🚀 🇺🇸 Hypersonic Missiles Are Game-Changers, and America Doesn’t Have Them

The U.S. military is pouring resources into the superfast weapons but has struggled to develop them. China and Russia are far ahead.

"For more than 60 years, the U.S. has invested billions of dollars in dozens of programs to develop its own version of the technology. Those efforts have either ended in failure or been canceled before having a chance to succeed."

"The Pentagon’s problems with developing hypersonics run up and down the decision chain, from failed flight tests and inadequate testing infrastructure to the lack of a clear, overarching plan for fielding the weapons."

"Even the most advanced U.S. warship in the South China Sea could be defenseless against a hypersonic attack."

“Our nation has chosen not to create an operational capability, and a lot of people ask why,” said L. Neil Thurgood, a retired general

“One of the reasons is for the last 20 years, we’ve been spending our national treasure of blood and resources on the global war on terror.”

"The Army’s plan for the Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon this year was thrown into doubt after an early March test flight was canceled at the last minute."

"Also in March, the Air Force nixed its most advanced hypersonic program, developed by Lockheed Martin, after several test failures."

📝 "The US is flat out failing to perform with military technology. China and Russia have fully developed hypersonic missile capabilities. The US keeps trying and can't do it.

These repeated failures are getting tough to explain." - Labrador Skeptic

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/hypersonic-missiles-america-military-behind-936a3128

https://archive.ph/p3xZS

🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Why There Are No Game-Changing Weapons for Ukraine

“The idea that there is a shortcut to victory raises expectations for a quick end to the carnage that Ukraine is unlikely to fulfill. After more than 18 months of grinding, attritional war, it should be obvious that there are no miracle weapons.”

“We should not expect a sudden, disruptive impact on the war effort from additional precision-strike missiles…Rather, these systems will be an additional asset to help Ukraine slowly attrit Russia’s capacity to wage this war.”

“The bitter truth is that there are no shortcuts to victory using specific weapons or Western deep battle doctrine.”

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/09/14/ukraine-russia-taurus-germany-atacms-weapons-attrition-strategy-deep-battle/

https://archive.ph/5r4iL

🇨🇳 🇺🇸 China AI & Semiconductors Rise: US Sanctions Have Failed

Huawei, SMIC, 7nm, H800, Domestic AI Capabilities, ASML, MediaTek, Qualcomm, Apple, RF Capabilities, Potential Sanctions

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/china-ai-and-semiconductors-rise

🇨🇳 🇺🇸 "This is an *oh sh*t* moment for the US that needs to wake the entire nation up - but likely won't.

China is not just a much larger manufacturing economy - they are technically more advanced than the US is.

The hypersonic missiles, the numerous bullet trains, the 5G factories

using AI, and now blowing past us with chip production - the old days are gone. Keep in mind that we are importing the technical knowhow to supposedly build our own new CHIP factories, because we don't it. We need the Taiwanese and S Koreans to do it.

There are a lot of Americans asleep in the past, thinking the US still has the manufacturing, military and technological superiority that it no longer has.

The idiots in our government thought they could cut off the Chinese from "our" advanced technology.

We've been teaching Chinese PhD students everything we know for decades now, for a tiny fraction of the cost that it took to develop that knowledge, the great majority of even our supposed secrets have been fed to China - and they don't need to steal anymore.

Worst of all, the woke Left is destroying what remains of our educational system, as well as merit-based science.

The right has always known there was a problem with our schools. There will be no reversing this without a wholesale redefinition of our schools & universities." - Labrador Skeptic

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1702281714075136056.html

📵 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 Out of fear of Huawei's 5G phones, the US House of Representatives has proposed sanctions against Huawei and SMIC, not only severing all commercial relations with them, but also filing criminal lawsuits against their executives.

what's the next? send CIA spies to assassinate these executives?

📎 BeijingDai

🇺🇸 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Pence warns U.S. troops may have to fight Russia if Ukraine loses war

Former Vice President Mike Pence this week warned that Russia will likely encroach on NATO territory and trigger an American military response should it succeed in its efforts to conquer Ukraine.

"I’m convinced that if the Ukrainian military doesn’t stop and repel that Russian invasion, it’s not going to be too long before that Russian army crosses a border that our men and women in uniform are going to have to go and fight under our NATO Treaty," he said. "I truly believe it. Whether that’s Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania... Poland, I don’t know."

https://justthenews.com/world/europe/pence-warns-us-troops-may-have-fight-russia-if-ukraine-loses-war

🛢 🇸🇦 🇷🇺 Energy prices driving US CPI higher. Saudis and Russians determined to drive energy prices up higher, targeting oil at $100. Strategic petroleum reserve at its lowest level since 1983. And its an election year.

📎 Philip Pilkington

🛢 🇺🇸 🇸🇦 Bloomberg starting to wake up to how bad the energy situation without the Saudis on side.

📝 "These charts show total crude oil inventories in the US and remaining invetory in the Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPR).

Reserves have fallen in a straight line lower since 2021.

There are now ~760 million barrels remaining in the US with just ~350 million in the SPR.

BOTH of these numbers are at their lowest since 1983.

However, we have a record low of ~45 days of supply remaining in the US.

What happened to refilling the reserves?" - Kobeissi Letter

📎 Philip Pilkington

🛰 🇺🇸 Video of last night’s @Starlink satellite deployment

📎 SpaceX

🇷🇺 🇲🇽 Russian military delegation marching in the Mexican Independence Day parade.

🇷🇺 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 US imports of Russian fertilizer hit record $944mln

Russia was the US' second-largest supplier of fertilizers this year, the largest supplier being Canada, which exported $2.8Bln of fertilizers in seven months. Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Qatar make up the other top five countries from which the US imports fertilizer.

So the US has forced European countries to impose sanctions and plunge their economies into recession, while the US trades with Russia as it sees fit, just as if there were no sanctions.

📎 Megatron

🇺🇸🇰🇿⚡️- National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan stated at a briefing that Joe Biden would be attending a summit with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan.