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If that's true then the last advantage of US Navy, their huge nuclear submarine fleet, would be in great danger.
Indeed, also the whole AUKUS thing that's estimated at a third of a trillion dollars at the start, and reaching the working capacity of “blocking China’s sea with submarines” by 2040, turns out to be stillborn. By 2040, these ancient huge submarines will be easily detectable, and will be destroyed by a swarm of underwater drones.
This is a similar situation to how vulnerable tanks are to FPV drones. US clearly didn't consider the impact this sort of tech will have on the future of warfare, and doesn't have any clear response at the moment. Funny part is that US is now starting to fall behind technologically, so they don't have symmetric capability to detect Chinese or Russian subs.
I very much agree, now that US transitioned to a largely financialized economy, the mechanisms for doing domestic industrial capitalism are no longer present. The whole political and economic system would need serious restructuring to do that.
That's the beauty of it. The first baby step they would take to undo the past forty-fifty years would reveal the paper beneath the tiger face paint. The joy that I get from watching the west collapse is going to help keep me warm as my life in the west becomes unaffordable lol. Silver linings and all that.
This is one of those cases where you have a clear and obvious problem, but no clear solution within the system.