Abraham Lincoln strike group

[Captain Crunch]

The Abraham Lincoln strike group is leaving the Rimpac exercise in Hawaii early to join the Ronald Reagan.



Other US ships will remain in the exercise and in my own opinion linger near Hawaii to defend US soil there.



I am not aware what ships are going with the Lincoln, but the US had 4 subs, and a half dozen cruisers and subs in the exercise as well as amphibious and support ships.

So, if China initiates a Naval Blockade on Taiwan. Do you think these Strike Groups would intervene?

[ExquisiteGerbil]

A blockade is an act of war according to international law. This is why the naval blocking of Soviet Ships during the Cuban Missile Crisis was labeled a Quarantine. Semantics but as long as people agree to play by the same rules...



There is no direct treaty obligation to intervene, but everyone knows that that island is the semiconductor king of the world. A blockade of them is an attack on the economic stability of the world. At least that is the rhetoric I see coming down if they do it.



We would have to intervene by necessity but the wheels on that movement will be so slow that China may just blow up all the semiconductor producing facilities instead of letting them slip from their hands.

We'll soon see!