Posted on 12/31/2023 5:35:36 AM PST by Pox
“None of us wants to fight for the crud running the country today.”
My love for America isn’t contingent on who happens to occupy the White House. Sorry this is the case with you. Please feel free to leave.
Correct, the Cape of Good Hope, south around Africa, instead of through the Red Sea and Suez Canal.
“Todays Democrat run governments aren’t worth the sacrifice.”
You don’t read very well do you?
It isn’t just Biden, it is the Democrats. They left the country once( 1860’s), They can leave again and this time nobody will stop them. Good riddance!
1. Chase many of our major manufacturing industries overseas.
2. Make large swaths of America destitute in the process.
3. Chase all our maritime shipping companies overseas, too.
4. So now we have U.S. taxpayers footing the bill for the U.S. Navy to protect Danish ships … flying Panamanian or Liberian flags … with crews of Filipino sailors … delivering that cheap Chinese crap to your local Walmart and Dollar General stores.
You can’t possibly keep a straight face if you think this makes any sense at all.
If I was a Canadian you might have a point. :-O
You’re quoting something I never said.
So is it St. Petersburg or Moscow?
You picked a part of my comment without including the entire context.
I can point that out, without being unethical.
About f-g time we put Navy to good use.
Biden must be senile because every president knows there is a ratings boost when the military takes action aka Wag the Dog. If his team had any brains they would be going medieval on the Houthis and Iran. Russia is tied up and won’t be able to assist their buddies in Tehran
Appalachia, USA.
Happy New Year.
Libertarians have a flag?
Piracy on the seas is everyone’s problem. Besides, Brandon’s approval ratings needed a boost.
Not to mention that unless ships are engaged in hostilities, generally ships are obligated to come to the aid of a nearby ship in distress. If you are a warship and aid involves sending some pirates to the sharks, so be it.
Relatively free flow of trade (not exactly the same thing as “free trade”) also did a lot to make the US the greatest industrial power on the globe and (turned to that use) the greatest military, economic, and political power on the globe. Historically, we are far from the only example.
The real problem is that we’ve thrown nooses (note the plural) over ourselves that hamper our abilities (note the plural) to compete. And again, we are far from the only example.
I will point out, though, that it is preposterous for anyone to suggest that using U.S. Navy assets to protect foreign civilian ships carrying foreign cargo is the right way to deal with any of those challenges.
Western civilization and its allies pretty much depend on those sea lanes...
Agreed in that said protection has little to do with correcting those challenges. The “protection” is a “hope” that if the Houthis (really Iran by proxy) fail in several more attempts to hit or take commercial vessels, they will desist.
It’s a foolish hope from weak people: Iran has too much to gain by severely damaging Western and allied economies by disrupting shipping. Unless Iran is forced to desist, that disruption will be effective until more ships are built to address the resulting transport capacity shortages. (Hurts us, hurts Asian allies, REALLY hurts Europe, which latter two also hurt us in ways direct and indirect.) One can expect inflation that makes that which followed Pooty’s invasion of Ukraine look like a tea party (and not the one in Boston in 1773.)
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