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Re:US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is ... by breakyerself on Monday December 22, 2025 @03:10PM (#46358415)
Sure. We can always imagine an excuse to avoid dealing with the obvious reality. I don't think it's productive though.
Re:US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is ... by roamerz on Monday December 22, 2025 @03:48PM (#46358868)
They were approved by a prior administration that prioritized green energy over national security.

There are several other comments above that allege other countries have come to the same conclusion regarding offshore wind farms having a negative affect on radar.

Re:US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is ... by anigbrowl on Monday December 22, 2025 @04:32PM (#46359369)
Great, then they can explain the reasons. Most transparent administration in history, remember?
Re:US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is ... by roamerz on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @12:15AM (#46362644)
The reasons are clearly stated and widely reported by multiple news sources: The Trump administration ordered an immediate pause on five major offshore wind projects, citing national security risks due to radar interference.

Not much on details besides a “classified study“ but sounds pretty transparent to me?

Re:US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is ... by array_key_first on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @12:01AM (#46362561)
> They were approved by a prior administration that prioritized green energy over national security.

This is delusional. The US has been spending metrics fucktons of money on national security since long before Trump.

Biden, like trump, was absolutely a war monger, as almost all US presidents are. He was a center neoliberal politician who love love LOVED the military industrial complex, and it shows in all of his policy choices.

This characterization of the modern American Democrats as communist hippies is just so out of touch with reality it's not even worth humoring. It's just wrong. You're wrong.

Re:US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is ... by vntok on Monday December 22, 2025 @03:30PM (#46358678)
Yet Sweden did it too (https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2024/11/11/why-swe...) and they quote these defense-related reasons. Are they lying, do you believe that Sweden of all countries is under Trump's direct influence re: wind aversion?
Re:US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is ... by breakyerself on Monday December 22, 2025 @03:54PM (#46358943)
Sweden is worried about a hostile neighbor. They're freaked out enough that they joined NATO after generations of non-alignment.

Who are we afraid of? If ICBMs are incoming to the Continental United States the world is ending. Regardless of whether we prevent wind farms in any of the 12,000+ miles of coastline.

Are we expecting missiles to come from the Gulf of Mexico? People always bend over backwards to justify this administration. It's tiresome.

Re:US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is ... by riku_iki on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @02:59PM (#46368826)
> If ICBMs are incoming to the Continental United States the world is ending.

its up to discussion. US has many measures which combined could give them a chance to survive nuclear war, namely: preemptive strike by tridents on enemy's silos(https://thebulletin.org/2017/03/how-us-nuclear-force-moderni...) and anti missile defense.

> Are we expecting missiles to come from the Gulf of Mexico?

there is a possibility of submarine launch from that direction.

Re:US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is ... by breakyerself on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @07:56PM (#46371274)
Nuclear war isn't winnable. It's stupid and dangerous to pretend otherwise.
Re:US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is ... by riku_iki on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @08:11PM (#46371368)
humans already gave nuclear buttons to politicians and dictators with questionable intelligence, so it doesn't matter what you are pretending exactly.
Re:US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is ... by baobun on Monday December 22, 2025 @04:15PM (#46359189)
> do you believe that Sweden of all countries is under Trump's direct influence re: wind aversion?

It looks increasingly like a US vassal state for every year so that part wouldn't be so surprising.

Re:US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is ... by LastTrain on Monday December 22, 2025 @04:02PM (#46359037)
Sweden did not ban all offshore wind projects.
Re:US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is ... by jopsen on Monday December 22, 2025 @05:29PM (#46359926)
Defense related reasons canceled projects early in the planning phase.

This is the kind of thing you know years before construction is even funded, much less started.

This is a US administration being dishonest, whether for stupidity or to apply political pressure who knows.

Re:US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is ... by nailer on Monday December 22, 2025 @04:18PM (#46359220)
A conspiracy is not the obvious reality.
Re:US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is ... by immibis on Monday December 22, 2025 @07:24PM (#46360940)
Project 2025 is a conspiracy that is obvious, is reality, and includes blocking windmills
Re:US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is ... by breakyerself on Monday December 22, 2025 @10:16PM (#46362043)
Unless the conspiracy is being done by malicious idiots with too much power.