, 2017
The Navy posted a photo of the U.S.S. Carl Vinson sailing Saturday in the Sunda Strait off the coast of Indonesia, thousands of miles southwest of the Korean Peninsula. Credit MC2 Sean M. Castellano/Agence
WASHINGTON — A week ago, the White House declared that ordering an American aircraft carrier into the Sea of Japan would send a powerful deterrent signal to North Korea and give President Trump more options in responding to the North’s provocative behavior. “We’re sending an armada,” Mr. Trump said to Fox News that afternoon.
The problem was that the carrier, the Carl Vinson, and the three other warships in its strike force were that very moment sailing in the opposite direction, to take part in joint exercises with the Australian Navy in the Indian Ocean, 3,500 miles southwest of the Korean Peninsula.
White House officials said Tuesday that they had been relying on guidance from the Defense Department. Officials there described a glitch-ridden sequence of events, from an ill-timed announcement of the deployment by the military’s Pacific Command to an erroneous explanation by the defense secretary, Jim Mattis — all of which perpetuated the false narrative that a flotilla was racing toward the waters off North Korea.
By the time the White House was asked about the Carl Vinson, its imminent arrival had been emblazoned on front pages across East Asia, fanning fears that Mr. Trump was considering a pre-emptive military strike. It was portrayed as further evidence of the president’s muscular style days after he ordered a missile strike on Syria while he and President Xi Jinping of China were chatting over dessert during a meeting in Florida.
With Mr. Trump himself playing up the show of force, Pentagon officials said, rolling back the story became difficult.
The saga of the wayward carrier might never have come to light had the Navy not posted a photo online Monday of the Carl Vinson sailing south through the Sunda Strait, which separates the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra. It was taken on Saturday, four days after the White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, described its mission in the Sea of Japan.
Now, the Carl Vinson is finally on a course for the Korean Peninsula, expected to arrive in the region next week, according to Defense Department officials. White House officials declined to comment on the confusion, referring all questions to the Pentagon. “Sean discussed it once when asked, and it was all about process,” a spokesman, Michael Short, said of Mr. Spicer.
Privately, however, other officials expressed bewilderment that the Pentagon did not correct its timeline, particularly given the tensions in the region and the fact that Mr. Spicer, as well as the national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, were publicly answering questions about it.
The miscues began on Sunday, April 9, when the public affairs office of the Navy’s Third Fleet issued a news release saying that Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr., the Pacific commander, had ordered the Carl Vinson, a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered carrier, and its strike force — two destroyers and one cruiser — to leave Singapore and sail to the Western Pacific. As is customary, the Navy did not say exactly where the carrier force was headed or its precise mission.
Given the timing, it hardly needed to: Mr. Trump had just wrapped up a two-day summit with Mr. Xi at his Palm Beach club, Mar-a-Lago, with a message that the United States had run out of patience with North Korea’s dictator, Kim Jong-un, and its nuclear and missile programs.
That Sunday, General McMaster told Fox News that the deployment was a “prudent” move, designed to give the president “a full range of options to remove” the threat posed by Mr. Kim.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aircraft Carrier Wasn’t Sailing to Deter North Korea, as U.S. Suggested
By MARK LANDLER and ERIC SCHMITT APRIL 18, 2017
The Navy posted a photo of the U.S.S. Carl Vinson sailing Saturday in the Sunda Strait off the coast of Indonesia, thousands of miles southwest of the Korean Peninsula. Credit MC2 Sean M. Castellano/Agence
WASHINGTON — A week ago, the White House declared that ordering an American aircraft carrier into the Sea of Japan would send a powerful deterrent signal to North Korea and give President Trump more options in responding to the North’s provocative behavior. “We’re sending an armada,” Mr. Trump said to Fox News that afternoon.
The problem was that the carrier, the Carl Vinson, and the three other warships in its strike force were that very moment sailing in the opposite direction, to take part in joint exercises with the Australian Navy in the Indian Ocean, 3,500 miles southwest of the Korean Peninsula.
