I got out theoried

Evergreen open.substack.com/pub/secretar...

Doesn’t mean people aren’t learning, but it’s sort of bizarro world it takes an entire field exercise and not, oh idk simply looking at a UAF mechanized brigades telegram channel to figure out how UAS can enhance fires www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

I actually sort of worry that a lack of American military presence even purely as observers not only means we’re not learning the right lessons but not even learning lessons at all

There is, I suppose, a 'clever' explanation of this where Vance wants the USA as a kleptocratic authoritarian state to realign with Russia against NATO.

But I honestly this the more parsimonious explanation here is just that he fried his brain on internet racism and has as a result gone crazy.

But it's hard to address that question without openly acknowledging that the President has taken leave of his senses, and the only real task is somehow grappling with that and minimizing the damage (or, alternatively, exploiting it for advantage).

There IS a legitimate underlying topic here, which is: how is the Navy going to reconcile the man-baby's directives with its own actual real-world needs, while pretending they're giving him what he wants?