If we armed Gadaffi instead of sending in our fleet, instead of sunken French military vessels we would have sunken civilan ocean liners that Gadaffi tought were French ships, knowing our luck and how insane Gadaffi is, ocean liners filled with american diplomats, orphaned children and nuns.
They can probably Blockade Libya with a couple of destroyers, given they'll surely consider any Soviet cargo ship within 100 nautical miles to be open season after this. But if enough of the navy is gone then their ability to blockade the entire rest of Africa at the same time is reduced. Assuming we're not forced to abandon all arms shipments as price for de-escalation.
France scrapped all their battleships already (although apparently the Béarn is still around as an ASW carrier), but it turns out that we were the ones rolling at -30 because shockingly guns are actually useful when the respective fleets are starting the engagement at knife fighting ranges (because we were trying to physically force our way through the blockade). Luckily the French rolled a nat 1, so we blew them out of the water anyways.
Shrimply keep doing it, simple
For all that he is a commited anti communist hawk, presumably he likes living. And for all his faults he is not as cavalier about nuclear war than Goldwater. We are very very lucky Ashbrook was Prez and not him.
What do you mean? America misreading things as the Red Navy becoming the deadliest force on the sea and begging France to wait 5 years until they have ten more Nimitz-class carriers?
Lolwut? Assuming the date is a mis print, you saying Germany flipping was the price of peace?
If he is smart then he is working on a means to apply diplomatic pressure to the USSR for their act of aggression. While also building up some emergency fallout shelters in the US.
Not a tankie! Don't like Stalin or the historical Soviets very much. Just committed to a hawkish foreign policy based on both ideology and practicality
Fallout shelters do very little to prevent the collapse of American industrial society unfortunately. If anything the smart move on his part is applying pressure on the French not to do anything drastic whilst trying to mediate. Obviously they will try to make us lose face in the meanwhile, but the Americans don't actually want this to escalate even further.
You are the most confusing individual I've ever known, like what are you
Huh. Could have sworn that you expressed support for Stalin before.
No, I've never liked him I just underdyand whh some of his many errrors were made. With the failure of the German revolution something was going to give, and Stalin decided it should be international socialism instead of Soviet power. In terms of internal stuff instead of foreign policy (my main line of opposition) I'm pro collectivization and industrialization, but aside from that he wasn't great and of the good things he did he fucked them up pretty bad
Pay for the ships and families and say sorry for the escalation and other stuff, can't really undo that there navy got fucked hard and everyone saw though.
