@ddowell327 @monsterhunter45 Our “allies” who would have covertly warned the Mullahs before we attacked, and then cut back-channel deals with them? Those allies?
Feh.
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Somehow, I strayed and lost my way, and now there’ll be no time to play, no time for joy, no time for friends – not even time to make amends.
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@monsterhunter45 You started a war without consulting your allies. Your president insulted the allied soldiers that died fighting in your endless list of previous wars. You threatened to attack a NATO country and take their land.
The US is incapable of introspection.
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X today-
Americans saying they are tired of subsidizing our NATO allies to pay for their good time-
Europeans respond by saying Americans are crass, stupid, barbaric, loser idiots who should shut up and keep paying for Europe’s national defense because they’ve got free government healthcare and magic unicorn renewable energy which makes them superior, while Americans are all fat and have school shootings. We don’t need you uncultured American swine, because we’ve got two whole working ships and four and a half airplanes, and that’s plenty since we aren’t warmongers like you American trash.
So yeah, that’s totally gonna sway some Americans right there. Good luck with that.
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@BrianAtlas So she wanted to “go slowly” with this guy, and make him wait for it, all while slinging it to some ex-friend-with-benefits?
Who on earth does something like that, and thinks it’s OK?
Dude dodged a bullet.
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@CyborgPeds It’s one of the principle ways we differ from Russian/Chinese/etc militaries.
They are VERY top-heavy, and lower-ranking officers have zero independence.
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My small observation is that in the US military, autonomy and responsibility are pushed WAY down the chain of command. This results in an unequalled ability to adapt and improvise. The amount of freedom to act I had as a 26 year old aircraft commander has no parallel in the civilian world that I know of.
wretchardthecat@wretchardthecat
The most interesting aspect of the weapons officer rescue in Iran was CENTCOM's ability to use so many disparate personnel and capabilities in such a rapid and integrated way. They were making it up as they went along with complex tools and time critical sequences. There is a saying that bureaucracies, including militaries, are like jukeboxes. They have routines and can only play from the list. In situations like this there is no relevant record in the jukebox. You have to improvise the new tune from fragments of songs. There were so many ways to get this wrong and only a few ways to walk away with no KIA. A lot of the news focus is naturally on the machines, because that is what you can see. But someone told me years ago that air forces are not made out of planes. They are made up of people, and that is what we glimpsed here.
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@philthatremains It’s almost like their values are completely different… incompatible even… with Americans.
Huh.
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A bunch of scumbags want America to lose, and you should hate them and treat them like the trash they are. @townhallcom
Our Own Ruling Class Desperately Wants to Lose This War townhall.com/columnists/kur…
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I’m up in the middle of the night and am about to go back to sleep. But seeing the news of this pilot being rescued after one of the most daring rescue operations in history has me motivated beyond belief.
To the media and the haters who’ve been obsessed with palace intrigue stories. Trying to sow division and calling for the heads of our leaders. I hope this news hurts. I hope it hurts a lot.
I have my finger on the pulse of the information machine these days. And what I’ve seen over the past 48 hours is the weaponization of said machine.
Bots, grifters, and partisan hacks all working in unison literally rooting for our failure. Rabid. Drooling. Damn near praying to satan for our own pilot to be killed or captured.
Hyenas, the lot of them. All cheering against America.
While they’ve all been groaning like demons for the heads of our leaders and warriors, people like @PeteHegseth, @SeanParnellASW and others have just been busily…. doing the job to get our guy back.
Nothing I type here will matter at 0300. But when the world wakes up in a few hours, it’ll see the fruits of merit based leadership at echelon. All the way down the chain.
An Airman safely home after evading capture for over a day. An epic rescue that will be remembered for generations. Millions inspired by the shear power and conviction of the United States military. And millions more disappointed by it, because they were praying for our national embarrassment.
I’m not sorry you’re witnessing a competent war machine in action.
I’m not sorry that our leadership will never leave anyone behind.
I’m not sorry for any hurt feelings caused by this.
Because you were never on our team anyway.
God Bless America.🇺🇸
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@jakeshieldsajj @GuntherEagleman Bro… you’ve really gone around the bend on this thing.
Time to log off… maybe try decaf.
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@GuntherEagleman Do you realize that those are all American not Iranian
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🚨 ABSOLUTE DOMINATION!
In the incredible Easter rescue of our downed F-15 pilot deep inside Iran, U.S. forces didn’t just get our hero out safely
They BLEW UP the two left-behind C-130s that were being used as a temporary forward base!
WE WIN! 🇺🇸
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@KurtSchlichter Humans are more important than hardware.
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@MarioNawfal Yeah, that traffic jam is people trying to get OUT of the area.
Before the A-10s come in and 30-mm anything moving within a 1/4 mile of that downed pilot.
