“I see your true colors shining through…”

He’s a Lib.

Sunk at the Pier: Crisis in the American Submarine Industrial Base
by Jerry Hendrix

With the potential for a hot war with China looming over America’s strategic future, the minds of U.S. defense planners increasingly turn with calm confidence to the Navy’s submarine force. Sub­marines—quiet, stealthy, and loaded with lethal combinations of mis­siles, torpedoes, and mines—can penetrate deep into the Pacific’s first and second island chains, negating Chinese investments in so-called anti-access/area denial weapons. These Chinese systems, long-range ballistic and cruise missiles as well as manned bombers and fight­ers, were purposely designed to negate America’s power projection forces—its Navy carriers and Air Force attack aircraft—rendering them irrelevant in the opening weeks of any future Pacific war over Taiwan. If a Chinese invasion force is to be defeated, then, most Western strategists and force planners believe that the burden will fall upon the shoulders of submariners (pronounced sub-mar-een-ers, and they will correct you).

Unfortunately, the U.S. submarine force is poorly postured to meet this challenge. Across my career as a naval officer, entering as an ensign in 1988 and retiring as a captain in 2014, and then as a consultant to both government and industry since, I have watched the American submarine fleet fall precipitously from its Cold War high of 140 nuclear-powered “boats” to less than half that number, sixty-seven boats, today. More­over, of the current sixty-seven nuclear submarines, only forty-nine fall into the hunter-killer “fast attack” classification.

The Navy and its shipbuilding partners have struggled in the post-Covid economy to ramp up submarine production despite rising strategic threats. The Defense Department announced recently that it would procure only one new fast-attack submarine in the fiscal year 2025 budget. Additionally, of the submarine force already in commission, sixteen of those forty-nine boats—or nearly a third of the Navy’s premier offensive force—are in drydocks or tied to piers, lacking required dive certifications. These submarines cannot get underway due to a three-year maintenance backlog in the U.S. Navy.

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2024/05/sunk-at-the-pier-crisis-in-the-american-submarine-industrial-base/

Black Bostonians demand more than $15billion in reparations from the city as local white churches discuss offering $50million

    The Boston People's Reparations Commission met on Saturday
    Reverend Kevin Peterson said 'every life is incalculable' so $15M is 'not enough' 

By Isabelle Stanley For Dailymail.Com

Published: 16:57 EDT, 20 May 2024 | Updated: 17:04 EDT, 20 May 2024

The Boston People's Reparations Commission has demanded the city invest $15 billion in slavery reparations for the Black Bostonian community.

Over 200 members of the community gathered at a Commission meeting at the Bolling Building in Nubian Square on Saturday.

They discussed what reparations mean to them and reiterated their demand for $15billion to be invested 'monetarily and through public policy that will be in effect for Black Bostonians for generations'.

Head of the Commission Reverend Kevin Peterson told WCVB even though the group is asking for $15billion, it is 'not enough' as 'every life is incalculable.'

As well as the $15 billion requested from the City, the Commission is in talks with Boston's white churches about a possible $50 million payout.

If $15 billion were to be granted and split up between the some 150,000 people living in Boston, this would mean each person would receive close to $99,998 - however it is not clear how the proposed reparation figure would be split up. 

According to the Commission, the enslavement of Africans in Boston began in 1638 and started a 'legacy of social, political, economic and cultural injustice'.

'At one point during the city history 1 in 10 Boston residents were enslaved people who were linked to the trans-Atlantic slave trade,' according to their website.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13439977/Black-Bostonians-demand-15billion-reparations-city-local-white-churches-discuss-offering-50million.html

Don’t worry, gents, Hillary Obiden has your back.

Do not be surprised if these men were sacrificed, to take the heat away from the Iran accident.

https://www.usasupreme.com/video-black-trump-supporting-father-and-son-went-to-the-congo-to-overthrow-the-government-and-it-didnt-go-well/