Posted on 01/29/2024 2:30:13 AM PST by Paul R.
The only thing missing is SloJoe telling the Houthis “Don’t. Don’t.”
Maybe phone service in Delaware is down.
EC
CHESTY?
He’d have wiped out the perps
The ship you toured was the first ship the Navy named in honor of Chesty.
It was decommissioned and sold to Egypt.
This ship was the one that 2 Navy SEALS were attached to before they disappeared a couple of weeks ago.
Yeah, he’d have a few choice words to say, that’s for sure.
Short version—the “mission” is to make the world safe for perverts.
Point being, why don’t we have them? Heads should roll! It’s not like most of this (cheap drone warfare) was not predicted. Cost is not much of an issue. So, what you need is a ship with lots of launching space (definitely not a frigate or destroyer, but can be far short of a large carrier), room and board so to speak for the operators and crew, workstations, the comms (ok, that’s moderately substantial), I’m probably missing something...
This “drone carrier” needs a AD destroyer nearby for defense, but, we DO have those (likely would have to pull one from somewhere else, as the few in the region already are stretched too thin already.)
The freaking world is catching on fire, mostly due to our own show of weakness; we need to get on the stick. Chop heads (figuratively!) until we get results.
What does our DefSec have to say? Has anybody actually seen him? Not just the CIA photo-shopped picture of him. I thought he was blown up in Kiev. Are they reassembling him? Is he going to have a presser anytime soon?
Ton-mile analysis of the most basic sort indicates severe shortages of critical products to Europe if the Red Sea route is closed for long, in the present environment. Basically, product deliveries are inversely proportional to voyage time. Most routes double in time, some go as high as 4x. (I’m uncertain if this accounts for some ships having to bunker in South Africa, a whole ‘nother problem as that’s been erratic.) LNG looks to be a huge problem, as the supply of ships is tight already, despite new builds. Ship anywhere near enough LNG from the US and our gas prices go back up. I doubt we have the terminal capacity anyway.
USA won’t be hit as hard as Europe, but ripple effects will still be rough. I’d not be shocked if some major Euro economies actually collapse, and I’ve been an advocate ever since Pooty invaded Ukraine that Euro economies were more robust than the Rooskie tools and trolls would have us believe...
He was on video (conference) a couple(?) days ago. Looked like sh**.
pffftt...
Lucky we get most of our goods from the Pacific Ocean so we're not affected by what's happening in the Red Sea.
If it’s mainly “european” problem, what are they doing about it??
The biggest enemy of European economies is not the Putin boogie-man.
It is the Greenies inside their own borders.
All Putin has to do is point and laugh.
We have troops on the ground in Yemen. Biden will get them all killed.
Having political enemies domestically does not end the threat from an enemy state that can completely annihilate your country.
A smart foreign enemy waits until the domestic enemies have hollowed out the homeland—and then attacks.
That makes the domestic enemies doubly dangerous—and job one.
The Roman Empire was a classic example.
A seemingly endless succession of corrupt and evil Emporers made foreign invasion feasible.
That was silly.
You think that is what the world’s nations do, nothing?
Can you think of any current wars and recent wars and in our lifetime wars and in our father’s lifetime wars, and back through time wars where the enemy did not just wait patiently for whatever nation they wanted defeated to hollow itself out?
Lack of patience is a good way to lose wars.
Sun Tzu.
Are some countries stupid? Yup. Some are.
We are well on our way to joining that club.
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