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It is like you didn't even read the link. There isn't a country in the world that couldn't reproduce Riper's results if they had the talent on hand.
by count 9y ago
It is like you didn't even read the link. There isn't a country in the world that couldn't reproduce Riper's results if they had the talent on hand.
- EliRivers 9y ago"If they had.." They don't have. They don't have a massive salvo of cruise missiles. They don't have an armada of small red boats. If you're arguing "if they had" you might as well say "if they had magic". They don't have, barring few enough to count on the fingers of one hand.
- crooked-v 9y agoI'm pretty sure there aren't, in fact, any countries that have teleporting speedboats and teleporting motorcycle messengers.
- sqeaky 9y agoPlenty of countries don't have large banks of conventionally armed cruise missiles, like Riper used. Pretty much just the US, Russia and Maybe China could assemble something like that quickly. Aircraft carriers are still useful, they just aren't invincible. They are supposed to stay out of harms way and project force with aircraft. That is something that Riper's enemies did not calculate well. They grossly overestimated themselves and underestimated him and his men. If we could get more honest exercises we could see what that actual limits are. Those limits probably don't make Aircraft carriers completely useless and probably don't leave the de facto platform to launch all war activity from.