COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY MARY DEJEVSKY IN THE
GUARDIAN
The latest US navy
collision should worry Trump’s Asian allies
Many lovers of peace are wishfully thinking that it might be
possible Russia has some new, unannounced electronic warfare gizmo that
neutralizes the massive electronics of these ships.
These crashes simply should not happen, and if you
understand even a little what a tremendous armada of electronics and radars
with which these ships are equipped, these events become all the more mysterious.
The ships literally travel in an electromagnetic bubble that
should prevent anything of the kind.
Should, that is, if crew members are not asleep at the
switch.
I very much doubt that the problem is caused by a new secret
weapon.
Just plain old incompetence is certainly the explanation.
The incompetence that is bred of arrogance in individual
commanders, and America's military is packed with arrogant assumptions to start
with. Bluster to spare, everywhere.
The incompetence perhaps also of crews recruited from this
Millennial generation, people who often seem to have a poor grasp on
essentials, many employers in the private sector saying they come out of school
knowing how to do very little but with big attitudes and assumptions.
Whatever the cause, the non-ideologists among us can only
enjoy the spectacle of the world's imperial bully going around crashing costly
ships into things.
It also makes you think of the F-35 fiasco fighter America
has pushed onto all its allies. Its cost resembles the moon project, but does
not even work.
The arrogance of power.
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Response to another
reader’s comment who thinks the blame is with the civilian ships:
Pretty ignorant.
The US would be all over the companies responsible for
crashing their ships into its warships.
Cruise missile bombardments of their headquarters.
Sanctions.
Everything in the bully's arsenal.
