This news probably makes many Americans a little confused!
On February 13, Eastern Time (February 14, Beijing Time), the US Navy’s Sixth Fleet issued a statement on the US Navy website: At 11:46 p.m. local time on February 12, the USS Truman collided with the merchant ship “Besiktas-M” near Port Said, Egypt in the Mediterranean.
Aircraft carriers collide with merchant ships?
How outrageous would this be for this to happen? You know, as a target of strategic value, whether in wartime or peacetime, aircraft carriers are layered with defenses, and guards with knives are always vigilant. According to the common saying in the United States, a fly can’t fly into the aircraft carrier’s defense circle.
According to public information, the merchant ship “Besiktas-M” that collided with the Truman belongs to the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, operated by Singapore United Ocean Management, with a deadweight tonnage of approximately 53,020 tons, and is a bulk carrier built in 2003.
Such a huge behemoth actually collided directly with the Truman. Anyone with some experience in sea navigation knows that ports and narrow waterways should be highly vigilant, strengthen observation, lookout, and take safe speeds to avoid collisions. At this time, the general attention of ship operators should also be highly focused.
According to the previous public information of the US Navy, the USS Truman was originally carrying out combat deployment tasks and had “fierce exchanges of fire” with the Houthi armed forces in the Red Sea. For example, recently, the Yemeni Houthi armed forces have repeatedly made public statements claiming that they have launched an attack on the USS Truman.
The Truman, which is in combat deployment, should have its vigilance fully raised.
But the Truman collided with a merchant ship. Although the US Navy saved face by saying that no one was injured, the ship did not take in water, and the propulsion device was normal; but everyone knows that this is a 100,000-ton collision. Even a slight touch can roll and flatten the steel like dough.
The damage to the Truman will never be small!
It hit something it shouldn’t have hit, and covered up the damage. There must be something fishy going on. After all, there must be something fishy going on when things are out of the ordinary!
Some netizens speculated that the Truman was afraid that the Pentagon would “delay” its deployment like its predecessors, the Eisenhower and Lincoln, and deliberately “injured itself”?
Is this possible?
I don’t know, but there are many similar incidents in history, such as the idiom “fire dragon burns warehouse”.
At almost the same time as the collision with the aircraft carrier on February 12, Eastern Time, a valuable EA-18G electronic warfare aircraft of the US Navy crashed into the sea near the Port of San Diego, California.
This is not the first one, but the ninth aviation accident in half a month. It is also the fifth flight accident involving the US military alone.
It is hard not to associate these things with the comprehensive review of the Pentagon’s financial black hole by the “Government Efficiency Department” led by Musk.
In the audit of the fiscal year 2023, half of the Pentagon’s assets could not be recorded, which is equivalent to wiping out the GDP of Brazil out of thin air. On the basis of the outrageous stories of the past thousand-dollar ashtrays, ten-thousand-dollar toilet seats, and nine sheep worth a million, Musk has added a bushing with a market value of $100, and the US Air Force reimbursed $90,000; the F-35 project lost a million parts, worth $85 million, but no one was held accountable…….
Interestingly, a week before the Truman collided, the US National Interest bimonthly website reported on February 8: Given Musk’s understanding of technology as the head of the US Government Department of Efficiency (DOGE), and his obvious preference for cheap but complex unmanned systems, people can expect that he will soon turn his anger to the over-budget US aircraft carrier formation.
And the Truman had no problems earlier or later, but it happened at this time. Note that the relevant news was released by the US Navy’s Sixth Fleet, which belongs to the US European Theater Command; when the Truman was operating in the Red Sea, it was commanded by the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet, which is under the US Central Command.
Coincidentally, when checking the accounts of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) found a black account of US military aid to Ukraine: Ukrainian President Zelensky repeatedly accused that the United States claimed that the total amount of military aid to Ukraine was as high as 177 billion US dollars, but Ukraine actually only received about 75 billion US dollars in weapons, equipment and supplies, with a difference of more than 100 billion US dollars.
Not only that.
Recently, the famous American host Carlson went to the world’s most expensive ski resort in the Swiss Alps and found that all the people who came to vacation were Ukrainians, the whole town was full of Ukrainians, and Ukrainians became the richest people in the world, spending one million US dollars in an afternoon.
Carlson angrily accused them of squandering the money of American taxpayers, saying that the Ukrainian military resold at least half of the weapons aided by the United States to the enemies of the United States, and the money of American taxpayers went into the pockets of the Ukrainian military; and the US military and the CIA were fully aware of this criminal behavior, but they did not report it because they were also the party that received kickbacks.
Who is responsible for military aid to Ukraine?
As the “landlord”, the US European Command took the lead.
You see, it was such a coincidence! The USS Truman did not collide with a ship when it was in the defense zone of the Fifth Fleet of the US Central Command; it collided with a ship as soon as it entered the Mediterranean and entered the defense zone of the Sixth Fleet of the US European Command.
The repair fee is obviously indispensable.
This is not the first time this has happened.
In 2017, during Trump’s first term, Trump also selected 2,400 professional auditors to enter the Pentagon to check the accounts. The aforementioned story of $1,000 ashtrays, $10,000 toilet seats, and $6 million for nine sheep was the first time Trump checked the accounts of the US Department of Defense.
In 2017, the US Navy’s Seventh Fleet collided with ships one after another as if it was “possessed”.
On January 31, 2017, the “Antitan” missile cruiser, which had been stationed at the Yokosuka US military base for a long time, ran aground on a reef.
On May 9, 2017, the USS Lake Chamberlain, a guided missile cruiser belonging to the US Navy’s Pacific Fleet, collided with a South Korean fishing boat in the Sea of Japan.
On June 17, 2017, the USS Fitzgerald, a destroyer belonging to the US Navy’s Seventh Fleet, collided with the Philippine cargo ship Crystal; the Fitzgerald was severely damaged and seven US sailors died.
On August 21, 2017, the USS John McCain, a destroyer belonging to the US Navy’s Seventh Fleet, collided with a merchant ship in the Strait of Malacca near the coast of Singapore. As seawater poured into the sealed cabin, 10 sailors were drowned and another five were seriously injured.
Even more coincidental is that in that year, the Francis corruption case involved 60 US naval generals and hundreds of other naval officers, and was called the “Seventh Fleet” corruption case by the United States. At that time, the amount of corruption admitted by Francis was only 35 million US dollars.
35 million US dollars, and there were stories of multiple ships colliding. You said that there are more than 100 billion US dollars in military aid to Ukraine, and more than 1.9 trillion assets that cannot be recorded. How many stories of planes and ships are needed to settle the accounts, so that Trump and Musk will be afraid to stop investigating?
The crash of high-value fighters such as F-35 and EA-18G, the collision scars of the USS Truman, and the financial black hole of the Pentagon are just outlining the silhouette of an empire at dusk. Musk’s attempt to use the “transparent revolution” is just like using a Band-Aid to suture a bleeding artery, which is doomed to be futile!