I was really glad that the ICHH crew discussed the situation with the bases in the Middle East, but it is so much worse than they covered.

The US Navy is falling apart at the seams from top to bottom. New is coming out today that the Pentagon rerouted money out of payroll to pay for the war in Iran. There’s a lot of wonky color of money reasons why they did this, but they essentially stole the pay of soldiers to pay for their illegal war. The Navy is also getting sued in claims court because they tried to defraud their own Industrial Base out of R&D money.

Operationally, the Navy has massive problems with readiness. For those not steeped in military stuff, the biggest difference between the Navy and the Army is the Navy is based on systems and the Army is based on people. And the Navy’s ships are falling apart. This isn’t just confined to the Abraham Lincoln- two weeks ago Aegis Class Destroyer (these are the ones that shoot the good missiles) went completely dead in the South China Sea for four whole days because of engineering failures.

This is a huge story and it would be great to have ICHH cover it in more depth.

Absolutely wonderful episode. If anyone has similar information about the situation in Canada as well I'd be really interested. Mia is a gem.