General Dynamics contracting fiascoes

 Jaded US taxpayers are probably all too used to endless #DoD cost overruns and the Department of DEFENSE chronic inability to pass any kind of audit. But $500 Million to do NOTHING is a whole new level of kleptocracy.

So on brandin light of a president who managed to bankrupt SIX casions and a #SecDef known for running two veterans' services into the ground.

Ukraine Russia this week

 #Ukraine #Russia #GrainMarket

Grain not moving out of Russia. Silos are full and there are no ships willing to pick it up.

Hits continue on Russian oil production, Wildberries consumer goods warehouses.

Russia losing 20-30 long haul vehicles per day.

This is what a war of attrition looks like.

Stuff on missile requests starts about minute 19:40

LOGISTICS and the Navy

 #NavalDeployment #Logistics

RantWoman's comments

Thank you for all your insights. Clearly allies are a good thing. Wonder who squandered those relationships. A general calling it a "war?" Shouldn't there be CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL, not just the #SecDef pleading for more $$$ ? The current state of affairs is fundamentally disrespectful of lots of people doing hard jobs.

(RantWoman is not commenting about the framing of the last 30 years of procurement patterns)

RantWoman is not watching the whole thing.

'The problem is not the ship, it’s their LEADERS': Trump shrugs off USS Lincoln CRISIS | COMPILATION

Some other links

BREAKING: Trump Says USS Lincoln Deployment Hasn’t Gone on “Nearly Long Enough” | Command Post

Hegseth CRASHING After Horrible Condition Leaks SHAME Him

And the #SecDef has a go with insider trading

Pete Hegseth PANICS as DAMNING Secret Goes Public!

The "Golden Dome:" another dumb weapon system idea

 In case anyone needs some "do not build this" pointers

Russia threatens global shipping to counter European seizures of shadow fleet and all sorts of other things occur

 #Russia #Ukraine #shipping 

Ukraine's Air Force Defied Every Military Rule (And It Worked)

Russia’s FSB Hid in a Paradise Resort… Then Ukraine Turned It Into HELL

Putin Crossed Romania's Red Line... The Retaliation Was BRUTAL

Putin's Pacific Refinery ERUPTS 4,000 Miles From Ukraine — Kremlin SILENT | Ben Hodges

The delivery is definitely AI. Believable citation of incidents. 3 hard choices at about minute 14

Putin’s Generals Died in a Moscow Restaurant BOMBING… FEAR Spreads Through Russian Ranks

Putin’s Generals Died in a Moscow Restaurant BOMBING… FEAR Spreads Through Russian Ranks - YouTube

Pet peeve: if your reporting requires you to fling around Russian names and place names, please, pretty please learn to pronounce them correctly.

James Carville on the Iran War, the USS Abraham Lincoln and the Catering Truck caper

#USSAbrahamLincoln #SecDef #AirForceOne 

Dude speaks RantWoman's mind, though RantWoman would not be nearly as salty-tongued about it.

lexicography digression: "salty" used to mean basically foul-mouthed. Now "salty" often just means angry, PO'ed... RantWoman mainly has in mind the older usage.

RantWoman is not going to hold back on the other side.

Dear world,

WHY does anyone expect either President #StableGenius or the #DUIHire #SecDef to CARE about the well-being of the troops on the USS Abraham Lincoln. How many cracks about "suckers and losers?" How much whining about troops' physical appearance or the fact that, gasp, there are women in Leadership???

RantWoman is a cynical witch wandering whether the whole drama is just part of an orchestrated campaign to drag money out of Congress for an unpopular and unaccountable war.

Next the catering cart caper.

First, congratulations to #DonSnoreleone for destroying Iranian military infrastructure over and over, especially since you have destroyed the Iranian miliatary so well that you had to scurry out of Ankara via a catering cart for fear that your plane would get shot down. Congratulations! BRILLIANT!

Dear staff and press gaggle mad about flying on a plane President #StableGenius was not on.

Don't y'all have to sign a lot of liability waivers and other paperwork just for the priviliege of being stenographer to the Toddler in Chief. News flash. The President might get shot at. If you are on the President's plane, you might get shot at too. RantWoman wonders whether there was the same military escort for the presidentless AirForceOne as there would be with the President on it? Why would you expect this president to care AT ALL about your well-being????

Inquiring minds...

Ukraine attacks WildBerries distribution centers and Russian oil infrastructure

 #Ukraine #Russia #PatriotMissiles #Boeing

Sooo, are all the assaults on the global oil and gas trade enough to re-energize moves away from dependence on fossil fuels and toward decarbonization????

Are US defense contractors afraid of Ukraine making Patriot missiles more cheaply than the US does?

Putin’s Draft Just IGNITED A MASSIVE Nationwide Hunt

Russia’s economy just screamed for help. No one answered.