{"id":49708,"date":"2023-03-20T13:26:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T17:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=49708"},"modified":"2023-03-20T13:26:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T17:26:39","slug":"the-risk-of-upside-down-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=49708","title":{"rendered":"The Risk Of Upside-Down Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, Red State<\/a> posted an article with the following headline:<\/p>\n

As China’s Blue-Water Navy Continues Massive Expansion, US Navy Secretary Says Climate Is His ‘Top Priority’<\/h1>\n

Wow. Doesn’t that make you feel well-protected?<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s begin with a sobering \u2014 to the sane among us \u2014 reality.<\/strong><\/p>\n

China\u2019s People\u2019s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) surpassed the U.S. Navy<\/a> in fleet size sometime around 2020 and now possesses roughly 340 warships, according to the Pentagon\u2019s 2022 China Military Power Report, released in November. Moreover, China\u2019s fleet is expected to grow to 400 ships by 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the U.S. fleet consists of fewer than 300 ships, with a Pentagon goal of 350 manned ships by 2045,<\/em> according to the U.S. Navy\u2019s Navigation Plan 2022, released last summer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Incidentally, a blue-water navy<\/a> is a maritime force capable of operating globally, essentially across the deep waters of open oceans. While definitions of what actually constitutes such a force vary, the constant is a requirement for the ability to exercise sea control at long range.<\/em> In other words, the more dominant a nation\u2019s blue-water navy, the better chance that nation has of controlling the world\u2019s strategic sea lanes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So, what is the U.S. Navy<\/a> under Joe Biden doing about this sobering reality?<\/strong><\/p>\n

As reported<\/a> by the Washington Examiner,<\/em> S<\/span>ecretary of the Navy\u00a0Carlos Del Toro<\/a> has said, multiple times, that fighting climate change<\/a> has been one of his biggest priorities since taking office. During a recent trip to the Bahamas to meet with Bahamian Prime Minister Philip Davis, the two men talked at length about\u2026 wait for it\u2026 climate change,<\/em> and what the United States is doing to fight it. Here\u2019s Del Toro:<\/strong><\/p>\n

As the Secretary of the Navy, I can tell you that I have made climate one of my top priorities since the first day I came into office. The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps team has been working on climate and energy security for a long time, and we are accelerating and broadening those efforts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If they were truly working on energy security, they would be telling the government to resume drilling in America. It would be really nice if the Secretary of the Navy cared about protecting America from foreign aggression. His priorities as he explains them are upside-down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, Red State posted an article with the following headline: As China’s Blue-Water Navy Continues Massive Expansion, US Navy Secretary Says Climate Is His ‘Top Priority’ Wow. Doesn’t that make you feel well-protected? The article reports: Let\u2019s begin with … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[253,55,13062,3368],"class_list":["post-49708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-china","tag-climate-change","tag-red-state","tag-united-states-secretary-of-the-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49715,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49708\/revisions\/49715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}