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Home Front: Politix
As China's Blue-Water Navy Continues Massive Expansion, US Navy Secretary Says Climate Is His 'Top Priority'
2023-03-20
[REDSTATE] Let’s begin with a sobering — to the sane among us — reality.

China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) surpassed the U.S. Navy in fleet size sometime around 2020 and now possesses roughly 340 warships, according to the Pentagon’s 2022 China Military Power Report, released in November. Moreover, China’s fleet is expected to grow to 400 ships by 2025.

Meanwhile,
...back at the alley, Bugs Moroni was holding Slats from behind while his brother Greasy Thumb was pounding his face into paste ...
the U.S. fleet consists of fewer than 300 ships, with a Pentagon goal of 350 manned ships by 2045, according to the U.S. Navy’s Navigation Plan 2022, released last summer.

Incidentally, a blue-water navy is a maritime force capable of operating globally, essentially across the deep waters of open oceans. While definitions of what actually constitutes such a force vary, the constant is a requirement for the ability to exercise sea control at long range. In other words, the more dominant a nation’s blue-water navy, the better chance that nation has of controlling the world’s strategic sea lanes.

So, what is the U.S. Navy under Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant. Just look at the competent way he dumped Afghanistan...
doing about this sobering reality?

As reported by the Washington Examiner, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro has said, multiple times, that fighting climate change has been one of his biggest priorities since taking office. During a recent trip to the Bahamas to meet with Bahamian Prime Minister Philip Davis, the two men talked at length about... wait for it... climate change, and what the United States is doing to fight it. Here’s Del Toro:
Posted by:Fred

#10  I don't think our anonymous troll cares about anything other than making America weak
Posted by: Frank G   2023-03-20 12:39  

#9  ..but great for disaster relief. Immediate on site airfield, recon, several multiple medical operating station, extensive communications, helo support for areas lacking ground access, generous supply of short term food relief, desalination plant producing incredible amount of potable water, and centralized communications arrays.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-03-20 12:31  

#8  With all those ships destroyed we would be able to redirect the funding to things we Americans actually need.

Aircraft carriers so that we can bully other countries far from us aren't one of them.
Posted by: Hupung Untervehr9838   2023-03-20 12:03  

#7  Many, many ships. Far fewer mega-ports.
With the last decade of supply-chain issues, I can only imagine naval containment strategies have shifted to target load and offload distribution and refueling points.
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-03-20 11:02  

#6  After such a war (may it never happen) gerbilism will be well and truly dead and most survivors will not care about what is going on two counties over let alone across an ocean.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-03-20 10:25  

#5  The trouble is that the USN would probably be broken too.
Remember Pearl Harbor? I expect the first six (6) hours to be very, very ugly. Chinese "auxiliary tuna fishermen" launching homing torpedoes, container ships launching cruise missiles, and plenty of sabotage (physical and cyberspace) world wide. Then the US will get to fight back and the Real Worldâ„¢ isn't a Tom Clancy techno-thriller ...and no I don't see the "inscrutable Wogs" as ten-foot high supermen.
Posted by: magpie   2023-03-20 10:19  

#4  Given the past few years, navigation and conning might be better fits....
Posted by: Mercutio   2023-03-20 10:01  

#3  ..don't forget China's merchant fleet will be devastated and ports emptied of traffic for a foreseeable future. With the American Navy down, piracy, both private and government sponsored with a veil of deniability, will make a return with a vengeance.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-03-20 09:36  

#2  ...Here's the thing - if we went to war with China, we'd probably break the PLAN by the time things were finished.

The trouble is that the USN would probably be broken too. Nowhere near enough shipbuilding facilities exist to repair everything that would be damaged, and it would take decades to do it at a cost that would end any new vessel procurement that wasn't already under construction. When it was all over - depending on how many ships were moved in from the Atlantic - we could realistically be looking at a half ocean fleet or less in each ocean.

But we know our fu@king pronouns, so there's that.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2023-03-20 06:53  

#1  And the Pronounsâ„¢, remember the weaponized Self-Identified Pronouns!
Posted by: magpie   2023-03-20 02:20  

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