$1 Trillion War Machine…and We’re Losing (Larry Johnson)

America spends nearly $1 TRILLION a year on “defense”… so why does it feel like the U.S. war machine is stalling out?

In this episode of National Security Talk, I’m joined by Larry Johnson (former CIA analyst, Sonar21.com) for a wide-ranging, blunt conversation about the realities Washington doesn’t want to admit:

✅ Russia’s industrial base vs. NATO’s: why Moscow can allegedly crank out in months what NATO takes a year to produce

✅ Hypersonic missiles: Russia has multiple families of hypersonics—the U.S. still doesn’t have an operational equivalent, and our defenses may be overmatched

✅ The “aircraft carrier myth”: are carriers becoming floating trophies in a hypersonic age?

✅ Ukraine endgame: why Moscow believes time is on its side—and why the West keeps selling “we’re close” narratives

✅ Europe’s dependency problem: the brutal truth about Europe’s military capacity vs. its rhetoric

✅ BRICS and the dollar: what happens when countries start doing big trades without the greenback

✅ Everyday Americans: what de-dollarization and debt stress could mean for inflation, living standards, and the middle class

✅ Venezuela: is Washington looking at Venezuela’s oil as a way to paper over U.S. debt—and why an intervention could spiral into a guerrilla nightmare

This one is 90 minutes of straight talk—industrial capacity, grand strategy, and the uncomfortable link between foreign policy fantasies and domestic economic pain.

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Do you think America’s defense budget is buying real power—or just feeding a bureaucracy?

Guest: Larry Johnson of Sonar21.com

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