Comments on: Trump's Dangerous WWII Nostalgia http://www.chrisweigant.com/2026/08/17/trumps-dangerous-wwii-nostalgia/ Reality-based political commentary Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:42:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: John M from Ct. http://www.chrisweigant.com/2026/08/17/trumps-dangerous-wwii-nostalgia/#comment-223003 John M from Ct. Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:42:42 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=27956#comment-223003 I don't suppose there are enough senior officers willing to abandon their careers in the cause of refusing to obey these orders from the president and the secretary of defense - and of course, sooner or later replacements could be found lower in the chain of command who would be willing to step up in rank and move forward with a major weakening of the Navy's carrier fleets. But what if the shipyards, of which there are only two or three in the world able to do this kind of work, all simply refused to bid on the contracts? "Not interested, sorry..." as it were - out of a true sense of patriotism. Yes, the president could then demand that the shipyards be punished by withholding future repair and construction orders, but that would raise a scandal far bigger than this one. The Navy has no other place to go than these few huge and vastly influential yards. A scandal big enough, perhaps, that at last the Congress and its defense committees would finally step forward and lay down the law to preserve the Fleet's future effectiveness. I don't suppose there are enough senior officers willing to abandon their careers in the cause of refusing to obey these orders from the president and the secretary of defense - and of course, sooner or later replacements could be found lower in the chain of command who would be willing to step up in rank and move forward with a major weakening of the Navy's carrier fleets.

But what if the shipyards, of which there are only two or three in the world able to do this kind of work, all simply refused to bid on the contracts? "Not interested, sorry..." as it were - out of a true sense of patriotism. Yes, the president could then demand that the shipyards be punished by withholding future repair and construction orders, but that would raise a scandal far bigger than this one. The Navy has no other place to go than these few huge and vastly influential yards.

A scandal big enough, perhaps, that at last the Congress and its defense committees would finally step forward and lay down the law to preserve the Fleet's future effectiveness.

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