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…really just bombing things from the air uh and that kind of gets really sticky because the US Navy can can shoot as many tomahawks as they want to into Yemen and it isn't really…

…russian navy intercepted detected and intercepted an american virginia-class submarine operating in their territorial waters off the kuril islands this was a few days ago the russians claim that they you have used kinetic measures…

…and still losing you've got the Chinese looking at what's going on in the Red Sea and they say hm the US Navy cannot stop improvised munitions that the houthis are literally MIG weld

…The US Navy is not able to get within 100 miles of the Strait. And of course, maintain freedom of maneuver within their own terrain, yeah, absolutely, they control their own territory, at least for now…

…This is not to disparage the US Navy or anything like that, but this is just a fact of the case. The United States is not projecting sea power. We're not power projecting in the…

…sent one of their first um uh Maritime freedom of navigation patrols taking some language from the US Navy on that uh they sent one of those patrols down to the Philippines economic exclusion Zone they…

disputed is that a lot of US Navy forces are in the region and they are continuing to conduct strikes pretty much daily or at least every other day on random narco vessels that are transiting…

…Regarding strategic movement this week, not a whole lot of change from last week, at least with regards to uh US Navy aircraft carriers and carrier strike groups, but there has been some major strategic movement…

…A lot of the US Navy's technical and tactical drills and exercises have been focused on that sort of eventuality, and every time a carrier in the years past went through the Strait of Hormuz…

…with the goal of just sending a message and that's the way that it is the US Navy has also been quite active in the region over the past few weeks really so there is…

…Similarly, the US Navy continues their deployment down off the coast of Venezuela, which we'll talk about in just a moment. But just at a high level, there's been a lot of speculation that…

…a deal this is now as far as any other cables i'm sure that other countries navies are inspecting uh their cables at the moment but again this takes months to do and this honestly…

…I don't know if these vessels are being intercepted by the US Navy eventually at some point or what's going on, but right now the most hardest hit, the most affected vessels in the…

…So, believe it or not, the US Navy uh specifically the Office of Naval Intelligence still does do this by hand. Uh the they classify the whole configuration and what we call the upright sequence. This…

…So, it's kind of hard to remain motivated to be aware that a good chunk of the US Navy is still parked off the coast of Venezuela. But either way, we'll keep an eye…