US Navy and Coast Guard Shipbuilding in Disarray and No US Commercial Shipbuilding | What's Going on With Shipping?

📝 Sal says that the US will lose aircraft carriers as we build them at a pace of 10-15 years, while our current ones are aging, in need of repairs etc. And that we are cannibalizing current construction of carriers for spare parts going to existing carriers.

He also discussed how we got rid of all of our destroyers we planned to build with VLS cells and the terrible shape that our amphibious ships are in. That we lack facilities to even repair these or the firefighting equipment to even deal with accidents.

He says we will be forced to reflag ships from Asian allies to make up for our lack of ships in general. This is a common point by John Konrad as well. But these tend to be civilian ships.

Also that our shipbuilding is completely leaderless and nobody knows how current funding will be allocated. Even our icebreaker building initiative seems to be dead in the water.

All of this is happening even before the first ships are lost due to a potential war.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOHKog66DaA

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 NEW: Russian forces recently advanced northeast of Siversk during a reinforced company-sized mechanized assault. (1/3)

The Ukrainian brigade that repelled the assault reported that Russian forces used six tanks, three armored personnel carriers (APCs), six MT-LB armored fighting vehicles (AFVs), an armored recovery vehicle, 12 civilian vehicles, two buggies, and 41 motorcycles.

Russian forces have long attempted to seize Siversk and have consistently attacked along the front line in the Siversk direction since at least Summer 2024.

Other Key Takeaways:

Russian forces appear to be using armored vehicles more frequently in some tactical attacks after a decrease in the use of armor since Winter 2024-2025.

The Kremlin reasserted its unchanged commitment to achieving its long-standing war aims in Ukraine that amount to nothing short of Ukraine's full capitulation, undermining Russia's diplomatic posturing.

Ukrainian forces recently killed a Russian commander in the Velykyi Burluk direction.

Russian forces recently advanced near Siversk, Toretsk, and Novopavlivka and in western Zaporizhia Oblast.

https://fxtwitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1949591369929961936

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☦🇵🇸❌🇮🇱 — For around the fourth time over the past month, Jewish settlers in West Bank have once again attacked the Christian Palestinian village of Taybeh.

The settlers wrote threats on the walls, burned homes and vehicles of citizens.

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🇺🇸 White people: *create a Whites-only town*

Media: “THIS IS LITERALLY SEGREGATION!”

Black people: *create a blacks-only town*

Media:

🔗 David Santa Carla

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🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡- "If Iran restarts its nuclear program again, we will wipe it out very fast," - President Donald Trump.

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🇨🇳🇪🇺 The EU-China summit which was expected to last from July 24th to July 27th ended early after one day!

Talks between Beijing and Brussels quickly reached a standstill as Brussels' main conditions for trade with other countries and economic blocks are related to "respect for international law and human rights".

EU leaders brought up China's covert support for Russia, not deterred by the rebuke the EU diplomatic chief, Kaja Kallas, received a few weeks ago from the Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, that China will not drop its alliance with Russia, no matter what the EU offers them. China's position regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine was made the principal "factor" in EU-China relations by Brussels.

After that, EU leaders brought up other topics of concern for them such as: increased competition from the Chinese auto industry, opaque export controls on rare earth metals, threats against Taiwan, and human rights violations against the Uyghurs, with Ursula von der Leyen threatening Beijing with "consequences" if these issues were not resolved.

The only consensus reached at the meeting was the commitment not to retreat from the Paris Agreement on climate change.

Chinese president, Xi Jinping gave a speech after the talks ended, without any European leaders present, without going into specifics and called for greater mutual understanding and trust. He assured: “Europe’s current challenges do not come from China.”

Although pro-EU press presented this summit as a "success" the reality is far gloomier: this was a resounding failure for Brussels. They came with the hope of aligning China to the values of the neoliberal world only for the Chinese to laugh in their faces.

The Chinese have already conquered part of the European market and they will continue to do so in the future while also displacing Europe from other markets. Moreover, in other industries, Chinese manufacturing power and laxer regulations will effectively kill European competition.

But that's not all: the fact is that China is the largest supplier of goods to the EU (21.3%)! Other partners are far behind: 13.7% of imports come from the USA, 6.8% from Britain, 5.6% from Switzerland.

The situation is that the main trading partner does not buy yours and gradually occupies your markets and the worst part: nobody in the European Commission, Council or Parliament have a plan as to how to combat Chinese domination the EU Common Market and instead do the opposite by crippling European industry with regulations and the emphasis on using only wind and solar energy leading to exorbitant prices making most industrial activities unprofitable and redundant, all for the sake of the "environment".

@CIG_telegram

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🇺🇸🏘 Responding to statements by the Missouri Democrats and Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin on Return to the Land

🔗 Aarvoll

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✡️❌🇷🇴 The American Jewish Committee publicly condemned Romanian president, Nicușor Dan, for his decision to block the promulgation of the heinous Vexler law!

