Understanding the US - Again

[uddu]

The American Navy may end up adopting P17B once Trump is out of office.
Why US Navy is Forced to Build Under-Armed Frigates
00:00 How the US Navy got fooled three times
02:02 What went wrong with Constellation-class frigate FFG(X)
06:36 Why US Navy procurement keeps failing according to the naval critics
07:21 The new FF(X) frigate based on Legend National Security Cutter
09:19 FF(X) frigates armament specs
09:51 Why the FF(X) is underarmed and what is the solution
13:35 Why US Navy can't built ships anymore and what happens next

[Vayutuvan]

> Died and/or right now walking around with no legs.

[saip]

How about giving him a DEAD Nobel?

[Vayutuvan]

Ignoble is also there.

[Cyrano]

[uddu]

CNN TORCHED over now-deleted post about NYC terror suspects
CNN faced backlash and deleted a post after critics said it downplayed a homemade bomb plot, prompting an admission it breached editorial standards. Joe Concha reacts and calls out what he says is a deeper media credibility problem.

[uddu]

War with Iran INTENSIFIES as mine-laying ships destroyed
Former Pentagon official Brent Sadler weighs in on Operation Epic Fury's continued efforts against Iran and increasing pressure around the Strait of Hormuz.

[chetak]

vi@WA

*The seafarers will understand*

*"SHOW SOME GUTS"*

Donald Trump just went on Fox News and told oil tanker crews to "show some guts" and sail through the Strait of Hormuz while missiles are literally flying overhead.

Let me just paint this picture for you.

Seven sailors are dead. Multiple tankers have been hit by drones and missiles. Every major maritime insurer on earth has cancelled war risk coverage for the entire Persian Gulf. The strait wasn't shut down by Iran's navy. It was shut down by insurance companies going "yeah, nah, we're not covering that." One withdrawal of a piece of paper and 20% of the world's oil supply stopped moving overnight.

Retired Admiral James Stavridis, former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, a bloke who actually sailed through this strait under fire in the 1980s, says Iran has over 5,000 mines ready to deploy. He says clearing them could take months. There are 20,000 sailors trapped in the zone right now.

And here's the real kicker. The tankers going through Hormuz are almost entirely crewed by Filipino, Indian, Greek and Pakistani sailors on foreign flagged ships. American crewed tankers make up 0.6% of the global fleet. Zero point six. He's not asking Americans to show guts. He's asking poor blokes from Manila and Mumbai to die so his polling numbers stop cratering.

Oil was $64 a barrel ten days ago. It hit $119 on Sunday. US gas is up 50 cents in a week and heading for $4 a gallon. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is sitting at 58% capacity because Trump never refilled it like he promised. Schumer's begging him to release it. Trump's response? "There's a lot of oil out there. That'll get healed very quickly."

That's the plan. Vibes.

Meanwhile his big solution was announcing that the US Development Finance Corporation, which is a development lending agency, would magically become a maritime war risk insurer overnight. At "a very reasonable price." Details to follow. Presumably never.

Now look. If there's one thing Donald Trump's got, it's plenty of guts. He's ****** full of them. The man is 60% guts by volume. He's carrying more guts than a butcher shop skip bin on a Tuesday afternoon.

But you want to talk about guts? Real guts? Then lead by example, mate. Send your lanky dopey son Barron through the Strait of Hormuz. Send Eric and the other bozo Don Jr. What about Jared Kushner? Maybe Jared could lead the artillery convoy through. He solved Middle East peace last time, didn't he? Let him have a crack at navigating a supertanker through a minefield while Iranian drones are buzzing overhead. Get all those tough guys on a VLCC and point it south.

Five draft deferments. Exposed bone spurs. And now Captain Courageous is on Fox and Friends telling merchant sailors from developing nations to risk their lives because oil hit triple digits and the midterms are eight months away.

This is a man with no plan. The "show some guts" line is the tell. When the President of the United States is reduced to trash talking civilian sailors on morning television because the global insurance market collapsed on his watch, that's not strength. That's panic wearing a red tie.

The cost exchange asymmetry is the whole game. Iran didn't need a navy. A handful of drone strikes and one announcement from the IRGC was enough to collapse the entire marine insurance framework that underpins 20% of global oil. Trump sunk their ships and they shut down global energy with fear, physics and a $20,000 drone.

Show some guts. From the bloke who showed bone spurs.
~Gman

[A_Gupta]

After this war of choice started by Trump and Netanyahu causes the Indian economy to stall, what will Indian public opinion be?

[drnayar]

After this war of choice started by Trump and Netanyahu causes the Indian economy to stall, what will Indian public opinion be?

Well ., at that point it wont be just the Indian economy !.. the exports may suffer., india will take more Russian oil.. but other countries will be in inmeasurably greater pain..

Trump started a war he nor his administration hardly understands ., more like grabbing the tigers tail

[SRajesh]

The reelase of JE files
May I ask :
a. who were vociferous in demanding the release of info??
b. What were the reasons??
C. was there a hidden motive??
it just reminds me of Bruce Lee and the famous dialogue in Enter the Dragon : Do not concentrate on the finger or else you will loose all the heavenly glory beyond!!
Are we being blinded to the motive.
It wasnt all about altruistic motives!!
Who has beniftted most
Also can some some draw a timeline about attacks on Islam and paedophile or baccha bazi or legalise consumption of marriage at the age of 9 yrs being bandied openly in media and lots of Flak with such practices .
Even the new Spiritual leader of Iran now targetting West about Peadophiles etc!! Talk about Chef's Irony!!

[chetak]

US to permanently close its Peshawar Consulate: report


The United States has announced that it will permanently close its consulate in Peshawar, The Independent reported on Thursday.

According to the British publication, the consulate is the US’ closest diplomatic mission to the Afghan border and was a primary operations and logistics point at the time of its invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.

The US State Department notified Congress of its intent to close the consulate, saying that it would save $7.5 million per year without undermining the advancement of US national interests in Pakistan.

According to The Independent, a copy of the notification was obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday.

“The move has been under consideration for more than a year since the Trump administration began downsizing nearly all federal agencies and is not related to the Iran war,” The Independent said.

The joint US-Israeli war against Iran, launched on Feb 28, sparked protests in various cities, and caused the US Consulate in Karachi to suspend its operations after an incident where 11 people were killed.

According to the notification, of the $3m the State Department will spend to close down the Peshawar consulate, more than half will pay for the relocation of armoured trailers that had served as temporary office space. The rest will go toward moving equipment and furniture, as well as the consulate’s motor pool fleet, to the US Embassy in Islamabad and the Karachi and Lahore consulates, it added.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1981261/us-to ... ate-report

[A_Gupta]

In the summer of 2002, the United States put together a military exercise with a name that broadcast the nation’s ambitions for projecting force not just into a New American Century, but beyond. Years in the planning, and costing around $250 million ($435 million today), the “Millennium Challenge” was the single most expensive simulation the military had ever mounted. . . .

The primary antagonists were cast accordingly: Team Blue would be the US, and Team Red would be a Persian Gulf power whose resources and disposition of forces approximated an amalgam of Iran and Iraq. Blue and Red were set into conflict per an elaborate background scenario involving disputed island territories, threats to regional shipping, sectarian fundamentalists, naval showdowns, high-priority land-based targets, and the like. To head Red’s forces, the United States Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) tapped a retired Marine Corps Brigadier General with a bullet-headed central casting mien, a chest bedecked with decades of combat decorations, and the Pynchonesque name of Paul K. Van Riper.

Sailing into the theater, Blue demanded the immediate surrender of Red. Van Riper, however, declined to serve up his comparatively backward forces to his enemy’s cutting-edge reconnaissance and surveillance technology. Instead, the veteran counterinsurgency fighter went analog, running communications to units via motorcycles and dispatching his vintage Soviet and American-made planes on sorties using light and flag signals instead of radio. And then, using local fishing boats as cheap patrol craft, he launched a sneak attack on the US fleet, swarming them with inexpensive missiles and ramming them with suicide runs.

The effect was catastrophic. On the first day of the exercise, in just ten minutes, Riper’s Reds “sank” sixteen American warships, including an aircraft carrier, ten cruisers, and all but one of Blue’s amphibious landing vessels. Had the wargame been real, the cost in hardware would have been billions; by USJFCOM’s own reckoning, twenty thousand Americans would have come home in boxes, or, to put it more bluntly, been vaporized, drowned, or eaten by sharks. A subordinate broke the news to General William “Buck” Kernan, one of the Millennium Challenge’s designers: “Sir, Van Riper just slimed the ships.”

What to do? Having lost its game of Battleship against a developing world adversary that never had any battleships to begin with, US military brass immediately called foul and demanded a do-over. After all, there were thousands of assets already in the field, and still plenty of time to “learn.”

