Interesting idea. Worth the read.
All except that you can’t snap your fingers and create a competent submarine force just by handing a country with zero naval tradition 3 or 4 subs. It takes constant training even if you have that. Same goes for naval aviation.
“Interesting idea. Worth the read.”
I agree. Unlike China, Vietnam actually tells their people to be friendly to Americans, and they are...genuinely friendly. Of course they’re still Communist, but they’ve already fought a war with China (and beat the crap of them). The war was fought because Vietnam, while still Communist, simply couldn’t sit by while the “Killing Fields” slaughter of Cambodians was going on next door, so they put an end to it, angering China in the process and thereby being invaded by China (and they gave the Chairman a nice black eye in the process).
Only problem that I have is with the price - $90B for 12 subs...uh, no.
Heres my take. This whole nuke sub deal was another gift to China by Joe. It takes years to build these nuke subs. By the time their completed , China will have already attacked or be in complete control of the world’s economy.