On the Iranian front, the most interesting item over the transom today are new reports vindicating something many analysts have proposed since the beginning of the conflict.
Thank you, Victor. Larry's post is interesting and informative. It is a must-read for all who have been following the story of the shoddy treatment of the US sailors.
Larry's piece explains that the US is short on supply ships - thanks to misguided budget cuts.
What puzzles me is the bureaucracy, the not-invented-here syndrome, the total lack of imagination. Why is there no one to hire a few ships in Mombassa and to run the supply from there?
War is improvisation and they seem incapable of doing that.
No, that's the one thing they don't need. Both the Nimitz class and the Ford class are powered by nuclear reactors which run for years before they need refuelling.
Man your sources suck. All poorly sourced, lots of wishcasting and spin, two dead waves of Iran leadership, more to come, us leading rhe world in ai and tech, outsized revenue generation per capita, nonstop innovation, space x, blue origin, starlink, your predictions suck as bad as your sources, pro publica??? Hahahahaha. Doesn’t mean things are perfect. All carriers can launch fully armed attack aircraft. All sorts of reporting baloney, as false as alleged Russia casualty reports from Ukraine. You have suckered your readers. Right about a few things wrong about much. Way too much motivated reasoning, and desire for giving outcome than actual predictive capability.
Sounds like a dedicated Fox News watcher. Has a huge portrait of Sean Hannity in his bedroom. Buys lots of Trump-branded items such as the Trump Watch, Trump Fragrance, and plenty of Trump Vodka.
Perhaps our host spends too much time on proper capitalization, punctuation and the exercise & feeding of his pet thesaurus, instead of perusing the dependable MSM for their consensus opinion. No one could indict YOU on such charges.
No one doubts America's technology expertise. What you apparently do not understand is that they poured all their money into technology and profits and almost zero into maintenance, proper engineering, survivable logistics, etc. Plus, as Andrei Martyanov has said on multiple occasions, the US leadership does not know the first thing about actual war, most of whom possess an educational background in business administration, international relations, political science or advanced basket-weaving. As a result the US system has degenerated over the years into an over-stretched, poorly maintained military, a hollowed-out version of what it once was with its leadership more interested in not making waves and what Board of Directors they will sit on when they retire.
America thrives on brain drain. My ICT Godzilla relative was offered presidential level salary already 20+ years ago. Could easily command seven figures now.
So, would his ICT work be America's tech expertise or my relative's tech expertise?
So why they don't finance and manage American talents then? They have the best educational system supposedly?
If you take a look at the destruction they cause around the world, I think that brain drain is one of the planned outcomes. Create destruction and lack of hope and perspective, so people leave. Imagine the flood of Iranian engineers leaving.
Also, every main competitor of USA is somehow sanctioned and has been for decades. How would American genius operate under the sanctions conditions Russia is subjected to today? And it has been under constant sanctions and other BS since USSR was established.
Here is Ray Dalio explaining that 1% of US population make things happen, half of them are foreigners. Many from that half eventually become Americans or have multiple citizenships, like Thiel.
Also, Sergei Brin, for example, does not count as foreigner anymore, yet he was an immigrant that eventually made certain things happen.
Sure, US company takes the credit for somebody's work and therefore can be perceived as "American tech", so that people like our fren Dawg can dream his exceptional dreams. ;)
I wouldn't put too much importance on the Team Red vs Team Blue performances. The mainstream media in the US is 100% supportive of both the Iran War and the proxy war of aggression against Russia. They only criticize Trump for not winning and not doing more damage to Iran faster.
If you were reading Simplicius before the 2024 election, you would know that Simplicius was always highly critical of Biden just as he is now critical of Trump (rightly so).
But if you do insist on seeing more pro-Trump, pro-Republican Party political rhetoric, there is always Fox News, Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro, Laura Loomer, Truth Social, and many more sources that are easy to find online and on TV. Very strong Zionist bias.
And no, Trump WAS NOT "forced into this war" against his will by Israel, as you commented below. Trump has ALWAYS been intensely pro-Israel and anti-Iran. There is even a Youtube clip of a late 1980s news program where he enthusiastically talks about "taking Kharg Island". Roy Cohn was Trump's mentor.
I do appreciate the idea you have expressed elsewhere that these news stories might be, at least in part, disinformation of some kind. Imo, they are there to actually help sell Trump's massive increases in spending for the Department of War (and the MIC contractors, of course).
I am well aware of american press - they are all the same - only the shading is different.
I reacted on Simplicius article, picking cherries and hiding the essentials from the real articles. Spinning narratives is of course ok but claiming its an objective analysis of the matters is another.
I have followed Simplicius almost from the beginning and I dont like when he trades objective, clean analysis, whatever the outcome for this narrative spinning.
Why I am focused on the ”Israeli initative” is because ”truth” often evaporates within hours of an event and then gets buried by the usual smoke&mirrors.
Rubio said within hours of the attack that US was forced to act because Israel would do it in anyway. And havent you noticed all the sabotage Israel has done to every eventual diplomatic solution?
That's propaganda for morons. It's not a compliment to your IQ that you fell for it.
In reality, the Chinese currently lead the world in tech, American AIs depend upon foreign talent, work far less efficiently than Chinese AIs and they can't do shit without technology made in China.
The essential industry in tech, making processors with vast numbers of transistors on them, completely collapsed in the US nearly 30 years ago. Since then the world's most sophisticated processors have been built outside of the US by Chinese people. On occasion the federal government has thrown a few tens of billions in bribes at tech companies to build a new chip factory in the US but every one of those has been an economic failure with all of them coming into production (if they succeeded in getting into production) so late and so far behind that they were already obsolete compared to what was being manufactured by Chinese people.
The current, big, propaganda-for-morons bribe is the US's attempt to build flagship GPUs upon which AI depends in the US. So far that's failed despite many tens of billions in bribes thrown at tech companies who produce their products outside of the US. It's also brought us the spectacle of the US government becoming the biggest shareholder in Intel (at 10%) as a result of the $50 billion bribe to Intel to build an uneconomic factory in the US.
Nvidia is the world leader at GPU production on which American AI depends. Technically, it's an "American" company but it was founded by Chinese, its engineering staff designing those top chips is about 99% non-American, and its products are manufactured by Chinese people overseas. Neither the US nor Americans control the factories that actually produce those chips overseas.
As far as "US ai," that's a typically American thing: designed and engineered mostly by non-Americans, it is typically "American" in that it depends on throwing lots of cash at a problem. Chinese ai is much better in that it's smarter. Flagship Chinese AI models typically outperform American AI engines by a factor of 20. If an American AI like ChatGPT or Claude takes a server farm with 20,000 computers to function, a Chinese AI like Deepseek can equal it running only on 1,000 computers (for those people who believe Fox News, let me help you out with the arithmetic: 20,000 is a much bigger number than 1,000).
But that greater efficiency also means that the Chinese AI can work two times better than the American AI when it runs on 2,000 computers, ten times less than the American AI requires for its performance. It also means that, given the same number of computers in the server farm, the Chinese AI can work two times better than the American AI even if the Chinese AI runs on GPUs that have ten times *fewer* transistors than the GPUs the American AI requires.
