Posted on 03/18/2023 7:49:02 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro said he sees fighting climate change as a top priority for the Navy as the Biden administration proposes shrinking the fleet by two ships and worries grow about how the U.S. Navy stacks up to China’s.
"As the Secretary of the Navy, I can tell you that I have made climate one of my top priorities since the first day I came into office," Del Toro said March 1 in remarks at the University of the Bahamas.
Del Toro said he met with Bahamas Prime Minister Philip Davis during his visit and spoke "at length" with him about the climate crisis and focused the bulk of his remarks on climate.
"The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps team has been working on climate and energy security for a long time," he said. "And we are accelerating and broadening those efforts."
"We view the climate crisis much the same way as damage control efforts on a stricken ship. This is an all-hands-on-deck moment," he added.
Del Toro spoke just days before the Biden administration released its proposed budget for 2024, which calls for shrinking the Navy fleet even though most military experts and senior Navy officers have called for more ships to deter China's larger fleet.
For several years now, the Navy has set a goal of having 355 manned ships. But, for the last three years, the Biden administration has proposed shrinking the fleet below the roughly 298 ships it has available now, instead of increasing it toward a 355-ship goal.
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Navy Secretary is a moron.
Like with a gun? Or a tank? Or a ship?"
By shooting lasers at various geometric locations on the sun,
global warming will be totally eliminated.
Everybody knows that.
Absolutely sick.
Admiral Josh Painter:
This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.
-Hunt for Red October
Navies are useless to the Deep State. The navy can’t be turned inwards to terrorize the poplulace.
It really comes down to has the biggest toys, not the most. And with the size of the toys we are playing with here, you don’t have to get it in the hole, just get it on the green and the match is over.
wy69
Oh I’m so reassured
How and why is this idiot still in the White House? He is working very hard to bring down the United States of America. I just am stunned with how bad things are in our country today and all because the Democrats seem to hate freedom.
Shrinking the fleet? Seriously?
Leftists really do think as a hive mind.
Potemkin Navy?
The PUBLIC IS UNAWARE
The MEDIA IS COMPLICIT
This Republic is being consumed by traitors. Young people better wake up before it’s too late ... and maybe it is.
“The PUBLIC IS UNAWARE”
I would say willfully ignorant.
“As the Secretary of the Navy, I can tell you that I have made climate one of my top priorities since the first day I came into office,” Del Toro said”
And this administration wonders why it has problems with recruiting?. Kids know enough they don’t want to become cannon fodder for a incompetent and corrupt government like their compatriots in the Ukraine and Russia.
If we were to boil down the US Constitution into the specifically-authorized responsibilities and obligations of the Federal government - and sift away those that are not...
A solid defense would easily make the cut. But 98% of the current Federal Government would not.
As to shrinking the fleet - I would favor that - if only all the rest of the unconstitutional garbage were cut entirely out first.
I’m pretty sure Khrushchev and other Soviet leaders had an agenda that included flipping the US from within. It’s almost like the “Color Revolutions” that the US/CIA have perpetrated around the world - only on a larger scale, with a much longer timeline.
Niether the U.S. Navy nor any U.S. insitution can “win” against “climate change” but the Navy can help U.S. opponents win the next war against us by the Navy taking its focus off of sheer readiness for its essential missions, and those essential missions do not include “climate change”.
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