You are right. Recovering Paulista knows nothing about both Iranian and Red Chinese naval military theory, not to mention strategic missile strategies and tactics. Both are taking “swarming” strategy to new highs and new production levels, far beyond anything the U.S. Navy can handle successfully to survive. And the No. Koreans aren’t sitting there twitterling their thumbs. Ask the So. Koreans.
The Red Chinese Air Force is growing in both size and quality while ours shrinks to pre-Iraq or earlier levels. The same for our Navy. Reagan once had a 600 ship Navy. What do we have today, 200+? Not enough to take on the Red Chinese, the Iranians, and possibly the Russians if they join in the “shark feeding frenzy”, not to mention the North Koreans and even Venezuela’s growing Navy and Air Force (Cuba still has some sting too).
Recovering had better get some more therapy before he comments again or else someone will throw a straitjacket around him and tote him off to John Hinckleyville.
And we don’t have allies? Why can’t the Japanese and Europeans help us? Why would the Russians and Chinese make war with us? We buy all of China’s garbage, they’d be nowhere without us, and they know it. We had a really small military before WWII, and we didn’t get overrun. We turned out fine. Why do we need to continue spending half of the globe’s defense budget. I repeat: The entire rest of the world spends as much we do when you combine all of their defense budgets.
A good chunk of the the rest of the world’s defense budgets lie in allied countries as well. Much of our Asian problem lies in the fact we still refuse to make Japan defend itself, despite the fact it is perfectly capable of doing so and shows zero sign of wanting to use that power to go on another quest for empire. Why can’t we let other countries deal with problems where they are in the world? Why is it the mission of the U.S. military to be everywhere? When did Congress get to vote on this being the mission of the United States military?
South Korea spends about 1/2 as much as us, as a percent of GDP. Taiwan spends even less.