Sep 4, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min · 10 segments
While the most hated US war in history drags on, fuel and grocery prices are spiking. Meanwhile troop morale is plummeting and the US war machine is RUNNING OUT of weapons! As for the communists, we…
I mean, just since the last time we sat down to talk, July, for example, was the hottest month on record for the US, the lower 48 states, the hottest month of all time.
It was the August that we just had, the highest gas prices for the month of August of all time, because in 2022, the last time you had these record gas prices, it had already declined by this point.
So we have this inflationary spike coming, a whole storm of inflation, which we'll get into.
The U.S. just surpassed $40 trillion in debt, a record mountain of debt.
So you have all of these factors coming together.
And I think at this point, what's happening to U.S. imperialism is also it's looking like a tipping point.
I mean, the whole world can see that the global bully, the hegemon of the world for the last three decades is now being cut down to size and it's really being humiliated.
One of the stories we've been looking at, I've been reading about these aircraft carriers.
But before that, the USS Gerald Ford, if you remember, it had become the poster child of American military dysfunction.
In part because you think of the conditions that these are like floating factories, right? They're sailors, they're personnel of the U.S.
Navy, but they're also basically industrial workers cooped up in these really miserable conditions.
And their deployments keep getting extended because the war is going a lot longer than anybody planned for.
That's like a modern record.
They haven't had that.
That's almost a year.
Yeah.
I mean,
you know, 365, 326, you're not much less
than a year.
At least going back to the Vietnam War, which, you know, there was huge discontent during the days of the Vietnam War and huge tensions within the armed forces.
There were all kinds of stories of plumbing problems and just an infrastructure breakdown on these ships that haven't been, they're not getting the maintenance that they're used to.
They're not used to being deployed for this long.
But you had things like a fire breakout in the laundry facilities.
I mean, just since the last time we sat down to talk, July, for example, was the hottest month on record for the US, the lower 48 states, the hottest month of all time.
It was the August that we just had, the highest gas prices for the month of August of all time, because in 2022, the last time you had these record gas prices, it had already declined by this point.
So we have this inflationary spike coming, a whole storm of inflation, which we'll get into.
The U.S. just surpassed $40 trillion in debt, a record mountain of debt.
So you have all of these factors coming together.
And I think at this point, what's happening to U.S. imperialism is also it's looking like a tipping point.
I mean, the whole world can see that the global bully, the hegemon of the world for the last three decades is now being cut down to size and it's really being humiliated.
One of the stories we've been looking at, I've been reading about these aircraft carriers.
But before that, the USS Gerald Ford, if you remember, it had become the poster child of American military dysfunction.
In part because you think of the conditions that these are like floating factories, right? They're sailors, they're personnel of the U.S.
Navy, but they're also basically industrial workers cooped up in these really miserable conditions.
And their deployments keep getting extended because the war is going a lot longer than anybody planned for.
That's like a modern record.
They haven't had that.
That's almost a year.
Yeah.
I mean,
you know, 365, 326, you're not much less
than a year.
At least going back to the Vietnam War, which, you know, there was huge discontent during the days of the Vietnam War and huge tensions within the armed forces.
There were all kinds of stories of plumbing problems and just an infrastructure breakdown on these ships that haven't been, they're not getting the maintenance that they're used to.
They're not used to being deployed for this long.
But you had things like a fire breakout in the laundry facilities.
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