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That would never happen until the US Navy ceases to be effective globally.
by petcat 10mo ago
That would never happen until the US Navy ceases to be effective globally.
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- deadbabe 10mo ago[flagged]
- sonotathrowaway 10mo agoYou mean like how the Houthi’s unilaterally decided to shut down Red Sea shipping and the US Navy is still powerless to restore it?
- petcat 10mo agoThat's regional politics. Nothing to do with the superiority of one navy over another
- estearum 10mo agoWhat? The Houthis shutting down a major global shipping route and the US openly giving up on restoring it is not "regional politics."
- Mordisquitos 10mo agoThe dollar being the reserve currency is international finance. Nothing to do with the superiority of one navy over another.
- CamperBob2 10mo agoNavies appear to be obsolete (edit: I'll exempt ballistic missile subs from this statement, though.) You don't even need a navy of your own to sink another country's navy these days. When $100M in armaments can take out a $10000M carrier, it's time to rethink things.
- epistasis 10mo agoWhat is the theory of how the US Navy keeps the dollar the reserve currency, when the US has made itself a pariah state? What mechanism? Would the US Navy be doing piracy and demand protection money in dollars? Piracy payoffs would be a far far lower demand for dollars than there currently is and, and also greatly reduce all other trade with the US, further reducing demand for US dollars. Really curious what your reasoning is here.
- jimnotgym 10mo agoI think it works as a statement right up until you start an actual war, then the threat is gone. No point worrying US will invade if you don't support it economically, if it already invaded
- mythical_39 10mo agoI saw an interesting article about plumbing problems on one of our aircraft carriers. https://www.npr.org/2026/01/17/nx-s1-5680167/major-plumbing-headache-haunts-13-billion-u-s-carrier-off-the-coast-of-venezuela https://www.npr.org/2026/01/17/nx-s1-5680167/major-plumbing-...
- actionfromafar 10mo agoThe argument made like that is an original argument bent backwards. The argument was that the US Navy guaranteed open shipping lanes and kept Pax Americana. Now we get closed shipping lanes and Bellum Americanum.
- jansper39 10mo agoIf the US pisses enough countries off with this Greenland stuff that they shut down US bases around the world, that substantially curtails the US Navy's ability to be effective globally.
- sekai 10mo ago> That would never happen until the US Navy ceases to be effective globally. US Navy would have have no parking spots left in Europe if they try to annex Greenland.