@sahouraxo I don't know, I'm going out on a limb sayin' that murdering 20,000 of your own people in January kinda' tops the "war crimes" bullshit, no?
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@LegalistsOfGor @upstatefederlst Dude- ALL of their loading and storage is on the island. Without it they can’t transfer a gallon.
Read a book.
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@mscully89 @upstatefederlst There is nothing on karg island, it's nowhere near the straight of hormuz, and we need to get the straight open so we can take the oil.
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My life as an American would be completely unchanged irrespective of which barbarian was in charge of which desert nation on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
Shipwreckedcrew@shipwreckedcrew
Question: Are you old enough to remember the period 1980 to 2002 with regard to Iraq and the Saddam Hussein regime? Do you think the world is better off today without an Iraq led by Saddam Hussein or his two sons that he had positioned to succeed him? Do you remember the military government of Hafez Al-Assad in Syria from 1971 to 2000, a Soviet backed regime? Can you distinguish between Hafez and Bashar Al-Assad times in office in Syria? If not -- if your really lack an understanding of how much better the Middle East is today as a result of U.S. intervention starting with the First Gulf War after Hussein invaded and took over Kuwait, then you're simply too ignorant and uninformed to comment on the geopolitics of the region.
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@upstatefederlst Send in Delta to get the uranium, post the 82nd as a QRF for them, blowup enough of the Karg Island to screw them over, turn out the lights, head home.
Fuck their economic plight, let them figure it out.
Who gives a shit.
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I have, in fact, been alive long enough to be exhausted at the prospect of (again) sending young American men to die to prevent Israel's neighbors from trying to nuke them.
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🚨BREAKING: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Iran says the United States has until March 30, 12:00 p.m. (Tehran time) to condemn the bombing of Iranian universities.
If it does not, Iran will carry out strikes against multiple American universities in the Middle East and the United... View more
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@MattWalshBlog Hmm?.Pallets of cash and bullshit agreements like JCPOA, or stomping them in the face after threatening death for 47 years, inventing shaped charged IED's killing hundreds of U.S. troops, Beirut barracks, funding every asshole with a grudge against the West.
I'll take the stomp.
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I’ve never seen such a disconnect between the commentary on this site and what I hear in the real world. I’ve talked to dozens of normal conservatives in real life about the Iran War and I haven’t met a single one who’s actually enthusiastically in favor of it. At best they’re warily optimistic. In most cases they’re opposed. In some cases they’re not only opposed but deeply furious. And yet here if you utter a word of criticism about the war you’ll be shouted down by throngs of alleged American conservatives who allegedly have wanted nothing more than for America to go to war with Iran. It just doesn’t reflect what I see on the ground. That’s not just cope because my position is unpopular with “my side.” I’ve held plenty of unpopular positions. I really don’t care. But in this case the social media vs real world divide is stark and unlike anything I’ve seen before.
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@mscully89 @roddreher The US has not covered anything swiss, ever. They aren’t in NATO nor did they participate in the two world wars.
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Wait … we STOLE Switzerland’s money?! Am I reading this right?