White House officials said Tuesday that they had been relying on guidance from the Defense Department. Officials there described a glitch-ridden sequence of events, from an ill-timed announcement of the deployment by the military’s Pacific Command to an erroneous explanation by the defense secretary, Jim Mattis — all of which perpetuated the false narrative that a flotilla was racing toward the waters off North Korea.
By the time the White House was asked about the Carl Vinson, its imminent arrival had been emblazoned on front pages across East Asia, fanning fears that Mr. Trump was considering a pre-emptive military strike. It was portrayed as further evidence of the president’s muscular style days after he ordered a missile strike on Syria while he and President Xi Jinping of China were chatting over dessert during a meeting in Florida.
With Mr. Trump himself playing up the show of force, Pentagon officials said, rolling back the story became difficult.
The saga of the wayward carrier might never have come to light had the Navy not posted a photo online Monday of the Carl Vinson sailing south through the Sunda Strait, which separates the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra. It was taken on Saturday, four days after the White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, described its mission in the Sea of Japan.
Now, the Carl Vinson is finally on a course for the Korean Peninsula, expected to arrive in the region next week, according to Defense Department officials. White House officials declined to comment on the confusion, referring all questions to the Pentagon. “Sean discussed it once when asked, and it was all about process,” a spokesman, Michael Short, said of Mr. Spicer.
Privately, however, other officials expressed bewilderment that the Pentagon did not correct its timeline, particularly given the tensions in the region and the fact that Mr. Spicer, as well as the national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, were publicly answering questions about it.
The miscues began on Sunday, April 9, when the public affairs office of the Navy’s Third Fleet issued a news release saying that Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr., the Pacific commander, had ordered the Carl Vinson, a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered carrier, and its strike force — two destroyers and one cruiser — to leave Singapore and sail to the Western Pacific. As is customary, the Navy did not say exactly where the carrier force was headed or its precise mission.
Given the timing, it hardly needed to: Mr. Trump had just wrapped up a two-day summit with Mr. Xi at his Palm Beach club, Mar-a-Lago, with a message that the United States had run out of patience with North Korea’s dictator, Kim Jong-un, and its nuclear and missile programs.
That Sunday, General McMaster told Fox News that the deployment was a “prudent” move, designed to give the president “a full range of options to remove” the threat posed by Mr. Kim.
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Reading that ... well, it's hardly surprising given the number of (strategic / tactical ) accidents the US military have ... like 'accidentally' bombing hospitals, friendly troops, shooting journalists from helicopters.
It's just a game eh ... nothing serious about it !
It's just a game eh ... nothing serious about it !
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i dont read her flip flop posts,
she'll flip from huffington post
to CNN to WAPO.... she'll even flip
to the half truths of the FOX neocons to
stir the pot of witches brew some more...
May 1rst deadline comin soon...
she'll flip from huffington post
to CNN to WAPO.... she'll even flip
to the half truths of the FOX neocons to
stir the pot of witches brew some more...
May 1rst deadline comin soon...
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crayons: i dont read her flip flop posts,
she'll flip from huffington post
to CNN to WAPO.... she'll even flip
to the half truths of the FOX neocons to
stir the pot of witches brew some more...
May 1rst deadline comin soon...
she'll flip from huffington post
to CNN to WAPO.... she'll even flip
to the half truths of the FOX neocons to
stir the pot of witches brew some more...
May 1rst deadline comin soon...
One looks in from time to time to catch up on the latest disinformation ...
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Somebody like Iran and/or North Korea has the codes to mess up our gps satellites.
Remember the Navy boat that accidentally sailed to Iran?
How bout the two helicopters that crashed into eachother, miles from anything! off the coast of Oahu?
Then there were the two jets that did the same thing on the East Coast...
Now a ship sails the wrong direction?
I don't believe it's possible for that many coincidences to happen in such a short time.
Remember the Navy boat that accidentally sailed to Iran?
How bout the two helicopters that crashed into eachother, miles from anything! off the coast of Oahu?
