On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 14:21:29 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 3/27/2020 1:36 PM, John wrote:
On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 11:25:55 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 3/27/2020 11:14 AM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 3/27/20 11:08 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 3/27/2020 11:03 AM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 3/27/20 10:58 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 3/27/2020 10:28 AM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 3/27/20 10:10 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:


It didn't take a Chinese hyper-sonic cruise missile
to put a US aircraft carrier out of commission.

All it took was a virus.


Does it matter? We should scrap at least half the navy and stop
wasting money on big new ships.


It does cause one to realize how vulnerable we may be everywhere
to biological warfare.





We're not about to get into a shooting war with a nuclear power and
the terrorists around the world aren't stymied by their comrades
being killed en masse, so what's the point? These ships are vulnerable.

Better we should build more hospital ships and dispatch them where
needed around the world. We'd be spending far less and building good
will.


You don't seem to understand what an aircraft carrier and the task
forces they operate with are for.

They are a mobile extension of our ability to defend the USA
globally.

They are not to go fight a nuclear war.


Defend us from who? The Russians, the Chinese? The North Koreans?
Nuclear powers? Venezuela?



Anybody who poses a threat, regardless of where they are or who they
are.

It's a unique capability that no other nation has and many
depend on ... via our NATO agreements.



According to liberals, like Harry, no other nations pose a threat to the US.
Russia and China are not spending money on weapons. Or are they?

Of course they are. China is the world's second largest defense spender
and is a major arms exporter. Some of the weapons technology is more
advanced than ours.

and according to Defense News:

"Russian defense budget remains the third largest in the world, dwarfing
the military expenditures of most European states combined."

I wonder why? You reckon they just like having them?
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