@Aviation_Intel The Strategic Defense Initiative was also infeasible, but it's announcement served a purpose.
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Daniel Arnold
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We have been saying this since the second this was announced. This will be incredibly costly to procure, but sustaining it will be absolutely bonkers.
Jake Sherman@JakeSherman
CBO: The Golden Dome will cost $1.2T to build and operate for 20 years cbo.gov/publication/62…
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@AlexThomp @Adamentous @maggieNYT @jonathanvswan Only 30 missile sites and we know where they are? Sounds like good news to me.
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“The Trump administration’s public portrayal of a shattered Iranian military is sharply at odds with what U.S. intelligence agencies are telling policymakers behind closed doors”
Via @Adamentous @maggieNYT @jonathanvswan
nytimes.com/2026/05/12/us/…
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@hughhewitt @Pontifex Hugh, I love you, but I am embarrassed for you by this post. After the Pope's comments about Lebanon being a model multi-confessional state, this seems more like a pattern than fumbling boomer ignorance.
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Friends: @Pontifex is new to the job. He’s a Boomer American Catholic who has spent next to zero time on national security issues around the world. I doubt there were serious courses on the Iranian revolution in Seminary and it occurred after his college years. His life has been devoted to serving the poor and the Church. He inherited Francis’ Vatican and while it is obvious he knows as much about the Islamic Republic as I do about the Rule of St. Augustine, it is not too much to ask for patience while he settles into the new job.
Megatron@Megatron_ron
NEW:🇮🇷🇻🇦Pope Leo XIV presented Iran’s ambassador to the Vatican, Ayatollah Hossein Mokhtari, with the highest diplomatic honor of the Vatican, the ‘Order of Pius’ The medal was awarded for Iran’s extraordinary contributions to peace and interfaith cooperation between Christians and Muslims.
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@GovernorVA The "first in the South" doesn't land well when it comes from a New Jersey transplant who seems a bit arrogant and entitled.
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First in the South: Virginia's new Paid Family and Medical Leave Law x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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@realDailyWire @michaeljknowles @megynkelly These two must be regretting this now that Pratt's philosemitic texts just came out.
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.@michaeljknowles and @megynkelly roast the "out-of-touch" attack ad against Spencer Pratt that went viral because it seemed like parody:
"Spencer Pratt doesn't want to kick puppies. Spencer Pratt loves tasty apple pie...Who are you appealing to? What is the argument?"
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@BarakRavid I always look to Haaretz for fair takes on Bibi.
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יוסי ורטר כותב: "צפייה במשדר כולו חידדה את תחושת אי־הנוחות, שלא לומר דאגה, שכל אזרח ישראלי שאינו ביביסט מושבע חייב לחוש. נתניהו נראה עייף, חיוור, גם מבעד לשכבות של איפור. הוא היה כמעט מותש. עיניו בלטו, מתחת להן נתלו שקיות כבדות. הוא דיבר חלש, בלי הברבאדו האופייני לו; גם כשהתאמץ לשדר עוצמה וזחיחות, הוא שידר בעיקר תבוסה ולאות"
haaretz.co.il/news/politi/20…
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@TheAKGuy @DefiantLs I'll never see Gustavo Fring the same way again...
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Breaking Bad actor: "This is the time for a revolution"
"They can't take us all down. If the whole world showed up... in Washington, they'll kill a 500, 50 million or however... The rest of us would survive"
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@mercoglianos Based on the average engagement that @ChazzonKe
had been getting on his posts, he should send you a real nice bottle of booze for helping him become more visible. He may come to regret the increased scrutiny that will come with it.
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It appears, according to Keith, I am old, outdated, and utterly out of touch with modern logistics and supply chains.
Well, I guess I will be packing it up and heading to the ole' folks home now.
It has been a good ride!
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Keith@ChazzonKe
I'll say this, your book is rather well cited and you take time to properly provide adequate citations. You appear very educated on historical matters, which aligns with your focus on maritime history. But when it comes to modern day events, using technology to monitor data, pull information directly from broker and underwriting API's you fall flat on your face. You work in the historical space, slow moving, slow adapting, slow to adjust. Whereas analyst and modern logisticians need to be flexible and work on evolving conditions that move in seconds, not decades. Which explains why you can't cite current data even when you make claims of having access to quotes. You fall back on your legacy and historic understanding and attempt to use that to leverage a modern expertise in a space that changes more in an hour, than you likely saw over decades. History is great, we need it. But you make statements of fact or statements to downplay yet you've never been able to cite current data. Which tells me you are trying to leverage your expertise as a historian as someone who is an expert today. Which clearly you are not. When brokers and analysts see a completely different picture. You can't even comprehend how API's pull data and immediately tried to discredit. You are old, outdated, and utterly out of touch with modern logistics, supply chains, and the overwhelming amount of data available to anyone who pays for access to the data.
