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Running On Empty: 70% Of F-35s 'Not Combat Capable'?

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🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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A disturbing report from the Government Accountability Office shows that 70 percent - and maybe more - of the outrageously expensive, over-budget F-35 fighter jets are not capable of conducting combat. Yet Washington continues to rattle sabers at Russia and China. Also today: Pentagon not bothering to track weapons sent to Ukraine, and US considering MORE military aid to Israel as "incentive" for lower civilian casualties...

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0:00.0

Hello everybody. Thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report. With us today, Daniel McAdams, our co-host. Daniel, good to see you.

0:08.6

Happy Monday, Dr. Paul. New week. New week, new ideas. No, we can't find anything new we hash some of the old ones because

0:16.4

we're going to start off with talking about an F-35 that's a very very fancy

0:21.2

airplane very very costly and has nothing to do with natural defense.

0:26.2

It goes to do with spending a lot of money.

0:28.4

But we've talked about it for a long time, and I think it was on the drawing boards, maybe

0:32.4

24 or 25 years ago and beginning of the century.

0:36.0

And since then some people have been estimated that the $1.7 trillion is investment a bit mere investment.

0:44.0

But don't worry we have the auditors out there and they'll trace every single thing

0:49.0

that's going on and no special interest there.

0:52.6

But this is more of the same, but it's so bad.

0:56.8

You wonder how long it's going to last because a lot of people have been doing that

1:00.9

that have a little bit of common sense about arithmetic.

1:03.8

But you know, arithmetic hasn't been taught that well in school.

1:06.8

They can't add it up.

1:08.0

That if you have no money in the bank,

1:09.4

you can't spend a trillion dollars.

1:11.2

But if you tell the people, this is real money and you don't have a

1:14.6

right to use anything else people keep using it until they quit using it.

1:20.8

So that's the problem but there's a new report that GAO came out and

1:25.2

revealed that some shocking statistics on just how unrated hundreds of billions of

1:30.2

dollars worth of F-35s are to provide actual combat.

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