Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
Trump has left Europe looking for alternatives to US weapons, even if they are worse, weakening the alliance and losing US sales. If the world does take big strides away from US weapons, the US will have lost a lot of leverage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifDBZ504vRc
Why The Navy Wants 15 Battleships — And Why It’ll Be Hard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQkYjNBuBoQ
For a long time, a lot of people who really just wanted a smaller government pretended to care about debt (or fooled themselves into thinking they cared about debt).
Three quarters of US government spending make the federal government an insurance company with an army. As a percentage of the total spending, waste fraud and abuse is very small. DOGE was a failure because it didn’t understand the US federal government. If you want to significantly reduce spending, you have to stop sending Americans checks (like Medicare and Social Security), or/and have to weaken the military, although the check cutting part is much bigger than the military spending part.
Republican politicians used to lie, or be misinformed, by saying that tax cuts pay for themselves; now they lie, or are misinformed, by saying Trump won the 2020 election (he did not). It’s hard to make a tough compromise under such politics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXKAfcgl7eU
Cheap drones used by US adversaries could hit much of the US from Cuba.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7mQvrZ-HvQ
The US desperately needs to learn how to use and mass produce drones or it will be behind on an ongoing military revolution that is killing a majority of soldiers in the Russia-Ukraine war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGJgHXTeat0
The US will have much more difficulty projecting power without bases in Germany.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK42sboyBCk
Russia had a ship carrying two nuclear reactors likely for North Korea’s nuclear submarines. It was sunk by some sort of explosion. No one is admitting what happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftc4PZQlSdw
The Navy’s MQ-25 could do WAY MORE than just refuel jets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ydVP4HubQk
The US is not adapting fast enough to modern drone warfare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He00DasZ2MQ
A primer on Mali.
Mali is complicated with many competing groups, cultures, and tribes. One part of the story is that Muslims got radicalized and became terrorists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkgpyAtRxY0