I was going for the "meme" that aircraft carriers are incompatible with modern war, a state with a half-competent military could destroy them with a barrage of relatively cheap missiles, something that America refuses to acknowledge because of the military industrial complex. The Radio War Nerd podcast talks about this, particularly with regards to potential conflict with Iran

Edit: for example, here's an article about a censored military exercise where a 30 year old french sub (theoretically) sinks an aircraft carrier. We only use them because they're really big and look cool