That's a big deal because making chips that are ten times simpler than Nvidia's flagship GPUs is pretty easy to do. It's so easy that China can chug out unlimited numbers of them at very low cost so it doesn't need to use the same (also Chinese) factories that build the most sophisticated chips for Nvidia. Heck, it's so easy to do that Russian chip factories can chug away and crank out unlimited numbers for use by Russian AI server farms.
Being able to run twice as good with chips that are ten times simpler brings a lot of benefits when deploying AI. It becomes cheaper, much cheaper, both for initial capitalization and also for running costs: chips that are ten times simpler require less energy for operation and cooling. The energy costs of huge server farms are a crippling expense. Reducing those, even in a country where energy is cheap like Russia, is a big deal.
It also means that AI can be deployed in more mobile applications. When you don't need a flagship GPU from Nvidia to get totally intense AI but can use a chip that's ten times simpler, you can run with smaller chips, smaller support memory and other circuitry and otherwise reduce the iron involved to a much smaller, simpler package. That lets you use much more sophisticated AIs where cost and size matter a lot, like AI-powered autonomous drones, autonomous robots, better AI in appliances and industrial machines/robots, or even, heck, AI powered artillery shells which can use AI for terminal guidance.
So no, the US doesn't lead the world in ai and tech. It leads the world in *lying* about ai and tech.
Well written and researched, but you *KNOW* he won't be reading it, right? That would take more than 3secs attention span, so give the poor fucker a break.
New photon based processors are tested right now for the market. The average speed/throughput is 3000 times faster than the fastest Nvidia processor. And now comes the hammer: with 2300kwh you can feed a photon based processor for 600 years! Do you see the problem? All investments in data centers and power generation are jast wasted money. This is the real elephant in the room, the global south and Russia are waiting for.
?? The latest and most high end Nvidia GPUs for AI and data centers take about 700 watts. 2300 kilowatts would be for a data center, not just for one chip. But it is a lot of power. The data centers in Northern Virginia's "Data Center Alley" use up 25% of all the electricity produced in the state of Virginia. I mean, you'd think they were running aluminum smelters or something, but nope, that's just racks and racks full of computers.
In 600 years you have 5256000 hours. Today's photon based processors consume 0,56 Watt per hour. The ones tested right now consume 0,00136 Watt per hour. Multiply now 5256000 per 0,00136 and you come close to 700 Watt per hour.
The 2300kwh (per data center) was clear to both of us. But not to others. We both were not precise enough.
Yes, Iran did down a few American and Israeli drones intact and Iranians are now showcasing them - see photos and video here: https://geopolitiq.substack.com/i/211203518/news-and-updates-from-iran (as a bonus you will find other news and updates from Yemen, Lebanon and Iran, if you scroll up).
Iranian missiles will always be much less threatening to the Gulf regimes than the prospect of an Islamic revolution.
This is the part that all these wishful-thinking "analyses" always miss -- internal politics dictates foreign policy. And internal politics is class politics, but when you cater to an "alternative" right/libertarian audience, the world "class" is taboo, so such an analysis cannot be done.
Implicit in my remark was that the totally-corrupt Sykes-Picot monarchies, which are in control by virtue of their deferential attitude to the previous hegemon, must first be eradicated - and then these nations can do what I have suggested they should.
Once those Anglo-created faux sheikhdoms fall, the statelets will revert back to their historical roots. Iran, Oman etc, will get more land, population, and oil revenue.
The contiguous 48 AND Alaska AND Hawaii are well "over the horizon" from Iran, how about moving everything back there and, you know, minding your own fucking business for once?
Willing to bet up to 3, no 4 dollars that most of the US nukes are in worse condition than the Navy and any "all-out strike" will end in an almighty THUD.
Same as the UK's Trident Schlurpo. Two most recent, expensive, Test firings turned out to be like Damp Squibs to say the least. The last one, with Defence Minister Grant Schapps aboard who witnessed the debacle reportedly saw the Missile nearly hit the Sub it was fired from rather than travelling its intended 3,500 miles.
I couldn't possibly say Peter. From what I recall, which was widely reported; the first test, somewhere in the mid Atlantic, some years back saw the Missile head off towards Florida, which was then aborted in-flight. The second one, as I recounted, plopped into the briny several hundred metres away. I can only guess that the projectiles they used were from their current stock, but one would expect that their functionality would have been ascertained beforehand. I also believe that these tests cost several £millions apiece. Kind regards.
How many admirals does it need to command four frigates, two destroyers and one submarine, which according to the Daily Telegraph, is the sum total of useable ships the Navy currently has?
rightfully so... it wasn't trump that financed the engine of both world wars, it wasn't trump who started the cold war, it wasn't trump who started a war with Vietnam, it wasn't trump that was responsible for the first 20 trillion of debt. It's the empire's mentality that is exposed by trump and he should be applauded for that part: show the world the true colors of the American foreign policy and deep state.
The Fat Orange Retard has been the Empire's prancing little bitch the entire time, and if it really took the MIGA Moron to "expose the empire's mentality" to you, you've been using your very small brain for a seat cushion.
I have been saying the same thing, ever since people started calling for nukes. The US military has shown nothing but incompetence and weapon systems failures. Do we really want to see McHale's Navy (I guess only old folks like me will get the reference) trying to fire off 40-50 year old nuclear weapons??
I've been hearing this line since the CIA started putting out 9/11 disinfo, the "Towers were brought down by a neutron bomb" BS. Then it was a nuke used in the invasion of Iraq.
On and on - and yet never a shred of real evidence for all this.
If this has to do with 9/11, I once had the pleasure of reading a report from WTC employees that a couple of weeks before the attack, entire floors were cleared for "maintenance"- and workers worked on the very structural beams that defying the construction physics, managed to fail after a very, very loud bang and explosion.
Which as this was a long-planned operation, AIMED at bringing down these costly white elephants that had just been sold and re-insured, would seem a more likely explanation that the use of a FUCKING NUKE.
But that's just imo.
The USA scrubbed all mention of a study done by a European uni specialised in such matters, that found very modern military grade explosives powder in the WTC detritus.
Not radioactivity. Military grade explosives residue.
Yes, exactly Gnuneo. It is a well known technique. It is part of "cognitive infiltration". Cass Sunstein laid it out in a paper for the Obama administration in 2008, I think it was. Specifically designed method of flooding the zone (on internet forums like this one that run counter to mainstream media and political opinions). Sunstein specifically mentioned "9/11 and other dangerous conspiracy theories" for focusing these cognitive infiltration campaigns.
They flood the zone and muddy the waters, causing unnecessary infighting and confusion, among other methods. They are likely well funded and organized, but info on that is not made public.
But it was covertly going on well before 2008 from the first days of the internet. But it became more common and "urgent" for the govt when 9/11 conspiracy facts were becoming very widely shared.
"The loss of power meant sailors were without galley services, toilets and air conditioning. Potable water was also affected, Comer said. He did not respond to a question about how sailors handled waste."
