We know what’s coming and we are prepared.
⚓️ 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 2023 EOY review of commissioned surface combatants by both numbers & tonnage of USN vs. PLA/N.
🔶️ The USN numbers in the past 5 years are 2/3 LCS. Based on decommissioning rate of LCS, some of these won't be in the 2024 EOY review
🔶️ Avg age of surface combatants still in commission by year, USN v. PLA/N. We're twice as old.
🔶️ PLA/N has built nearly 3x the number of USN surface combatants in the past decade.
🔶️ Population pyramid of the two fleet's surface combatants by year commissioned (of those that haven't been decommissioned)
🔶️ Total tonnage of USN Surface Combatants commissioned 1987-2023 by class (still active)
🔶️ This will look worse next year as more CGs and LCSs are decommissioned.
🔶️ Total tonnage of PLA/N commissioned surface combatants since 1987, still in commission.
🔶️ Comparative tonnage of surface combatants commissioned since 1985 that are still active.
🔶️ Comparative total tonnage of commissioned surface combatants since 1985, still active.
🔶️ comparative of total tonnes of surface combatants commissioned in past 10 years that are still active.
📎 Claude Berube
“Bondi Hero” Ahmed Al-Ahmed (the man who disarmed the ISIS terrorist in Australia on Sunday) received a phone call from the Foreign Minister of Syria.
During the call, Ahmed asks the Foreign Minister to pass on his “regards” to the new President of Syria, Al-Julani.
Both Al-Julani and Asaad al-Shaibani (the Foreign Minister of Syria) are members of Al Qaeda.
So we allegedly have somebody who sympathizes with terrorist Syrians stopping other terrorists?
Feels like a simulation.
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History doesn’t offer much hope. It seems always to have been the case that an ...
FBI Arrested A Fifth Trantifa Militant In NYE Bomb Plot
https://themanhattan.press/2025/12/17/fbi-arrested-a-fifth-trantifa-militant-in-nye-bomb-plot/