When the Millennium Challenge’s organizers rebooted the exercise, they placed a suite of new restrictions on Red. Troops had to use radios, even if doing so guaranteed their prompt annihilation. Van Riper was forbidden from using his abundant chemical weapon stockpiles. His forces were no longer allowed to open fire on American transport aircraft, meaning that Blue’s venerable C-130s, and its brand-new $84 million V-22 Ospreys, could fly in unthreatened by anything except mechanical malfunctions. Most importantly, it was decreed from the outset that no matter what happened, Blue would win. . . .

The real lesson of the Millennium Challenge is one that Trump understands reflexively: You don’t have to learn any lessons you don’t want to.

https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only ... =longreads

[Cyrano]

There is no end game in sight for this conflict. All wars have to end with some kind of negotiated agreement with guarantees from both sides.

Given how OM45 pulled out of JCPOA unilaterally on a whim, and everything that has happened now, there is no credibility to any US guarantee. Iran has understood this.

On the military front, the US forces have demonstrated that they cannot unclog the Hormuz strait, their cbgs have moved back out of possible missile range. Once again US posture has lost credibility as a security provider for the gulf countries.

The political establishment in Washington has lost credibility as they keep falling over each other inventing objectives that are changing all the time.

The only thing working for OM47 right now is a cheering maga crowd behind him as he rambles unhingedly. As gas prices hit new highs, even that won't last very long.

[chetak]

[A_Gupta]

Donald Trump
@realDonaldTrump • Truth Social icon Truth Social • March 13, 2026 @ 12:33 AM ET

We are totally destroying the terrorist regime of Iran, militarily, economically, and otherwise, yet, if you read the Failing New York Times, you would incorrectly think that we are not winning. Iran’s Navy is gone, their Air Force is no longer, missiles, drones and everything else are being decimated, and their leaders have been wiped from the face of the earth. We have unparalleled firepower, unlimited ammunition, and plenty of time - Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today. They’ve been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years, and now I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them. What a great honor it is to do so! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

[A_Gupta]

X-post

The US 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit is being deployed to the Gulf.
https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/u ... 830117/amp

[A_Gupta]

From a comment on talkingpointsmemo.com:

“It’s easy to look at Epstein’s communications with billionaires and royals, famous directors and scions of old money, and see the dealings of a cabal. In those countless emails…”

And yet George Soros does not seem to appear in any of Epstein’s e-mails because if he was there the GOP would have it in skywriting across the country.

[A_Gupta]

ABCNews:
https://abcnews.com/Politics/public-opi ... =131000940
The Iran war remains unpopular, but the limited information we have is that support for the war is increasing.

[uddu]

https://x.com/i/status/2032532144682066357
@OpIndia_com
‘When oil prices go up, we make a lot of money’: US President Donald Trump gloats amid ongoing war with Iran

[uddu]

https://x.com/i/status/2032554794058178636
@OpIndia_com
US: Old Dominion University shooter Mohamed Jalloh chanted “Allahu Akbar” before opening fire, was earlier convicted for supporting ISIS

[KL Dubey]

From a comment on talkingpointsmemo.com:

And yet George Soros does not seem to appear in any of Epstein’s e-mails because if he was there the GOP would have it in skywriting across the country.

In the abrahamic cretinism (mullah-padre-rabbi) struggle, the "Epstein class" and the "Soros class" are on opposite sides, i.e. the latter is with the mullahs and some sections of the padres. Both sides have their own perverted networks. Soreass is unlikely to appear in the Apestein files, and if there is ever a "Soreass files" it will include a different set of characters. It would be interesting to see if there are some fellows in both classes.

[pravula]

https://x.com/i/status/2032554794058178636
@OpIndia_com
US: Old Dominion University shooter Mohamed Jalloh chanted “Allahu Akbar” before opening fire, was earlier convicted for supporting ISIS

And was apparently 'unalived' by his victims.

[uddu]

Indians Should arm themselves to the teeth
https://x.com/arunpudur/status/2032703050423611472
@arunpudur
As predicted Indian businesses are being Targeted and robbed in the

This is Kumar Jewelry, Fremont, California. Over 20 robbers over $1.7M in jewelry looted in broad daylight

Next will be home invasions

[Manish_P]

Indians Should arm themselves to the teeth
....

In the US they can. In UKistan they are in big trouble

[saip]

Actually, they seem to be targeting jewelry stores in mob style attacks - easy pickings and the internet helps too to assemble the mob. In this case they happened to be Indian owned.

[A_Gupta]

This following may help explain why the US is in such deep doo-doo.
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/20 ... rally-bad/

[Tanaji]

The folks at USCRIF are at it again

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/india-f ... s-11224091

This time they urge sanctions against RAW and RSS.