A bit of history : Spain/Portugal/Dutch owned the oceans until the English won the Battle of the Spanish Armada in 1588. Thus the British empire grew and grew through her control of the oceans(the world speaks ENGLISH because of it). It wasn’t challenged until napoleon/france in 1800, then finally the empire upon which the sun never set, began to decline in WWI.
Starting in WWI and gaining great momentum in WWII, the US Navy has taken over the role as ruler of the 7 seas. All the other naval powers are second raters by comparison. The russians tried it, and the USSR collapsed, esp its navy. Now comes the chinese and their naval ambitions, this LOST treaty for UN control of the seas is but one more chinese ploy to gain supremacy on the oceans.
Object lesson : no country can become an empire until it controls the oceans. Napoleon tried it on land and got his butt kicked by the british navy, finally dying in exile on a BRITISH island. Hitler tried it too, and his U boat fleet was finally wasted too. Kruchev tried it w/cuba, until confronted by Kennedy in the naval blockade, and the closest we’ve ever come to nuclear war.
This LOST treaty is nothing more than all the other pisants trying to take control of the seas away from the US navy. They can’t do it by force so they try the pisant lawyers route. They’ll only do it if our navy has become wimps. What a sad conclusion, esp to all those brave american sailors who died making the US Navy the COP of the marine world, the bringer of peace to so many nations...
“They’ll only do it if our navy has become wimps. “
Our top navy pentagon officials have been cheerleading for LOST. As well as Bush, Senator Lugar and many others. They certainly are wimps, in my opinion.
Thanks for the history lesson.