Preview: Colleague Captain Jim Fanell, USN (Ret.) recommends moving the Atlantic Fleet to basing in the Indo Pacific in order to prepare for 2027. More later.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 2 June 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchel, conversation with colleague Jim Finnell, U.S. Navy retired captain intelligence officer. |
| 0:07.4 | What needs to be done immediately expecting the Chinese aggression against Taiwan and the whole of East Asia. |
| 0:15.2 | 2027 as the jump-off date were given again and again by the U.S. Navy. |
| 0:19.3 | What needs to be done? |
| 0:21.9 | Move the Atlantic fleet to the Pacific. Find room. Much more of this later tonight, getting ready for 2027. |
| 0:28.9 | We have to squeeze them into San Diego. This is the most obvious one. But we also have a base up in |
| 0:34.7 | Bremerton, up in Washington State. There's room up there. |
| 0:37.9 | There's also room if we said, hey, let's look at Alameda. |
| 0:41.8 | We have to change maybe our safety standards. |
| 0:45.0 | We can start reefing ships like we did in World War II, |
| 0:48.0 | where we have ships side by side with each other. |
| 0:51.0 | Nobody wants to do that. |
| 0:52.1 | It'll freak out the safety folks. But the reality is we need to have those |
| 0:55.9 | men and material and ammunition on the Pacific side of this conflict now before China pulls the trigger and |
| 1:03.6 | does their version of December 7, 1941 or 9-11. |
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