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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 BREAKING: Credible reports that the missing F-15E weapons systems officer has been recovered alive from inside Iran.
Jack Murphy, a former Green Beret and national security journalist, reports the WSO was evading capture on the ground when rescue forces reached them.
A "massive firefight" at the recovery site.
If confirmed, American special operators just fought their way into Iran, found their pilot, and pulled them out alive.
The most dramatic combat rescue since the war began. Possibly in decades.
Source: @JackMurphyRGR @DropSiteNews
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 BREAKING: Traffic jams forming in southwestern Iran as civilians reportedly rush to help security forces capture the downed American pilot. Iranian military urging people to stay away from the area. Source: Middle East Spectator
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@WomenBeingAwful This woman is a cowbird. Her family is built upon lies.
Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Time to pay up.
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@angertab I laughed when I saw that nonsense. It’s not even plausible.
Like the Trump-hating media wouldn’t be all over that story like white on rice?
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Posts like the one pictured below are at the heart of foreign disinformation designed to divide the USA.
The younger enlisted soldiers would not be able to keep this quiet.
Families of the fallen would not stay quiet.
Don't believe the garbage. Don't engage with the garbage.
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@CynicalPublius @KurtSchlichter @Miriam2626 Is this like the 2yo who says “Mommy, how can a diverse electorate embrace the racial implications of a second Trump administration?”
And then a tearful mother hugs the child, while everybody claps?
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I'm hearing a lot of remorse about voting for Kamala in my blue town where I'm a well known red dot. They tell me they had no idea how awesome America would be under Trump, and they are sorry for doubting me. That I was right. That ending mass illegal immigration, restoring voting integrity and bringing back good-paying jobs for Americans was the right course. And I don't rub it in their face. We are all united for Trump. We will get back to our differences once we have a lesser President. Then we all held hands, sang "Kumbaya" and skipped down the street to the mercantile to get egg creams.
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I'm hearing a lot of remorse about Trump in my red town where I'm a welll known blue dot. They tell me they are sorry. That I was right. And I don't rub it in their face. We are all united against Trump. We will get back to our differences once we protected our country.
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Mike from Red Letter Media claims less than 40,000 people watched Starfleet Academy per episode:
"I heard from my source. Do you want to know the numbers? The entire first season of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, not individual episodes, the entire season total views, about 400,000. Not per episode. Cumulatively, the entire series. About 400,000 views. Which is an average of maybe 40,000 views per episode."
Do you believe views were this bad?
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@Notwokenow That’s a dude who’s down, and DGAF… robber recognized it too.
Just not cool to kill a dude like that. He’s got enough problems.
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@FromKulak That’s a strange sentiment for a Kulak to have.
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You can just kill your enemies and take their stuff.
This is what every single previous generation did when cost of living got too high and the price of labor too low.
They killed eachother, lowered the supply of labor, and stole the capital wealth from the elderly.
Wall Street Apes@WallStreetApes
Young Americans are having mental breakdowns realizing the cost of rent, gas and life means they’ll never be able to afford anything They are breaking down knowing that no matter how much they work, it all just goes to monthly bills they still cant afford This is unsustainable
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@Sargon_of_Akkad @AriFleischer @philthatremains Weak. That has fuck-all to do with overflight and base use, which is happening right now.
None of that requires a modicum of effort, money, or planning. You just have to not be in the way.
You can’t even do that, and we all know why.
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@AriFleischer @philthatremains >we started a war
>we didn't do any planning
>we didn't build a coalition
>we didn’t even warn our allies we were going to war
>they didn't join us in the war
They've sold us out!!!!
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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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@wvfunnyguy A woman who is not only dumb (leftovers, when refrigerated, are perfectly good the next day), but too good for leftovers?
Dump her. Orders the most expensive thing on the menu and doesn’t even eat it? She’s a bitch, and did that deliberately.
Pass. HARD pass.
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@MikeLevin Did you say anything when Obama fired nearly 200 generals and officers?
If not, opinion disregarded.
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The Army Chief of Staff, a combat veteran with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, asked Pete Hegseth why he was blocking the promotions of two Black officers and two female officers who had earned them.
Hegseth refused to answer. Then he fired him.
Nine U.S. officials told NBC News that Hegseth has blocked or delayed promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military.
Hegseth has now fired or sidelined more than a dozen generals and admirals.
He is an out-of-control, unqualified former TV host and nobody in the Republican Party will say a word about it because they don’t want to make Trump angry.
nbcnews.com/politics/natio…
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@allenanalysis So they used a heat-seeker?
Yeah…umm.. those have been around for a VERY long time.
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🚨 ABC News confirms: Iran used advanced passive infrared detection to shoot down the American F-15.
Passive infrared detection does not emit radar signals.
It cannot be detected or jammed by American electronic warfare systems.
It is invisible to the technology America has spent trillions building its air superiority around.
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