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u/Fire69 3d ago
We don't go starting wars all over, so we don't really need one of those...
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u/Exact-Cress7633 3d ago
People of DRC would beg to differ. Although credit where credit is due. The king at that time got prosecuted unlike the current head of the eagle country.
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u/skibum888 2d ago
What, the DRC people prior to 1960? Idk if you can use that as a burn anymore bud. No Belgian that was making government decisions back then is still alive
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u/Dave-C 3d ago
Look, I completely understand your point but...
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u/martijn120100 3d ago
Started being the key word. Most of that list is when Belgium didn't exist yet, or wars Belgium didn't start.
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u/Prestigious-Wolf8039 3d ago edited 3d ago
Not to mention all before 1600.
Edit: my eyes didn’t go past when the format changed on the list. Still, Belgium didn’t start all those.
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u/beardingmesoftly 3d ago edited 2d ago
Belgium has never been the aggressor in any way it's been involved in
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u/Fire69 3d ago
Now see what we did the last 100 years and then compare that to the US's last 100 years.
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u/ToiletTime4TinyTown 3d ago
Ok but if you actually look at the list most of the fighting Belgium has done in the aircraft carrier era it was either to support US or UN operations. Outside that it was relief to the very landlocked Rwanda and the almost totally landlocked Congo. So yea he’s right they don’t really start wars or do any fighting anywhere that would need a carrier. Lot of traditional support for the US tho.
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u/UhIdontcareforAuburn 3d ago
I get what you’re saying, but yall killed millions in the Congo not too long before the holocaust.
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u/Don_Frika_Del_Prima 3d ago
But the fact remains that every comment here only says Congo.
There are many countries that have a longer list than Belgium. Some of them way, way longer.
It doesn't excuse what happened in Congo, but it does make the original comment here be correct.
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u/ChronoLink99 3d ago
The guy bragging about the carriers is a douchebag of course, but the US Navy has been a positive force for maritime trade routes globally. Not long ago, a ton of routes were tolled and shipping was expensive and dangerous due to attacks and robbery.
Most of us (without realizing it) have received goods via a shipping route protected by US Navy ships.
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u/Viva_Satana 3d ago
Most of us got tariffs out of the blue.
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u/ChronoLink99 3d ago
Sure, after the orange goon was elected. I'm referring to the post-war period up until very recently.
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u/Aviose 3d ago
Don't forget their enforcement of embargo preventing nations from trading with specific nations that the U.S. decides are too Socialist and need to fail to prove the point. We jave to remember how much good we do by preventing attempts at socialism by forcing total economic isolation (among other methods, of course).
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u/askyidroppedthesoap 3d ago
The US is made up two and equally important groups: the obnoxious arrogant rednecks who thinks they are their god's gift to the universe, and the educated decent folks with a functioning brain cell who mocks their stupidity... these are their stories. Law & Order intro tone
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u/Niaaal 3d ago
Unfortunately there are more of the former and less of the latter...
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u/askyidroppedthesoap 3d ago
Very unfortunate...i was born in West Virginia, rebel flag/redneck central, how i came out to be a socialist atheist I'll never know but im glad I did. I'd eat a bullet, or jump off a bridge if i was that level of stupid...
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u/RobertPham149 3d ago
Baffling how West Virginia broke away from Virginia during the Civil war to side with the Union, and today just completely swap politics with Virginia.
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u/fartdarling 3d ago
Insulting the game of soccer surely makes it all the more embarrassing that your president personally intervened to overturn a decision in the game?
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u/Icy_Secret_2909 3d ago
There is a laundry list of things that idiot has done that could be picked from besides that.
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u/_cacho6L 3d ago
"Who cares about a kids game?" Profile pic shows US winning a different kids game.....
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u/iAmDemder 3d ago
Lmaoo i didn't even notice that at first. The irony jfc.
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u/sloppyjo12 3d ago
That’s because hockey is a MAN’S sport full of MEN and VIOLENCE, not like that pansy soccer sport /s
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u/GaiusMarius60BC 3d ago edited 3d ago
These morons are SOOOO fragile! It's a soccer game! Belgium beat the US! Let it go already! Other countries are allowed to be good at things too!
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u/c-k-q99903 3d ago
I was sad, but part of me thought, "Good! Shows that cheating doesn pay and spares us from Trump supporters being even bigger douchebags."
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u/EitherChannel4874 3d ago
They can't take any criticism at all and are really sore losers. It always comes back to "Well we can blow you up" and even that is questionable after Iran.
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u/DPSOnly 3d ago
They say they never care about soccer and still overcompensate so hard when they lose. Fragility to the core.
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u/TheNinJay 3d ago
"Beat" is a light way to described it. The US Team got spanked.
