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He predicts Russia will challenge America at maritime choke points through attrition, including around Cuba, and will also disrupt energy supplies to create dependency on Russia.
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Naval Attrition
He predicts Russia will challenge America at maritime choke points through attrition, including around Cuba, and will also disrupt energy supplies to create dependency on Russia.
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The speaker predicts Russia's goal at sea will not be to defeat the U.S. Navy outright, but to create a war of attrition that degrades U.S. naval capacity because American ships are old, hard to rebuild, and crewed by tired sailors.
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"Oh, look. Okay. What America is doing is obvious. All right? It's silly. It's really obvious to people, right? There's nothing you can do..."
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"two is that if America can go and blow up energy supplies around the world to make the world more dependent on America, well,..."
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"points, the Panama Canal, the Middle East, and the Strait of Malacca, oh, and also, sorry, Greenland as well, then America can control naval..."
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"okay? This is something to look out for over the next year or two years. This conflict in the seas that will arise between..."
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A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: American war culture has learned to convert military failure into rescue spectacle, while real wars are still decided by economics, organization, logistics, and endurance.
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