President Biden has, de facto, abandoned the decades-old policy of strategic ambiguity and declared that the US would defend the independence of the island from China, committing the US to war in the event of an attack.
Biden is talking big but cutting the US Navy and strangling its budget.
The Washington Examiner has a story about our declining naval strength and Biden's policies to cut the Navy further.
It details how China's navy is growing quickly, A Free Beacon story details how Biden's budget shrinks the American Navy.
"The Biden Administration's defense budget would hollow out our fleet and scrap Navy radars and missile systems we desperately need to deter China," Sen. Roger Wicker, the Senate Armed Services Committee's ranking member, told the Free Beacon.
Biden's budget would decrease the total number of active Navy ships, retiring at least 11 ships while only requesting the construction of nine new vessels.
Three of these ships are being retired, and the Biden administration is expected to order a "Strategic pause" in the purchase of modernized warships, leaving the force below its statutory requirement of 31 ships.
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/03/30/biden-is-gutting-the-us-navy-n540375
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