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[–] 136 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Just removing the US from another world stage

Soon we will be completely irrelevant

Which is the plan

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Except they have the largest nuclear arsenal and the world biggest navy. They can't be ignored.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    My brother-in-law is career Navy and he says they'd get mopped by the Chinese.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago*

    Eeeeehhh, if you just look at numbers of boats, yes. The US Navy has far, far more experience, though. Drones are also going to change the game in ways we're only starting to see with the Ukraine War. With that, the answer might be "everyone's boats are sunk now".

    China probably couldn't gain air superiority over Taiwan, and without that, an invasion will fail. That will be true even if the US ends up losing more boats.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    sounds like E1 speak to me. I'm sure your BIL is a lovely cadet, but he should learn when to turn-to and stfu.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    He's an officer and over 20 years now. This discussion took place shortly after he gave me a tour of the bridge of the carrier he was assigned to at the time. The terminals were running Windows XP. This was 7-8 years ago tops.

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  • [+] -13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    ah, so you're full of shit and know nothing.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I wish they were just removing themselves from the world stage. What they're actually doing is shifting away from a model of direct co-operation with allied nations and strong economic ties with otherwise less friendly nations, to unilateral action wherever and whenever they feel like it.

    Their foreign policy isn't moving towards isolationism, it's moving towards unchecked fascist domination.

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