Al Sam

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Al Sam

Al Sam

@apsamuelson

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Al Sam
Al Sam@apsamuelson·
@sfmnemonic See also - people who describe themselves as "libertarian"
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@SuitablePolitic Derek probably has never left USA except maybe a weekend in Mexico 🤣
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Derek. 🇺🇸@SuitablePolitic·
Maybe that's because the EU has treated themselves as a geopolitical rival of the United States throughout both Trump terms and were closer to neutral than anything during Biden. Or maybe it's the continual abandonment of anything that was once western values. Or maybe...
eugyppius@eugyppius1

MAGA accounts on here routinely express more hatred, rejection, and vilification of Europeans than they do of their country’s genuine geopolitical rivals and enemies. It’s amazing but true.

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Bonchie@bonchieredstate·
I'm not sure what's funnier. David believing the Europeans would actually put effort into their own defense, or that "blowing up runways" would do anything to stop the United States military in such a scenario.
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Al Sam@apsamuelson·
@BearFlagFan @bonchieredstate How are the wasp class LCDs getting to Kharg, are they going to teleport past Hormuz? Or just run the gauntlet? You would think that the Department of War and Special Military Operations might have moved some into position before they attacked Iran, now it seems a bit late
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BearFlagFan@BearFlagFan·
If there’s an invasion on Kharg, it will likely come from an MEF that will arrive on Wasp-class LCDs (which are mini-carriers) via landing craft, V22 Osprey’s and helicopters, with CAS from F-35s and Harriers, all of which can land and take off vertically. Does Frum know the Navy has multiple specialized Construction Battalions - the famed SeaBees - who train for this type of situation?
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Al Sam@apsamuelson·
@AlexGodofsky Feel free to motor up and down in your speedboat inside the Hormuz kill box soaking up the incoming fire until the Iranians have run out of ammunition
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Alex Godofsky
Alex Godofsky@AlexGodofsky·
An important factor in the Hormuz situation is that under maritime law Iran is not "allowed" to close the strait, doing so is an act of war by Iran against the flags of the ships attacked or interdicted, and the US is not responsible or at fault for Iran's actions.
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Al Sam@apsamuelson·
@Rix6145 @johnkonrad @SecWar Enlisted for what - to drive a million Lebanese out of their homes, including Christians? You dumb pricks shouldnt bring religion into everything but if you do, at least be consistent
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John Ʌ Konrad V@johnkonrad·
This IMHO is the most important post of the month. Read it, reread it, then take notes. RULES OF ENGAGEMENT RULES OF ENGAGEMENT RULES OF ENGAGEMENT Why was @secwar able to hermetically seal the southern border, eliminate crime in DC, arrest Maduro, and sink the entire Iranian Navy with a fraction of the casualties that “experts” claimed it would cost? Because he did not include allies and academics. Why is this critically important? Because in previous wars they all handcuffed our warfighters with ROEs. Bookcases in the Pentagon and CENTCOM overflowing with them. Going in with the element of surprise and shackling our forces to just one ROE, American rule of law, gave our side an overwhelming advantage. But… We just experienced the biggest war I’ve seen since I joined this app in 2007 and I’m not talking about Iran. It wasn’t a kinetic war. It was a war over academia and European control of ROEs. @CynicalPublius and @DataRepublican got absolutely hammered but held their ground. @RadioFreeTom and the other talking heads had enormous power over how the minds of admirals and generals are formed. They had enormous influence via think tanks and meetings with allies over what’s acceptable in war and what isn’t. And they were able to throttle opinion via displays of outrage on TV and articles in the Atlantic. To use a maritime analogy, those ocean racing speedboats have two captain’s chairs. One is the helm and the other is the throttles. The helmsman can only steer port or starboard, but the throttleman has forward and reverse on both the port and starboard propellers. Guess which job is most important? Pull too far ahead of the enemy and they pull back speed. Fall behind and they push full ahead. Too often they push full ahead just as the boat is descending into the trough of a wave. In our military the commander in chief decides the race time and location. The combatant commander steers the course. The media, allies, and the think tank “experts” are the throttle. And they are absolutely losing their minds because Trump has removed them from the throttles. This not only sucks away their power but their lucrative speaking engagements and book deals. Nobody is going to pay big bucks to hear a washed-up Naval War College professor speak. They will pay the throttleman. So Tom and friends are losing their minds and going on MSNBC and CNN to tell you all about how terrible this war is going. What they are really saying is: this is a disaster because I was not consulted. Put me back on the throttles. Except it isn’t a disaster. Go read those think tank and war college reports. How many deaths did they predict in a war against Iran? Not one predicted this few casualties in week three, or this many military targets destroyed. Tom and friends are telling you this war is a disaster, but by their own metrics it’s a stunning success. Ask yourself why that is.
Cynical Publius@CynicalPublius

