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CSIS: Operation Epic Fury cost $11.3 billion in its first 6 days. By Day 12, the estimated total reached $16.5 billion. The war is now burning through approximately $500 million per day. The biggest single cost: munitions. 319 Tomahawk missiles, 786 JASSMs, 414 HARM missiles, 158 THAAD interceptors and 83 SM-3s fired in the first six days alone. THAAD deliveries are zero in FY2026 and production doesn't resume until April 2027. Equipment losses confirmed so far: 3 F-15s, 1 KC-135, 11 Reaper drones, 1 THAAD radar — $1.7 billion in hardware. The Pentagon has already asked Congress for over $200 billion to finance the war. These estimates don't include Israel resupply, higher fuel costs across the DoD, or future veterans' benefits. The $11.3 billion figure the DoD shared with Congress excludes the military buildup before the war even started.

The 25th Amendment. The real Save America Act.

@Tazerface16 Trump lied! Incredible.

Unfortunately, I wasn't. I just didn't think they'd start early.

🇯🇵 Asian markets crashed at opening on Monday, major indexes in Japan and South Korea falling more than 5%, as investors fled risk assets amid escalating war with Iran. Not a great signal for the week ahead in spite of Trump's ALL CAPS Truth social posts that everything is fine...

Good for Eric Swalwell! This is EXACTLY what we need.👏

@Tazerface16 The Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho knew Custer was coming. How did that work for the arrogant 7th Cav? We never learn.

We're really going to try and invade Kharg Island in the next few days. I'm fucking speechless. Everyone knows!

@Tazerface16 @AvivaKlompas Not to mention Willy Pete.

@AvivaKlompas Israel has done exactly this in Lebanon.

Iran is firing missiles that break apart mid-air and scatter smaller explosives across wide areas. These are indiscriminate weapons aimed at civilian zones. If Israel were doing this, the screaches of outrage would be deafening. But it doesn’t even make the news outside Israel.

@lacho_ai @donwinslow @alala55 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

@donwinslow @alala55 Someone say gaping?

There is a GAPING HOLE in national weekend news. GAPING.

⚡️🇪🇸BREAKING: Spain’s Minister of transportation comments on Netanyahu’s statement today trying to drag Europe to the war: “We're not going with you even around the corner, you genocidal bastard. Let's see if you get it.”

@TheRealThelmaJ1 @RichardGrenell Just read @RichardGrenell’s bio again. He has failed at every job in his failed career. He was a disgrace as Ambassador to Germany, and he destroyed the Kennedy Center. He has gotten those jobs by being a bootlicker extraordinaire. And of course he didn’t serve. DADT.

@RichardGrenell What branch did you serve in Ric? I seem to have missed your service record. Did you fight in Grenada, Panama, Desert Storm? You're about the right age for all of those.

Mueller pushed a hoax to undermine the duly elected president of the United States. We get that you don’t see his treason - but the rest of America does.

@boddie2337 @Matt_Infield @lamar_jay58279 Thanks, Melvin. I was just starting to type that. People should remember DJ in 2010. A jumper and shot blocker, but he improved every year. Will can do the same.

@Matt_Infield @lamar_jay58279 Wharton is athletic. Don’t understand how some didn’t see his potential. Has athleticism similar to DJ Stephens

Can confirm both Julius Thedford and William Whorton plan to return to Memphis Basketball next season. Thedford, a Memphis native, felt like a no-brainer to me all season. Two years of eligibility remaining. Whorton is maybe a touch unexpected, but we’ll see how he develops.

Here is something American culture cannot process and has spent fifty years refusing to process: Vietnam did not win because of luck. Vietnam did not win because America made mistakes. Vietnam did not win because of Soviet weapons or Chinese support. Vietnam won because Vietnamese people were better at this war than Americans were. Better strategists. Better at understanding the terrain. Better at sustaining morale across decades of unimaginable suffering. Better at building an underground economy of resistance that no bombing campaign could touch. Better at turning every American escalation into a recruitment tool. Better at knowing what they were fighting for and why it was worth dying for. General Võ Nguyên Giáp, who defeated both the French and the Americans, was a history teacher before he was a general. He had no formal military training. He studied the Vietnamese landscape, the Vietnamese people, the psychology of colonial occupiers, and he designed a strategy around all of those things. He understood something American generals, with all their training, all their technology, all their experience, did not understand: This war would be won by whoever could outlast the other side's will to continue. Not firepower. Will. And he was right. He was right about the French. He was right about the Americans. The most powerful military on earth was out-thought by a history teacher from a colonized country. That is not an accident of history. That is not a mistake or a miscalculation. That is what happens when you underestimate people. When you look at a rice farmer and see someone beneath you. When your own arrogance becomes your greatest strategic liability. America's arrogance cost it Vietnam. That arrogance has never been honestly examined. It has never been corrected. Which is why the same pattern keeps repeating in different countries with different names.

@Marypoppinsass1 @Tazerface16 @brainsmatter_x Israel has crossed what would have been a red line many times. Gaza being the worst and latest. Israel is now a pariah and no longer of value to the US.

@P3APPC @Tazerface16 @brainsmatter_x x.com/marypoppinsass…

The people of the United States no longer have any patience or sympathy for Israel. You guys need to figure out how to survive on your own now. It's time.

@Marypoppinsass1 @Tazerface16 @brainsmatter_x Good post. Israel also has been a testing ground for our weapons systems in actual combat. They buy weapons, use them, and the US military, government and defense contractors are all happy.

They used to be our ally because they were the only ones in the Middle East that fed us intel in the region basically being our eyes and ears there. We also depended on them for technology for our advancement in military weapons. But now they have morphed into a criminal government just like ours did when we elected Trump. They both ran to avoid prison

@Marypoppinsass1 @Tazerface16 @brainsmatter_x Typos🥸

@26bc3ac98fc8442 @Daractenus @VetsForRL Or on his knees under “a” desk.

@Daractenus @VetsForRL Easy for him to say. During his military service it seems that he spent most of his time behind a desk.

"We got two marine expeditionary units sailing to this island [Kharg]. [...] We did Iwo Jima, we can do this." How cheap life is when it’s someone else’s sons and daughters dying.

@atrupar @Mary88Rz

If you thought Bill Barr was bad, Trump has far worse coming.

It's Caturday you all, we obliterated Iran and won the war again edition, so show me your furbabies. It's a hot day here in Phoenix and I sure do need to see them.