Is Jeet Heer right?

Is Jeet Heer right?
Does the US no longer need a 300+ ship Navy?

All of them

>We should only arm ourselves just precisely as much as we need in this exact moment in time and shouldn't even think about planning for the future

you don't have 300 ships to fight, you have them to avoid anybody wanting to fight against you

Everyone

Nigger Navy incoming

Those ships patrol international waters and trade routes, preventing blockades and shenanigans like that.

You'd rather it was China or someone else in charge of security? Kys.

Jeet Heer obviously hasn't read the Art of War.

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we need more than everyone else in the fucking world. fuck you all and fear us

If America can't wreck the entire world (minus the anglosphere) single handedly then we have already lost.

wow just wow
have the jews gone too far?

They'll all be begging us for help when the Kaiju show up.

we need 500

Who the fuck is Jeer Heer?

We tried waiting until an enemy demonstrated a need. Turned out to be the stupid way to do it.

proxyfag

That Navy is maintaining the maritime peace that allows international trade to flourish without fear of piracy or conflict.

If there were any single action one could take to reverse the trend of globalization, it would be to decommission the fleet.

The navy is an all protect one system. The carriers are at the core and everything else is there to protect them.

If we don't have 300 ships, Estonia can blockade our humanitarian aid to Finland.

Plz, think of the starving Finns.

We must be able to sink the M/V Estonia if needs be.

We patrol the shipping routes of the entire world, for free.

yes

Wait, are we, or are we not going to war with russia over the hacks?

You put all your ships in one place and the enemy faces you with all of their's. Then you all duke it out and whoever has more wins. We only need one more ship than the next biggest navy.

i think a better question is why does every literal who get verified?

למיאתהקוראפרוקסי

Thats very estoniphobic! Our peaceful fleets have only fired twice in responce to finnic agression and only sunk 6 vessels in the last year, of which 2 were vertified military, and 1 of finnish origin.

#LoveNotHate

Stop blockading aid to the Finlan.

I thought it was 600.

Naval Officer here, when you think of how many absolutely VITAL and CRUCIAL sea lanes the USA keeps free for ALL to use for trade, you think that maybe 300 ships isn't enough!

invisible WMDs

Si vis pacem, para bellum

> We don't need a big navy
> We need to go to war with Russia

Liberals want to have their cake and eat it, too

We are not blocking aid, we are conducting an anti-terror operation.

How hard does global trade get fucked if South Africa collapses?

While Obongo hollowed out our navy. The chinks built up their navy to unprecedented levels. Op your a fucking idiot. Sources: CIA world book, Jane's, and countless other official agencies.

Bring back mock naval battles

everyone twice over, just to be sure.

שנינו יכולים לשחק את המשחק תרגום מקוון.

Kaliningrad is Estonian
East Narva is Estonian
Northern Latvia is Estonian

האם אני יכול לקבל מעט שיבולת שועל, אחי?

The alt right

free? us taxpayers pay

we only have 300 ships in our whole navy? wtf i thought we had like tens of thousands or millions of them

doesn't the us keep a cattier off saudi arabia to protect those barbarians?

What was the point of the Panama Canal again?

Yeah, isn't it still a big strategic minerals exporter? If some crazy "kill whitey" government comes to power they could fuck shit over if they shut off the uranium, titanium, etc.,

ממש תרגום מצויים, שכחת ה' שם לפני הסוף
המעט שתקבל ממני זה עוד פליטים לאוסף שלך

The world.

Depends on who picks up the pieces. US/Britain/Europe should be ok, China (who practically own north africa) would fuck things up.


My bet is that proxy wars will move from the Middle East to Middle/North Africa in the next 3-5 years.

Leave the Finns alone, warmonger.

Even under Reagan, our Navy was only 500 ships, and that was back when we needed to go to war with the Estonian and Latvian SSRs.

Fuck off man :(

Canadian ships help the US do this?

If all you bitch-ass loser countries teamed up you would still lose against our navy.

Since when are random twitter twats experts on military matters?

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That's called militarization and all it does is lead to wars.

Free to everybody else including leaf. We pay dearly for our military but this one part I am totally for. Got to rule the sea and keep it safe.

