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The Nimitz group is heading to the Middle East

johncliu88 said:

The Nimitz group is heading to the Middle East
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Couldn't you have linked the reuter's article instead of this huge twitter screenshot.

US aircraft carrier heads west from South China Sea amid Middle East tensions​

HANOI, June 16 (Reuters) - U.S. aircraft carrier USS Nimitz left the South China Sea on Monday morning heading west, according to data from ship tracking website Marine Traffic, after a reception for its planned port call in central Vietnam was cancelled.
The carrier had planned to visit Danang City later this week, but two sources, including one diplomat, said a formal reception slated for June 20 had been called off.

Data from Marine Traffic showed the carrier on Monday morning was moving west in the direction of the Middle East, where the battle between

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CMP said:

I don't fully understand why this is happening given the relatively marginal (compared to their other programs) costs involved. Is their military budget not going to be as large as expected? Or is it that they want to redirect this funding to other military programs? Or is this for the sake of tax cuts for the rich?

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I think that it's about the connections of the prime defense contractor versus the connections to Trump. The primes have been around forever and they have strong ties to both the serving military officers and to established members of both the Republican and Democratic parties. What they don't have though, is much to Trump himself. Instead, his connections are to the tech bro companies like Starlink and Anduril. We also have had Hegseth come out and say, "I will measure it as success if in the next two years, one of the primes is no longer in business, and the rest of them have all gotten stronger."

So a lot of it is a matter of siphoning money from the prime contractors to the tech bro ones, and the rest is an attack on perceived inefficiency. Of course, whether there's any rhyme or reason to any of this is going to depend on how competent you think Trump and his people are.