Writing on X/Twitter, the AJC expressed its concerns that President Nicușor Dan is using support from rightwing parties in the Romanian Parliament to overturn the Vexler law.

The AJC urges Nicușor Dan to stop what he’s doing and promulgate the law and “stop promoting extremism and antisemitism”.

The Vexler law with its vague definitions of “fascism” and “war criminal” deliberately makes the two terms synonymous and coupled with the fact that many historical figures have had the “war criminal” label attached to their names in political trials organised by the communist government after WW2, this leads to the eternal damnation of the legacy and works of hundreds of intellectuals who have served in the Royal Romanian Army during WW2, worked as bureaucrats in the royal state or published anti-Marxist journals, papers etc.

President Nicușor Dan is smart and considerate enough to try and make justice for these people who, under this new law, would be barred from being studied in learning institutions or spoken about in public.

@Wallachian_Gazette

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🇦🇹 Remigration March, Vienna 2025.

🔗 National Conservative

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🇺🇸🇻🇪 Marco Rubio on X: Maduro is NOT the President of Venezuela and his regime is NOT the legitimate government. Maduro is the head of the Cartel de Los Soles, a narco-terror organization which has taken possession of a country. And he is under indictment for pushing drugs into the United States.

🔗 SecRubio

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🇺🇸🇷🇺 Speaking yesterday with Fox News, U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio stated that President Trump is “growing increasingly frustrated and losing his patience” with Russia and Vladimir Putin, regarding continually stalled negotiations to end the ongoing war in Ukraine, adding that “the time has come for some action.”

🔗 OSINTdefender

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🛢 The shale revolution fooled the world into thinking oil is easy.

Fast wells, quick returns, and instant supply masked the real fragility of the system.

Conventional wells ramp up slowly over several years and then decline gradually, typically 5–10% per year.

In contrast, shale wells ramp up quickly, often within a few months, but then decline sharply by 70–80% in the first year.

This means operators must constantly drill new wells just to keep production flat.

With the rig count falling, it's only a matter of time before production follows.

Another often overlooked fact: the fast-cycle nature of shale reduced global oil ramp up time.

Need more oil? “I got you bro, wait a few months.”

But with Tier 1 deposits nearing depletion in the coming years, who will be able to quickly ramp up production to save the day?

Remember: conventional oil projects often take 5–10 years from exploration to first oil.

When the world realizes that shale can’t quickly scale anymore, it may already be too late.

https://fxtwitter.com/ekwufinance/status/1949159322799222790

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🇳🇱🇮🇱 Netherlands labels Israel ‘threat to national security’ for first time

The Netherlands has, for the first time, included Israel on a list of states which pose a threat to its national security, according to a report from the Dutch National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism (NCTV) – the country’s main counterterrorism agency.

It notes that Israel has made efforts to manipulate and influence public opinion and policy in the Netherlands, via disinformation campaigns.

https://thecradle.co/articles-id/32197

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🇻🇳🇨🇳 "Wars come and go but the bayonets are eternal"

Vietnamese and Chinese personnel taking part in activities of Exercise Hand-In-Hand 2025. From the latest trend on drone operations to the tried-and-true way of the bayonets, everything is covered. "Diversed" is the takeway.

🔗 Lee Ann Quann

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🇺🇸🇪🇺 If Europeans were paying attention (or being told the truth), they should be beyond appalled by this "deal"

It's nothing more than one of the most expensive imperial tributes in history. Just a massive one-way transfer of wealth with no reciprocal benefits

The "deal" is:
- The EU now gets charged 15% tariffs on its exports to the US when they commit to charging zero tariffs on US imports in the EU
- The EU agrees to invest $600 billion in the US, for no other obvious reason than pleasing "daddy"
- The EU will "purchase hundreds of billions of dollars of American military equipment"
- The EU commits to buying 750 billion dollars worth of very expensive US LNG, specifically $250 billion for each of the next 3 years

In exchange for all these concessions and extraction of their wealth they get... nothing. I'm not even exaggerating, that IS the deal: the EU gets nothing.

This does not even remotely ressemble the type of agreements made by two equal sovereign powers. It rather looks like the type of unequal treaties that colonial powers used to impose in the 19th century - except this time, Europe is on the receiving end.

More worryingly, this sets a dynamic and a precedent: what do you think happens next from here? In the 19th century, were colonial powers content with their first unequal treaty? Of course not - one of the key rules of geopolitics is that weakness only encourages further exploitation.

Again, this is Europe's century of humiliation.

🔗 Arnaud Bertrand

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🇺🇦🇷🇺 Another Ukrainian drone strike inside Russia, likely targeting a railway traction substation in the Volgograd region. The strike caused a visible fire. Some reports mentioned a nearby oil refinery, but our analysis points to the substation. More details in the thread:

🧵 https://fxtwitter.com/Tatarigami_UA/status/1949303401516568803

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🇮🇱 Israel and the double standard

🔗 Fight Back Podcast

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🇺🇸🏘 "We've already passed the threshold, if we aren't close to reaching it, where the risk of not being organized, the risk of not having a community, who thinks and acts and wants to help you, is going to be greater"

🔗 Fight Back Podcast

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🇺🇸 America literally wouldn't exist without intentional White communities. Once you understand this, you'll understand the motive for banning them.

