Contrast This

UPDATE (DEC. 18, 2016): Muted U.S. Response to China’s Seizure of Drone Worries Asian Allies
Across Asia, diplomats and analysts said they were perplexed at the inability of the Obama administration to devise a strong response to China’s challenge. It did not even dispatch an American destroyer to the spot near Subic Bay, a former American Navy base that is still frequented by American ships, some noted. ...  “Allies and observers will find it hard not to conclude this represents another diminishment of American authority in the region,” said Douglas H. Paal, the vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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Note: All color emphasis below has been added by Molten Eagle's Vigilis.

What explains the disparity in Obama response to national security issues versus Trump's response? 

Contrast the facts, circumstances and responses to CASEs (1) & (2), then decide for yourselves.

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CASE (1)

ALLEGATION of MALICIOUS FOREIGN INTERFERENCE

with Sovereign Process

"The allegations of Russian interference were raised during the presidential campaign won by Republican Donald Trump last month. But the issue re-erupted last week after Obama ordered an intelligence review of malicious cyber activity by foreign powers in the last three presidential elections."  source

ADMISSION of WRONGDOING by an ALLEGED FOREIGN STATE

NONE: President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin has denied the allegations, and U.S. President elect Trump has disputed the unanimous consensus of 16 intelligence agencies headed by Obama appointees and the Department of Homeland Security. "If Russia, or some other entity, was hacking, why did the White House wait so long to act? Why did they only complain after Hillary lost?" he tweeted Thursday. 

U.S. PRESIDENT'S DELAYED RESPONSE

(three election cycles or 12 years)

Dec 16, 2016 |  WASHINGTON — President Obama promised to retaliate against Russia for its attempts to undermine the U.S. elections process, saying that the United States would take action "at a time and place of our own choosing."  

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CASE (2)

ALLEGATION of MALICIOUS FOREIGN INTERFERENCE

with a Sovereign Process

 The Chinese navy seized the US underwater research vessel in the South China Sea on Thursday [15 DEC 16], the US alleges.  "The UUV [unmanned underwater vehicle] was lawfully conducting a military survey in the waters of the South China Sea,"  Pentagon spokesman Capt Jeff Davis told reporters. "It's a sovereign immune vessel, clearly marked in English not to be removed from the water - that it was US property."

U.S. PRESIDENT-ELECT'S QUICK RESPONSE

(President-elect Donald Trump blasted the seizure.  POTUS OBAMA drags his lawyerly feet, as lawyers commonly do.)

ADMISSION of WRONGDOING by an ALLEGED FOREIGN STATE

China said Saturday [17 DEC 16] that its military seized a U.S. Navy unmanned underwater glider in the South China Sea to ensure the "safe navigation of passing ships," in one of the most serious incidents between the two militaries in years.  source

Dec 17, 2016 |   BEIJING — The Pentagon on Saturday said that Beijing had agreed to return an underwater drone seized by China in international waters, an indication that the two countries were moving to resolve an unusual incident that risked sharpening tensions in the run-up to the inauguration of President-elect Donald J. Trump.

Obama will be out of office in 33 DAYS 21 HOURS and 48 MINUTES as of this writing.

Submarines are always silent and strange.

Guided-missile cruiser holed in 2nd drone "malfunction" of week

Background
  
In the first, stateside drone crash of the week (a multimillion-dollar MQ-9 Reaper from New York's Fort Drum crashed into Lake Ontario Tuesday - the Air Force is still investigating that incident.)

Latest Event

 

The USS Chancellorsville was using one of several different models of Northrup Grumman's BQM-74 drones (13-foot-long, wingspan nearly 6 feet) to test the ship's radar-tracking system, something done on a regular basis. 

Around 1:25 p.m. Saturday, the drone being controlled from Point Mugu suddenly veered out of control and slammed into the port side of the ship with its crew of about 300, leaving two sailors with minor burns and a 2- to 3-foot hole, officials said.

The ship returned to San Diego under its own power for damage assessment, repair, and incident investigation.  The Chancellorsville had set sail Tuesday and had been scheduled to be at sea another seven days, said Lt. Lenaya Rotklein, a spokeswoman for the U.S.Third Fleet.

The BQM-74 series is a turbojet-powered drone used to train sailors and airmen against airborne threats. Some BQM-74 series models can perform at an altitude of less than10 feet at speeds up to 525 knots, the manufacturer said. The cigar-shaped BQM-74E can stay aloft for over an hour and be launched from a ship or land-based station.

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Currently, the incidents are being cast as malfunctions.  In view of Homeland Security's plans to fly drones over the homeland, one must consider that military operators have generally superior operator training and experience to civilian bureaucrats, and while equipment malfunctions are a fact of life, the possibility of hacked control systems is NOT supposed to be a weekly event.

Submarines are always silent and strange.