points
2 months ago
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What are you talking about? The US navy protects the commercial shipment routes around the world.
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cjs_ac
2 months ago
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Before the US Navy did that, the Royal Navy did. The work needs to be done, but it doesn't have to be the US doing it.
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nullocator
2 months ago
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Likely soon corporate owned drones will protect commercial shipping routes I would think. Not sure if bad actors (pirates?!) will have their own drones.
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cudgy
2 months ago
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Because pirates would never steal shipments of drones …
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layer8
2 months ago
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I’m sure that China would be happy to take over.
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cmxch
2 months ago
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And it would be quite hard for China to protect anything that the US or private actors could just sink and enjoy the protection of the US government.

This is not like the Philippines where China can roll them over.

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bluebarbet
2 months ago
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The gratuitous hostility undermines your point.
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verzali
2 months ago
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Hmm, there are rail routes across Eurasia.
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