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Rob Jackson

@rcjackson

USNA Grad. Pilot. Intel. Motorcyclist. Closet Geek. Pats and Navy Fan. Science, History, Art, Music, Politics, Economics & Photography. Oh yeah, lawyer too

Florida, USA 가입일 Mayıs 2008
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Eric Michael Garcia
Eric Michael Garcia@EricMGarcia·
My Cat: Open the Fuckin’ Wet Food, you crazy bastard, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.
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WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧
BREAKING: Details of special forces rescue operation to save American Pilot deep into Iranian territory: -Downed airmen after being shot down lands near Talkhuncheh and immediately actives emergency GPS, proceeds to hike 24 hours 5miles up a 2000 metre mountain to evade capture where he remains hidden for 12 hours. -US special forces locate him and realise Iranian convoys are closing in and begin to engage said convoys with large AirPower, meanwhile US special forces MH-6 helicopters and C-130s are disputed, and land 10 km south east of him to build a makeshift airfield. -Soon after this several MH-6s successfully fly to the top of the mountain and pick him up under small arms fire, and reach the makeshift airfield. Classically two C-130js meant to evacuate Delta and injured airmen get stuck in the mud. -US airforce begins massive suppression campaign on nearby Iranian units, whilst special forces team hunker down for three hours eventually being saved by three AFSOC Dash 8 aircraft meanwhile blowing up remaining C-13Ojs and MH6s aircraft to avoid capture. Incredible.
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Kelly Eckhold
Kelly Eckhold@kellyenz·
Apocalyptic might be an overstatement but nonetheless Meloni is pretty rattled here. There’s a growing line of world leaders saying that all is not well. Which makes sense as it isn’t.
Furkan Gözükara@FurkanGozukara

Apocalyptic warning for Europe. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni drops a terrifying reality check, admitting Trump's disastrous war on Iran is paralyzing the global energy market. She warns Italy is on the brink of running out of energy entirely.

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Luke Gromen
Luke Gromen@LukeGromen·
@rcjackson @Wade_Finley @FreightAlley 2/ Greg Hayes, CEO of Raytheon, said the company had “several thousand suppliers in China and decoupling . . . is impossible”. “We can de-risk but not decouple,” Hayes said in an FT interview, adding that he believed this to be the case “for everybody”.
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Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️
During World War II, Hitler was convinced that Americans lacked the will to fight and that any who did would be quickly overwhelmed. When early reports arrived from the battles in North Africa, German observers noted that Americans fought differently from the Europeans. Rather than charging aggressively and risking heavy infantry casualties, U.S. forces relied on overwhelming firepower—staying at a distance and expending vast quantities of artillery with little hesitation. Thanks to unmatched industrial production and logistics, fresh supplies were always available. This approach allowed relatively smaller American units to wear down much larger and well-entrenched enemy forces. In contrast, German and other European doctrines often emphasized aggressive maneuver and were sometimes more willing to accept high casualties to achieve objectives or preserve key equipment. This material-heavy American style surprised many Germans, including Hitler, who had long dismissed U.S. soldiers as soft and lacking in fighting spirit. He believed soldiers were cheap and expendable; he discovered too late that Americans fought to conserve lives by expending machines and ammunition instead. It was one of many reasons for Germany’s defeat—perhaps the hardest for some foreigners to fully understand. Americans place a high value on the lives of our soldiers. Equipment and shells could always be replaced.
Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷@Arrogance_0024

Lose all this to rescue 1 pilot and call it your greatest military success of all time.

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Luke Gromen
Luke Gromen@LukeGromen·
@rcjackson @Wade_Finley @FreightAlley 12 separate mentions of China, including early on that was one of the entire points of the report. And if you cannot make a piece of equipment without China, you cannot make the equipment.
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Rob Jackson
Rob Jackson@rcjackson·
@whymadoindis @LukeGromen @FreightAlley Great response. Insulting is always persuasive. Check the DFARS - Chinese source components are excluded from an emission critical weapon system. One of the reasons why we’re low on stuff. But we still got a lot of it.
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Ole G
Ole G@whymadoindis·
@rcjackson @LukeGromen @FreightAlley You can't be serious? Pretty much all the micro components not to mention tungsten. Americans really are this stupid aren't they?
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Rob Jackson
Rob Jackson@rcjackson·
@fadethecrowd @2140btc @LukeGromen He may be a complete retard. But he’s pulling everybody’s chain. And he done it over and over and over again and people freak out like it’s some kind of fricking the end of the world. It’s comical
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FTC
FTC@fadethecrowd·
@rcjackson @2140btc @LukeGromen Fall for him acting like a complete retarded lunatic? Well if he looks like a duck and quack looks a duck . . ,
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Luke Gromen
Luke Gromen@LukeGromen·
Sounds like things are going really well... 😳
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Rob Jackson
Rob Jackson@rcjackson·
@Wade_Finley @LukeGromen @FreightAlley Does the word China appear anywhere in this report? I agree that we need to reduce foreign independency on parts, but to say that China makes all of our military equipment now - it’s just not true
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Rob Jackson
Rob Jackson@rcjackson·
@LukeGromen @FreightAlley I didn’t realize tungsten was equipment. Sounds like a natural resource to me. Same apply to oil? Does that mean oil producing nations provide our military equipment too?
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Luke Gromen
Luke Gromen@LukeGromen·
@rcjackson @FreightAlley Basically all of it: "The silvery metal is known for its exceptional density and for having the highest melting point of all pure metals. Those qualities have made it essential for the U.S. defense industry, powering everything from armor-piercing munitions to rocket nozzles."
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Tim McMillan
Tim McMillan@LtTimMcMillan·
French Gen. Michel Yakovleff saying that establishing an austere airbase inside Iran was crazy and that U.S. officials needed to "stop snorting cocaine" is now a TERRIBLE look for the French military. The U.S. did exactly that, just outside of Isfahan, FFS.
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Rob Jackson
Rob Jackson@rcjackson·
@tomricks1 Or, Trump is pulling their chain like he’s done for the past eight years and you continue to fall forward
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Thomas E. Ricks
Thomas E. Ricks@tomricks1·
1st thought: Trump is going crazy 2nd thought: Trump is revealing his true self 3rd thought: Is there a difference
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Luke Gromen
Luke Gromen@LukeGromen·
@FreightAlley RE: "Thanks to unmatched industrial production and logistics, fresh supplies were always available" - agree. Problem is China makes our equipment now, & this war will slow our ability to reshore, if not end it altogether:
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Rob Jackson
Rob Jackson@rcjackson·
Do not trust this guy or anything he says. Unreliable.
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