RSSWhy does this reasoning not apply to any naval vessel of any nation, regardless of whether it is a surface vessel or a submarine? The Saker is overstating his point. Not much can be inferred from the outbreak aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt and how the crew reacted to it. It was a peacetime deployment. Nobody wants to succumb to a virus in peacetime. There are still reasons to believe that US forces wouldn’t be able to absorb mass casualties inflicted on them over a short time span. Nevertheless, it’s quite evident that nobody wants to put that to the test. Not only the Americans have become feminized hedonists. Russians, Chinese, and basically everybody else is subject to the same degeneration. A future war between technologically equal adversaries would be won by the side that has not degenerated quite as much as the other side.