Comments by "Emir" (@irongron) on "Jerry Hendrix - Ukraine Transforms Naval Warfare by Ejecting Entire Russian Fleet from the Black Sea" video.

Captain Hendrix is a favourite return guest for sure. His proposal to police the Shadow Fleet is totally doable apparently, it's a matter of the coast guards of relevant nations whose waters they pass through doing the job. But it seems these coast guards in the Baltic Sea and elsewhere are over stretched. Maybe the USN and other navies as he suggested, Britain France, need to get involved. A great channel to follow on here if people want more maritime learning is "Whats going on with shipping", I am pretty sure that Captain Hendrix probably is aware of the retired merchant mariner who runs the channel Sal Mercogliano. I also agree with the Captain's push back on Ukraine having "no navy", well we do have a navy, it's as he said, a new type of navy! - I suppose the correct term is "Ukraine does not have a conventional capital ship type navy"!. Lastly, I also think that the tactics we have used to "own" the Black Sea and run off the russian fleet is only possible in an enclosed sea, it would not work to run off the USN in open waters for instance. Sea baby drones do not have the range to maraud the Pacific or Atlantic for example.
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@GrahamCStrouse yea, I get the feeling the USN will deal with the drone threat a tad better than decrepit russian navy did. Maybe some kind of re-tasked Aegis system for taking out sea drones or something like you mentioned.
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Yes, but the point is, all the innovation is from Europe or the USA. Russia and China only steal ideas and IP. Manufacturing can be returned to the USA and Europe. Apple's markups are off the scale, Why is it that you can buy 2 (or even 3) top of the line "windows" PC's or laptops for the price of one Mac or Macbook ? Apple have always been a rip off. Here in Ukraine a Macbook is like 100,000 UAH but a decent windows laptop is like 30 - 40,000 UAH!!! (my wife bought a really good ASuS laptop for 15,000 UAH new). Apple make nice stuff but is it worth the preposterous shake down ? The lithographic machines that make high end chips all come from one country too - The Netherlands. Do you consider that a hole we have dug for ourselves too ? ( I don't, the Dutch are decent members of the world community). Lastly, trust me, if the price of iPhones goes up to $5,000, the Apple fan boys will still pay it!!! 🤣
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@stefantaubert Wow, your friend who went to Spain for the cheap Beamer got rolled😉. I had to laugh a bit but really that is a 💩 act from BMW. But it proves their markups are outrageous if they can sell stuff "cheaper" in lower per capita GDP countries. This demonstrates there is room for price adjustment to bring manufacturing back. As you say they can't build factories overnight, but a slow rise in costs would be better than a huge one all at once, if the western countries want to decouple form China. We all have to take these hits. For instance here in Ukraine power was subsidised for 3 decades. Cheap power. But in June our power went up 80%! We had to pay almost double for less power (rolling blackouts), So we have to pay for the stuff russia bombed to get rebuilt! (russia should have to pay, but that's where we are). Anyway, your valid points say how difficult it is, but the change must be made, because even if China was to have a revolution and toss out the CCP, there is no guarantee we won't get another pile of garbage country like russia with a new dicatorship.
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@stefantaubert Indeed, I hear you 👍. Just to tell you a funny story, here in Ukraine we are stuck with China for those mass products if you want to buy with online shopping. The reason is almost all sellers on eBay and most other seller sites won't ship to Ukraine due to the war, but Aliexpress, they will ship to Ukraine. Ok, that is war related but still a bemusing note to top off this conversation!
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