Then there were the two jets that did the same thing on the East Coast...
Now a ship sails the wrong direction?
I don't believe it's possible for that many coincidences to happen in such a short time.
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mykingdomforanam: Somebody like Iran and/or North Korea has the codes to mess up our gps satellites.
Remember the Navy boat that accidentally sailed to Iran?
How bout the two helicopters that crashed into eachother, miles from anything! off the coast of Oahu?
Then there were the two jets that did the same thing on the East Coast...
Now a ship sails the wrong direction?
I don't believe it's possible for that many coincidences to happen in such a short time.
Remember the Navy boat that accidentally sailed to Iran?
How bout the two helicopters that crashed into eachother, miles from anything! off the coast of Oahu?
Then there were the two jets that did the same thing on the East Coast...
Now a ship sails the wrong direction?
I don't believe it's possible for that many coincidences to happen in such a short time.
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mykingdomforanam: Somebody like Iran and/or North Korea has the codes to mess up our gps satellites.
Remember the Navy boat that accidentally sailed to Iran?
Nah, that incident was never anything but a covert attempt to land a few troops / spies on Iranian Territory ... They got caught and used the 'default' excuse (nod to the other thread) of it being an 'accident' as in an accidental incursion into their waters. Accident also as in bombing hospitals and etc
How bout the two helicopters that crashed into eachother, miles from anything! off the coast of Oahu?
Night time training exercise ... who can even begin to guess ?
Then there were the two jets that did the same thing on the East Coast...
The one's out of Norfolk ? Only need to watch Top Gun to see some of those guys are cowboys! But are you implying either / both of these were the result of malevolent interference by a third party ... hmmm, seems like a huge leap to me, but if it were true then it would be incredibly stupid of the US to be rattling sabres and heightening tensions this way!
Now a ship sails the wrong direction?
Hmmm, well, there WAS after that incident where Russian jets did a flyby 12 thins of the USS Donald Cook and that vessel appeared unable to offer any response not even a call to battle stations ... the silence on the video (alleged) to be of that event was deafening ... whereas BS is noisey, very very noisey
I don't believe it's possible for that many coincidences to happen in such a short time.
Remember the Navy boat that accidentally sailed to Iran?
Nah, that incident was never anything but a covert attempt to land a few troops / spies on Iranian Territory ... They got caught and used the 'default' excuse (nod to the other thread) of it being an 'accident' as in an accidental incursion into their waters. Accident also as in bombing hospitals and etc
How bout the two helicopters that crashed into eachother, miles from anything! off the coast of Oahu?
Night time training exercise ... who can even begin to guess ?
Then there were the two jets that did the same thing on the East Coast...
The one's out of Norfolk ? Only need to watch Top Gun to see some of those guys are cowboys! But are you implying either / both of these were the result of malevolent interference by a third party ... hmmm, seems like a huge leap to me, but if it were true then it would be incredibly stupid of the US to be rattling sabres and heightening tensions this way!
Now a ship sails the wrong direction?
Hmmm, well, there WAS after that incident where Russian jets did a flyby 12 thins of the USS Donald Cook and that vessel appeared unable to offer any response not even a call to battle stations ... the silence on the video (alleged) to be of that event was deafening ... whereas BS is noisey, very very noisey
I don't believe it's possible for that many coincidences to happen in such a short time.
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Chinese and Russian navies have sent intelligence gathering ships to follow US supercarrier the USS Carl Vinson, which is headed for waters near the Korean peninsula, according to multiple Japanese government sources cited by the Yomuri Shinbun.
The ships have been dispatched to probe US movements, as the US continues to weigh possible responses to further North Korean provocations.
The sources added that Japan’s Self-Defense Forces are also strengthening warning and surveillance activities in the area’s waters and airspace.
The ships have been dispatched to probe US movements, as the US continues to weigh possible responses to further North Korean provocations.
