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What are we as a nation trying to do is the first question?

What is our policy?

If it is to conquer the world in pieces as it seems, extending “NATO” vassalage to Moscow on the way to Beijing, with New Delhi and as afterthought Pyongyang we don’t need that many ships.

We need 10,000 nukes, ABMs, a full restoration of Civil Defense, Iodine and Prussian Blue.

We also need lots more soldiers, and to rebuild the Army for peer conflict (no, it’s not). We need the Navy to get us to Europe via Atlantic. We can just March overland from there, so stop worrying.

That Sir is our policy, and apparently has been since Bosnia. Who knew?

Quite serious.

The good news is we’ll need our own industrial base back, and this part is already happening.

That we the peasants 🇺🇸 are allowed to have factories again is proof that our masters and the Kaplan class are indeed serious about world 🌎🇺🇸.

So take heart. The Republic’s dead, long live America, over every sea! Let not a rock anywhere not be democracy!

Fortified democracy!

I’m sure 1000 ships is but 15 years away.

HNY 23

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Jan 4, 2023Liked by CDR Salamander

Prepping to teach OPLAW this week and one of the required videos just mentioned Kaplan's article.... coincidence? I think not

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As a trading nation, we must have the ability to keep the SLOCs open. We no longer have that.

Pouring money into various and sundry welfare programs to ensure the reelection of politicians is how we get to places like this. Keeping power in power, at the cost of the nation, is well worth it, to those in both parties that benefit from it.

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1. Both parties but not the people benefit. The political, contractor, donor classes benefit, the people suffer. It’s not the donor’s you think, as the big 5 defense firms only got $286B in 2020, WALMART got $523B. The donor class that benefits is;

Finance, for we are not a trading nation, most of our trade is internal by far. Unless you mean WALMART etc who’s “trading nation” means overseas factories shipping products we don’t make over precious SLOCs to Americans who are in hock to Finance-so our SLOCs are you see to service debt.

2. We are not a trading nation, we are a DEBTOR nation that needs a larger military than all the rest to extort buying our treasuries UST, but you see Alfred Mahan all this is ending because-

3. All of the global SLOCs are becoming irrelevant except to ship arms and soon armies to Western Europe, and 306 ships is quite enough, frankly if you can’t secure the Atlantic SLOC with what you’ve got...we’ll 🇺🇸 get someone who can -

4. Because you see the Ukrainian war seizures of Russia’s assets ended King Dollar 💵 as he 🇺🇸 proved a thief-

5. Not to worry about securing SLOCS because we are reshoring industry to USA 🇺🇸 at a very rapid clip, this is the one good thing to come of all this and the horrors to come- I’m quite willing to put up the Reshoring links , our number one problem being training a manufacturing workforce, ours is too small at present and too old-

6. Not to worry too much about Skilled workforce, because Germany is reshoring shuttered industries to USA, GE got the memo.

7. The only reason “both parties” would take the significant risk of re-industrialization of 🇺🇸 is for complete necessity of WAR, for we march to Moscow, doubt it not, that is the objective, the risk and costs -borne by other than the war profiteering Fortified democracies- the gains of world 🇺🇸 🌎 outweigh the risks and costs.

8. As our industry returns I find a positive, I’ll probably get yanked off the couch to war but at least my people will have jobs.

9. Add Taiwan to the reshoring crowd, Hardinge moved a machine tools factory to Elmira NY in 21. Far more important a chip foundry is being built near Syracuse that will employ 40-50K. This is enormous shift.

10. Strategically if you keep Holland you don’t need Taiwan long term. Taiwan you know became a Chip Foundry with a country as shell corporation, but the top tech we and our BFF Holland kept. Not to worry, TSMC is also building CONUS chip foundries.

11. Please explain why we need long term Pacific SLOCs again?

We only need long enough to suck the rest of them back in.

12. The Crown Jewels of American “Trade” have been CONUS internal Trade for a long time, but thank you Commodore Mahan.

This is how Empires work, this is actually 🇺🇸 regenerating itself and via war sucking back in all that was off shored. Ask the Chinese, they just lost all their chip fab talent, which faced with green card or US Passport loss unless they pulled out of China- walked out the door a few weeks ago. Apparently 💵 is a stronger hold than 🇨🇳 Patriotism. This may be the most brilliant thing America has ever done.

God Bless 🇺🇸 and long live Fortified Democracy.

I shall wash my conscience in battle, which approaches in Europe.

Pending your questions, and I can substantiate the above, this concludes my Briefing.

God Bless our Turbo 🇺🇸 America!

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Sea power is soon to be obsolete. Space power should be our goal. Thanks to SpaceX, we have a tremendous advantage in cost per pound putting assets into orbit. We should be pushing our weapons platforms into space while we have this ability. Orbital dominance should be our goal. It's the future and denying that fact will have us under Chinese control. Nothing says hello like some tungsten rods dropping down from the sky, where ever and whenever it is needed. Sea power is going away. We need to face that fact and get ahead of the game.

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Walt Browning is absolutely correct.

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