Ron Paul: "We Spent a Billion Dollars Fighting the Houthis…and Lost'
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Any Navy vets care to weigh in on wtf is happening in the Red Sea?
a sm2 (standard missile 2) is I think right around $1mil a shot.
we just can't afford to really do anything about it. we're bleeding into Ukraine and Israel now. we really can't afford either, let alone another in addition.
our navy isn't really all that great. we ordered a bunch of mostly useless and fragile ships in the early 2000s. they were supposed to be modular but none of that actually worked out. it's taken us over 10 years to build and commission our last aircraft carrier. we just sold another USA shipyard to SK just this week. our logistic support ships are like at 55%. that was the result of the last war gaming. supposed to be at 85%+.
everything is fucked. we have faggots, jews, and women running things. nothing works. everything is breaking.
I keep hearing this from various professionals. Perhaps giving up gunnery in favor of high tech ballistics was a mistake?
Always found that odd, shouldn't computers make aiming guns easier than ever?
A tool is only as good as its operator.