Even 'today's navy' finally realizes ...

As I've pointed out before - https://nexttobagend.blogspot.com/2023/11/your-curated-news-for-day.html  our Navy is bankrupting the nation with it's current 'pearls before swine' approach to air defense.

Apparently that's finally come to some beancounters' attention.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/19/missile-drone-pentagon-houthi-attacks-iran-00132480?

Anyone want to explain then why we're spending billions defending a border to a country that has betrayed us countless times since 1947 - and not secure our own?  

Anyone?

Unless ... unless defending "our special friend" isn't the real purpose of having US warships there.  

Could it be to "defend the freedom of the seas".  As to that, why?  Of the 56,000 or so merchant ships in the world (1) only 180 or so are US flagged (2).  

Sooo ...we are NOT an empire -  we're broke.  Is someone paying the US to maintain the Navy required for the task?

No.  No one is paying us to do that.

So, why?

The farce that US is not engaged in hostile actions directly against Russia doesn't humor Russians.  NORDSTREAM pipeline's equivalent is the Alaskan pipeline.  Putin has been well motivated to provide some cargo containerized SS-N-27s via Iran to peculiarly adept 'Houthis' given peculiarly adept 'Ukrainians' were able to target and engage his cruiser in the Black Sea.  The Mullahs will necessiarly be implicated as the middle men.

The result?  US losing a lot of sailors and declaring the war on Iran that Deep State and Israel has wanted most of my career.

And that, IMHO, is probably why the US warships are hanging around in the Red Sea.  

Not as defenders.

As bait.  

(U) Oh so little has changed.  EARNEST WILL was intended by the neocons in Reagan's White House and the Israeli lobby to get enough US sailors killed for a 'casus belli' to go to war against Iran. Too bad for them two 'brown water' Navy 0-6s in the Persian Gulf made sure the stated mission succeeded while the actual mission (a bloody start to a war) was avoided. 

 

1. https://www.statista.com/statistics/264025/number-of-merchant-ships-worldwide-by-merchant-flag/

2. https://www.bts.gov/content/number-and-size-us-flag-merchant-fleet-and-its-share-world-fleet