Can You Answer These Questions?

[MAGA MAN]

Being a Navy vet myself, I have to wonder about what I’m seeing from the Trump agenda concerning a rebuild of the military.

I’ve ask this question several times in the past without any satisfactory answers coming from anyone on a political forum, old Navy vet friends, or letters to my congress critters. Why does America have and keep consistently in commission 11 nuclear powered aircraft carriers and sometimes just 10 in commission and now Trump is calling for a 12 nuclear carrier Navy and a whole new class of nuke carriers?

As far as I can determine, the rest of the world combined only has 2 nuclear powered aircraft carriers, one in China and France has one. Why the American overkill?

Why aren’t the multi-billion dollar nuclear carriers simply sitting ducks in a world of highly technological weaponry?

As far as I know, it takes at least a dozen other ships just to protect the carrier and it takes over 2000 crew mwmbers for a single carrier.

What in hell is “conservative” about a dozen nuclear powered aircraft carriers?

According to this list we only have ten, all Nimitz Class. The oldest is 42 years. Do you think a 42 year old design is what we should be using right now?

 

[Robo]

According to this list we only have ten, all Nimitz Class. The oldest is 42 years. Do you think a 42 year old design is what we should be using right now?

The question is, "WHY DO WE NEED 10, 11, or 12?" Where's our allies contribution to protecting the sea lanes? What God died and made America the sole protector of humanity and especially the sea lanes? How much national debt is too much national debt? Where's the trillion $ coming from for the rebuild of the infrastructure? Where's the money coming from for our corporate and social welfare system and Trump's tax cuts?

I understand that fucking armchair war hawks like the Truth Deflector don't want to answer those questions, but I'll expect rationality from you as mostly usual.

 

[Robo]

According to this list we only have ten, all Nimitz Class.

Actually we had 11 nuclear powered aircraft carriers just a short while ago, the oldest being the Enterprise which was recently decommissioned while the New class "Gerald Ford" is about to be commissioned That class is scheduled to commission 10 +2 = 12 nuclear powered carriers as each of the 10 Nimitz class is decommissioned.

 

[Robo]

^Get's it; now you have learned what the never ending circle of stupidity feels like.

The "never ending circle of stupidity" is much, much better demonstrated by you, idiot!

 

[MAGA MAN]

The question is, "WHY DO WE NEED 10, 11, or 12?" Where's our allies contribution to protecting the sea lanes? What God died and made America the sole protector of humanity and especially the sea lanes? How much national debt is too much national debt? Where's the trillion $ coming from for the rebuild of the infrastructure? Where's the money coming from for our corporate and social welfare system and Trump's tax cuts?

I understand that fucking armchair war hawks like the Truth Deflector don't want to answer those questions, but I'll expect rationality from you as mostly usual.

He did answer; he thought 12 was just about right. With the high level of maintenance and downtime, we should have one in each area where American merchant ships, or merchant ships which have significant American interests, are going about their business.

You seem to forget that US naval actions against pirating was the first post-revolutionary acts of our military. After 250 years that concern has not gone away. The reason why piracy isn't much more that a Disney fascination is that we've had a strong presence in the world's oceans.

 

[Robo]

Meanwhile, you have ignored everything anyone else has stated and continue to prattle on ignorantly about things you obviously have little or zero knowledge on.

Such As?

I'm not ignoring noncompliance to the OP questions and those that I've posted since, I'm proving with my every post that y'all armchair war hawks can't and won't answer any of those questions because you've been brainwashed by the rightwing Military Industrial Complex and idiots like John McCain, his little brother Lindsey Graham and the New York dead head Peter King.

I've already told you that defense spending is not the cause of the massive accumulation of national debt; yet you rant on as if that FACT doesn't matter.

Dumbass.

I've not ignored the massive infrastructure trillion $ Trump bid, his tax cuts and promises to protect and continue the social welfare system. I never said that military spending was the total cause of the national debt, that's your lying interpretation.

I'm contending/arguing that if 12 nuclear powered aircraft carriers are necessary to protect the sea lanes, where's our so-called allies contribution to the so-called imminently necessary cause? I'm arguing that America is hell bent on the road to bankruptcy and needs somebody that understands "PRIORITIES." Trumps record shows 4, or is it 5 bankruptcies?

Answer the questions numbnuts instead of whining about them.