Many men and women have spoken on the nature of WAR and its impact on society. If we humans desire a more sustainable future a need to create enemies and destroy civilizations must end. It is self evident that WAR's are really and acronym for Wrongfully Acquiring Resources when diplomacy and peaceful dialogue are not providing the results of control for the ruling elite
Here is another video in case one of these gets deleted. France and the U.S. should reinstate this Treaty before its to late.
All wars are bankers wars: Michael Rivero
https://youtu.be/_JFkf9Be9Bo
https://youtu.be/eRiXv8Vt0EQ
Cost of an Aircraft Carrier:
Oh, its very expensive, the Nimitz class carriers the US operates cost about 4.5 billion each with amortized engineering and design costs. The new classes of carriers coming out cost about 6.2 billion each because of new features designed in.
That does not include the air wing (65-75 aircraft and related support equipment and parts), which would add another few billion.
So far we have only paid for the hardware. Fortunately the fuel is not a recurring cost. but we have 3200 men (5500 with the aircrew) to feed and house. An aircraft carrier is a complex machine with a lot of wear and tear, generally in peacetime use the ships spend half their time on patrol and half their time in port. So for the money we really get only fifty percent availability.
Ah and here's another major cost - to support and protect the carrier we have an entire carrier group that travels with the carrier literally everywhere it goes. A carrier strike group[1] (CSG) is an operational formation of the United States Navy. It is composed of roughly 7,500 personnel, an aircraft carrier, at least one cruiser, a destroyer squadron of at least two destroyers and/or frigates,[2] and a carrier air wing of 65 to 70 aircraft. A carrier strike group also, on occasion, includes submarines, attached logistics ships and a supply ship. The carrier strike group commander operationally reports to the commander of the numbered fleet who is operationally responsible for the area of waters in which the carrier strike group is operating. So that's another 4000 men and 6-7 warships and a few support ships (fuel for the aircraft, fuel for the CSG ships, and food and parts and expendable armaments).
Finally you have the overhead of the Navy - all the land-based operations and supply groups and people all the way up to admirals.
So considering everything my guess is an initial cost of 10 billion (and I didn't count the cost of the CSG ships) and an annual operating cost of 2-4 billion (entire CSG).
And ultimately there will be nuclear refueling at several hundred million every 15 years and nuclear decommissioning at about a billion at the end of life (40 years?)
It may be to late to stop WW3, the U.S. has just dispatched a forward operating contingent of the 101'st Airborne. This is not looking good for Europe and any nation that feels this is going to go well.
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