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by mtzaldo 148 days ago
What are you talking about? The US navy protects the commercial shipment routes around the world.
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cjs_ac 148 days ago
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 148 days ago
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 147 days ago
Because pirates would never steal shipments of drones …
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layer8 148 days ago
I’m sure that China would be happy to take over.
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cmxch 147 days ago
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 148 days ago
The gratuitous hostility undermines your point.
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verzali 147 days ago
Hmm, there are rail routes across Eurasia.
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