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86
BREAKING: The United States just took over $126 million from Switzerland’s fighter jet account to cover missile shortfalls in the Iran war. Switzerland did not approve this. Switzerland did not consent. Switzerland had already frozen its Patriot payments after learning deliveries would be delayed four to five years. The US circumvented the freeze. SRF, Switzerland’s national broadcaster, reported on March 26 that Washington redirected Swiss funds originally allocated for 36 F-35 fighter jets to cover Patriot air defence shortfalls using the Foreign Military Sales pooled trust fund, a structure that allows the Pentagon to reallocate payments across a buyer’s contracts without that buyer’s permission. Swiss armaments chief Urs Loher confirmed the diverted amount is a “low three-digit million” Swiss francs and called the situation “very unsatisfactory.” The money Switzerland paid for jets is now subsidising a war Switzerland refused to participate in. Bern halted new arms exports to the US on March 20 citing the Iran conflict. Switzerland rejected two US military flyover requests linked to Iran operations. Two hundred years of armed neutrality, and Washington reached into the account anyway. Here is why. The United States fired 943 Patriot interceptors defending Gulf states in the first four days of Operation Epic Fury per a US Congressional study cited by the Jerusalem Post last week. Lockheed Martin and Boeing produce 620 Patriot interceptors per year combined. In four days, America burned through eighteen months of global Patriot production. The war has consumed roughly one-third of the entire THAAD missile stockpile. Annual THAAD production does not exceed 100 units. The cost asymmetry is what makes the depletion irreversible at current production rates. Each PAC-3 interceptor costs $3.9 million. Each Iranian Shahed drone costs between $20,000 and $50,000. The cost exchange ratio is 114 to 1 in Iran’s favour per Military Times. Iran manufactures an estimated 10,000 Shaheds per month per Reuters. America produces 620 interceptors per year. Iran builds more drones in a single week than the United States builds interceptors in an entire year. Every interceptor fired in the Gulf is one that cannot be delivered to Switzerland, Ukraine, Taiwan, Japan, or Poland. The State Department warned allies on March 27 that Patriot deliveries to Ukraine would face disruptions as the Pentagon prioritises Iran per Quiver Quantitative. Senator Chris Murphy said on record: “We’ve been told again and again one reason we can’t provide interceptors for the Patriot system for Ukraine is that they’re in short supply.” Lockheed signed a framework to quadruple production to 2,000 units per year. That capacity will not arrive for six to seven years. The Pentagon has asked Congress to shift $1.5 billion from other programmes to accelerate procurement per Bloomberg. None of this helps now. The interceptors are depleting now. The allied accounts are being raided now. Switzerland is considering reducing its F-35 order from 36 to 30 jets and accelerating evaluation of European alternatives per Bluewin and Global Defense Corp. Swiss parliamentarians have called the redirection “an unacceptable violation of procurement sovereignty.” The Swiss parliament is preparing formal hearings. Switzerland is the canary. A neutral country with two centuries of armed neutrality just had its fighter jet money taken without consent to feed a four-week-old war that burns 18 months of interceptor production every 96 hours. Every US ally with a pending defence contract should be asking one question: whose account is next? Full analysis: open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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@StaunchGrimoire @roddreher Cool.
So what the hell do they need an 'effing F-35 for?
Show and Tell?
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@WFri2z @RyneTryne @roddreher No kidding, and when was the last time a French fighter did anything but fly over a parade?
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@mscully89 @RyneTryne @roddreher Don't worry, the french's planes are better and at least they don't betray their contractees
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It’s GamGam and PeePaw before going antiquing and buying yarn. They warmed up the Prius and turned on NPR.
Get in!
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@ThomasSowell Rose looks like a cadaver.
Two one time media giants now broadcasting from their bedrooms.
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Chuck Todd: "I think [the Democratic party] is just a collection of people that don't like Trump."
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@Sheldonmusk @RealRobCropton @roddreher Moron: I said Zurich, Geneva, Bern..... Nice (as in nice place) and "Expensive".
English much?
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@JasonHornbuckle And he knows no more of what God does and does not reject as prayers, than you do.
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This guy is not a spiritual leader reuters.com/world/pope-leo…
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@H3L3M3S3 @roddreher Dummy:
The only "war' you would have faced was the one where the Soviet Union gobbled up the rest of Western Europe, just like they took Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia.
Only that didn't happen because of the might of the U.S. military.
Your welcome.
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And in what wars since the end of WW2 has the US protected Europe? I only remember the American-led wars against Iraq and Afghanistan, in which about 40 allied countries,not only from NATO (forexample even Ukraine), voluntarily signed up to help the US,and in which 2000 European soldiers died for US. And then I know that the US uses bases in Europe,which are financed by the countries in which the bases are located,and US companies gain business contracts from European countries thanks to these bases. Which has always been financially beneficial primary for the US. The US also uses bases in Europe for its wars and interventions in the Middle East as intermediate air bases and military bases for transferring equipment and people to conflict zones.
