>USN carriers are constantly at sea, running their shit into the ground, constantly flying, constantly maintaining, constantly repairing shit on the planes, constantly patching up paint where it was worn down by human contact
>fake navies like Russia and China only take out their potemkin-ships, with their shiny air-show queen planes and shiny uniforms on photo-op cruises whenever the stars happen to align
>"Why is their stuff so worn?"
Performative face-cultures will never get it. They already demonstrated that they'll never get it when they were gasping in shock at that demo F-22 that was visibly rode hard.