The White House says Barron Trump is “too tall” at 6'9" for military service.
David Robinson was 7'1" and put his NBA career on hold to serve in the Navy.
Height clearly wasn’t an excuse then and it isn’t now.
@politvidchannel THAT'S WONDERFUL JAMES, I'M JUST SO SORRY IT TOOK YOU SO LONG TO FIGURE OUT THAT THIS REPUBLICAN PARTY IS FULL OF PEDOPHILES AND THIEVES... AND I KNOW YOU ARE ALMOST A GENIUS, PLEASE HELP THE DEMOCRATS WIN IN THE MIDTERMS AND MAKE AMERICA BETTER..
@Kaos_Vs_Control SO CREECH IS ANOTHER REPUBLICAN MAGA PEDOPHILE SO HE'S TRYING TO BE A GREAT FRIEND OF THE CHIEF PEDOPHILE IN THE COUNTRY, HIS NEW BUDDY, trump... WHAT AN ASSHOLE AND COWARD TOO..
@shanaka86 WAS IT HEGSETHS IDEA TO PARK IT IN A PLACE WHERE IRAN COULD GET TO IT ?? I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED BECAUSE HE IS SO UNQUALIFIED FOR THE JOB A REAL MAN SHOULD BE DOING NOW..
BREAKING: Iran just damaged one of America’s 16 remaining E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft on the ground at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia.
The Boeing 707 airframe that the E-3 is built on has not been manufactured since 1992. There is no production line. There are no new airframes. The replacement, the Boeing E-7 Wedgetail, will not arrive until 2028 at the earliest and has already slipped a year per Air and Space Forces Magazine. Each E-3 is worth $537 to $596 million in 2026 dollars. There are 16 left in the entire US Air Force inventory. Six were deployed to the Middle East for this war, nearly 40 percent of the global fleet per Army Recognition, leaving Alaska and the Indo-Pacific critically exposed.
Iran hit one with a ballistic missile. On the ground. Parked on the flight line. Not in the air. Not in combat. On the apron at PSAB per satellite imagery confirmed by Defence Security Asia and Air and Space Forces Magazine.
The strike also damaged several KC-135 Stratotanker refueling aircraft, five in some reports per WSJ and Reuters. Ten to twelve US troops were wounded, two seriously, with no fatalities per AP and NYT. The KC-135s are described as repairable. The E-3 sustained what officials call “notable” to “significant” damage. Some assessments say “possibly inoperable.”
Here is why this matters more than any single missile strike in the war.
The E-3 AWACS is the flying brain of American air operations. Its rotating radar dome tracks threats from surface to stratosphere across 250 miles. It coordinates every fighter, tanker, bomber, and intelligence aircraft in the theatre. In this war, the AWACS tracks Iranian Shahed drones, coordinates F-35 strike packages, and manages the interceptor network already burning through 18 months of Patriot production every four days.
Lose one AWACS and you lose a command node that cannot be replaced at any price on any timeline. The E-7 replacement was cancelled by the Pentagon, reinstated by Congress, and will not fly until 2028. Sixteen former four-star Air Force generals wrote publicly that the gap cannot be filled by space-based sensors.
And now one of the 16 is sitting damaged on a Saudi flight line because Iran parked a ballistic missile next to it.
The arithmetic of irreplaceability connects to every thread in this war. The US fired 943 Patriot interceptors in four days and cannot produce them fast enough. It raided Swiss F-35 funds to cover the gap. Every F-35 flying over Iran carries 418 kilograms of Chinese-processed rare earth materials that cannot be sourced elsewhere for five to ten years. Ukraine is offering $2,100 interceptors because the $3.9 million ones are running out. And now an aircraft that literally cannot be rebuilt has been damaged by a weapon that costs a fraction of its value.
This is not a war of attrition. This is a war against irreplaceability itself. Iran does not need to match American technology. It needs to damage things America cannot replace. A Patriot that is fired is gone. A Swiss account that is raided is empty. An AWACS that is hit on the ground is a hole in the sky that nothing can fill until 2028.
The war is eating the things that cannot be eaten twice.
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@FurkanGozukara WHO STARTED THIS FUCKING WAR RUBIO, YOUR BUDDY trump, BECAUSE he IS MENTALLY ILL he NEVER THOUGHT OF THE BILLIONS OF GALLONS OF OIL THAT ARE NOW STUCK IN THE STRAIT BECAUSE HE JUST FELT LIKE BLOWING UP CHILDREN AND THEIR TEACHERS. trump IS A PATHETIC COWARD..
Absolute panic in Washington. Marco Rubio whines that Iran is planning to permanently control the Strait of Hormuz and charge a toll. He admits the US is powerless to stop it alone and begs the rest of the world to step in. Iran has completely outsmarted the American empire.
@StillADog SO MANY SUPPOSED PEOPLE ARE GOING ON VACATIONS RATHER STAY IN DC AND FIX THE HORROR STORY THAT trump HAS MADE IN JUST 14 MONTHS IN THIS TERM..
@maura_resister FRANKLIN GRAHAM IS A FUCKING LUNATIC TOO, HOW CAN ANYONE UNLESS MENTALLY ILL LIKE HIS PRESIDENT COULD SAY GOD SENT trump TO RAPE CHILDREN, STEAL BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN JUST 14 MONTHS IN OFFICE.. NOT COUNTING ALL THE CONVICTED FELONS HE'S RELEASED FROM PRISON.