And regarding Ukraine-US profit on the russian war made around 250 billion dollars thanks to arms sales,contracts for oil supplies,LNG,which together increased American GDP by 1-2%. Europe lost several trillion dollars due to the russian war,the energy crisis and financing of Ukraine. And Trump still has the audacity to blackmail both Ukraine,on which the US made billions,and Europe,now a former ally.
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@shanaka86 Man, you be slinging a whole lot of bullshit and conjecture here.
My compliments.
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BREAKING: The world’s largest aircraft carrier just pulled into a Croatian port for repairs. It was not hit by an Iranian missile. It was taken out of the war by a laundry room fire.
USS Gerald R. Ford, America’s newest carrier, arrived in Split, Croatia on March 28 after 277 days at sea per USNI News and Military Times. A fire broke out in the aft laundry room on March 12 while Ford was conducting combat operations in the Red Sea. Three sailors were injured. Nearly 200 were treated for smoke inhalation. One hundred sleeping berths were damaged. The fire took hours to bring under control. The carrier that costs $13.3 billion to build was pulled from a war zone because the crew’s laundry caught fire.
On the same day the Ford docked in Croatia, CENTCOM announced that USS Tripoli arrived in the Middle East with 3,500 Marines and F-35B fighters per CBS News. USS Boxer with 2,200 more Marines departed San Diego mid-March on an accelerated schedule and will arrive mid-April. USS George H.W. Bush is heading out from Norfolk to replace the Ford. The Pentagon is considering up to 10,000 additional ground troops per the Wall Street Journal.
In 28 days of war, America has struck more than 11,000 targets per CENTCOM. Destroyed over 150 Iranian vessels. Flown more than 11,000 combat sorties. Fired 943 Patriot interceptors in four days. Raided Swiss F-35 accounts to cover the gap. Lost an AWACS to a ballistic missile on the ground at Prince Sultan Air Base. Lost multiple KC-135 tankers on the same flight line. Thirteen service members killed. More than 200 wounded per Task and Purpose.
And on March 26, Lieutenant General Leonard F. Anderson IV sent a letter to 35,000 Marine reservists asking: “Is your desert MARPAT readily available, is your gear packed and ready to pick up and move?” He told them: “This is not a theoretical exercise. Our forces are currently engaged in operations connected to Iran. A mass mobilization could become reality. Prepare your family.”
The carrier is in Croatia. The AWACS is on the ground. The tankers are damaged. The Patriot stocks are depleted. The reservists are being told to check their desert uniforms. And Secretary of State Rubio says the US can meet its objectives “without any ground troops” while adding that the president needs “maximum optionality.”
Here is what the consumption arithmetic reveals.
The Ford deployed in June 2025. Nine months at sea. It operated in the Arctic, the Mediterranean, the Caribbean for the Venezuela raid, and the Red Sea for Iran. If it stays deployed through mid-April, it breaks the post-Vietnam record for carrier deployments per USNI News. America’s most advanced warship is being used until it breaks, replaced by the next in line, which will also be used until it breaks.
The AWACS cannot be replaced. The Boeing 707 has not been manufactured since 1992. The KC-135 tankers are being repaired but every hour of repair is an hour without aerial refueling for the fighters hitting the 11,000 targets. The Patriot missiles are being consumed faster than they can be produced. The Swiss accounts are being raided because the American accounts are empty.
This war is not being lost. It is being won at a rate that consumes the instruments of victory faster than they can be regenerated.
The machine is eating itself.