How does this even happen? Every ship I ever worked on had (at least) two diesel generators that were independent of the main engine(s) and had their own dedicated electrical panel for distribution to the ship's grid. Redundancy is a major consideration when designing ships as you can't exactly pull into a service station when something goes wrong. I can't believe a navy ship wasn't designed with the same considerations, so what exactly is going on here?
So three jet turbine powered generators to twin screws. Redundancy,as you'd expect. I would also expect a diesel powered emergency generator somewhere on an upper deck so if the ship is heavily damaged and the engine spaces are destroyed or flooded, you can still keep the lights on and the radios, radar etc. working.
"engineering casualty involving its generators”
Contaminated fuel? Could be, except I expect each gen-set has its own independent fuel supply, again for reasons of redundancy. Besides which, you don’t just load a bunch of fuel without testing it for contaminants. As for sabotage, it would be difficult, again given multiple redundancy.
This last statement from the press release really jumped out at me:
"The Navy is investigating the cause of the engineering failure.”
Seriously? You couldn’t immediately figure out what went wrong - on a war ship no less?
Something’s not right with this picture. Even if two gen-sets were disabled the ship should still be able to limp along on the third set. Warships are designed to keep working even when heavily damaged, so I just don’t get it.
Maybe. If the ship's fuel supply is in a single tank then I would suspect contamination as that would affect all the gen-sets, but it would be stupid to design a warship without at least two independent fuel tanks. I suppose you could contaminate both tanks but that would point directly to sabotage. It would also narrow your range of suspects to a few individuals because only a handful of people would know how to do that.
"but it would be stupid to design a warship without at least two independent fuel tanks."
Very true. But people all the time design complex systems where supposedly redundant backups all share some common weak point. They don't do that deliberately, of course, but it's amazing how much of that squeeks by.
For example, maybe you have two independent fuel tanks but only one power supply for the pumps that serve both systems. Or, given the modern reliance for operating complex systems with software it could be that the control systems for operating those multiple, different generators and their fuel supplies shares a common control computer somewhere. Or it could be a backup system depends on a sensor saying the primary is down so the backup can kick in and that sensor keeps telling the software the primary is still running.
All that stuff is to be expected in a navy that hasn't had a significant challenge since WWII. They've been designing generations of ships and systems without any reality tests in genuine combat against a peer.
You may be on to something. Wasn't there a story a few years ago about a Russian jet fighter making a close pass on a US destroyer in the Black Sea and the entire ship went dark? Not something you'd want to admit, so maybe engine trouble is a cover story? Pretty weak one if it is, since these ships are built with multiple redundancy as a basic element of their war fighting capability.
A long long time ago, in a country far away (West Wales), an oil-fired power station was built with four steam powered gensets. Then came the 1974 oil price rise and the installation was mothballed until the 1982 miners' strike put most of Britain's coal powered generating capacity out of action. The oil-fired power station was started up and run at full chat, with Maggie Thatcher taking a personal interest. One after the other, the steam chests on the US-made turbines cracked under the strain, so that the power station never ran at more than 75% capacity. Redundancy, what redundancy, if every one of the same piece of kit suffers from the same defect?
It’s ironic that in a way this most unfortunate chain of events has the Presidential war room seriously considering the Martyrdom of human life on the planet.
I always thought Martyrdom Was an Islamic concept. If we go in that direction then I suppose in a very ironic way, Iran shall become the undisputed winner of the war in question.
"The loss of power meant sailors were without galley services, toilets and air conditioning." No a/c, the humanity. I see after quite a long period of time we still have readers scrambling to be the first to issue a triumphant declaration of being the first to post. I haven't noticed this on any other blogs, it is an interesting and perhaps telling phenomenon.
As to the US Navy, the largest military budget on the planet can't maintain reasonable maintenance of what it already has and seems rather more fixated on the kickbacks and corruption associated with more MIC rubbish. Still, rotten to the core means just that, the many enemies of the US only need wait out its inevitable collapse.
That's the job Trump has to accomplish: expose how rotten the USA is.
His apparently erratic way of communication, is in reality a well planned script. In saying: "I will send Iran to the stonage" or "the strait of Hormuz will become part of the USA" has effects. One of them is to reunite the world against the USA. This is full wished.
after 17th century settler colonialism and subsequent extraction capitalism, thus once considered a most valuable cash cow, it might have become too expensive to retain this system: imploding the US might be more profitable?
When jews get themselves into the heart of a system, the only thing that matters is profit in the short term; so an industrial economy is financialized and farmed out abroad where wages and employee safety standards are marginalized for that extra buck to the shareholders from Tel Aviv or Las Vegas.
The glory days of the US are long gone; what is left is a hopelessly schizophrenic and completely fragmented society, whose inevitable collapse is only a matter of when, not if.
In the previous article of Simplicius I added a summary of 2 very long comments, about where we are going right now and in the next 5 to 10 years.
We are facing a war between 2 categories of élites: the old families (in Europe descendants of the nobiltà romana) and the new banker elites around the world of the last 500 years.
The implosion of the USA and Europe is the only way to get rid of the new banker dinasties, the UN, the IMF and so on. It's impossible to reorganize big organizations. They must implode. And afterwards we will see a revival of old values but not before.
the military budget of the USA unofficially approaches 1.5 TRILLION dollars.
now compare what we know about how the Russian budget of approximately 200 billion dollars is being spent based on best estimates of what has been published and frontline reported and I don't see how anyone can conclude that the majority of that American budget 70% or more, is pure profit and theft .
Not only are the Russian military able to flush their toilets but no one is going around sabotaging what does work.
BTW, I realize joining the military getting married 2days out of high school and having kids they can't afford starting 8 and a half months later is a blueprint of life for most of the "volenteers" but I think its about time someone inform them that being in the military requires discomforts outside of not being able to get drunk while your wife changers her 15 diaper of the day.
You are very unfair towards the heroic sailors fighting this war to safeguard humanity from the evil Iranians. Just imagine to be for weeks without the necessary supply of chewing gum in the middle of battle.
I commented my observation already downstairs but your comment makes me repeat it once more.
I often see the US Navy in hour harbour (middle of the North Atlantic/ Iceland ) and their ships are in a bad shape and the sailors give me wierd cruise ship tour vibes. I used to be able to walk up close to the boats and even ask questions from the dock.
Friendly and smily kids playing with expensive and deadly toys. Other navy’s look more serious but i always pinned that on a general cultural diffrence.
The japanese boats that visited our harbour recently had real guard duty and were behind a fence. One guy was looking at us trough binoculars at least. But they looked like a serious navy.
Actually, that's now the OFFICIAL budget size. The true budget size of the security state is over 2x that, incl the various intel and secret police forces it triples.
The Russian budget also includes the cost of fighting NATO in Ukr...
There's a reason most Western countries nationalised the arms industries at the beginning of WW2.
The first air conditioning systems on US Navy ships were installed for electronics cooling ; not sure about the air defense radars in an Ashley Burke class destroyer but it would not surprise me if it needs cooling …..
If they do use nukes, they will perception manage it that in 2-3 years imbecilic Collective Westerners in general, and Muhriqanis in particular, will believe it was Russia. And they will be up in arms in indignation.