RE: The Way of War of Our Enemies In every hot war the United States has become involved in since the Korean War, we have enjoyed absolute tactical and operational dominance over our enemies. We win every tactical engagement, overwhelmingly. Operationally we can and do dominate any theater of our choosing. No one—and I mean NO ONE—can stand toe to toe with the US military. This has been true for decades. We’ve talked before about the elements of national power—the “DIME” (Diplomacy, Informational, Military, Economic). Our military power is unsurpassed. We are masters of diplomacy. We have the world’s strongest economy. So how do we lose? The INFORMATIONAL component. Our military opponents, from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Ladin, knew that the only way to defeat the USA is to demoralize the American populace such that it demands withdrawal and throws the then current Commander-in-Chief out of office. The ONLY way to defeat America militarily is to convince the American people that a war is unwinnable. The slow dribble of IED deaths in OIF was not actually targeting soldiers and Marines—it was targeting YOU, the American people. And CNN eagerly complied with death counts running across the bottom of the screen. The Tet Offensive? It was a decisive US victory that could have ended the Vietnam War in our favor. But Walter Cronkite instead declared the war lost, protests erupted nationwide, and the war was lost. The Highway of Death in Kuwait? We could have taken out Saddam Hussein in 1991 and never needed to go back in 2003, but international media made the attack on retreating Iraqis look “too cruel,” so we halted just short of the finish line. The strategic imperative of every one of America’s military enemies is to break the will of the American people with skewed information, propaganda, and extreme emphasis on America’s minor losses amidst overwhelming military victory. But the Ho Chi Minhs and Osama bin Ladins can’t do that by themselves. They need willing partners in the American media and government. And for Operation Epic Fury, boy oh boy do the Iranian mullahs have an over abundance of American morale killers to draw from in order to defeat America through the informational instrument of national power. Tucker Carlson. Senator Mark Kelly and the rest of the Seditious Six. CNN. ABC. NBC. CBS. NYT, WaPo. Pakistani bot armies on social media. X “influencers” like Cerno, Candace, MartyrMade and Ian Carroll. Every idiot claiming we are fighting “Israel’s war." There is an entire Army of American politicians and media figures who are willingly fighting Iran’s informational war on its behalf (and in some cases, at its behest). America is DECISIVELY WINNING the war on Iran in every measurable respect. Yet there are so many influential Americans who are desperately determined to make you believe otherwise. In days of old in non-US countries, such people would have been strung up for treason. Thankfully it’s 2026 and we have a First Amendment, so no one fear being treated in such a medieval manner. But we can still ostracize and ridicule such people and sources for the irreparable harm they are wreaking upon the USA as they do the bidding (intentionally or unintentionally) of Theo-fascist mullahs who are determined to set off a nuclear bomb so that the Twelfth Imam will arise from a well in Qom and precipitate the global apocalypse. We all need to choose sides. Are you with America, or are you with theologic-inspired, deliberate Armageddon? And anyone who chooses the latter needs to be the target of mockery, derision and clearly-stated facts disproving their lies. And if YOU are an American Patriot, you can fight that informational war on America’s behalf, right now, right here on social media, right there in your own living room. Your voice matters, and your voice is actually a part of the war. FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT.

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Al Sam@apsamuelson·
@Rix6145 @johnkonrad @SecWar Seems unlikely you would think it was "noble" if the Iranians bombed one of your girls schools
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Al Sam@apsamuelson·
@NicoPerrino I agree there is an inherent tension between the concept of a nation state regulating what happens within its borders and things on the internet that are accessible everywhere but the State has the right and responsibility to try and protect its people, especially its children
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Nico Perrino@NicoPerrino·
@apsamuelson Yes, that was an abominable abandonment of principle, as I repeatedly shouted from the rooftops at the time.
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Robert Lyman 🇺🇦@robert_lyman·
Horrible though this war is I also convinced of its necessity. So I am 100% with @williams_rje on this. This is a continuation war. It’s not new. The mullahs in Tehran have been trying to kill us as part of their evangelising mission for decades; they’ll continue to do so through arming Russia, creating murderous & destabilising proxies in the region and spreading their lies amongst our own gullible population. This is the time to act decisively. Prediction? We won’t. Instead we’ll (a) adopt a classically European position of moral superiority in which Washington and POTUS are regarded as the war-mongers, and the mullahs the poor benighted victims of Western imperialism and (b) keep our heads firmly in the sand about the need to de-fang a regime that murders its own people with impunity and threatens the rest of us with Armageddon. And as for those who tell me that I’m crying wolf about Iranian nuclear ambitions? Open your eyes.
Richard Williams@williams_rje

“As I watch the events unfold in the Middle East and the reaction to the predictable weaponisation of the oil price, and listen to the red-faced, wet-palmed performances in Westminster, I recall the raised voice of the then-UK Defence Secretary Des Browne in 2007, when he insisted to me as Commanding Officer 22 SAS that, in spite of all the intelligence and evidence to the contrary, ‘Iran is not Britain’s enemy in Southern Iraq’. He was wrong about that then, just as those are today who still maintain that the IRGC is not a terrorist organisation. Or who insist that negotiating with Iran will deliver anything other than further death and more humiliation. Or indeed that failing to support the US does anything other than strengthen Tehran’s hand. Sometimes, the pearl-clutching international  ‘conflict resolution’ experts are wrong. And the only way to salve any dignity as a nation or as an individual is to face the evil and fight”.

