Trump pledged in January 2025 to commission 48 new icebreakers by the end of his term, a goal that Lyle Goldstein calls “unfortunately, pie in the sky.”
“We are not going to have an icebreaker fleet anywhere on par with Russia,” Goldstein, the director of Defense Priorities’ Asia program and a former professor at U.S. Naval War College, told the Washington Examiner flatly last September. “No, not ‘anytime soon.’ I mean that I don’t think it’ll ever happen.”
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