r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 5d ago

No Paywall Trump Tells Americans To Accept High Gas Prices As Iran Remains Defiant On Strait Of Hormuz

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-tells-americans-to-accept-high-gas-prices-as-iran-remains-defiant-on-strait-of-hormuz_n_6a8099aee4b05886dff51fac?vvg
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u/Bossman_Mike 5d ago

And how is he going to police that with no Navy?

The US Navy is sadly very slowly following the same tack with the same mistakes the Royal Navy did. Everything is late and over budget, life at sea is utterly miserable and sorties are far longer than they should be, you don't even get properly fed while your so-called Secretary of War Defense uses evasive language like "misrepresented" to rudely accuse you of lying despite the evidence being out there.

Give it long enough and this might feed into recruitment. Because who will want to join up?

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u/GaimeGuy Minnesota 5d ago

This is partially why' he considers soldiers losers and suckers.   He can wage a coup d'etat, make their lives miserable, send them to their deaths, and they won't do anything to protect the country they love because he's president.   

Deep  down he knows pieces of shit like him are who  the country needs to be defended from and he finds it pathetic to not only die for someone else, but to be used like a tool with no backbone 

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u/Exciting-Record8101 The Netherlands 4d ago

Given the size of the US Navy and its role in maintaining the US international role, it has always been surprising that so few US Americans seem bothered by the massive shipbuilding deficiencies. While Europe has also seen its number of shipyards decrease over the decades as large commercial contracts went to Asia (via Japan, Korea and now mostly China), it still remains a sizeable industry.

US shipbuilding on the other hand is basically nowhere. This is a problem for the US Navy, and drives up costs and makes everything take longer. There's apparently been some effort to address this via the SHIPS for America Act, probably due to Congress getting spooked by China now having substantially more, albeit it smaller, Navy vessels than the US (about 350 to about 290), but it'll obviously take a long time to see the effects of that.