But shattered doesnt mean the fleet isnt still strong in some ways, it means its ability to project power as a fleet is no longer there.
The Japanese fleet was shattered at Leyte Gulf - but they still had a bunch of battleships, cruisers, destroyers and even a few aircraft carriers (but no pilots to man them)
However their ability to project power as a fleet, to challenge the US fleet, was shattered.
That didnt mean all the ships were gone - the Japanese still had 20 or more destroyers and a bunch of subs still afloat and operational right up to Hiroshima. But the days of them being able to project power were gone.
Most likely the USN in the Pacific is the same - hurt badly and not able to exercise the ability to control vast areas of the sea as they used to be able to. But still with a lot of ships and subs left as compared to the Satellite Down image of the USN in the Pacific being completely destroyed.
And possibly with many of them still afloat and still operational but without the fuel needed for real oceanic operations. Which could explain the Russian ability to invade Alaska - the US could have had the ships and the missiles and the ammo - but not the fuel, at least not at the time of the invasion.
Or you could have a vastly reduced fleet caught with its now limited resoures somewhere else - say off Korea or Japan or Hawaii or Guam - and all that is left to challenge off Alaska is a few Coast Guard ships or a couple of frigates that got overwhelmed trying to stop an invasion.
And obviously the Russians werent able to properly reinforce or resupply or the forces the US and Canadians used to stop them wouldnt have been able to do the job - which implies they got ashore but then couldnt resupply reliably - sort of what happened to the Japanese at Kiska and Attu in WWII and in November 42 and on at Guadalcanal.
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