Our Navy is non-functional [View All]

[thunder rising]

The real message of the Russians planting the flag at the North Pole is that the US Navy was not there.

Why do the Russians now have a sub fleet and we do not?

15 years ago they didn't move without a hunter on their tail. They could not have planted that underwater flag without pounding it through the deck plates of one of our subs. A year or so ago the Chinese surface a sub within a few miles of an aircraft carrier and now this.

Who'da thunk our traditional foes would use this President's greed to advance their holdings? This is what happens when career military planners and analysts (the ones we used to trust to focus outward) are replaced with political hacks.

Look Paris's doggie has a cute bow.

A little more info..
If you would like more information on how fantastic our Navy sub fleet capability was during the cold war please read "Blind Man's Bluff" The two events listed here are subtle warnings about our present capability and/or the degradation of our capability because of our infantile focus on supposed threats from countries that cannot attack us.

--update
This is not a knock at people that are IN the Navy, it's about the commanders and other leaders that assign missions; particular If our boomers (what's left of them) are parked off of Iran ... we need a serious reality check.

Here's the deal. If an opponent has no sub in that region then the torpedoes do not need to be very clever in picking a target. The same is true about air superiority and anti-aircraft missiles ... just find anything flying and blow it up. So if indeed all our fleet is floating about in one known area, Der Leader has lost his mind.

Meanwhile those WITH a known capability and motive to harm us are going unguarded. Not even a wave from a bridge to let them know we know.