ah but you are repeatedly injecting your opinions regarding topics which you are not a party to and further you are now and generally have always had an anti USA slant. If you try to deny that I will also get to call you disingenuous. In the thread which lead to this one, you said that:
what on earth gives you standing to opine what is or is not “THE AMERICAN WAY”? You have never lived in the USA and since your knowledge of all that constitutes what is or is not “American” is what you get from outside the US, then you are offering opinion which is based on what is very likely a slanted viewpoint. And don’t talk to me about all the Americans you worked with years ago…you have disparaged them to no end here and always speak to how superior Europeans and Asians are at matters maritime. And if you try to deny that one I will get to call you a liar!