The sources added that Japan’s Self-Defense Forces are also strengthening warning and surveillance activities in the area’s waters and airspace.
http://www.atimes.com/article/chinese-russian-ships-chase-uss-carl-vinson-en-route-korean-peninsula/
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Ooops! They did it again.
They made you believe they just want to be friends
Oh baby
It might all seem like a false flaaaaaag
But it doesn't mean that there won't be a bloodshed.
Oh baby, baby
Oops, they did it again
Played with weapons, blew you all to hell
Oh baby, baby
Got lost in the way?
They're not that innocent!!!
You see my problem is this
I don't believe a word they say
Please don't blow me away
Oh baby yeah
They made you believe they just want to be friends
Oh baby
It might all seem like a false flaaaaaag
But it doesn't mean that there won't be a bloodshed.
Oh baby, baby
Oops, they did it again
Played with weapons, blew you all to hell
Oh baby, baby
Got lost in the way?
They're not that innocent!!!
You see my problem is this
I don't believe a word they say
Please don't blow me away
Oh baby yeah
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CNN,Ny-Slimes,WAPO?
Puffington Post? 
Puffington Post?
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U.S. Aircraft Carrier Went In Wrong Direction For Days After White House Threat
Trump said he was “sending an armada” to the Korean Peninsula, but that didn’t happen.
By Paige Lavender , Eline Gordts
US NAVY PHOTO BY MASS COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST 2ND CLASS SEAN M CASTELLANO/RELEASED
The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson transits the Sunda Strait on April 15, 2017.
When U.S. officials claimed two weeks ago that an American aircraft carrier was heading toward waters near North Korea, it was actually sailing in the opposite direction, The New York Times and Defense News report.
Facing growing tensions between the U.S. and North Korea, an American official told Reuters on April 8 that the U.S. had sent a Navy strike group to the Korean Peninsula as a show of force directed at the regime of Kim Jong Un.
U.S. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster told Fox News the next day that the group was being rerouted from Singapore toward the Korean Peninsula as a “prudent” show of force.
“We are sending an armada, very powerful. We have submarines, very powerful, far more powerful than the aircraft carrier,” President Donald Trump told Fox on April 12. “We have the best military people on Earth. And I will say this: He is doing the wrong thing,” Trump added, referring to Kim Jong Un.
But Defense News pointed out on Tuesday that photos released by the U.S. Navy showed the USS Carl Vinson passing through the Sunda Strait in Indonesia, about 3,500 miles from the Korean Peninsula, last Saturday. The carrier was moving away from North Korea when the Pentagon had said it was moving toward the peninsula, the Times confirmed on Tuesday.
North Korea has recently ramped up work on its nuclear program, hoping to develop a missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead to the United States. Trump has vowed to “solve” the North Korean problem, but is facing few good options to confront the threat.
Pyongyang test-fired missiles during Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to the U.S. in March, and again on April 4 ahead of a visit to the U.S. by Chinese President Xi Jinping. Following the April launch, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson released a three-sentence statement acknowledging the launch: “The United States has spoken enough about North Korea. We have no further comment,” it read.
Tensions further escalated in the runup to April 15, the 105th anniversary of the birth of North Korea’s founder, Kim Il Sung. Experts warned that Pyongyang might conduct a missile test. Satellite imagery at the time indicated that Pyongyang might have been preparing for a sixth nuclear test in addition to a massive military parade.
While North Korea did end up test-firing a missile on Sunday, the projectile exploded almost immediately after launch.
Following the launch, Vice President Mike Pence said Trump would take a more aggressive stance against Pyongyang than previous administrations.
“We’re going to abandon the failed policy of strategic patience. But we’re going to redouble our efforts to bring diplomatic and economic pressure to bear on North Korea. Our hope is that we can resolve this issue peaceably,” Pence told CNN.
A Navy news release said the U.S. Pacific Command directed the carrier group to sail north to the western Pacific after departing from Singapore, The Denver Post reported on April 8.
On April 11, Defense Sec. James Mattis addressed the carrier’s movement, saying there was “not a specific demand signal or specific reason we’re sending her up there.”