Where is offended Scott Lively when one needs him? ;)
Even if the base in Bahrain was untouched, there's still no way to get supplies through the Strait, so congratulations to whatever genius thought that one up. Either way, the navies of ALL the western countries are in really, really bad shape. I think Britain is down to what? A single operable submarine? And France had to send the CDG back home a few months ago as well. Pretty odd spectacle to observe, albeit a welcomed one.
The europeans are in such poor shape militarily that any idea that they are gagging for a war with Russia is baloney. They are however working their socks off at getting the US (in all sorts of messes of its own) into this war.They seem to be unable to accept just what a crock of shat passes these days for US power. Since it was Russia that really won the second world war for the 'allies' you have to wonder if that massive posturing US edifice floating on made up money was ever anything more that a trick of the light.
And yet, certain European leaders are agitating for war with Russia. Obviously, this is a gambit for them to keep their jobs, though it doesn’t seem to be working very well. Almost all have very low approval ratings.
I think the basic idea is that only two things loosen the public purse strings: a health crisis and war. Then the purse can be plundered, as we saw with Covid. The EU wants war because it's the only way to make its monetary problems go away. This is the same reason Russia isn't giving the EU its war.
Russia will first eliminate the proxy (Ukraine). With no proxy, no war with Europe. Russia will afterwards install Israel in the puffer zone (ex west Ukraine).
Without Israel in the ME, no more petro dollar and new perspectives for the GCC.
Absolutely. I am sure Iran would have loved the idea of the USN sending one of the carriers through Hormuz to Bahrain to give R&R to the crews and restock on tampons and deodorant.
HMS Victory is being brought out of retirement to confront the regime in Iran; and a new Gallipoli campaign is being organized even as we speak.
Because she is made of oak, none of the Iranian radars will be able to detect her presence, as she enters Hormuz, and lands a contingent of tars on the foreign shore.
The 'HMS Victory' is the legendary warship that sank the German heavy battle ship 'The Titanic' at the battle of the bulge in 1944. The sinking of the German flagship resulted in the loss of all 3000 men, women and children on board,
The 'HMS Victory' however, only sustained minor damage in the 4-day sea battle.
The 'HMS Victory' was unofficially retired in the 1980's, after the Falklands war with Spain over whaling rights in the South Atlantic, But it is still occasionally brought into service to sail FONOPs in the South China sea, in an attempt to discourage the Chinese PLA Navy from invading the Isle of Wight..
The story a while ago was that even these couldn't operate in warm water seas, which the Persian Gulf area is known for, as their engines break down through an inability to keep cool.
One wonders if USS Benfold also experienced this problem.
People forget that when the US used nukes on Japan they did so in the full confidence that they were the only country that had them and no one could nuke them in return. Times have changed.
First?!
Billy, I though you were above such nonsense! 😉
This is seriously competitive!
I understand I can sell my commanding pole position to fortune 500 advertising & PR consortia.
You also get top billing on Myrotvorets!
There's so many upsides, lol.
?!
I couldn't believe I reached the comment section ahead of the usual volery of cachinnating cockatoos!
Behave, Billy.
They have to blame something for carrier problems.
I would think those up to 20 bln ships can be independent from supplies for weeks and months, they are floating cities.
What they would need is munition resuply, if fireing a lot. And possible refuelling on long distances.
They had time to stock up, as operation was prepared for at least 7 months, since the previous attack.
If you haven't already, I would refer you to Larry Johnson's latest:
https://sonar21.com/the-tail-that-couldnt-keep-up-how-the-us-navy-ran-its-own-sailors-short-on-food-and-soap/
Its a painful crime not to supply soap to marines, as much as it is not supply it to prisoners
Thank you, Victor. Larry's post is interesting and informative. It is a must-read for all who have been following the story of the shoddy treatment of the US sailors.
Larry's piece explains that the US is short on supply ships - thanks to misguided budget cuts.
What puzzles me is the bureaucracy, the not-invented-here syndrome, the total lack of imagination. Why is there no one to hire a few ships in Mombassa and to run the supply from there?
War is improvisation and they seem incapable of doing that.
"And possible refuelling on long distances."
No, that's the one thing they don't need. Both the Nimitz class and the Ford class are powered by nuclear reactors which run for years before they need refuelling.
Man your sources suck. All poorly sourced, lots of wishcasting and spin, two dead waves of Iran leadership, more to come, us leading rhe world in ai and tech, outsized revenue generation per capita, nonstop innovation, space x, blue origin, starlink, your predictions suck as bad as your sources, pro publica??? Hahahahaha. Doesn’t mean things are perfect. All carriers can launch fully armed attack aircraft. All sorts of reporting baloney, as false as alleged Russia casualty reports from Ukraine. You have suckered your readers. Right about a few things wrong about much. Way too much motivated reasoning, and desire for giving outcome than actual predictive capability.
Hmm what are you high on? It seems to be quite powerful.....
Sounds like a dedicated Fox News watcher. Has a huge portrait of Sean Hannity in his bedroom. Buys lots of Trump-branded items such as the Trump Watch, Trump Fragrance, and plenty of Trump Vodka.
I understand the Trump Fragrance is exceptional.
Is that a euphemism for the odour of his alleged public farts?
Partly, but mainly for that which issues from his diapers.
In Wales at least, "trump" and "fart" are synonyms, from long before the eponymous POTUS.
Scotland, too.
Especially downwind... ;-)
Trump hopium trumps all.
Trust the plan, as we who know about his 5D chess skills always say.
Pinnocchio
LOL brainwashed 'meriKunt inbound.
A woman is alife support system for a Cun-
Gerald Film
Id love to say this or send an email to von der Liar
"outsized revenue generation per capita,"
Hear that whooshing sound? That's the point soaring WAYYYYY over your head.
@DepewtyDawg
Perhaps our host spends too much time on proper capitalization, punctuation and the exercise & feeding of his pet thesaurus, instead of perusing the dependable MSM for their consensus opinion. No one could indict YOU on such charges.
You should change your profile name to Dipshit-Dawg!
Muh, cope list galore.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha...ha
No one doubts America's technology expertise. What you apparently do not understand is that they poured all their money into technology and profits and almost zero into maintenance, proper engineering, survivable logistics, etc. Plus, as Andrei Martyanov has said on multiple occasions, the US leadership does not know the first thing about actual war, most of whom possess an educational background in business administration, international relations, political science or advanced basket-weaving. As a result the US system has degenerated over the years into an over-stretched, poorly maintained military, a hollowed-out version of what it once was with its leadership more interested in not making waves and what Board of Directors they will sit on when they retire.
America thrives on brain drain. My ICT Godzilla relative was offered presidential level salary already 20+ years ago. Could easily command seven figures now.
So, would his ICT work be America's tech expertise or my relative's tech expertise?
Good point, but as it is all done under American financing and management setting the priorities, I would say it is an American result.
So why they don't finance and manage American talents then? They have the best educational system supposedly?
