The US had set the target of manufacturing 100,000 155 mm artillery shells every month by the end of 2025.
Instead, it has failed to reach even half this target.
This is in part due to an entire General Dynamics factory that failed to make a single usable shell component in 2 years and after receiving hundreds of millions of dollars to do so.
Far from just an issue with artillery shells, US military industrial production is being held back by systemic flaws rooted in the for-profit nature of the US government and economy itself - siphoning off billions (if not trillions) of tax dollars and not only returning nothing of value for the American public - but diverting funding abroad on wars of aggression at the expense of funding healthcare, education, and infrastructure at home.
This reveals US for-profit industry as the very threat in reality to the American people, industry and the politicians they own, claim Russia, China, and Iran are in fiction.
Timeline:
00:00 Introduction with Ray Zucaro
00:51 The yen situation and carry trade
02:20 US Treasury sells euros to prop up the yen
06:08 What this means for NATO and Europe relations
07:19 Why the yen is weakening now
09:38 Risk of another Asian financial crisis
10:05 Oil markets and the Strait of Hormuz disruption
12:19 Other oil producers stepping up supply
16:53 New Russia sanctions bill in Congress
18:31 Europe's recession risk and Germany's debt
Matthew Blackburn is a political analyst who focuses on Russia and the post-Soviet space who publishes frequently on the National Interest and Responsible Statecraft.
Description:
Russia Again Massively Strikes Kiev No Russian Missile Shot Down; Zelensky Rages Blames West; Hormuz
Timeline:
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:32 Russia's Massive Strike on Kiev
00:02:36 Financial Times: No Missiles Intercepted
00:03:13 North Korean Missile Unit Deployed to Russia
00:05:51 Iskander M Missile Production Doubling
00:08:51 Zelensky Blames the West on X
00:10:12 Do Patriot Interceptors Actually Work
00:16:29 Zelensky's Pressure Campaign Explained
00:18:45 US Patriot Stockpile Critically Low
00:26:34 Russia's Four Simultaneous Air Campaigns
00:30:12 Record FAB Bomb Strikes in July
00:33:56 Russian MoD Targets Kiev Logistics Hubs
00:41:34 Kiev Left Without Air Defense
00:44:42 Financial Times Admits Drone Campaign Failed
00:52:09 Budanov Vows to Continue the Campaign
01:05:47 Ukrainian Command and Control Collapsing
01:06:58 Russian Advances Across the Front
01:21:05 Strait of Hormuz Deal Update
01:25:16 Sanctions Bill Threatens Relations With India
Russia Defeats West's 40-Day Attack Campaign. Trump Blasts "Duplicitous" Iran. Zaluzhny Mocks NATO
Timeline: 00:00:00 Iran and Oman close to a Hormuz deal 00:01:17 How the strait sharing agreement would work 00:03:16 Rubio and Bessent react to the deal 00:04:27 Trump claims total control of Hormuz 00:05:40 Trump's duplicitous Iran truth social post 00:07:52 Iran and Ukraine's Caspian Sea tanker incident 00:10:32 Ukraine's failed 40 day capitulation campaign 00:13:24 Russia advancing on five fronts 00:16:34 The west panics as Ukraine loses air defense 00:19:33 Zaluzhny says Ukraine will never join NATO 00:23:37 UEFA threatens to sue FIFA and Infantino 00:26:51 Telegram pulled and reinstated in the App Store 00:29:47 Ceuta migrant crisis and Alice Weidel's warning 00:31:39 Germany's howitzer secret slips out 00:33:29 Poland's court battle
Jennifer Kavanagh discusses the weakening position of the U.S. in East Asia, and why it does not seem possible for Ukraine to "turn the tide". Kavanagh is a Senior Fellow and Director of Military Analysis at Defense Priorities and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Security Studies.
