A.D. Mash

Serious question. After the fall of the dollar what the hell are we going to trade with other countries? Remeber the Fort Knox audit? yeah...neighther do I. The only think we offered was "military protection" and the drone and missle age has blown that to bits. AI can steal tech code almost instantly. Seriously. What do we have to trade? High tech engineering? China controls all the rare earths needed for that. We are 39 TRILLION in debt. With over 200 TRILLION unfunded liabilities. .....are we cooked?

Comments have been turned off The past is its own argument They can’t refute it, that’s why censorship is the only weapon left

The past 24 hours have unequivocally proven that CENTCOM will absolutely lie about US casualties and equipment losses

Trump: “Iran has no Navy, no Air Force, and no missiles left.” Iran: Hit an F-15, A-10, Black Hawk & F-16CJ in under 24 hours.

The top leaders of Iran, Russia & China all sound like they’re about 60-80 IQ points above Trump, Hegseth, & most top congressional leaders from both parties. It’s embarrassing.

WOW 🚨 New Muslim only community coming to Arkansas They are openly declaring ONLY Muslims can live there - 22 homes planned, 5 already built and sold - Every buyer must sign the binding ISLAMIC Bill of Assurance - 2 massive mosques - 4,500 sq ft Islamic educational building

Here’s what is known so far about U.S. Air Force losses during Operation Epic Fury: Total losses are estimated to exceed $2 billion, with replacement costs potentially even higher. — Four F-15E Strike Eagles have been lost, one over Iran and three downed by friendly fire over Kuwait. — An A-10 Warthog was shot down while providing close air support (CAS) for combat search and rescue (CSAR) operations. — An F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft was damaged by an Iranian surface-to-air missile (SAM). — An E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft was completely destroyed at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. — Two KC-135R aerial refueling aircraft have crashed, including one destroyed at Prince Sultan Air Base. — Six additional tankers were damaged, one in an incident over Iraq and five at Prince Sultan Air Base. — 17 MQ-9 Reaper drones have crashed or been shot down by Iranian forces since February 28. — One HH-60M helicopter was damaged in an FPV drone attack on Camp Victory in Iraq. — Two HH-60W helicopters were damaged during CSAR operation in Iran.

The globalists are going to hollow out any “American empire” the same way they hollowed out the British Empire They are parasites, it’s what they do

Just had a long talk with a former IAF commander on why Iran is managing to shoot down these US planes. He told me that since the 12 day war Iran has rethought its entire system after seeing how easily it was bombed. The new system is far better and more resilient and Israeli pilots have noticed how difficult it is to operate there now: 1) Each of Iran's 31 zones now has the authority to operate independently if central command is cut off, allowing local commanders to launch missiles and engage aircraft without waiting for orders from Tehran. That was a major problem for them in the past. 2) Recognizing that fixed sites are easily destroyed, Iran moved many of its restored air defenses into missile cities, deeply buried underground tunnels and rugged coastal terrain that serve as cover for mobile launchers. These targets are now hardened. 3) Since traditional radar gives away a system's location, Iran has leaned into passive infrared (heat-seeking) sensors and new software algorithms that can track jets without emitting detectable signals. 4) Iran has increased reliance on mobile, medium-range surface-to-air SAM systems. Its mobility allows shoot-and-scoot tactics that make it difficult to target with pre-planned airstrikes. 5) Iran has moved away from Russian missiles to its own Bavar-373 which appears to be superior to the S-300 and possibly to the S-400 too. Recent upgrades include increased autonomy for launchers, allowing them to operate even if centralized command centers are destroyed. 6) They use new Majid system, which relies on passive infrared detection rather than radar. Because it doesn't emit radar signals, it is significantly harder for aircraft to detect before a missile is launched. 7) Most important, he confirmed to me that Iran is using HQ-9B, the best long-range surface-to-air missile China has to offer. It has both active radar homing and a passive infrared seeker. This makes it harder for aircraft to spoof the missile with standard electronic countermeasures and improves its ability to track stealth. It seems to be exceeding expectations. He told me, "the days when flying over Iran was a walk in the park are over." In sum, new tactics and a switch from Russian technology to Iranian and Chinese technology have turned Iranian airspace into a contested space. Air superiority there is gone. The IAF and USAF will have to adapt accordingly or lose more aircraft.

I just heard from a source very close to top of the White House that, following today’s shootdown of an F-15, an A-10, and the successful hits on multiple helicopters and other aircraft, the WH is choosing further escalation, including US troops on the ground. This would be madness. I truly hope that someone in the Pentagon or elsewhere can prevent this from happening. If anything was proven today, it’s that Iranian AD is still very capable and very intact. Any US ground operation will be heavily reliant on helicopters and other slow-moving airframes. Despite the assertions of both the Pentagon and POTUS, it is crystal clear that we have not reduced Iranian AD to the point where a ground operation is even a remotely wise decision. Let alone potentially inserting by air and then being exclusively reliant on an air corridor for things such as resupply and CASEVAC. History is replete with examples where this reliance has been disastrous. Further, the hard part would be after troops were on the objective. Our lack of manpower leaves little room for maneuver, and once static (which would be required), Americans will become a stationary target for the entire inventory of Iranian indirect fire capabilities on Iranian soil, and it is a recipe for failure. Simply put, this is not an existential war for the US's survival. It’s a war of choice that should never have happened in the first place, and POTUS should be finding a way out, rather than clumsily and recklessly sacrificing America’s finest.

Would the Roman Empire have fallen if the people could have watched a moving picture proving things were better 50 years ago? We have no excuse for believing in the myth of progress, only own own cowardice laid bare

Rural mountain shepherds shooting at Pave Hawks with WWI era bolt action rifles is a funny image until you take a 7.92×57mm mauser round to the kneecap

I came to the same conclusion. The healthy high testosterone men were first to enlist and first to rush to the front. We never recovered from losing the best of our breeding stock and managerial stock.

Iran has been digging out underground missile sites struck by American and Israeli bombs, returning them to operation hours after an attack, according to U.S. intelligence reports -NYT Israeli media has also reported that Iran can bulldoze tunnels open in under 12 hours.

Dumb US and Israeli war planner just figured out what others and I said weeks ago... Iran held back its AD in the very northeast of Iran - and is now shifting it slowly back westwards. Now there is a crisis meeting in the WH.

BREAKING: For the first time in history, the average pound of ground beef is higher than Federal Minimum Wage. Everything is not fine.

🇺🇸 Rough 24 hours for U.S. forces over Iran: - 1× F-15E Strike Eagle shot down (1 pilot rescued, 1 crew member still missing) - 2× HH-60W Jolly Green II rescue helicopters hit by Iranian fire (crews safe, some wounded) - 2× A-10 Warthogs hit (one crashed into the Persian Gulf — pilot rescued; another made emergency landing with one engine out) - 1× F-16 declared emergency, landed safely - 1–2× KC-135 tankers also declared emergencies Iran additionally claims it downed another U.S. jet near Qeshm Island. The air campaign is clearly getting much more dangerous. Source: Drop Site News

Iranian operatives have been digging out underground missile bunkers and silos struck by American and Israeli bombs, returning them to operation hours after an attack, with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) still retaining a significant amount of its cruise and ballistic missiles as well as mobile launchers, according to recent U.S. intelligence reports shared with The New York Times.

They say the past is a foreign country When you see America's past you realize we were intentionally engineered into being a foreign country and most of the problems we are ascribing to ideology actually come back to that fact

U.S. President Trump’s National Security Team is gathered at the White House, with the President working in the Oval Office or Oval Dining Room all day receiving updates on operations in Iran, a senior official with the White House tells ABC News.