No trump battleship.

Don’t allocate money for trump’s battleship folly! Here’s why: When the Nazis launched Bismarck, Hitler called the ship the most powerful warship ever put to sea. And maybe it even was. For less than a year. Because it was a target. THE target. Next to the Japanese battleship Yamato it became the single biggest naval target of WWII and was hunted down and sunk. And that was a major blow, because when you concentrate your assets, your "capital" all in one vessel, its loss is a disaster. That's the folly of battleships. They are too expensive (both monetarily and as a strategic asset) to risk in actual combat. But tricking a country into building them is a really great way to bankrupt that nation and make sure they can't afford the smaller, faster, more flexible, more technologically advanced and capable weapons that ACTUALLY win wars.

First sent on December 23, 2025 by Ken