Degraded U.S. shipbuilding industry
hobbles Navy quest for bigger fleet
to counter China, Russia
Posted By: Ribicon, 7/13/2021 12:24:06 PM
America’s dwindling domestic shipbuilding industry has lawmakers worried about the Navy’s ability to keep up with China and Russia. Now that China has surpassed the U.S. to have the world’s largest navy, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agree that the service must make strides toward building a larger fleet. Reaching the goal, however, is hobbled by a domestic shipbuilding industry that has been in decline since the mid-1990s. The Navy currently operates just four public shipyards tasked with maintaining the nuclear-powered fleet and roughly 20 private shipyards certified to build and maintain the service’s conventionally powered ships. China, by comparison, operates more than 1,200 shipyards
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USA is run behind the scenes by intelligence agencies that in theory have the best interests of the nation at heart. The question is, which nation do they represent? USA was de-industrialized after WW2, specifically to advance other nations at the expense of the USA, transitioning us to a "service economy" in which we are destined to become servants to nations that can produce material goods.