If you take a look at the destruction they cause around the world, I think that brain drain is one of the planned outcomes. Create destruction and lack of hope and perspective, so people leave. Imagine the flood of Iranian engineers leaving.
Also, every main competitor of USA is somehow sanctioned and has been for decades. How would American genius operate under the sanctions conditions Russia is subjected to today? And it has been under constant sanctions and other BS since USSR was established.
Here is Ray Dalio explaining that 1% of US population make things happen, half of them are foreigners. Many from that half eventually become Americans or have multiple citizenships, like Thiel.
https://t.me/RussianBaZa/39751
Also, Sergei Brin, for example, does not count as foreigner anymore, yet he was an immigrant that eventually made certain things happen.
Sure, US company takes the credit for somebody's work and therefore can be perceived as "American tech", so that people like our fren Dawg can dream his exceptional dreams. ;)
Operation paperclip seeded almost all of US advanced technology.
Only in aeronautics and rocketry.
Bingo.
Can't make anything technical w/o Chinese-controlled rare earths.
Hence their latest madcap scheme to drill down 6km into the seabed off one of the Japanese islands.
Now that's a job everyone is going to apply for.
Space X?
Space CGI, more like.
Your diapers or shall I say sources are leaking
Yes, to many western (democratic) sources saying a lot more or less than the article.
I wouldn't put too much importance on the Team Red vs Team Blue performances. The mainstream media in the US is 100% supportive of both the Iran War and the proxy war of aggression against Russia. They only criticize Trump for not winning and not doing more damage to Iran faster.
If you were reading Simplicius before the 2024 election, you would know that Simplicius was always highly critical of Biden just as he is now critical of Trump (rightly so).
But if you do insist on seeing more pro-Trump, pro-Republican Party political rhetoric, there is always Fox News, Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro, Laura Loomer, Truth Social, and many more sources that are easy to find online and on TV. Very strong Zionist bias.
And no, Trump WAS NOT "forced into this war" against his will by Israel, as you commented below. Trump has ALWAYS been intensely pro-Israel and anti-Iran. There is even a Youtube clip of a late 1980s news program where he enthusiastically talks about "taking Kharg Island". Roy Cohn was Trump's mentor.
I do appreciate the idea you have expressed elsewhere that these news stories might be, at least in part, disinformation of some kind. Imo, they are there to actually help sell Trump's massive increases in spending for the Department of War (and the MIC contractors, of course).
I am well aware of american press - they are all the same - only the shading is different.
I reacted on Simplicius article, picking cherries and hiding the essentials from the real articles. Spinning narratives is of course ok but claiming its an objective analysis of the matters is another.
I have followed Simplicius almost from the beginning and I dont like when he trades objective, clean analysis, whatever the outcome for this narrative spinning.
Why I am focused on the ”Israeli initative” is because ”truth” often evaporates within hours of an event and then gets buried by the usual smoke&mirrors.
Rubio said within hours of the attack that US was forced to act because Israel would do it in anyway. And havent you noticed all the sabotage Israel has done to every eventual diplomatic solution?
Fart-huffer.
"us leading rhe world in ai and tech,"
That's propaganda for morons. It's not a compliment to your IQ that you fell for it.
In reality, the Chinese currently lead the world in tech, American AIs depend upon foreign talent, work far less efficiently than Chinese AIs and they can't do shit without technology made in China.
The essential industry in tech, making processors with vast numbers of transistors on them, completely collapsed in the US nearly 30 years ago. Since then the world's most sophisticated processors have been built outside of the US by Chinese people. On occasion the federal government has thrown a few tens of billions in bribes at tech companies to build a new chip factory in the US but every one of those has been an economic failure with all of them coming into production (if they succeeded in getting into production) so late and so far behind that they were already obsolete compared to what was being manufactured by Chinese people.
The current, big, propaganda-for-morons bribe is the US's attempt to build flagship GPUs upon which AI depends in the US. So far that's failed despite many tens of billions in bribes thrown at tech companies who produce their products outside of the US. It's also brought us the spectacle of the US government becoming the biggest shareholder in Intel (at 10%) as a result of the $50 billion bribe to Intel to build an uneconomic factory in the US.
Nvidia is the world leader at GPU production on which American AI depends. Technically, it's an "American" company but it was founded by Chinese, its engineering staff designing those top chips is about 99% non-American, and its products are manufactured by Chinese people overseas. Neither the US nor Americans control the factories that actually produce those chips overseas.
As far as "US ai," that's a typically American thing: designed and engineered mostly by non-Americans, it is typically "American" in that it depends on throwing lots of cash at a problem. Chinese ai is much better in that it's smarter. Flagship Chinese AI models typically outperform American AI engines by a factor of 20. If an American AI like ChatGPT or Claude takes a server farm with 20,000 computers to function, a Chinese AI like Deepseek can equal it running only on 1,000 computers (for those people who believe Fox News, let me help you out with the arithmetic: 20,000 is a much bigger number than 1,000).
But that greater efficiency also means that the Chinese AI can work two times better than the American AI when it runs on 2,000 computers, ten times less than the American AI requires for its performance. It also means that, given the same number of computers in the server farm, the Chinese AI can work two times better than the American AI even if the Chinese AI runs on GPUs that have ten times *fewer* transistors than the GPUs the American AI requires.
That's a big deal because making chips that are ten times simpler than Nvidia's flagship GPUs is pretty easy to do. It's so easy that China can chug out unlimited numbers of them at very low cost so it doesn't need to use the same (also Chinese) factories that build the most sophisticated chips for Nvidia. Heck, it's so easy to do that Russian chip factories can chug away and crank out unlimited numbers for use by Russian AI server farms.
Being able to run twice as good with chips that are ten times simpler brings a lot of benefits when deploying AI. It becomes cheaper, much cheaper, both for initial capitalization and also for running costs: chips that are ten times simpler require less energy for operation and cooling. The energy costs of huge server farms are a crippling expense. Reducing those, even in a country where energy is cheap like Russia, is a big deal.
It also means that AI can be deployed in more mobile applications. When you don't need a flagship GPU from Nvidia to get totally intense AI but can use a chip that's ten times simpler, you can run with smaller chips, smaller support memory and other circuitry and otherwise reduce the iron involved to a much smaller, simpler package. That lets you use much more sophisticated AIs where cost and size matter a lot, like AI-powered autonomous drones, autonomous robots, better AI in appliances and industrial machines/robots, or even, heck, AI powered artillery shells which can use AI for terminal guidance.
So no, the US doesn't lead the world in ai and tech. It leads the world in *lying* about ai and tech.
Well written and researched, but you *KNOW* he won't be reading it, right? That would take more than 3secs attention span, so give the poor fucker a break.
I was shocked to see the latest NVidia GPUs consume 2300kw! That is an insane amount of electricity for a tiny square of metal.
New photon based processors are tested right now for the market. The average speed/throughput is 3000 times faster than the fastest Nvidia processor. And now comes the hammer: with 2300kwh you can feed a photon based processor for 600 years! Do you see the problem? All investments in data centers and power generation are jast wasted money. This is the real elephant in the room, the global south and Russia are waiting for.
