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Mercedes will invest $4 billion in an AL plant.
Yeah, that poor old unpopular Trump gets company after company to invest in America.
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I want to express my deep gratitude for all of the brave servicemembers involved in rescuing two F-15E crew members in Iran. These operations are incredibly difficult, and the safe return of both crew members is a powerful testament to their training and the expertise of all the U.S. military units involved in this search and recovery. Grateful today and every day for our heroic men and women in uniform.
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The story behind the New York Times’ 1903 claim that human flight was between one and ten million years away is even worse than it looks.
Once you understand the backstory, you realize that the New York Times story is not really about flight at all but about how elites and credentialed “experts” mistake their own failures for the boundaries of possibility.
The New York Times did not dismiss the possibility of powered flight at random. There was a very specific reason behind it. At the time, America’s most prominent scientific authority, Smithsonian Secretary Samuel Langley, had been showered with large amounts of taxpayer funding to build an aircraft, the Langley Aerodrome. Despite all the money, institutional backing, and elite prestige, Langley and his team could not get it to fly, culminating in a series of very public failures, the last on December 8, 1903.
So when the New York Times declared that flight was millions of years away, what it was really saying was that if the most credentialed and well-funded “experts” cannot do it, then it cannot be done.
A mere nine days later, the elites’ proclamation of impossibility lay in ruins. Two totally unknown bicycle mechanics from Ohio achieved the first powered flight using improvised parts, a few hundred dollars of their own money, and sheer persistence.
The story of flight is, at its core, a story of the triumph of American individualism over elite credentialism. The fact that it was the New York Times that inadvertently delivered the proof is the most fitting conclusion imaginable.
Aaron Ng@localghost
"Man won't fly for a million years" – NYT 1903
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@AriFleischer Southwestern Euro nations must have gotten the short end of the gene pool; look at their histories.
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My message here clearly struck a nerve. A few friends from when I was press secretary, domestically and abroad, don’t like what I said. Instead of seeing how Western European nations must change, they just want to attack Trump.
The reason it struck a nerve is because they recognize that this time NATO nations are being held to account. They know they’ve come up short for decades and by denying us overflight rights, they’ve gone too far. Americans are fed up, especially with France and Spain. Trump won’t stand for it and they know it. They now fear the consequences of their inaction.
The UK, unlike its days under Thatcher or Blair, is wishy-washy. They’ve often been a good allie, but this time they want to sit it out and have it both ways. We can use their bases, but only for limited operations. At least the UK spends real money on defense.
France, Spain, and Italy are another story. So too is Canada. None of these four contribute seriously to NATO. They’re laggards, trying to get away with it. Spain and France force our pilots to fly thousands of miles out of the way (I thought they didn’t like carbon footprints) en route to Iran.
Eastern Europe is a different story. They spend more on defense and they understand power. They lived under Soviet domination and recognize weakness when they see it. They won’t be weak.
Western European governments, especially France, are good at issuing communiques and statements. They enjoy hosting conferences. They love to ponder deeply. Getting them to act is another matter, unless it’s to purchase Russian LNG, which they still do.
The world is changing. Out of this war will come a new group of younger nations that understand real power and the importance of strength. The UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Israel and Eastern Europe will emerge stronger than ever. Western Europe will continue to fall behind.
As for Trump, you don’t have to like him. He often says things none of his predecessors would say. But don’t underestimate the fact that US taxpayers are fed up with nations that don’t pull their weight, and then force our pilots to take risks and longer flights so we can rid the world from the menace that is Iran.
Today’s Western European leaders would rather mollify Iran and pay them ransoms (trade) than support the US.
Things are different today. We all know it.
The UK, France, Spain and Italy (despite its Prime Minister) have earned the consequences that will unfold.
They could have and should have supported us. Not as a NATO alliance. But as individual free nations.
All we wanted was overflight rights and full access to airfields.
They’ve made their choices. Soon, they’ll see the results.
Ari Fleischer@AriFleischer
When this is over, the western part of NATO will never be the same. Spain, England, France and Italy have sold us out, as they too often have a history of doing. Eastern European nations are the heart of NATO. They spend money on defense, know how to fight and love the US. France particularly deserves fault and blame. From supporting China and Russia at the UN to denying Americans overflight rights, they’re doing what they’ve always done - showing weakness, while cutting deals with terrorists. (The reason the US has a Marine Corps and Navy is unlike France, we refused to pay a ransom to the Barbary Pirates. France is always happy to cut a deal.) Wars have unintended consequences as nations show their true colors. NATO will never be the same, and Western European weakness and acquiescence is the cause.
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These key islands should revert to UAE control. Those that were not previously UAE should be occupied by UAE.
Iran should be punished by losing control. The world will benefit and ransoms to transit in international waters won’t have to be paid. wsj.com/world/middle-e…
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@Microinteracti1 That guy thinks that men who dress up like girls are girls.😂What do you think?