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@ChazzonKe Since the numbers are open source and you know where to find them, can you share your estimate of the existing stockpiles?
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Here is a pro-tip. When general munition levels are public record, when production levels are public record, and when you show off and discuss routinely the number of strikes, assets used, and how any missiles/round you fired...it does not take a strategic genius to do basic math to see we are well into our reserves.
We have justification books released annually which outlines procurement levels, order timelines, costs, and historic expenses.
We have the GAO annual assessments which covers acquisitions, modernization, and more. Which gives more insight.
We can also monitor DOD contract notices throughout the years to watch for buildups or production cooling.
During Operation Iraqi Freedom we fired roughly 850 tomahawk missile throughout the entire war. Yet y'all fired that many in barely 60 days here.
We can track production levels against public reports on firing volume which you yourself are a fantastic source of leaks of consumption data. 🤷♂️
Also, tomahawks for example are on block 5. We can estimate conversations through the above mentioned reports as well as production of pure block 5 production levels with a high degree of accuracy.
Limited production due to peacetime makes counting easier.
In summary, you are stupid. You don't understand what is reported within your own agency reports, you don't understand how DOD procurement works, and you are utterly incapable of doing simple addition and subtraction. So of course you lack the basics of data analytics and analysis. 🤷♂️
Pete Hegseth@PeteHegseth
“Captain” Mark Kelly strikes again. Now he’s blabbing on TV (falsely & dumbly) about a *CLASSIFIED* Pentagon briefing he received. Did he violate his oath…again? @DeptofWar legal counsel will review.
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@marcuslemonis "However old you needed to be to have married her and given me grandchildren!"
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Mother’s Day Question?
How old do I need to be for my girlfriend to stay over the night? ..
#MoMSetRules
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@mercoglianos I wouldn't read that much into it. I imagine CENTCOM will use whatever means are most efficient in the moment to disable a blockade runner. 20mm is as good as a 5" gun for that purpose.
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I have some questions about this.
Why use an F/A-18 to shoot out a rudder? I am not an aviator but that does not seem like the appropriate system to use.
Also, if you are using a jet, does this indicate that the US is spread a bit thin as no ship was able to conduct the intercept.
Every time we have a situation like this, it raises more questions.
U.S. Central Command@CENTCOM
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@jpodhoretz Sad to see how far he has fallen. Using rage-bait abstracts to drive people to his substack.
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That’s a disgraceful thing to say in every way. Shame on you.
Richard N. Haass@RichardHaass
Vladimir Putin & Donald Trump launched wars of choice they expected would end quickly & decisively. Both must decide how to conclude them now that their assumptions have proven wrong. open.substack.com/pub/richardhaa…
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@infantrydort Written by Mark "Full Semi-Auto" Hertling. What a surprise. He'll utter things he knows are false to push an agenda.
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@BulwarkOnline Written by Mark "Full Semi-Auto" Hertling. What a surprise.
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The military doesn't need a new culture. It needs leadership who understand and appreciate its culture.
lnk.thebulwark.com/48Z1N1R
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@JenniferSey She's a single mom because she poured scalding mashed potatoes on her husband's head. She's lucky she isn't in prison.
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This is embarrassing. Especially the end. She thinks it’s cheeky and disruptive. In reality, it’s cheesy and conformist.
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@TheBuddyCSM It's especially infuriating because they do it to dupe well-meaning people into hitting that like button out of sympathy and patriotism.
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I will seldom post about fallen warriors, because I’m terrified of making a small grammatical or spelling mistake.
To see people drop stupid AI pictures and inaccurate information infuriates me to no end.
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@jaketapper There's no problem with this. Leader Jeffries chose to present himself as such on his own official social media.
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The president posted this about House Democratic Leader Jeffries shortly after 11 pm last night.
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@davereaboi I'm still trying to wrap my head around a world where LuLu Garcia-Navarro is doing responsible, necessary journalism.
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Carlson says Cruz and Huckabee are far worse people than Fuentes is. I kindof understand him, because I think Carlson’s a far worse person than Fuentes is, too.
Brent Scher@BrentScher
Tucker Carlson tells the New York Times he regrets interviewing Nick Fuentes, the interview everyone bent over backwards to defend. (He then says Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz are worse than Nick Fuentes)
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It would take a minimum wage worker in California more than 14,000 years to earn what Tom has spent running for office.
Rob Pyers@rpyers
🎉Tom Steyer has now spent over half a billion dollars on his two runs for office ($341,776,336 on his 2020 run for POTUS, $158,466,780 on his 2026 run for CA governor)
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