(08-02-2020, 02:46 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(08-02-2020, 01:55 PM)copycat Wrote: Dude just stop!  Why do you insist on being the smartest person in every room you walk in?  Your narcissism rivals Trumps.  

Look, I drive a 4WD Tacoma with street tires.  I would never dream of taking it to a mud pit and go where guys with lift kits and mud tires go play.  The comparison of my truck and those trucks is ridiculous and that is what you are attempting to do here, so just stop.

I'm not insisting on that.
In fact, I'm the only one on this thread asking questions. I'm the only one here admitting to having stuff to learn.
So here's your question: if UK and France have one big carrier each, and Russia has only one, why do we need 11 or 12?

That question was answered already.  Like it or not the USN is the arbitrator/protector of free shipping lanes.  Do you really trust Russia, China, or North Korea to protect your interests?  Does any non communist country?  We Right now on August 2, 2020 do not have teleporters.  So while you do what you do so well which is to move the goalpost (any ship that can carry a plane is equal to an aircraft carrier) to how many aircraft carriers does America need, l have to ask why are you opposed to making America self sufficient?

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