Over the last three to five years, it has come to my attention that the U. S. is no longer interested in keeping the shipping lanes open. That’s what our Navy was supposed to be there for, it’s main task.
Then the Somali pirates started taking ships in the Indian Ocean and our Navy did next to nothing about it.
Now China is actually sending a Navy contingent to the area.
So the question is, has our government been doing the very thing you mentioned in your post? Has our Navy been compromised to the point we can’t keep the shipping lanes open? Or is it just that we chose to ignore situations today that will force other nations like China to step up?
We are seeing a global military shift right before our eyes. And yet, some of my friends think this is going to bode well for us as a nation, and the planet as a whole.
When China is the go-to nation to protect the high seas, I want the folks who demanded our troops all come home, to stand up and admit to what they ushered in.
We are seeing nations build up Navy components today, that never saw the need to do so before. It’s my premise that the vacuum the U. S. has created by shrinking it’s Navy, is the real reason.
Under Reagan we had a 600 ship Navy. Today we have less than half that.
How is it already paying off? Not so good IMO.
Excellent post. All true!
And Casey is a jackass.
FR has plenty of those individuals who wish us to go on isolation status, especially now that Obama is president.
And that is exactly what is wrong with this country these days, complete and utter stupidity from the people.
The people are half the reason this country is in the state it is in, by continuing to elect idiots to office and to continue to be influenced by the MSM.