?? The latest and most high end Nvidia GPUs for AI and data centers take about 700 watts. 2300 kilowatts would be for a data center, not just for one chip. But it is a lot of power. The data centers in Northern Virginia's "Data Center Alley" use up 25% of all the electricity produced in the state of Virginia. I mean, you'd think they were running aluminum smelters or something, but nope, that's just racks and racks full of computers.
Man, I hope you're not dissing all that lovely AI slop they are producing?!?
I don't think I could live a day without seeing crocodiles and butterflies kissing while sitting in a hammock on top of mount Everest.
I mean, what value would life have anymore????
And what the hell kind of world is AI going to make once it's rubbed us out?
In 600 years you have 5256000 hours. Today's photon based processors consume 0,56 Watt per hour. The ones tested right now consume 0,00136 Watt per hour. Multiply now 5256000 per 0,00136 and you come close to 700 Watt per hour.
The 2300kwh (per data center) was clear to both of us. But not to others. We both were not precise enough.
"consume 0,56 Watt per hour"
One watt means one joule of energy per second.
Perhaps you mean 0.56 joules per hour? That may or may not be correct but at least it makes sense, "watts per hour" does not.
The Nvidia H100 (Data Center) consumes ~700 Watts (0.70 kWh per hour).
You should always specify the interval as done in the specs of say Nvidia too.
The above transformation of Watt in joules (you gave above) is correct.
I understand that they are well ahead of the US on G6, which is exceptionally fast. Able to transfer and download data in a matter of seconds.
And all the debt run up to finance the expensive, complex, but inadequate American AI, is going to break the bank, and relatively soon.
There's no way those data centers will ever turn a profit.
ProPublica?? You need to tweak your ChatGPT by the look of it. That was the previous post.
Yes, Iran did down a few American and Israeli drones intact and Iranians are now showcasing them - see photos and video here: https://geopolitiq.substack.com/i/211203518/news-and-updates-from-iran (as a bonus you will find other news and updates from Yemen, Lebanon and Iran, if you scroll up).
Well, reverse engineering is priority, than showcasing
Yes, but showcasing sends a message.
As if they will not do that or haven’t done that to other US drones in the past!
It is necessary to showcase them every single time, because Muhriqani govts like to lie non stop.
What do you think happens to the Gulf countries, medium term?
They organize mutually-beneficial outcomes with Iran.
No, they don't.
Iranian missiles will always be much less threatening to the Gulf regimes than the prospect of an Islamic revolution.
This is the part that all these wishful-thinking "analyses" always miss -- internal politics dictates foreign policy. And internal politics is class politics, but when you cater to an "alternative" right/libertarian audience, the world "class" is taboo, so such an analysis cannot be done.
Missiles are much easier to hide from than raging mobs wanting your head.
We beat them back in the recent World Cup; and can do so again.
Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham have been tasked with the job.
I have no idea what that means, or who those two are, Tim.
Literally not the foggiest.
As you mentioned corporate spectator sport however, that's probably why.
If they are sport related, leave me in my ignorance please!
England's goalscorers in the recent worldwide contest of skill, determination, and sheer bloody-mindedness.
It was quite a spectacle, especially when they were 4 - 0 up at half-time against France in the third-place playoff.
Iran exited the proceedings very early on.
Implicit in my remark was that the totally-corrupt Sykes-Picot monarchies, which are in control by virtue of their deferential attitude to the previous hegemon, must first be eradicated - and then these nations can do what I have suggested they should.
Once those Anglo-created faux sheikhdoms fall, the statelets will revert back to their historical roots. Iran, Oman etc, will get more land, population, and oil revenue.
They will either dance to the Iranian tune or go broke and be targets for Iranian influence operations.
The contiguous 48 AND Alaska AND Hawaii are well "over the horizon" from Iran, how about moving everything back there and, you know, minding your own fucking business for once?
Willing to bet up to 3, no 4 dollars that most of the US nukes are in worse condition than the Navy and any "all-out strike" will end in an almighty THUD.
Same as the UK's Trident Schlurpo. Two most recent, expensive, Test firings turned out to be like Damp Squibs to say the least. The last one, with Defence Minister Grant Schapps aboard who witnessed the debacle reportedly saw the Missile nearly hit the Sub it was fired from rather than travelling its intended 3,500 miles.
Funny that since U.K. draws its missiles from a common pool in King‘s Bay, GA so why did U.K. get duds rather than US SSBNs ?
I couldn't possibly say Peter. From what I recall, which was widely reported; the first test, somewhere in the mid Atlantic, some years back saw the Missile head off towards Florida, which was then aborted in-flight. The second one, as I recounted, plopped into the briny several hundred metres away. I can only guess that the projectiles they used were from their current stock, but one would expect that their functionality would have been ascertained beforehand. I also believe that these tests cost several £millions apiece. Kind regards.
At least those subs which can be put to sea - is it one out of six? - are held together with superglue.
Duct tape, wasn't it? Whatever. Unbelievably pathetic whichever way you slice and dice it.
But, hey, isn't that the same Navy that advertises for Admirals on LinkedIn?
How many admirals does it need to command four frigates, two destroyers and one submarine, which according to the Daily Telegraph, is the sum total of useable ships the Navy currently has?
No - Superglue.
The story was that it was used to attach some bolt heads that had sheared off.
And the uk subs are used as porn back drops. https://nypost.com/2024/08/12/world-news/captain-of-armed-nuclear-sub-made-sex-tape-with-underling-at-sea/
Think this is slightly preferable to the erstwhile concentration on rum, sodomy, and the lash.
Yes! Mind your own business, Trump & Co.! He has turned the name of the USA to MUD in countries across the globe.
I'd put it several rungs lower than mud.
rightfully so... it wasn't trump that financed the engine of both world wars, it wasn't trump who started the cold war, it wasn't trump who started a war with Vietnam, it wasn't trump that was responsible for the first 20 trillion of debt. It's the empire's mentality that is exposed by trump and he should be applauded for that part: show the world the true colors of the American foreign policy and deep state.
The Fat Orange Retard has been the Empire's prancing little bitch the entire time, and if it really took the MIGA Moron to "expose the empire's mentality" to you, you've been using your very small brain for a seat cushion.
Because of the Jew.
I have been saying the same thing, ever since people started calling for nukes. The US military has shown nothing but incompetence and weapon systems failures. Do we really want to see McHale's Navy (I guess only old folks like me will get the reference) trying to fire off 40-50 year old nuclear weapons??
The US has covertly used dozens of tactical nukes in the last quarter century, and they clearly worked.
So you will lose that bet.
Irishman here: Most people won’t be aware of this. It would be useful for you to supply a few references. Thanks.
I've been hearing this line since the CIA started putting out 9/11 disinfo, the "Towers were brought down by a neutron bomb" BS. Then it was a nuke used in the invasion of Iraq.
On and on - and yet never a shred of real evidence for all this.
Doubt there'll be any coming now, either.
Read the "ground zero model" and you will be surprised (Written by Heinz Pommer) . I reviewed personally all calculations twice and they are correct.