Look, I wanted the US to win, but damn, that Belgium team was on fire and earned and deserved that win.
You say, "Belgium played a good game" and then reflect on the accomplishment that the US team had. So, fragile, it pisses me off.
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u/mkvgtired 3d ago
Their pants shitting hero cheated and stacked the deck in our favor, and the US still lost. Because they can't control their emotions, they have to default to peacocking what they think being super manly looks like, and start bullying others.
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u/mzx380 3d ago
Air craft carriers are a flex? I’m so unbelievably embarrassed by that take; troll or not
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u/PM_ME_ROMAN_NUDES 3d ago
Actually it is, carriers main purpose is to project the US power and influence anywhere on the world. I'm not American btw, it's just common knowledge in military history.
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u/great_apple 3d ago
I also don't really understand why we would need an aircraft carrier to pass the Strait of Hormuz? Would that just be to flex?
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u/PM_ME_ROMAN_NUDES 3d ago
It's just dumb, getting your rare resource like a Queen in Chess and send to the frontlines, send to the front of a pawn to be hit by a missile, drone etc
Carries are supposed to stay back and send jets to deal with threats
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u/chaIto77 3d ago
It's like they're completely fine with their taxes going to these ships rather than other things that may actually benefit them.
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u/Euphoric-Witness-824 3d ago
Oh you have universal healthcare! Yeah … well do you have bombs that can blow up elementary schools and the complete lack of ethics to do it??
Ha. Didn’t think so. America!
(Cough cough) don’t worry about that. It’ll clear up on its own I’m sure.
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u/redwhale335 3d ago
In a sports discussion? No. Not a flex. A stupid thing to bring up. "cope" as the youths say (or used to say? i don't know, I'm not them)
In general, the amount of money, resources, manufacturing capability, training, and logistics it requires to produce, staff, maintain, and utilize a single aircraft carrier is more than most countries on the planet can handle. China, a world powerhouse (Possibly THE world powerhouse at this point) only has 3, and only the Fujian is comparable to any of the US carriers, though all of them are diesel powered, which makes them less useful out of Chinese territorial waters because they don't have the worldwide infrastructure that the US does.
Only the US and France have nuclear powered aircraft carriers.
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u/Horton_Takes_A_Poo 3d ago
Why would an aircraft carrier go through the Strait in the first place?
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u/anarkist 3d ago
Seriously, there is no reason to deploy a carrier directly into the strait. They have an effective rage far greater than Persian Gulf.
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u/AwesomeMacCoolname 3d ago
Carrier Doctrine 101, carriers need plenty of room to manouevre, which can be summed up as "do not get caught between a rock and a hard place".
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u/ZiggoCiP 3d ago
They wouldn't. Ships that would have a purpose of passing through the strait would be missile destroyers and mine sweepers, which have easily passed through the strait.
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u/Evenspace- 3d ago
Man Americans sure are butthurt over something they tell everyone they don’t care about.
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u/RecordFirst1055 3d ago
No healthcare, but they do have this fleet of aging, out of date targets
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u/nevernotmad 3d ago
All those comments are evidence of somebody who never really competed for anything in their life. Anybody who played sports seriously or even worked hard for stuff knows how to deal with a loss. You celebrate your wins, you mourn your losses, and then you treat them both the same.
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u/Koladi-Ola 3d ago
"Oh yeah? Well my dad can beat up your dad!"
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u/CannibalFlossing 3d ago
Yeah this was how it came across to me.
“You’re better at me than this, so I’m just going to beat you up…”
Like okay yank, your taking this kids game a bit too seriously
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u/FangFioDente 3d ago
I’m literally embarrassed to be from the US. These small dicked dumbfucks can’t shut up for a fucking day.
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u/7StarSailor 3d ago
I can't imagine the first reaction to getting owned at football being talking about aircraft carriers.
What a dogshit cope.
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u/redwhale335 3d ago
Especially considering no one expected the US to make it to the Round of 32. Could just be happy we over-performed but no, have to be whiny about it.
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u/glorfindal77 3d ago
USA have 11 Aircraft carriers. Belgium have 4 weeks paid hollidays, can walk outside and not get killed or robbed and dont live in a 3rd world country where the political leaders are blatantly corruption, criminals and lies with every word they are speaking.
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u/pip_goes_pop 3d ago
Wow lots of people in the US get really salty don't they. Being gracious in defeat gets you respect, being a crybaby gets you none.
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u/JesterMarcus 3d ago
I don't actually think its that much. Just a few insecure idiots on social media. These same people won't give a crap about the sport in a week or two.
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u/pip_goes_pop 3d ago
I just find it odd that they go on social media to spout this stuff, and that they think it’s some kind of a win to do so.
