Hypothetical: an eccentric multi-billionaire offers to pay $12 billion each for 3 new aircraft carriers—i.e. $36 billion for all 3—for your country, but you and your fellow citizens have to vote in favor of the terms for each proposal. Which proposal(s) for aircraft carrier(s) would you vote for?
1. Each aircraft carrier proposal will have a polling: yes or no. If the majority of you and those of your country vote yes, it means your country agrees to the terms in the proposal for that particular aircraft carrier, and the eccentric multi-billionaire will pay for its construction.
2. You can vote:
yes to 1 proposal and no to 2 of them
yes to 2 proposals and no to 1 of them
yes to all 3,
or no to all 3.
3. There will be mechanisms to insure that the terms are meet. If they aren’t meet, your country will immediately (or near immediately) lose the aircraft carrier, with no military, political, or legal recourse.
4. There are measures that will ensure the secrets of the carrier and your country’s secrets (such as its weaponry, propulsion, strategies, or specific personnel) aren’t exposed, or even used by the multi-billionaire.
5. A carrier could be sold, given, lent, leased, or rented out, but the terms will always apply. However, a carrier cannot be scraped nor cannibalized.
6. Each carrier has to be maintained as well as those existing aircraft carriers of the US, UK, France, Russia, and PRC.
7. The terms will apply for 40 years, after which, the terms below won’t apply and your country can do with the aircraft carriers(s) it got what it wills.
8. as for the proposals
proposal for aircraft carrier A:
if you are a citizen of a NATO member state, Australia, Japan, South Korea, or NZ: >95% of the crew of this aircraft carrier, including the top 20 officers (including captain), must be people who have neither been born in a NATO member state, Australia, Japan, South Korea, or NZ; nor who have been citizens of a NATO member state, Australia, Japan, South Korea, and/or NZ for a total of 10 years or over.
if you are a citizen of Russia or from another wp:CSTO member state: >95% of the crew of this aircraft carrier, including the top 20 officers (including captain), must be people who have neither been born in Russia or from another CSTO member state; nor who have been citizens of Russia and/or from another CSTO member state for a total of 10 years or over.
if you are a citizen of China (PRC): >95% of the crew of this aircraft carrier, including the top 20 officers (including captain), must be people who have not been born in the PRC; nor who have been citizens of the PRC for a total of 10 years or over.
if you are a citizen of none of these countries: >95% of the crew of this aircraft carrier, including the top 20 officers (including captain), must be people who have neither been born in your country, any member state of NATO or CSTO, PRC, Australia, Japan, South Korea, or NZ; nor who have been citizen of your country, any member state of NATO or CSTO, PRC, Australia, Japan, South Korea, and/or NZ for a total of 10 years or over.
proposal for aircraft carrier B:
over 60% of the crew, including the top 20 officers, must be ciswomen who are to be at anytime no more dressed than a Hooters server.
≤ 35% of the crew can opt to conform to your country’s navy uniform code or be no more dressed than a Hooter’s server. However, at any time >60% of them must be the later and < 40% the former ((e.g. 35% x 60%) +( 35% x 40%) = 21% + 14% = 35%)).
≤ 5% of the crew can opt to conform to your country’s navy uniform code or be no more dressed than a Hooter’s server.
proposal for aircraft carrier C:
over 95% of the crew of this aircraft carrier, including the top 20 officers, must be white people. The definition of white would be such that they would be among 30% of Europe’s whitest (west of the Urals, include United Kingdom, but exclude Turkey).
The crew also includes anyone who visits the aircraft carrier, including aircraft that lands on, and/or takes off from, it.
How would you vote?
upvote the comment for yes, downvote for no.
It’s possible that he did that too, also, FWIW, construction creates jobs and they live and dine in the aircraft carriers.
It is possible to create jobs without furthering the military industrial complex.
Agreed, and they are probably better ways too.