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Unpopular opinion (at least for Reddit) - this is actually a good thing. Overwhelming force means that the incentive to even start a conventional war is gone because it’s a guaranteed loss.
If we still had several competing peer states where the military outcome was a toss-up, you’d inevitably have somebody fuck around and find out. Look at Russia and Ukraine - clearly not everybody has evolved beyond territorial ambitions.
Having one major superpower sucks if you aren’t aligned with that superpower’s interests, but otherwise it provides a ton of stability because that superpower has a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 84%. (I'm a bot)


China has sailed one of its three aircraft carriers near the U.S. territory of Guam, Japanese officials confirmed, ending an already combative year with a rare move that Beijing signaled as a clear warning to the Biden administration over Taiwan.
Beijing expressed outrage at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan in August - a move the California Democrat had previously rescheduled, reportedly over concerns about blowback from China.
"China will never attack US military bases in Guam as long as the US military does not attack China or interfere in the Taiwan question," it wrote, citing Chinese analysts, "But having such capabilities is a deterrent against potential US provocations."


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Remind me? Isn’t 11 > 3? >

By American definitions it's actually 0-11.  Or 1-11, depending on what their new one does, but it's not finished being built yet.
If you use the definition that everyone else does, the US has 21 carriers instead of 11.  There are only 47 active aircraft carriers in the world, and the USN's total carrier deck space is more than double the rest of the world combined. >

And that's why the US Navy is the second largest air force in the world, second only to the US air force.