If this has to do with 9/11, I once had the pleasure of reading a report from WTC employees that a couple of weeks before the attack, entire floors were cleared for "maintenance"- and workers worked on the very structural beams that defying the construction physics, managed to fail after a very, very loud bang and explosion.
Which as this was a long-planned operation, AIMED at bringing down these costly white elephants that had just been sold and re-insured, would seem a more likely explanation that the use of a FUCKING NUKE.
But that's just imo.
The USA scrubbed all mention of a study done by a European uni specialised in such matters, that found very modern military grade explosives powder in the WTC detritus.
Not radioactivity. Military grade explosives residue.
That bit isn't "imo".
Nukes where in the basements of three buildings from day one, because they were part of the demolition plan.
Yes, exactly Gnuneo. It is a well known technique. It is part of "cognitive infiltration". Cass Sunstein laid it out in a paper for the Obama administration in 2008, I think it was. Specifically designed method of flooding the zone (on internet forums like this one that run counter to mainstream media and political opinions). Sunstein specifically mentioned "9/11 and other dangerous conspiracy theories" for focusing these cognitive infiltration campaigns.
They flood the zone and muddy the waters, causing unnecessary infighting and confusion, among other methods. They are likely well funded and organized, but info on that is not made public.
But it was covertly going on well before 2008 from the first days of the internet. But it became more common and "urgent" for the govt when 9/11 conspiracy facts were becoming very widely shared.
i've wondered myself if the aging US nukes would even launch :-)
"The loss of power meant sailors were without galley services, toilets and air conditioning. Potable water was also affected, Comer said. He did not respond to a question about how sailors handled waste."
How does this even happen? Every ship I ever worked on had (at least) two diesel generators that were independent of the main engine(s) and had their own dedicated electrical panel for distribution to the ship's grid. Redundancy is a major consideration when designing ships as you can't exactly pull into a service station when something goes wrong. I can't believe a navy ship wasn't designed with the same considerations, so what exactly is going on here?
The shareholders must be served above all.
Could sabotage be a reason, if reports are true?
This really has me puzzled because I used to work on ships, specifically in engineering, so I looked into it and now I'm even more puzzled.
Here's the original article:
https://news.usni.org/2026/08/14/uss-benfold-was-stalled-in-the-south-china-sea-for-four-days-after-engineering-casualty
Wikipedia has the specs for this class of ships:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Benfold
which are powered by these:
https://www.rolls-royce.com/products-and-services/defence/naval/gas-turbines/ag9140-generator-set.aspx
So three jet turbine powered generators to twin screws. Redundancy,as you'd expect. I would also expect a diesel powered emergency generator somewhere on an upper deck so if the ship is heavily damaged and the engine spaces are destroyed or flooded, you can still keep the lights on and the radios, radar etc. working.
"engineering casualty involving its generators”
Contaminated fuel? Could be, except I expect each gen-set has its own independent fuel supply, again for reasons of redundancy. Besides which, you don’t just load a bunch of fuel without testing it for contaminants. As for sabotage, it would be difficult, again given multiple redundancy.
This last statement from the press release really jumped out at me:
"The Navy is investigating the cause of the engineering failure.”
Seriously? You couldn’t immediately figure out what went wrong - on a war ship no less?
Something’s not right with this picture. Even if two gen-sets were disabled the ship should still be able to limp along on the third set. Warships are designed to keep working even when heavily damaged, so I just don’t get it.
Then maybe fake news is the answer.
Maybe. If the ship's fuel supply is in a single tank then I would suspect contamination as that would affect all the gen-sets, but it would be stupid to design a warship without at least two independent fuel tanks. I suppose you could contaminate both tanks but that would point directly to sabotage. It would also narrow your range of suspects to a few individuals because only a handful of people would know how to do that.
"but it would be stupid to design a warship without at least two independent fuel tanks."
Very true. But people all the time design complex systems where supposedly redundant backups all share some common weak point. They don't do that deliberately, of course, but it's amazing how much of that squeeks by.
For example, maybe you have two independent fuel tanks but only one power supply for the pumps that serve both systems. Or, given the modern reliance for operating complex systems with software it could be that the control systems for operating those multiple, different generators and their fuel supplies shares a common control computer somewhere. Or it could be a backup system depends on a sensor saying the primary is down so the backup can kick in and that sensor keeps telling the software the primary is still running.
All that stuff is to be expected in a navy that hasn't had a significant challenge since WWII. They've been designing generations of ships and systems without any reality tests in genuine combat against a peer.
Western militaries have become famous for hiding serious design flaws.
China successfully tested a new electronic warfare system.
So it was like in 2034 book. ;)
https://www.amazon.com/2034-Novel-Next-World-War/dp/1984881256
You may be on to something. Wasn't there a story a few years ago about a Russian jet fighter making a close pass on a US destroyer in the Black Sea and the entire ship went dark? Not something you'd want to admit, so maybe engine trouble is a cover story? Pretty weak one if it is, since these ships are built with multiple redundancy as a basic element of their war fighting capability.
Heard that one, too, and that USN is rewiring their ships with optic fibre systems to mitigate the problem.
Donald Cook incident, 2014. Some sailors were said to retire after ship reached the harbor.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61CZZIRQxVL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylONaw4ODuk
Perhaps something else happened to damage/disable the ship.
see my reply to Rommel
Admiral Rachel Levine is being urgently recalled to investigate.
There is a captain Sarah Hunt in "2034". ;)
A long long time ago, in a country far away (West Wales), an oil-fired power station was built with four steam powered gensets. Then came the 1974 oil price rise and the installation was mothballed until the 1982 miners' strike put most of Britain's coal powered generating capacity out of action. The oil-fired power station was started up and run at full chat, with Maggie Thatcher taking a personal interest. One after the other, the steam chests on the US-made turbines cracked under the strain, so that the power station never ran at more than 75% capacity. Redundancy, what redundancy, if every one of the same piece of kit suffers from the same defect?
Disinformation maybe?
Shit hitting the (non working) fan
It’s ironic that in a way this most unfortunate chain of events has the Presidential war room seriously considering the Martyrdom of human life on the planet.
I always thought Martyrdom Was an Islamic concept. If we go in that direction then I suppose in a very ironic way, Iran shall become the undisputed winner of the war in question.
Larry Johnson has a detailed account of the problem with the US Navy's supply issues.
https://sonar21.com/the-tail-that-couldnt-keep-up-how-the-us-navy-ran-its-own-sailors-short-on-food-and-soap/
Notice how Trump's head often tilts to one side when he's speaking, and how long his eyelids stay shut or droop? Don't tell me that's normal.
Get over parsing normal for DJT - he never was normal and certainly is not now!
"The loss of power meant sailors were without galley services, toilets and air conditioning." No a/c, the humanity. I see after quite a long period of time we still have readers scrambling to be the first to issue a triumphant declaration of being the first to post. I haven't noticed this on any other blogs, it is an interesting and perhaps telling phenomenon.
As to the US Navy, the largest military budget on the planet can't maintain reasonable maintenance of what it already has and seems rather more fixated on the kickbacks and corruption associated with more MIC rubbish. Still, rotten to the core means just that, the many enemies of the US only need wait out its inevitable collapse.
