In the age of drones how valuable are warships anymore anyway? And I wouldn't ask people in the military who stand to get promotions to staff these new ships if they get built.

I guess they have some value against Venezuela or Somalia, but against China or Russia? Pretty useless I would think...

Seems to me if a medium sized nation sent $50 million dollars worth of drones against a $13 billion aircraft carrier, would that carrier be able to fend off them all? How about $200 million worth of drones?

Wouldn't we be fighting the next war with the last wars munitions? Now I know brand new state of the art ships would be a massive ego boost for the admirals and captains, but would it really make sense?

Anything short of complete withdrawal of Russian troops would be placating Putin and approving of the Russian invasion of a nearby nation. This would smack of the way the west placated Hitler and 18 months later Hitler was in Paris.
And 7 years after placating Hitler, 400,000 American soldiers were dead and 80 million people were dead worldwide.

Can somebody explain how our media doesn't ask the question how on earth can the boats pictured in those murders ever reach American shores 2500 miles away? And if they were headed towards bigger drug ships, how come they didn't follow those boats and target those larger ships?

It is truly despicable that his approval ratings are at 41%. It tells us just how reprehensible the morality is for many of our neighbors.

So the similarities with what Neville Chamberlain did in Munich 1938 that empowered Hitler, compared to what Trump did in Alaska with Ukraine a few weeks ago, are even more obvious than ever.

While he was technically charged with an illegal fire, this has so so so so much constitutional freedom issues built into it that any pro constitution judge has simply GOT to throw it out. And if that judge prefers to try his chances with a Trump promotion and thus does not throw it out, this guy must demand a jury trial and that jury must throw it out.

By the way, Trump never signed an EO banning flag burning. He signed an EO demanding maximum prosecution for any other laws that may have been broken. And that is why he is charged for starting a fire while they work to trump up other charges.

IOW, this is more "THEATER" that the Trump people are using to manipulate their easily fooled base and to deflect from the Epstein files.