So what happens if the US has to ever fight an actual near peer adversary in an actual war, I wonder?

Now I wonder if that claim of 7 dead is likely. WTF happened on that ship?

The USA has never looked weaker. Our Navy is seemingly floating rust buckets. We have no missiles and now one ship is leaving its post in China so this one can finally go home.
China will probably use this time to instigate Philippines and Taiwan.