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@PhthalateSoup @randomyoko The congress should have more say in whether the US goes to war than the Israeli Cabinet do
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Phthalate Soup@PhthalateSoup·
@randomyoko The point I’m making is that you weren’t singled out in any way. He didn’t inform anyone except his closest personnel and their contacts in Israel.
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Yoko 🇯🇵 | ランダムヨーコ (石井陽子)
🇯🇵🇺🇸 Trump’s “Pearl Harbor” remark was triggered by a Japanese reporter—and in Japan, the question itself is widely criticized as foolish, coming from a left-wing reporter. Personally, the bigger issue is the intent behind it. At a time when Japan and the U.S. are reaffirming a strong alliance, asking something that stirs division is problematic. Not informing Japan about a strike on Iran isn’t a “trust issue.” Framing it that way to provoke tension is disingenuous. Some U.S. media are also using this to attack Trump, but from Japan’s perspective, it’s simply a nuisance. Undermining cooperation only benefits China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. Japan will always be America’s tomodachi. The Japan–U.S. alliance is unshakable. We cannot let the left—or the authoritarian bloc—get in the way.
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Al Sam@apsamuelson·
@obiuan @jonathan2hale @Maks_NAFO_FELLA Yeah and you dont even need to put warheads in all of them, so some of them can be cheaper. The vet doesnt know which ones be has to try and shoot down so to be sure he has to shoot all of them.
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Luca Renzetti
Luca Renzetti@obiuan·
@jonathan2hale @Maks_NAFO_FELLA Yes, but I can send 100 drones costing $70,000 each against a target, and sooner or later I’ll definitely destroy it, because you can’t shoot them down with 100 missiles costing millions of dollars. Maybe this point isn’t clear to you.
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MAKS 25 🇺🇦👀
MAKS 25 🇺🇦👀@Maks_NAFO_FELLA·
🇺🇦❗️“I have no idea what the allies have been looking at for four years while we have been at war,” — Ukrainian military instructors who went to help counter Iranian missiles and UAVs are shocked by the way the US shoots down “Shaheds,” writes The Times – First, the Persian Gulf countries launched as many as 8 Patriot missiles at one (!) enemy target, each costing more than $3 million. – They often used a ship-based SM-6 missile, worth about $6 million, to shoot down a “Shahed” worth $70,000. – The US and its allies often literally “shine” their radars like beacons — without proper camouflage. Ukrainians work differently: mobile radars constantly change positions. For example: just three (!) cheap Shahed drones destroyed the AN/FPS-132 early warning radar (~$1 billion) and another air defense radar (~$300 million), which had been standing in one place for months and were perfectly “readable” from satellites.
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Jonathan Hale
Jonathan Hale@jonathan2hale·
This argument keeps coming up, and it’s based on the wrong comparison. It’s not $3M versus $70k. It’s interceptor cost versus expected damage avoided. If a $70k drone can impose hundreds of millions in losses, then a multi-million dollar intercept is economically rational. Air defense is a loss-prevention problem, not a unit-cost comparison.
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Al Sam@apsamuelson·
@prestonjbyrne Surely it was in China, its servers were in China, its usees wherever they may be were communicating into China, and Chinese law applied?
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Al Sam@apsamuelson·
@prestonjbyrne Can you explain TikTok, the US bans and the forced sale of US operation?
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Preston Byrne
Preston Byrne@prestonjbyrne·
Ofcom's data suggests 4chan, a U.S. website operating wholly in the U.S., has 1.4 million UK uniques - 2% of the population - per month. If the UK wants to block 4chan, that's their call. The movement could really use 1.4 million new free speech activists.
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GushinGranny@Gushin669·
@MostlyMonkey At the onset of WWII the Royal navy consisted of 1400 vessels now it has 63
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@ScottRCarpenter It's difficult to get Americans to understand that when your President behaves like a dick, even if it is just his negotiating style, that has real world consequences for you later.
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Scott Carpenter 🇨🇦🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
It’s difficult to get Canadians to understand how Trump negotiates and what our position is relative to the US when it comes to trade so let me simplify it for everyone. Trump doesn’t care if a deal causes him or the US a small amount of discomfort if it crushes his opponent economically and gets them to negotiate in the manner he wants. He will literally cut off his own pinky finger if he thinks that your refusal to cooperate will cost you an arm and a leg in return. You can either respect the method and work with the operator on the other side or you can get ready to buy a prosthetic or two. That’s where we’re at.
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