Damn, looks like someone left it in a pool of saltwater for nine months… oh, right.
Seriously, how the hull looks is the least of the crews’ concerns. You’d expect over 210 days of continuous deployment at sea to look like this. The toll on the crew is much uglier.
They chose to join a fascist army, I couldn't care less about them. I might care if they mutiny or start fragging officers and NCOs tho.
It's embarrassing to spend this much money on the military and have this little to show for it
Fascists suck at war.
The one thing in our favor
The rust will buff out. The lifelong psychological torment the seamen suffered? Priceless.
They travelled back in time and almost stopped Pearl Harbor.
I loved that movie as a kid.
Then you might like Zipang, which is an anime about a Japanese Aegis cruiser traveling back in time to right before the Battle of Midway and the crew asking themselves not necessarily "can we afford to change the timeline because of the butterfly effect" but "maybe Japan specifically needed to lose that war"
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0963150/plotsummary/
Honestly, I think a Japanese crew grappling with that question adds quite a lot more to it given the all too frequent denialism on the topic.
I was on that carrier, as a visitor when they were in the Mediterranean during the gulf war... Feels like a lifetime ago and looks like it when you see it like this
Imagine the smell.
They are terrorists.