r/sendinthetanks

The movie is free on YouTube currently.

The film makes abstract ideas tangible. The sunglasses reveal the hidden messages OBEY, CONSUME, MARRY AND REPRODUCE. The wealthy show their true alien faces. The film teaches ideology and false consciousness without a single textbook.

Here is the reading list I assign.:

Core Classroom Assignments

The Working Poor by David K. Shipler

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

Evicted by Matthew Desmond

The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

National Focus

Maurice Bishop Speaks: The Grenada Revolution and Its Overthrow, 1979‑83 edited by Bruce Marcus and Michael Taber

In Nobody's Backyard: Maurice Bishop's Speeches, 1979‑1983 edited by Chris Searle

African and Caribbean Politics: From Kwame Nkrumah to Maurice Bishop by Manning Marable

Angel by Merle Collins

The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism by Franklin W. Knight

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

For Students Who Go Deeper

Democracy for the Few by Michael Parenti

Against Empire by Michael Parenti

Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti

Any educators do the same?

Or does anyone have a story about how a favourite teacher, friend or post helped radicalise you?

Iran deployed GPS jammers in the Strait. The US Navy hasn't fought a near‑peer adversary since the Second World War. That long stretch without a real challenge left them arrogant and blind to a massive vulnerability:

Being completely dependent on satellite navigation.

Imagine a flotilla of eleven ships sailing together. You lose GPS. Maybe two captains can read charts, plot fixes and navigate by dead reckoning. Everyone else is blind. The whole formation snakes together in a slow, vulnerable convoy just to stay oriented. In naval terms, they were sitting ducks.

IMO that's why they withdrew their major assets. That's why the waterway is now effectively under Iranian control.

when Iran jammed the signal, they exposed a massive contradiction. A staggering number of crews cannot navigate without GPS. The USS Abraham Lincoln keeps a traditional brass sextant on board as an 18th‑century backup plan.

Only specially trained Quartermasters can use it to track celestial bodies. That skill is critical and perishable, but the US Navy deprioritised it for years, creating a dangerous single point of failure. The Naval Academy stopped teaching celestial navigation in 1996, only to bring it back in 2016.

The US naval fleet and its flagship ($4 billion nuclear‑powered carrier) relies on a handful of navigators, maths and the stars when the satellites go offline. Then add the logistical mess. A single carrier strike group costs between $6 million and $8 million per day to operate. For a full strike group with escorts and submarines, that figure pushes past $11 million per day. The USS Abraham Lincoln strike group has been out there for weeks. Preparatory activities alone cost over $200 million. The US is burning millions every day to sit in a stalemate.

Western media outlets have reported the jamming, but they refuse to connect the dots to this self‑inflicted vulnerability. A few defence publications like War on the Rocks and USNI News have discussed GPS vulnerability, but the mainstream press absolutely will not say it plainly. The US Navy is one GPS blackout away from being lost at sea.

The srait of Hormuz isn't “closed.” Iran rightfully controls it. The ships denied passage are commercial interests tied to the US and Zionist regimes. In fact we saw this last year with our Houthi comrades (DRY FTW 🙌🏿) when they blockaded. Ships began broadcasting (some dishonestly) that they were BRICS aligned vessels.

Another underreported detail is the restraint Iran's military has shown. They could have attacked the vessels sitting in the strait. They have not. They have only fired warning shots at US military targets that tried to enter, not at the ones enforcing the blockade. Iran has navigated this US war of aggression brilliantly.

The US last move is the blockade itself, trying to cut off Iran and starve them into submission. But Iran has trained for a blockade. They have trained for a land invasion.

Much like the DPRK. 🇰🇵

Iran and the DPRK have shown that a country cannot rely explicitly on ideological allies, whether China or the old USSR. Others have tried that and failed. Self‑reliance, a strong central government response and methodical planning are critical to opposing US imperialism.