When asked about the state of affairs on the USS Lincoln carrier, President Trump stated there was nothing to the complaints about moral, food, and length of deployment. He has never understood, nor does he now, how the military works. Troops need to be rotated from a war zone back to the U.S. on a regular basis. Short of that, troop moral can suddenly plumet, which it has on the USS Lincoln which puts the entire ship in a dangerous position.

Why is the top military leader silent? Quite simply, when Peter Hegseth was put in charge, his first move was to fire all the top military leaders, include the head of the joint chiefs of staff. Additionally, he has shown that he is both a mysoginist and a racist. In the latest round of giving naval captains and colonels a star, he did not allow a single woman nor a person of color to get a star even though at least a few of them were far more qualified than those who did get that star.

Another thing, Trump has allow our cruise missle and Patriot systems to run very low in replacements. And with regard to the Patriot Missle System, he has totally ignored the extreme need for these in Ukraine. The American public, 70% according to today’s CBS polling, supports Ukraine but Trump does not listen!

Trump needs to change his MAGA to MAWA, Make America Weak Again, which he has successfully done. In World War 2, FDR made sure that the supply of necessary weapon systems was always full. Today we do have the capacity to do that. But it takes the Defense Department to put out an order to a company like Raytheon Missle Systems, in Andover MA, to increase its output which translates into awarding the company a new contract. Raytheon also makes the Tomahawk Cruise Missle which means the DoD contracting system has a very easy way to increase production. We desperately needs a large increase in production. The DoD did contract Raytheon for more Missles but the amount is undisclosed.

The point of my rant is a very simple one. We have one person, Donald Trump, who has no understanding of how the military works, and his puppet, Pete Hegseth, who only does what Trump desires.

It bothers me to no end that Trump still calls on Putin, a man who Nikolia Krushchev would have loved. Krushchev is famous for banging his shoe at the UN saying, “we will bury you.” Considering Putin was once the head of Russia’s secret police, it seems obvious that he has the same idea. What does Trump still call this man, like he is a friend, to talk to him? The man people of the U.S. overwhelmingly want Trump to talk to is President Zalinskii. That is not happening to any real extent. The administration’s view of Ukraine seems disinterested. Trump fails to see that if Putin were to win that war, he would immediately go after Moldova, a former USSR satellite as Ukraine was. But Moldova is part of NATO which Trump fails to see as a necessary organization for both Europe and the U.S. World stability requires that.

Finally, and I will be brief, China has certainly taken note of the depletion of war materials in the U.S. I would not be surprised if China took this opportunity to try to take over Taiwan. Their only question is, how much support is the U.S. capable of giving Taiwan? According to the “Naval News,” right now the Navy has 200 warships of various sizes and duties. It has 11 Aircraft Carriers, 77 destroyers, and 65 submarines with the other ships being mostly support ships. China has only 3 aircraft carriers, 75 submarines, 62 destroyers, and 59 frigates.

The American public should be very concerned about world peace right now. We can no longer support the war against Iran, unless however, Trump invades Iran with infantry divisions, the only way to win that war. Otherwise, he simply needs to admit, which he won’t, that his plan is failing miserably and pull out.