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The US Navy is in Trouble

Simon Whistler • August 20, 2026

The US Navy is in Trouble

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On Sunday, the 16th of August, Trita Parsi, the co-founder and executive vice-president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, made a post on X that has gone so viral even RFK Jr. would want to get vaccinated against it.

And that's saying something. the time of recording, it has been reposted 7,000 times at 38,000 likes and over 16 million views. The post showed the right-wing flap of a KC-135R strato-tanker, a plane used to refuel other planes in midair with what can only be described as creative graffiti.

The had gems such as P-Still-64 incoming, Operation Epstein Fury, and a whole host of others that we can't mention without getting demonetized. The graffiti expressed a level of dissatisfaction that we rarely see out of the American military. course, if it was just one photo, then we wouldn't be making an entire video about it.

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