highly overrated flexing, so disgustingly chauvinistic. someone posted an article titled /how russia views america/ on here recently, and i’m going to pull another quote from that article

Critical in this respect is America’s continued reliance on aircraft carriers to project power across the globe. “The American super-carrier died as a viable weapon system designed for modern war with the arrival of the long-range supersonic anti-shipping missile,” Martyanov writes. This renders “the 100,000-ton displacement mastodons of the US Navy obsolete and very expensive sacrificial lambs in any real war.