G.Vaughn Forsyth
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G.Vaughn Forsyth
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As a result of the war we are going through, and because our enemy is extensively using the Iranian “Shahed” drone technology, we have developed our own system.
And today, we are sharing what we have developed with countries in the Middle East. Ukraine is highly regarded for this. We have shifted the geopolitical landscape.
Everyone understands that Russia is sharing intelligence with Iran. And everyone understands that, in terms of expertise, no one today can help the way Ukraine can.
We are discussing several areas to ensure mutually beneficial cooperation. The first area is weapons, production, exchange of experience, and the exchange of resources that may not be available in one country or another. The second track concerns long-term energy cooperation.
We're talking about ten-year partnerships. We have already signed a relevant agreement with Saudi Arabia, and we have also signed a ten-year agreement with Qatar.
Over these ten years, we will focus on co-production, building manufacturing facilities—production lines in Ukraine and in these countries. We will also address, for example, how to supply a country with diesel in the event of shortages and major global challenges. Yesterday, I reached an agreement on diesel supplies for at least one year. From there, it becomes a matter for our companies and the local companies.
From my conversation with journalists (1/3).
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The USS Abraham Lincoln is one of the most powerful weapons ever built. The Americans built it to park wherever they wanted and dare anyone to object. Iran objected.
The Lincoln started this war sitting 350 kilometres off the Iranian coast. Close enough to smell the place. Then something happened. Nobody agrees on what. Trump says 101 missiles were fired and every single one was knocked down. Iran says they hit it. CENTCOM says nothing came close. Everyone is lying about something, and the ship is now 1,100 kilometres away, tucked behind Oman’s coastal mountains like a man hiding behind a sofa.
That distance matters more than any press release. A carrier at 350 kilometres is terrifying. Its jets can reach Tehran in minutes. Its strike package lands before anyone has time to make a phone call. A carrier at 1,100 kilometres is a different proposition entirely. Longer missions. More tankers. More exposure. More things that can go wrong on the way there and the way back. You don’t move a ninety-thousand-ton symbol of national power three times further from the fight because the laundry room caught fire.
Which brings us to the USS Gerald R. Ford. The world’s largest aircraft carrier caught fire in the Red Sea on March 12. The blaze started in the aft laundry facility, caused a major damage control response, displaced sailors across the ship, and destroyed over 100 beds.  The Navy flew a mattress airlift from a carrier still sitting in Virginia. They also collected nearly 2,000 sweatsuits to distribute to the crew because most of the laundry was out of commission.  Then the Ford left the war zone entirely and sailed to Crete for repairs. 
But the fire was almost a relief from the Ford’s other problem. The $13 billion ship’s vacuum sewage system, borrowed from the cruise ship industry, has been failing throughout the deployment. Out of nearly 650 toilets onboard, most have been non-functional at various points. Sailors have waited up to 45 minutes in line.  The maintenance crew was working 19-hour days trying to keep up with the demand. Everything from t-shirts to a four-foot piece of rope has been pulled from the pipes.  The most powerful warship ever built. Broken toilets.
So here is the full picture.
The Abraham Lincoln, pushed 750 kilometres south by something Iran apparently fired at it, is now launching aircraft on extended missions from behind a mountain range in Oman. The Gerald R. Ford, the carrier sent to replace it as the tip of the spear, caught fire and sailed to Greece. And somewhere in a Virginia shipyard, the USS George H.W. Bush is heading out to join a war that has already humiliated the first two ships sent to fight it.
This is the part the Pentagon doesn’t want to discuss at press conferences. Modern precision missiles, fired in large enough numbers, are doing something that was supposed to be impossible: making American carriers think twice about where they stand. If the Lincoln was actually struck, even once, the implications reach far beyond one ship and one war. They reach into every strategic calculation every American adversary has been running for thirty years.
The United States built its entire post-Cold War foreign policy around the ability to park a carrier strike group off your shore and explain, very politely, that the conversation was now over. That era may not be over. But for the first time in a generation, someone is making it complicated. And the Lincoln, sitting 1,100 kilometres from the action it was sent to dominate, is the clearest evidence yet that something has changed.
Nobody builds a carrier that big just to hide it behind a mountain range in Oman. And nobody sends a second one to Greece to fix the toilets.
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Maybe the US shouldn't have slapped a 50% tariff on Canadian aluminum. Too late, Canada found other customers. Good luck American manufacturers.
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BREAKING: The UAE’s state-owned aluminum conglomerate, Emirates Global Aluminum, says that its Al Taweelah production base suffered “significant damage” from Iranian attacks on Abu Dhabi’s Khalifa Economic Zone earlier today. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/hf4uyn
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