Category: United States

The Pentagon’s IPO for War: Now With 100% More Cowbell

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The Pentagon’s acquisition system is being overhauled into a “Warfighting Acquisition System,” turbocharging weapons production, slashing bureaucracy, and empowering officials to deliver arms at “wartime speed.” Portfolio Acquisition Executives now wield sweeping authority, startups are courted like prom queens, and the defense industrial base is being rebranded as Silicon Valley with missiles.

So much for the “peace president”—Trump’s arsenal of freedom looks more like an IPO for war, where venture capital meets missile launchers and bureaucrats cosplay as battlefield commanders.

Forging the Arsenal of Freedom

Related:

FoRGED Act Documentation

Nigeria as a Battleground for U.S.–China Influence?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

CSIS

The following quotes are from an article I’m currently working on for Venezuela.

Sir Walter Raleigh, a leading figure in early English colonization, once declared, “For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.“

CSIS’ Ryan Berg’s 2025 statement before the House Homeland Security Committee Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security warned that Chinese port projects in adversarial states could offer a “permissive environment” for future PLA Navy operations.

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Social Security, Medicare are “going to be gone,” Donald Trump warns +

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Social Security, Medicare are “going to be gone,” Donald Trump warns

Nice way to shift the blame. He was already planning on cutting them.

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Trump’s Medicaid reversal should worry Social Security recipients.

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