Karen Kwiatkowski on the trap hiding inside the catapult order:
"So maybe we can't build either one."
The details make it worse.
The Navy says the electromagnetic system can't be pulled from the first three Ford carriers, so the Doris Miller becomes a one-ship subclass with crews trained on hardware no other deck uses, its freshly installed launch piping gutted for a steam plant America stopped manufacturing two decades ago.
Meanwhile Karen's been reading Chinese naval patents: hundreds of catapult designs, including a working new system, against the single American patent that started this fight.
Her sharper point is about who's watching.
Tehran tracks every sortie rate, fuel delivery, and unopened Gulf base, because adversaries measure facts while home audiences hear narratives.
That gap, she argues, is why Iran now behaves like it holds the wheel.
@karen4the6th @WeTheBrandon