That's the job Trump has to accomplish: expose how rotten the USA is.
His apparently erratic way of communication, is in reality a well planned script. In saying: "I will send Iran to the stonage" or "the strait of Hormuz will become part of the USA" has effects. One of them is to reunite the world against the USA. This is full wished.
after 17th century settler colonialism and subsequent extraction capitalism, thus once considered a most valuable cash cow, it might have become too expensive to retain this system: imploding the US might be more profitable?
When jews get themselves into the heart of a system, the only thing that matters is profit in the short term; so an industrial economy is financialized and farmed out abroad where wages and employee safety standards are marginalized for that extra buck to the shareholders from Tel Aviv or Las Vegas.
The glory days of the US are long gone; what is left is a hopelessly schizophrenic and completely fragmented society, whose inevitable collapse is only a matter of when, not if.
https://x.com/JackBre84450281/status/2089059811761783110
In the previous article of Simplicius I added a summary of 2 very long comments, about where we are going right now and in the next 5 to 10 years.
We are facing a war between 2 categories of élites: the old families (in Europe descendants of the nobiltà romana) and the new banker elites around the world of the last 500 years.
The implosion of the USA and Europe is the only way to get rid of the new banker dinasties, the UN, the IMF and so on. It's impossible to reorganize big organizations. They must implode. And afterwards we will see a revival of old values but not before.
the military budget of the USA unofficially approaches 1.5 TRILLION dollars.
now compare what we know about how the Russian budget of approximately 200 billion dollars is being spent based on best estimates of what has been published and frontline reported and I don't see how anyone can conclude that the majority of that American budget 70% or more, is pure profit and theft .
Not only are the Russian military able to flush their toilets but no one is going around sabotaging what does work.
BTW, I realize joining the military getting married 2days out of high school and having kids they can't afford starting 8 and a half months later is a blueprint of life for most of the "volenteers" but I think its about time someone inform them that being in the military requires discomforts outside of not being able to get drunk while your wife changers her 15 diaper of the day.
You are very unfair towards the heroic sailors fighting this war to safeguard humanity from the evil Iranians. Just imagine to be for weeks without the necessary supply of chewing gum in the middle of battle.
All they need is an onboard concert by Taylor Swift, and all will be well.
Man cannot live by chewing gum alone.
I commented my observation already downstairs but your comment makes me repeat it once more.
I often see the US Navy in hour harbour (middle of the North Atlantic/ Iceland ) and their ships are in a bad shape and the sailors give me wierd cruise ship tour vibes. I used to be able to walk up close to the boats and even ask questions from the dock.
Friendly and smily kids playing with expensive and deadly toys. Other navy’s look more serious but i always pinned that on a general cultural diffrence.
The japanese boats that visited our harbour recently had real guard duty and were behind a fence. One guy was looking at us trough binoculars at least. But they looked like a serious navy.
I assume you mean "can NOT conclude ... "
Actually, that's now the OFFICIAL budget size. The true budget size of the security state is over 2x that, incl the various intel and secret police forces it triples.
The Russian budget also includes the cost of fighting NATO in Ukr...
There's a reason most Western countries nationalised the arms industries at the beginning of WW2.
The first air conditioning systems on US Navy ships were installed for electronics cooling ; not sure about the air defense radars in an Ashley Burke class destroyer but it would not surprise me if it needs cooling …..
It seems to be going into its exponential / asymptotic phase atm.
If they do use nukes, they will perception manage it that in 2-3 years imbecilic Collective Westerners in general, and Muhriqanis in particular, will believe it was Russia. And they will be up in arms in indignation.
Where is offended Scott Lively when one needs him? ;)
Your straightforward and well documented reporting is very much appreciated. Thank you!
Even if the base in Bahrain was untouched, there's still no way to get supplies through the Strait, so congratulations to whatever genius thought that one up. Either way, the navies of ALL the western countries are in really, really bad shape. I think Britain is down to what? A single operable submarine? And France had to send the CDG back home a few months ago as well. Pretty odd spectacle to observe, albeit a welcomed one.
The europeans are in such poor shape militarily that any idea that they are gagging for a war with Russia is baloney. They are however working their socks off at getting the US (in all sorts of messes of its own) into this war.They seem to be unable to accept just what a crock of shat passes these days for US power. Since it was Russia that really won the second world war for the 'allies' you have to wonder if that massive posturing US edifice floating on made up money was ever anything more that a trick of the light.
And yet, certain European leaders are agitating for war with Russia. Obviously, this is a gambit for them to keep their jobs, though it doesn’t seem to be working very well. Almost all have very low approval ratings.
I think the basic idea is that only two things loosen the public purse strings: a health crisis and war. Then the purse can be plundered, as we saw with Covid. The EU wants war because it's the only way to make its monetary problems go away. This is the same reason Russia isn't giving the EU its war.
Russia will first eliminate the proxy (Ukraine). With no proxy, no war with Europe. Russia will afterwards install Israel in the puffer zone (ex west Ukraine).
Without Israel in the ME, no more petro dollar and new perspectives for the GCC.
It's not the voters who put or keep them there, but the Western oligarchies.
Absolutely. I am sure Iran would have loved the idea of the USN sending one of the carriers through Hormuz to Bahrain to give R&R to the crews and restock on tampons and deodorant.
You underestimate the British.
HMS Victory is being brought out of retirement to confront the regime in Iran; and a new Gallipoli campaign is being organized even as we speak.
Because she is made of oak, none of the Iranian radars will be able to detect her presence, as she enters Hormuz, and lands a contingent of tars on the foreign shore.
Trump could send the USS Constitution to the Gulf and the Iranians would die laughing.
Made of wood… fascinating.
Will she burn easier 😁
This is the whole point.
By burning the ship once ashore, the crew must now, like Xenophon in a past age, fight their way to freedom, killing every Iranian en route.
"Anabasis" explains it all.
The 'HMS Victory' is the legendary warship that sank the German heavy battle ship 'The Titanic' at the battle of the bulge in 1944. The sinking of the German flagship resulted in the loss of all 3000 men, women and children on board,
The 'HMS Victory' however, only sustained minor damage in the 4-day sea battle.
The 'HMS Victory' was unofficially retired in the 1980's, after the Falklands war with Spain over whaling rights in the South Atlantic, But it is still occasionally brought into service to sail FONOPs in the South China sea, in an attempt to discourage the Chinese PLA Navy from invading the Isle of Wight..
Not a lot of people know that.
😂
😂 The Mary Rose is also being refitted and will soon be fit for purpose. Oh yes, old Blighty will show them what's what!
Demmed foreigners.
According to the Daily Telegraph, the British navy is down to seven operable ships, including one submarine.
The story a while ago was that even these couldn't operate in warm water seas, which the Persian Gulf area is known for, as their engines break down through an inability to keep cool.
One wonders if USS Benfold also experienced this problem.
People forget that when the US used nukes on Japan they did so in the full confidence that they were the only country that had them and no one could nuke them in return. Times have changed.
No-one is going to nuke the USA, it's the US of A, FFS!