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Retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling is not mincing words. The former Commanding General of US Army Europe says these generals were purged because they stood up against Pete Hegseth’s push to turn the US military into a Christian nationalist crusade.
Retired Army Maj. Gen. Randy Manner says dozens of chaplains who don’t share Hegseth’s views are being marginalized and excluded from staff meetings.  The chaplain corps exists to serve all service members regardless of faith. That apparently made Green’s position untenable.
The Pope has now weighed in. Hegseth’s prayer for battlefield violence prompted a response from Rome: God does not listen to those who wage war in his name.
Hertling has seen enough. So have the troops.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
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🚨 US PILOTS OUTSMART IRAN
When the F-15E crew ejected deep inside Iran they weren’t cut off or helpless.
They simply switched on their Boeing CSEL unit - a tiny rugged device strapped to the vest that survives ejection and fires up instantly.
No risky voice chatter.
Instead it sends short encrypted bursts: exact location, status updates, “injured” or “enemy nearby” - all hidden in frequency-hopping signals that look like background noise to Iranian trackers.
It links straight to military satellites, feeding live data to rescue teams while the pilots stay silent and invisible.
Only when extraction is seconds away does it switch to full beacon mode.
Even behind enemy lines, our pilots were never alone.
American tech just made Iran’s “victory” claims look pathetic.
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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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🚨 BREAKING : Two Israeli commando units — Sayeret Matkal and Unit 5101 “Shaldag” — participated in the rescue of the American pilot near Isfahan, according to the latest reports.
•Sayeret Matkal is the IDF’s elite general‑purpose commando unit with deep‑penetration and hostage‑rescue capabilities. 
•Shaldag is an Israeli Air Force special forces unit trained for clandestine operations, reconnaissance, and combat search‑and‑rescue missions behind enemy lines.
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Many people don’t realize that 93% of student loans are held by the federal government. The company you love to hate is just the servicer. There is virtually no private market in student lending, and that’s why college costs are so insane. They never have to prove that their degree is worth the cost they charge.
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The US is forcing Iran to confront the central question Kissinger once framed: Is it a state or a cause? Is it more committed to its sovereignty or to exporting the Islamic Revolution?
The US proposal is for Iran to be a state. The Revolutionary Guards, as their name suggests, are committed to the Islamic Revolution.
This is the core confrontation playing out.
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I have said from the outset that the Regime wouldn't make peace. It's lead by and full of Zealots. Extremists. You can't rationalize or negotiate with those. You have to kill them. And you have to kill enough of them the Regime collapses. It's good that our leadership has reached that conclusion and is now aggressively pursuing it.
Collapse the regime, the war will end.
Rapid Response 47@RapidResponse47
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Important historical background from @omriceren on Obama's Iran deal and why we're where we are today.
Omri Ceren@omriceren
One of the low-key and sort of subtle geopolitical dynamics of the last four years is that the Biden admin implemented Obama's Iran nuclear deal. People debate foreign policy as if we live in a post-JCPOA world or a non-JCPOA world. We do not. We live in a world in which the JCPOA was implemented. The Iran deal required the US to make fundamental concessions to Iran: 1. The termination of UN sanctions. Obama implemented this part through UN Security Council Resolution 2334. The Trump admin reversed that resolution by triggering a snapback mechanism built into the text. The Biden admin rushed to the UN in February 2021, undid that decision, and restored this part of the nuclear deal. 2. The whitewashing and legitimation of Iran's nuclear work. Obama implemented this part of the deal by issuing sanctions waivers to allow third countries to build up Iran's nuclear program. A core conceit of the deal, which Kerry and Zarif repeated over and over, was that Iran's nuclear work had always been peaceful (and that tensions between America and Iran over nuclear work were a misunderstanding). The conceit was the basis for everything related to the nuclear part of the deal: kneecapping the IAEA on past nuclear weapons work, keeping Fordow open as a research facility, the centrifuge development timeline, allowing reprocessing (!), and - critically - having third parties help Iran on nuclear issues. The idea went 'Since we've already agreed Iran's program is peaceful, and so they're allowed to keep it, don't you agree the international community should help them keep it safe and secure?' But Congress never accepted that theory, and there is a range of sanctions in law against helping Iran develop its nuclear program. So Obama issued waivers to suspend implementation of those sanctions. Trump canceled those waivers and reimposed the sanctions. The Biden admin started issuing the waivers again in February 2022. 3. Allowing Iran to sell oil. Obama implemented this part of the deal by issuing waivers to override Congressional sanctions. Trump canceled those waivers and reimposed those sanctions as part of maximum pressure, which cratered Iran's energy exports. Biden never formally reversed that decision - he just stopped enforcing sanctions, as if he had formally done it. Iran has, for several years, been exporting at the same levels as during the deal ⤵️
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