Well, yes. The US military is typically not deployed against people who can defend themselves.
Of course it does for the private contractors raking in peak profits!
That is the correct way to understand US military. Projects like F35 aren’t meant to produce practical weapons that are cheap and reliable. These are vehicles for funnelling as much public money back into the hands of the oligarchs as possible. Making really expensive toys in artisanal volumes and then charging exorbitant amounts for support is how you make money.
Do they make sense at all?
A bunch of those planes and pilots costs the same amount of money that could let an entire nation go on vacation via airplane.
A bully always makes sense when the other kid can’t punch back. Aircraft carriers are a wonderful tool as long as small actors don’t have the asymmetric ability to sink them.
OK, but now they are wonderful completely useless tools, thanks to “small” actors. I find it just great.
I feel like you’re either just starting to learn rhetoric or military theory, and I am rooting for you either way, there is a lot to learn ahead of you.
I’d like to see automatically AI generated price tags on all those “toys” when they are displayed either on pictures or videos.
Aircraft carriers can project sustained power over land by sea. Including supporting ground operations. Chinese are aware of counter measures against incoming projectile threats.
It’s pretty clear that a carrier would never be allowed to get close enough to Chinese mainland to project much of anything in case of a conflict.
