• @YoBuckStopsHereOP
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      171 year ago

      So you don’t believe in free trade? Without navy ships the global trade market is destroyed and the world quickly falls in a World War.

      • sebinspace
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        -211 year ago

        Evel Knievel couldn’t have made that leap…

        • @YoBuckStopsHereOP
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          241 year ago

          Not for anyone who has a basic understanding of geopolitics. Do you want rogue nations hoarding resources? Do you want Superpowers to act as the British Empire did and enslave entire nations and exploit them at the point of a gun? The massive zerg rush to resources would instantly cause a world war. Right now you have a system where the world trades for goods and everyone profits that is a part of that trade. Take that away and you have trouble.

          • sebinspace
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            -71 year ago

            I’m not sure if you’re aware of this, but it is possible to want part of the game to work differently without also wanting the complete collapse of the game proper.

            • @YoBuckStopsHereOP
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              121 year ago

              I want a lot of things, but that doesn’t mean it is never moderately possible.

        • BombOmOm
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          231 year ago

          The US Navy is the global security provider of free trade on the sea. It is one of their core functions. To ‘just go back to our own borders’ would be to completely remove the only naval force cable of providing security for free trade on the sea and thus remove huge portions of safe, navigable waters for said trade.

          Who else has the navy to make it happen? China’s navy has no range, France and England’s navies have the range but aren’t large enough. Everyone else’s navy is too small and can’t deploy at range.

          • JJROKCZ
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            -211 year ago

            We don’t have pirate fleets anymore and any pirate group that obtains a ship big enough to really be a danger would be eradicated as soon as they showed their hand.

              • JJROKCZ
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                -31 year ago

                It in any meaningful way to world trade though

                • brianorca
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                  31 year ago

                  Because Navy ships patrol those routes. Remove that, and the pirates would be able to expand.

                  • JJROKCZ
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                    -21 year ago

                    With what? Their little dingys are no threat to a cargo ship with a few armed guards. If they somehow get ahold of a real vessel then a national navy can go sink it

              • JJROKCZ
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                11 year ago

                The significantly smaller fleets that aren’t spending their time doing laps but are waiting for the call to splash some pirates

            • @[email protected]
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              1 year ago

              Apart from piracy still being in a thing, there are many states that will illegally seize and impound other nations’ vessels if given the chance.