The US Is Shipping So Many Weapons To
Ukraine, Defense Companies Can’t Keep
Up, Top Navy Officers Warn
Posted By: Harlowe, 1/14/2023 12:33:53 AM
Top officers in the U.S. Navy warned that the Ukraine war is putting a strain on an already stretched industrial base Tuesday, complaining defense contractors continue to fall behind in keeping up with the Navy’s needs, according to media reports.(Snip)“If the conflict does go on for another six months to another year, it certainly continues to stress the supply chain in ways that are challenging,”(Snip) Most of the more than $29.9 billion in security assistance so far committed to Ukraine is withdrawn from existing U.S. stocks and includes equipment suited to defending against attackers from the ground, rather than the sea.
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Iran’s Islamic Guard (IRGC) is working on plans to assassinate former U.S. President Donald Trump and his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for the killing of top Iranian terror operative Qassem Soleimani in early 2020, a senior Iranian general told the state TV on Friday.(Snip)After Soleimani’s killing, the Iranian regime threatened to assassinate President Trump and Secretary Pompeo invoking Islamic law. “Trump must face ‘God’s ruling’ and suffer ‘qisas’, which is the Islamic term for retaliation in kind,”(Snip)“If Trump and Pompeo are not tried in a fair court for the criminal act of assassinating General Soleimani, Muslims will take our martyr’s revenge,” Raisi declared.
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Hilarious: Paul Ryan's Attack on Donald
Trump as 2024 Nominee Doesn't Have Effect
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Trump as 2024 Nominee Doesn't Have Effect
He'd Hoped 32 replies
It’s been a long time since former House Speaker Paul Ryan had any relevance to the base of the Republican Party.
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In California, one of the first states to pass such a law,
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The Covid-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory leak, according to a classified intelligence report from the U.S. Energy Department.
The report, which was included in an update to a 2021 document by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines’s office, was recently provided to the White House and other lawmakers. Sources told the Wall Street Journal that the updated assessment from the Energy Department is the result of new intelligence.
The Energy Department, which oversees a network of U.S. national laboratories, made its judgment with “low confidence,” the Wall Street Journal reported. The assessment marks a change from 2021, when the department was undecided on how the virus originated.
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As contractors hurriedly invest more and expand production capacity for high mobility artillery rocket systems, Stinger missiles and other equipment, they are plundering resources that could fill orders for the Navy. In 2022, it was necessary to strip parts from ships to fill approximately 1,200 orders for replacement parts, twice as many as the year before. The Navy needs certain missiles and torpedoes delivered on time.