Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "Urgent Call for U.S. Sealift Capacity Expansion to Counter China" video.

  1.  @ThatOpalGuy  It’s an important part (a subsystem if you will) of the most intricate global system the world has ever seen. It was an important part of earlier versions of the global system, such as when the galleons plied the Pacific and Atlantic, trading silk for silver.
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  2.  @mirror452  Tankie
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  3. There’s plenty of skilled labor available, we just have to let them in.
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  4.  @captiannemo1587  Sal is our lighthouse.
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  5. Such a thing is much needed, but I am afraid it would devolve into MAGA Congress-fluencers yelling at Sal to score political points and get on TV.
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  6.  @jm2453 It turns out you don’t even need a navy to defeat the Russian Navy.
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  7.  @danielch6662  Somwhat you’re saying is I can untwist my underpants and stop clutching my pearls? Good to know! 😅
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  8. Let’s hope they’re reactive now, and do something. There are too many congresspeople in the House of Representatives that will try to block these efforts.
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  9.  @SpruceWood-NEG  Thanks, enormous penis, for pasting this dumbass spam on various comments.
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  10. The House of Representatives is a shipshow, haven’t you noticed? They’re unable to govern because of a handful of obstructionist extremists who came to Washington to be on TV.
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  11. I hear the Red Sea mentioned, I reach for my shot glass and bottle of mezcal.
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  12. How old is Ally Sheedy?
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  13.  @ropeburnsrussell  Lend-Lease!
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  14. Hello, three month old YouTube account.
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  15.  @jm2453  They weren’t sure how to pronounce Jina. Funny thing, though. Trump’s China expert, Pete Navarro, was a real China Hawk. But he spent his time in the Trump administration sitting on his thumbs. And now he’s sitting in jail.
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  16. The border issues can wait until next year, according to those who are supposedly the most concerned about them.
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  17. Particularly the House of Representatives. There’s a few destructive oddballs in the Senate that might try to scuttle any attempt to reform our ship building capabilities. I wonder what rationale Tuberville would give? Sailors are too woke?
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  18. In the early morning hours, actually. Everything was fine up until 1:30 AM.
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  19. Simp.
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  20. Derp derp LATE STAGE CAPITALIZATION
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  21.  @wgowshipping  One of the best, but there was no drinking game. I guess it’s dry dock Sunday.
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  22. @tag4789 A strong defense prevents war. Are you a MAGA child or a regular child?
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  23. I suspect that they’re sufficient for current needs, but wouldn’t be able to handle transport logistics in a future conflict.
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  24. Defense News has an interesting article (but I was only able to read half of it before the ad-blocker wall went up). It looks like ASTIMAR is very busy. How would investments be structured? ASTIMAR is a Mexican SOE. Our government (U.S.) isn’t big on SOE, but we could encourage American firms to invest by loaning them the money. I’m sure a joint venture could be worked out along these lines (assuming the House of Representatives can get its ship together and lose the dead-weight obstructionists). Your thoughts?
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  25.  @danielch6662  ASTIMAR is a SOE, so I don’t think China can buy it out. A joint venture between ASTIMAR and a U.S. company (with the U.S. government backing the loans) could work out well for both us and Mexico. Also, I’m not a big fan of López Obrador, but I don’t think he’s a huge fan of the PRC. The Chinese investments in Mexican infrastructure are structured differently (more advantageously to Mexico) than the BRI deals China is doing in SE Asia, Central Asia, and Africa. Mexico doesn’t have to worry about falling into a Chinese debt trap.
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  26.  @Gabby-bot  You want a woke captain, unless you think being asleep at the wheel is a good thing. Nuts to your silly “culture war”. It’s not conservative and it’s not good for business.