The Navy is pretty much the one branch of the military that we do need. Let's cut the army down to 30,000 and double the number of ships.

Wouldn't the money be better spend helping the people who pay it?

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USA USA USA

Diesel Power > Nuclear Power

You fucking jew and your dirty tricks got me putting Hebrew on my fucking clipboard REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Not that bad, they don't protect much.

Free as in freedom, not beer.

One is kept there to enable strike missions to be carried out within minutes, rather than weeks.

Well before idiots in the government let our lease of it lapse and the Chinese bought it, it cuts like 2 months out of your trip around the cape. Even now with modern propulsion it'll save you a good -3 weeks off your transit.

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he wants them to be sent to the ship breaking yards in his home country so his cousins can get rich

Since the Internet gave everyone a voice.

Sea jews

>That's called militarization and all it does is lead to wars.
Are you literally retarded? Wars happen when diplomacy fails. They don't just magically don't happen when you don't have a military.

The map makes it look like a major Hub

Nobody is asking for war with Russia you retard. Nobody wants to bend over to a corrupt oppressive regime however.

Truly fpbp

What the fuck, shouldn't other countries be paying us and kissing our asses every chance they get in exchange for this?

Agreed. More ships and air force ready. We don't need a large number of infantry. That can be built up in times of war far quicker than a navy or air force.

Nobody is forcing you to. It offends people's sovereignty.

It's much harder to shut down though because of all the free water south of the coast before you hit ice.

The Panama Canal, Suez Canal, and Straits of Malaca are the most important SLOCs and get the most protection. Horn of Africa got pretty bad with pirates but now there are destroyers full of BRAVE and HONORABLE men and women VOLUNTEER sailors who fight off the evil pirates.

No one, thats the point. When your enemy has 300 fucking ships you keep your head down and say yes sir no sir

Dude's not even American. Opinion is automatically wrong.

I'd like to see a few 25mm rounds hit that thing.

sure. just like great Brittain didn't need to maintain their Navy after world war 1. I am being ironical. great Brittain suffered Ver greatly because of their dilapidated navy, and their arrogance at the delusion of having the greatest navy because 30 years before world war 2 they did.

Except for all those that backed shooting down Russian jets over Aleppo, and all the enraged Dems who accuse Putin of personally intervening in the election

And besides, that's the point: liberals want to cut defense spending (which I can agree with) but at the same time push for a more confrontational stance against Russia. It makes no sense: lower the strength of your military, but at the same time pick a fight with the second-biggest military power on Earth.

Murka has two massive coasts to defend?

What doesn't make sense? They're literally trying to ruin America out of spite because finally an outsider got real political power.

It's also out of fear because they know that by summer they'll either be out of power, or in jail.

You forgot the Great Lakes. We have more armed vessels on the Lakes protecting the North Coast from the Canadian heathens than most navies have ships.

Those damn commie loving syrup suckers would help the red menace all the way from Alaska to Ottawa

Ontario is to become Michigan's 3rd Peninsula. Michigan could always use more peninsulas.

Make it happen.

7 armed Red Wings fans going over the Ambassador could do the trick.

US military spending is 12x Russia's plus there is all of NATO. They cant even compete. Even if there is a no fly zone in Syria WTF will Russia do? They're powerless.

Would you shut the fuck up you stupid fucking chink? No one wants to hear from you fuck off and die faggot

It's literally USN doctrine to have 3x the tonnage of the next 3 largest Navies.

>Even if there is a no fly zone in Syria WTF will Russia do? They're powerless.

>powerless
Don't be an arrogant jackass moron LEAF.

They are. We can sanction them all we want, we can fuck with them in Ukraine and could do the same in Syria. What are they going to do?

This and who do you think secures the world's waters? Trade is vital and the US Navy is vital to ensuring trade routes remain open and generally free of pirates.

war is only bad if you lose

It's usually reported in tonnage, which is where you get those huge numbers.

Some of your people are going to die whether you win or lose.

Your hubris will be your undoing. Why don't you go look up the public capabilities of the Russian military?

We get something out of it. Good will, practice, influence, the ability to project power pretty much anywhere and nobody will say shit to us, etc.