I know that the aircraft carrier is a little bit of a joke. We've had them since the beginning of WWII and STILL are developing procedures and tactics. My point is that they are NOT an island. That they have developed high number of missiles that have adequate shore to ship and land to air capability. We have them on technology at least we think we do. However if you sit and think about it. Why would China fight a war that we're good at. In other words, why would China fight a high tech war when it has millions of men and many multiples of weapons and weapon systems that we probably know very little about. Especially up near the North Korean border.
The control of the waters off the coast of Taiwan and in the area around Japan will be the next little "negotiations" that the democrat quislings will cede to the Chinese. Why fight for Taiwanese capitalists or Korean capitalists.
We'll be distracted by the Mideast and India-Afghan/Pakistan militarily and our economy in tatters like the EU.
So there we have it, a void of the big fist. The big fist that lets you fly to India, Singapore, Russia, Australia, Africa or anywhere on earth and know that you will not be kidnapped, murdered, robbed or businesses stolen.
What did we do when Venezuela stole US corporate assets in our own hemisphere and allowed IRAN!!! to form a faux alliance. Nothing. We looked weak, we continue to look weak and in spite of everybody pooh-poohing the old fashioned notion about projection of power and how NOW we are way to modern and sophisticated to get into a world wide conflagration, I would have some of you read or look at the archives about WWI and WWII.
We live in a violent world and only men in our society willing to fight and die for us can insure we aren't a nice little footnote about a federal republican form based on the English rule of law and the foundation from Athens, Sparta and Northern Italian forms of government that expanded and collapsed upon itself a couple of centuries after it started like the early Roman Empire.
We'll be a tourist attraction for the world with our quirky little parks, nice beaches, beautiful mountains, slutty women, and generally friendly demeanor. But like most third world countries we'll have corrupt cops, arbitrary law enforcement, "leaders" that can be bought and a self inflated ego about how important we once were.... like the French.
I guess the flash mobs are the new Vandals and we can at least enjoy professional football, NASCAR and mob rule.