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  27.  @davefroman4700  So many thirsty China simps here. How’s that BRI coming? Restructure any bad debt lately? 😂
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  28. Anything, any program that has a chance of doing some good, is going to get blocked in the House of Representatives. There’s a handful of obstructionist extremists who’d rather go on TV shows than govern, and they’ve got the rest of the conference running scared. If that weren’t bad enough, they’re pathological liars unlike anything we’ve ever seen (save one man). To hear them tell it, inflation and unemployment are killing the country and we’re halfway into a depression. But if by some miracle the House of Representatives gets its ship together, I could see the U.S. doing a joint venture with Mexico’s state owned ship building company ASTIMAR (which builds destroyers, corvettes, and frigates at 5 different ship building facilities). I don’t think the U.S. government wants to own a ship building business (nor should they, imho), but they could provide loans to a U.S. ship building contractor that would then invest in the joint venture. Chile is another possibility, but Mexico is close and we could make use of NAFTA so that the ship building is a cross-border enterprise. This could be very good for the gulf states.
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  29. Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
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  30. You think Trump can negotiate complicated deals? The dude couldn’t even fill out a loan application correctly.
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  31.  @ThatOpalGuy  What I find fascinating is the impact shipping and trade has on every other aspect of human society at each stage of our development. (I’m avoiding “each stage of progress” in the formulation.) The silver from the Americas that went to China kept the Chinese Empire stable at a time when it faced currency shortages. The silver that returned to Spain made Spain a Superpower. (And arguably led to the various new world liberation movements, but that comes much later.) Spain’s naval power in turn spurred the English to rapidly develop their navy, first for defense and later for colonization. That brings us to the next stage, but I’m not writing a book here. You get the idea. Trade spurs developments and developments spur trade and further developments. (Again, I’m intentionally avoiding the word progress.)
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  32.  @ThatOpalGuy  That’s arguable (that we’ve reached a point of overspending). “America First” is a populist slogan propagated by a power hungry authoritarian movement that has a limited definition of who is American. The leaders of this movement will put themselves first, always. Back to overspending. To determine if the U.S. is overspending, we need to ask “What is the spending for?”. In other words, what is the intended result? If the answer to that is “preserving American hegemony”, we’re going to get into a long discussion about hegemony and its pros and cons. I think it’s an important conversation, but this is a frikkin’ reply in a frikkin’ video comment thread. So let’s skip it and get back to overspending. Let’s assume that we’ve reached a point of diminishing returns wrt the benefits of maintaining our hegemony. Meanwhile, other nation states have also reaped many benefits from U.S. hegemony. I think we’re at a point where it would be wise for the U.S. to unwind its hegemony IF other countries are prepared to preserve its forms and to defend against those seeking to overturn it and replace it with their empires. If the U.S. just closes up shop and leaves, there are less desirable nation states that want to fill the vacuum and impose their own less benign hegemonies. And that is why the relinquishment of hegemony must be done carefully, strengthening our friends and pushing back on the less benign empire builders where they threaten stability.
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  33.  @alan6832  No. If the U.S. abandoned superpower status, there are malignant nation states ready to push into the vacuum aggressively, creating their empires that would be much worse than U.S. hegemony. If the U.S. is to withdraw from its hegemon position, it must do so carefully and not precipitously, being ready to work with allies and partners (as you are suggesting) to preserve peace and stability. To withdraw from our hegemony out of weakness would invite disaster. It must be done with strength, pooling our strength with our partners and allies. The idea of abandoning our position as the world hegemon is a bad idea when you consider the inevitable alternative. Unwinding the hegemony with care offers us a third alternative to U.S. hegemony. That should be our goal.
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  34. lol, Boeing is currently experiencing some issues. Some say Boeing isn’t worth a plugged nickel. Others say they aren’t worth a door plug.
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  35.  @gaberoo9099  he’s a PRC simp.
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  36. Panama is suffering a drought. Water management can only do so much.
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  37. I don’t think it’s feasible with Spring Training almost upon us.
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  38. China doesn’t have the blue water capability. Not yet, anyway.
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  39.  @Kenneth_James  what about sustainment?
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  40. You’re marinated again.
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  41. PRC simp
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  42. This is the first intelligent thing you’ve said of all your other comments.
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  43. They haven’t acted yet. They might not act at all.
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  44. Don’t worry, the House Republicans will block it.
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  45. My you’re thirsty, Chinese simp.
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