The USS Harry Truman collided with a merchant ship in the Mediterranean Sea near Port Said, Egypt, on Wednesday evening.
No injuries or ship flooding have been reported by Navy officials.
The USS Harry Truman collided with a merchant ship in the Mediterranean Sea near Port Said, Egypt, on Wednesday evening.
No injuries or ship flooding have been reported by Navy officials.
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Seriously tho. We have no legitimate business there or anywhere outside of territorial US waters.
With Yemeni and Somali attacks on merchant vessels this is actually one place in the world where a military presence is actually beneficial to pretty much everyone. You’d be amazed to see how many otherwise adversarial nations have bases in Djibouti and cooperate in anti-piracy manuvers.
Especially with Trump in charge, it’s arguable that the US shouldn’t be a part of that but we absolutely need someone’s military presence there.
If that was a joke, it sucked.
It’s almost like that’s a very dangerous area of the world where US citizens and businesses are forced to operate and having a US military presence keeps them safer, along with nearly every other nation with international commerce.
If US citizens and US businesses choose to operate there, they should be footing the entire bill for their own private protection services. Just say “no” to Socialist military spending.
I adore socialist spending. Just on real shit that matters like housing and food and medicine. Not threatening brown countries on the other side of the planet because they don’t bend the knee to The Empire.
Yes, let’s just grind the entire worldwide economy to a halt. Smart idea, genius. You do realize, don’t you, that more than one country ALSO does international trade in the waters between Europe and Asia, right? The US has the most to lose, so they foot the bill. But the rest of the world benefits from the US military presence in pirate-filled waters.
Also, US citizens and US businesses pay taxes (well, some of the do), which pays for the US military… so in reality they ARE footing the bill for their own protection services. If you want them to pay 100% of the bill, then every single thing you buy in every single country will suddenly triple in price. I’m sure you’d love that. Jesus, you’re as good at managing the economy as Trump.
It’s one of the most, if not the most, important shipping route in the world. Also the quickest way to get from anywhere in the North Atlantic to the Arabien sea/Indian Ocean.
So that’s probably the one place outside US territorial waters where they have the most business. It’s literally a bottleneck for the world economy.