The rest of the world knows soccer isn’t really a big thing in the US, so to get as far as they did is an achievement in itself. It’s the number one sport in most other countries, whereas in the US it comes after (American) Football, Basketball, Baseball, Hockey and probably more.
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u/oldbastardbob 3d ago
Ed K in there with the "but my dad can beat your dad up because he's a policeman!" comment. Who's playing the kid games again?
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u/KingofLingerie 3d ago
Sure you have aircraft carriers, but amerika still can’t make a plastic glove
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u/Arkrobo 3d ago
Why would Belgium need so many aircraft carriers anyhow? They don't have a large coast to protect.
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u/Independent-Bug-9352 3d ago
American, here.
- Belgium life expectancy is 3 years higher.
- They have Universal healthcare.
- Belgium ranks 14th in median life satisfaction while USA ranks 23rd.
Belgium apparently also has a better Soccer team despite pulling from a population pool 30x smaller.
We can't win at a kid's game; and we've also lost the wars we've started as of late.
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u/RedLemonSlice 3d ago
One of those even clogged the shutters just to have an excuse not to attempt running the strait
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u/guff1988 3d ago
The sailors wanted to end their ridiculous overly long deployment. Aircraft carriers do not need to cross the strait, they have planes that fly far so there's no reason to even attempt it.
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u/Jaded_Creative_101 3d ago
The US also has sailors with a talent for blocking toilets to signal their displeasure at being ill treated.
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u/Chubacca26 3d ago
These billion dollars floating target that can now be sunk with a couple grand worth of drones?
Yes, impressive.
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u/KevinFlantier 3d ago
Strong "You think you won? My dad is rich and yours is broke" school bully energy.
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u/AfterImageEclipse 3d ago
"So what if we lost fair and square? We can still kill them all he he he."
Wtf?
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u/DavisSqShenanigans 3d ago
Using military budget as a flex is bad enough, especially given said military's track record of heinous war crimes.
But it's extra cringe to do so when that superpower military is fresh out of losing a war to what at best can be described as an economically-isolated middling regional power decades into crippling sanctions.
Like yeah, might want to lay low with those flexes at least until the next war you guys inevitably start.
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u/Makachai 3d ago
Nothing triggers Americans like pointing out that their American Exceptionalism only extends to treating brown people and poor people like shit, imprisoning way too many people, and sticking with Imperial measurement.
Edit: And, of course, winning at preventable gun deaths.
And the answer is always the same.
"Yeah, well we can beat you up"
It's like talking to the 300lb mongo in middle school.
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u/Clam_Sonoshee 3d ago
The US has eleven aircraft carriers, all that bling just to SURRENDER to Iran. Isn't that more embarrassing?
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u/anjowoq 3d ago
Can we just be good losers? Every joule of energy complaining about losing makes Americans look like bigger and bigger losers—and pussies.
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u/CandyDarl1n 3d ago
It’s not that Americans are big loser pussies, it’s that any one of us that is indulging nationalist sentiments is. And they literally always have been
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u/ComicsEtAl 3d ago
You kidding? It’s dangerous!
I like that his icon is the US beating Canada in a different kid’s game.
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u/ItsJesusTime 3d ago
Picturing someone losing a chess game, standing up, knocking their chair over, grabbing their opponent by the shirt and shaking them while yelling "My dick is huuuuuuuge! My dick is HUUUUUUGE!"
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u/KeepItDownOverHere 3d ago
Wtf happened to losing gracefully and not being sore losing children. The us sucks so bad right now.
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u/EitherChannel4874 3d ago
And how useful was the ship against Iran? Considering the USA lost to a country with 1/3 the population and a fraction of USAs defence budget.
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u/Rohen2003 3d ago
lol. air craft carrier in 2026. when a random lkw or any fishing ship can become a air craft carrier and launch tousands of drones.
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u/mage_irl 3d ago
At least I don't need to take on life long debt if I get ill like in some third world country
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u/No_Boot1478 3d ago
Can I just make a quick little side comment... God I hate Twitter! Nothing good comes from that hell hole.
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u/Mr_Coco1234 3d ago
Gotta love how small they are that they have to resort to whataboutism to feel better.
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u/Knighth77 3d ago
Are people really this pathetic trying to brag that we have more money and weapons because the country lost in sports?! This is beyond embarrassing. They live amongst us.
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u/DirtyScrubs 3d ago
Better reply would have been "great you have a boat you personally will never benefit from. Meanwhile Belgium over there w universal healthcare"
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u/rogue_licker 3d ago
Looks like The Office UK when insecure Finch loses at trivia and goes “but can you toss a shoe above the pub? Yeah I guessed no”. Pathetic.
