Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "Naval Power in the Pacific: China vs. The United States || Peter Zeihan" video.

I chuckle at these ships -- in as much as I advocated conversions of same -- decades ago -- in High Technology magazine. Yeah, my pitch made it into print before the WWW. A the time, the USN didn't quite know "what next?"
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@blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311 No, you're totally wrong. What happened is that Moscow was responding to Red China -- as it became clear that Beijing was never going to join with America and Russia in strategic restraint. The US DoD -- as ever -- wanted the newest, high tech, counter-threat missile -- from a clean sheet of paper. THIS is why the American response to Red China has been years later than Russia's. No doubt the new design will be quite stealthy -- hell to detect on the way to its target. Whereas the old designs were all pre-stealth, and plainly targetable with look-down, shoot-down radars. The Russian stuff is talked about as a threat to Europe -- whereas its cruise missiles are deployed to hit Red China's nukes, instead. Only a token amount are sited to hit Europe -- which is no threat to the Kremlin -- not withstanding Putin's posturing. BTW, Xi's nukes are easy pickings for Moscow, as they were originally sited far inland -- to stop USN attack -- issue number one back then. Xi and Putin are best friends because they each have the other by the balls. That's all. If America didn't exist, they'd be straight at each other, PDQ.
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@Dept246 Those were intended for the Persian Gulf -- to defend the Arabs from the mullahs. Iranian missile capabilities became so advanced that the juice wasn't worth the squeeze. Restated, the LCS were way too expensive and vulnerable to achieve anything favorable. They also didn't have strategic 'legs' -- being 'dry-dock queens' -- right out of the gate.
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@blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311 The USA ratified it de facto -- which is a situation quite unlike the League which didn't get any American delegation.
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In the event of a hot conflict, the USN will simply sail away from Red China -- and its missile umbrella -- and then cut loose with its submarines. By radio, the USN will instruct all commercial maritime traffic to stop sailing to Red China on pain of destruction. Oceanic trade requires at least two nodes -- ports. No-one will even set sail for Red China to hazard the USN in the first place. So, there will be no repetition of the U-boat war of the Atlantic. A total freak-out in Beijing will soon ensue, of course. The last time a nation was so stupid as to build a challenging navy it was Germany. (1900-1914) Things did not end well. Its High Seas Fleet never got out of first gear -- and this was by Royal Navy intent. Xi's epic error for the ages is his military build-up -- to no-where. Everything he's spending on the PLA/PLAN/PLAAF is wealth down the drain. He's imploding Red China's economy, thereby. No-one dares attack Red China -- and it would be folly, in the extreme, for the CCP to attack any other nation. Argentina, circa 1982, is an object lesson as to how things must turn out should Xi get bold.
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