The differences between an unmanned drone or a single surveillance aircraft with ~20 or so crew aboard and a multi-trillion dollar, nuclear-powered national asset with over 6000 crew are pretty near incomprehensible from a magnitude standpoint.
The US has made it pretty clear over the years that our carriers are sacrosanct. Touch one of them and we will hit you like the fist of an angry god.
And I don’t mean that in the Lazamataz way.
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