J.D. Simkins
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Editor-in-Chief @militarytimes & @defense_news. Once a Marine. Tired.
The Trump administration gave a Vatican envoy "a bitter lecture warning that the United States has the military power to do whatever it wants—and that the Church had better take its side"
Trump announces a 2 week ceasefire toward “long term peace,” conditional on Iran reopening the Strait of Hormuz. This would be a relief for millions of Iranians. What to watch: does it extend regionally, and is Iran getting concessions as part of this?
Happy Easter! ✝️ It was an amazing privilege to attend the White House Easter Egg Roll A beautiful day at such a beautiful place 🙏
These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken.
Dear @sofrepofficial Say it with me now: "the news was first reported by Laser Wars" Also your rip of my story was clearly composed with AI Fucking pathetic sofrep.com/news/us-navy-r…
BREAKING: CENTCOM sources confirm that not just one, but two aircraft were destroyed inside Iran by U.S. forces, along with two helicopters of the U.S. Army’s 160th SOAR. The two aircraft were one HC-130J and one MC-130J. The crews of these aircraft and two MH-6M helicopters, along with U.S. Army Special Forces (Delta Force), were evacuated by three other MC-130Js operating inside Iran. All of these aircraft and helicopters were subsequently destroyed on the ground, as they were no longer airworthy after sustaining heavy damage from MANPADS engagements and intensive small-arms, heavy-weapons fire and mortar firing during the operation. #OperationEpicFury #OperationLionsRoar
"Iran has officially told the mediators it isn’t willing to meet U.S. officials in Islamabad in the coming days and that U.S. demands are unacceptable." wsj.com/livecoverage/i…
