Indeed they are.
Posted on 02/22/2023 2:28:00 PM PST by hardspunned
China’s navy has significant advantages over its US rival, including a bigger fleet and greater shipbuilding capacity, as Beijing seeks to project its power across the oceans, the head of the United States Navy said Tuesday.
Speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, US Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro said China “consistently attempts to violate the maritime sovereignty and economic well-being of other nations including our allies in the South China Sea and elsewhere.” They got a larger fleet now so they’re deploying that fleet globally,” he said, adding that Washington must upgrade the US fleet in response.
“We do need a larger Navy, we do need more ships in the future, more modern ships in the future, in particular that can meet that threat,” he said.
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How many ships could the $200 Billion already pi$$ed away on Uke corruption have built? Xi’s proxy is a stand alone treaty organization killer. Our proxy is sucking the US taxpayer dry. It’s pretty apparent Western woke globalism can’t succeed. It might destroy the world but it won’t succeed.
FReeper Jeff Head was on top of ALL that China ship building 10/15 years ago.
Our whole weapon system acquisition paradigm is a bag of crap. Everything costs too much, takes too long, and fails to meet requirements. But the Military-Industrial Complex makes big bucks, and that’s what counts.
Gee, it’s almost like we don’t want to win. Hmmm.....
China is learning a hard lesson about Opportunity Costs.
$850 billion spent per year by DoD - its not so much a “defense” scheme, so much as it is a long-standing, institutionalized, bloated, crony-capitalist, political scheme and DC jobs program
Naval wars are won in the factory and the shipyard and not at sea.
“Poke the Dragon” is the new neocon Project.
Fortunately the Chinese still have a qualitative gap that hasn’t been closed for now. I think ultimately what will have to happen is Japan will have to be allowed to re-arm and expand its navy.
Then we are screwed
BOhICA
China owns Biden and China will be coming completely for us when the stage has been set.
🤔. Raytheon CEO says 13 years production of Stingers and Javelins have been burned through in YouCrane! Surely hasn’t depleted our stockpiles right?
Yep, not to mention that China is quite lacking in the experience department. They haven’t fought a real war in almost 70 years.
“”FReeper Jeff Head””
That name is so familiar but I don’t remember why...
The Chinese are blah, blah,blah. 🙄
Got it - his profile....now I’ll have to read through his posts to remember why his posts were important to us.
Indeed they are.
Paid for courtesy of all of the free traitors who wanted open markets so other traitors could buy their cheap Chinese at Walmart..
This ain’t about Biden, this is about every POS who has supported MFN status for China and the stockholders of the places that import and sell crap that isn’t made in the USA.
Maybe if they stopped worrying about the size of their pantyhose and the “correct” pronouns, they would realize that they have a problen.
And they are setting up the stage now. If they make a move it will be while bidumb is in office
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