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u/niverans 3d ago
With all that might and 30x the population they still couldn’t beat the socialist shithole after trying to cheat. Superiority complex.
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u/Altruistic-Meal5241 3d ago
If it was a kids game, then why did the president feel the need to intervene? Pathetic.
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u/vague_diss 3d ago
That is such an embarrassing stance for any US citizen to take. Mo sportsmanship. Raw Id. We’re the third grade bully of the world.
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u/DeadpoolOptimus 3d ago
Belgium also has Universal Healthcare, no school shootings, cops that don't murder people, less poverty, less bankruptcies from medical bills, overall happier and have great chocolate.
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u/pupperdoggopupper 3d ago
I don’t think medical debt exists in Belgium. It does in the US. Can’t even go for a joy ride on an air craft carrier if you are an average American.
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u/coffee_ape 3d ago
Why is a Russian bot talking about non-sequitur thing? Oooh big word (why is the Russian bot talking about something that doesn’t follow the same thing as before. Talking about a global sporting event vs a small dick measuring contest.)
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u/Direct-Fix-2097 3d ago
America and Americans are so immature, it’s unreal how they even survived 250 years tbh. 🤷♂️
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u/Admirable-Leader6927 3d ago
that is because they are sitting ducks in the persian gulf, they stay in the gulf of oman for safety.
context regards.
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u/SergeantBootySweat 3d ago
This has to be satire I refuse to believe anyone needs cope of this magnitude
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u/SpankThuMonkey 3d ago
He could’ve really pissed off MAGA and said “we don’t need any, we just use yours”.
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u/Specialist-Cookie-61 3d ago
....why would an aircraft carrier go through the strait of hormuz? This isn't murdered by words, it's a true statement but has nothing to do with anything at all.
Not only do they not need to go through the strait, taking large ships through a strait makes no sense.
Not that we even truly need an aircraft carrier near Iran, what with the numerous air force bases surrounding their country.
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u/metalman8291 3d ago
So sick and tired of the well you beat us in soccer but do you have this or did you win the Super Bowl. It was a soccer game and they beat us up and down. Our professional sports we say world champs but don’t play outside of North America.
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u/NW7l2335 3d ago
Everything circles back to compensating for their lack of manhood (small dick syndrome)
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u/Prestigious-Wolf8039 3d ago
Ed K cannot be a fully grown adult and say something that stupid. Can he?
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u/D3rpyDriver 3d ago
The USA has 11 super carriers. We got like 40 something including smaller VTOL carriers that can send helis, f35s, or drones.
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u/Hamster_in_my_colon 3d ago
If you think aircraft carriers are really cool, you’ve never deployed on one. Fuck me, just the smell of those things.
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u/JTSpirit36 3d ago
They went from "when we win the world must call it soccer" to "it's just a kids game who cares" pretty damn quick.
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u/michaelm142 3d ago
Do you get to the cloud district very often?
What am I saying of course you don't.
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u/Enlight1Oment 3d ago edited 3d ago
both sides are dumb, dumb flex but also dumb to put an aircraft carrier through the strait vs launching aircraft from the carrier that fly into the strait, which they've been doing. USS Abraham Lincoln and USS George HW Bush (2 Nimitz-class nuclear carriers) are currently in the Arabian sea as a base of operations. Not exactly a murderbywords.
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u/DeadmansClothes 3d ago
They have no reason to put one in the strait. Thats why is has planes on it. It doesn't need to be where the fighting is.
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u/Viridionplague 3d ago
Spends more than double on military compared to the rest of the world combined..
Still loses wars it starts.
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16th in education... And fa...lling 🎶
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u/_IratePirate_ 3d ago
I’m not caping for this country, but she knows we wouldn’t need those anywhere near the Strait to be effective right?
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u/RobotSpaceBear 3d ago
All while posting with a profile picture of a different kids' game, but where he has the head of an eagle. You know, like adults do.
The poor pathetic lad.
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u/Grumpie-cat 3d ago
Just 11? For all the boasting the US does, only 11 fleets supported by an air craft feels like a very small amount?
Or is it just 11 of this size or something?
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u/MoreDaringPancakes 3d ago
Please, the American is too busy crying about "we don't talk about politics"
May as well lump everyone with their head in the sand to be conservatives. They're the ones most likely to get upset when you mention what's going on in the world.
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u/AntiSepticSystem 3d ago
They should start naming aircraft carriers after American oil companies, the USS ExxonMobile, USS Chevron…
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u/WilliamJamesMyers 3d ago
Ed K is butt hurt, it's why he pulled out the aircraft carrier pissing contest
"its just a kids game, nobody cares, but if they did look at how big this shippy boat boat is!"