🧵 https://fxtwitter.com/BasedSamParker/status/1949644562106138993

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🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡- "Iran has been sending out very nasty signals," - President Donald Trump.

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🇨🇳🇪🇺 Before the EU agreed in principle to the terms of Donald Trump for the EU-USA trade deal, the European Union tried to convince China to open up its market to European businesses.

From the start, the EU-China Summit began poorly. The EU delegation comprising Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Council, Antonio Costa and the High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Kaja Kallas, were brought by bus by the Chinese authorities, a move which was interpreted by observers as a mockery of EU leaders.

@CIG_telegram

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🇺🇸🏘 Arkansas’ Republican Attorney General Tim Griffin has launched an investigation into Return to the Land, a White-centric intentional community founded by Eric Orwoll in the Ozarks.

Griffin condemned the project for “racial discrimination” and alleged that it raises “all sorts of legal issues, including constitutional concerns.”

🔗 AF Post

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🇫🇷🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israel says it has found documents in Gaza which shows alleged secret meetings between France and Hamas. According to the documents, Paris was keen on holding direct talks with Hamas in 2020, and criticized the US handling of the conflict.

France has denied the reports, Paris calls the documents fabrications to undermine French effort in establishing a two-state solution.

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🇫🇷☄️ Massive Cyberattack Hits French Defense Sector: Naval Group Suffers Historic Data Breach

‼️ A major cybersecurity breach has struck the French defense industry, with Naval Group — France’s premier shipbuilding company — emerging as the primary target. The attack has also indirectly affected THALES, Dassault, and Safran systems.

🖥 According to initial reports: Over 13GB of internal data has already been leaked publicly. The total data dump exceeds 1TB in size

🔍 The leaked files reportedly include:

Full source code for the Combat Management Systems (CMS) used on French frigates and nuclear-powered submarines

Weapon system software

Simulation environments

Internal emails, user manuals, and network documentation

Restricted content related to aircraft, including the Rafale-M


❗️The hacker, using the alias "Neferpitou", gave Naval Group a 72-hour deadline to respond. When no agreement was reached, the entire data set was dumped online for free, suggesting the motive may not be financial but rather ideological or political.

❗️Naval Group has issued a brief statement saying it is investigating the incident, while experts are already beginning to verify the authenticity of the materials — many of which appear legitimate.

⚜️@TheSimurgh313

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🇺🇸🇨🇳🇷🇺 Marco Rubio: “China is giving Russia as much aid as they can get away with without being discovered. The Europeans have caught onto this. There is no way that Putin could have sustained this war without Chinese support, particularly buying his oil.”

“I think the Chinese have an incentive to see this war go on. They think that the longer this war goes on, it’ll distract us and prevent us from focusing on other parts of the world that they’re interested in.”

https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/07/secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-with-lara-trump-of-fox-news/

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🇫🇷🇸🇾 France has dropped charges against Bashar al-Assad.

🔗 AF Post

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🇧🇪🇮🇱 Belgian police arrest Israeli soldiers accused of war crimes in Gaza

Belgian federal police have arrested and interrogated two Israeli soldiers credibly accused of war crimes in Gaza, the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) announced on 21 July, marking the first time Israeli suspects linked to crimes in Gaza have been subjected to formal arrest and questioning.

The action came in response to an urgent legal complaint filed by HRF and the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) earlier this week.

The HRF is leading a global legal campaign against Israeli soldiers involved in war crimes, increasingly forcing these troops to avoid international travel or risk arrest.

https://thecradle.co/articles-id/32080

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🇦🇺✡️🇮🇱 A Jewish army officer who had his security clearance stripped for being more loyal to Israel than Australia has left the defence force.

In February he lost an appeal where he tried to argue that not allowing dual allegiances was discriminatory.

https://www.noticer.news/adf-israel-loyalty-jewish-officer-leaves/

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🇺🇸 Noah Smith: "MAGA has no culture beyond online rage. There is no revival of Christianity or patriotism."

"MAGA is hurting manufacturing, canceling infrastructure, blocking energy, gutting research, and slowing the economy."

"This is a movement that builds NOTHING."

📝 Anon: "The younger generations want something further to the right. MAGA ended up being GDP boomers putting on stage plays of 80s pop nostalgia. Gen Z wants to see tangible change, to make real moves, and set the tone for a new era. Some sort of Israel-skeptic Socialist Nationalism."

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/maga-doesnt-build-anything

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🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israeli military officials say they have no proof Hamas routinely steals UN aid, undercutting a claim Israel has used to limit food for Gaza.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/world/middleeast/hamas-un-aid-theft.html

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