Full analysis: open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86
JUST IN: The US Navy is investigating whether sailors aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford deliberately set fire to their own ship to end the deployment. That is the sentence. Read it again. The $13 billion carrier, the most expensive warship ever built, is now diverting to Souda Naval Base in Crete next week for refueling, repairs, and a formal investigation into the March 12 fire that damaged sections of the vessel and left more than 600 crew without proper sleeping quarters. Kathimerini, one of Greece’s most established daily newspapers, reported the details citing sources with direct knowledge of the planned port call. The investigation explicitly includes the possibility of deliberate sabotage by crewmembers. The Ford has been at sea since June 2025. Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jim Kilby told the Senate Armed Services Committee the deployment will run approximately 11 months, with return to Norfolk not expected until at least May. The crew was told they would be home months ago. They were extended. Then extended again. Then redirected into the largest Middle East military operation since 2003. And now some among them may have decided that fire was the only exit. If confirmed, this would be one of the most serious internal discipline events in the modern US Navy. A crew sabotaging its own vessel in a war zone does not happen because of poor food or bad weather. It happens when the institution has pushed human endurance past the point where the mission feels survivable. Eleven months at sea. Iranian drones striking Gulf airports daily. Eleven Reapers shot down in seventeen days. Gulf states pressing Washington not to stop but to escalate. No rotation ship. No relief force. No ceasefire on any horizon. And the carrier that embodies forward American naval power is pulling into a Greek port because 600 of its sailors have nowhere to sleep. The Crete diversion is the signal the market should be reading. The Ford is the only US carrier in the Gulf theatre. When it pulls into Souda, the sustained naval posture that was supposed to backstop convoy escorts, deter Iranian mining operations, and project power through the spring planting season temporarily loses its centrepiece. Repairs take days at minimum. Investigation takes longer. Every day the Ford sits in Crete is a day the Hormuz permissioned chokepoint operates without the threat of carrier-based air power overhead. After Crete, the Ford is expected to return to Gulf waters. The 11-month deployment timeline holds. But the sabotage investigation tells you something that no deployment order can override: the human beings inside the machine are breaking. The Mosaic Doctrine does not break. Provincial commanders do not file for shore leave. Standing orders do not need sleeping quarters. Mines do not experience morale collapse. The cheapest blockade in modern history runs on sealed packets and radio handsets while the most expensive warship in human history diverts to port because its own crew may have tried to burn their way home. The fertiliser trapped behind the permissioned strait does not care whether the Ford is in the Gulf or in Crete. The planting calendar does not pause for a sabotage investigation. And the 31 autonomous IRGC commands running the chokepoint do not need a $13 billion aircraft carrier to feel tired before they do. They were designed never to feel anything at all. Full analysis: open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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@DrunknCanuck @RyneTryne @roddreher "Develop"? Huh? What development?
A: What would you do with them anyway, we defend you since you have no viable military, or haven't you noticed that?
B: Keep drinking, its not working.
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@mscully89 @RyneTryne @roddreher Canada has been signed up for the 35 Program since 1997 have paid in full for 24 F35s of 88 ordered.
28 years we have helped fund, develop, produce the F35....
And haven't got a single one.
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@iammischka @SpencerGuard We met our recruiting goals for 2027 months ago, asshole.
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@SpencerGuard Iran isn’t the only regime with recruitment struggles.
theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…
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@mscully89 @Oguri_88 @RealRobCropton @roddreher A military super power who gets bossed around by isreal and are struggling against Iran as we speak needing to beg for help and steal from others.
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@RyneTryne @roddreher Good luck getting F-35's from someone else.
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@viriat_lusitano @Oguri_88 @RealRobCropton @roddreher Btw, asshole, we still have 85,000 troops in Europe and we've been there with that many for eighty years. For what, to keep the Belgians in check?
Douchebags.
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@Oguri_88 @mscully89 @RealRobCropton @roddreher Americans are not good at war, which is why they are corrupted Europe into adopting pacifism. Europeans have conquered continents with a few hundred men, while America loses wars against peasants in flip flops.
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