Rob Jackson

@LukeGromen @Wade_Finley @FreightAlley You can disagree.– and that’s OK. I understand. But your statement was slightly hyperbolic.

@rcjackson @Wade_Finley @FreightAlley 12 separate mentions of China, including early on that was one of the entire points of the report. And if you cannot make a piece of equipment without China, you cannot make the equipment.

During World War II, Hitler was convinced that Americans lacked the will to fight and that any who did would be quickly overwhelmed. When early reports arrived from the battles in North Africa, German observers noted that Americans fought differently from the Europeans. Rather than charging aggressively and risking heavy infantry casualties, U.S. forces relied on overwhelming firepower—staying at a distance and expending vast quantities of artillery with little hesitation. Thanks to unmatched industrial production and logistics, fresh supplies were always available. This approach allowed relatively smaller American units to wear down much larger and well-entrenched enemy forces. In contrast, German and other European doctrines often emphasized aggressive maneuver and were sometimes more willing to accept high casualties to achieve objectives or preserve key equipment. This material-heavy American style surprised many Germans, including Hitler, who had long dismissed U.S. soldiers as soft and lacking in fighting spirit. He believed soldiers were cheap and expendable; he discovered too late that Americans fought to conserve lives by expending machines and ammunition instead. It was one of many reasons for Germany’s defeat—perhaps the hardest for some foreigners to fully understand. Americans place a high value on the lives of our soldiers. Equipment and shells could always be replaced.

@LukeGromen @Wade_Finley @FreightAlley And they changed the DFARs to prohibited China sourced components in mission critical components. Clearly not all of our equipment is sourced from China.

@whymadoindis @LukeGromen @FreightAlley Mission

@rcjackson @LukeGromen @FreightAlley You are absolutely retarded dude. I don't know what else to say to you. You are glaringly and verifiably wrong.

@whymadoindis @LukeGromen @FreightAlley Great response. Insulting is always persuasive. Check the DFARS - Chinese source components are excluded from an emission critical weapon system. One of the reasons why we’re low on stuff. But we still got a lot of it.

@NursultanSays @WarMonitor3 Huh? Ok whatever

@rcjackson @WarMonitor3 Damn, my fault. I didn’t see the horseshoe haircut. Carry on .

BREAKING: Details of special forces rescue operation to save American Pilot deep into Iranian territory: -Downed airmen after being shot down lands near Talkhuncheh and immediately actives emergency GPS, proceeds to hike 24 hours 5miles up a 2000 metre mountain to evade capture where he remains hidden for 12 hours. -US special forces locate him and realise Iranian convoys are closing in and begin to engage said convoys with large AirPower, meanwhile US special forces MH-6 helicopters and C-130s are disputed, and land 10 km south east of him to build a makeshift airfield. -Soon after this several MH-6s successfully fly to the top of the mountain and pick him up under small arms fire, and reach the makeshift airfield. Classically two C-130js meant to evacuate Delta and injured airmen get stuck in the mud. -US airforce begins massive suppression campaign on nearby Iranian units, whilst special forces team hunker down for three hours eventually being saved by three AFSOC Dash 8 aircraft meanwhile blowing up remaining C-13Ojs and MH6s aircraft to avoid capture. Incredible.

@whymadoindis @LukeGromen @FreightAlley Also, but too very strict DOD controls for weapon systems. If they’re source in China, they’re illegally sourced.

@rcjackson @LukeGromen @FreightAlley You can't be serious? Pretty much all the micro components not to mention tungsten. Americans really are this stupid aren't they?

@fadethecrowd @2140btc @LukeGromen He may be a complete retard. But he’s pulling everybody’s chain. And he done it over and over and over again and people freak out like it’s some kind of fricking the end of the world. It’s comical

@rcjackson @2140btc @LukeGromen Fall for him acting like a complete retarded lunatic? Well if he looks like a duck and quack looks a duck . . ,

Sounds like things are going really well... 😳

@Wade_Finley @LukeGromen @FreightAlley Does the word China appear anywhere in this report? I agree that we need to reduce foreign independency on parts, but to say that China makes all of our military equipment now - it’s just not true

@rcjackson @LukeGromen @FreightAlley gao.gov/products/gao-2…

@LukeGromen @FreightAlley I didn’t realize tungsten was equipment. Sounds like a natural resource to me. Same apply to oil? Does that mean oil producing nations provide our military equipment too?

@rcjackson @FreightAlley Basically all of it: "The silvery metal is known for its exceptional density and for having the highest melting point of all pure metals. Those qualities have made it essential for the U.S. defense industry, powering everything from armor-piercing munitions to rocket nozzles."

@NursultanSays @WarMonitor3 @warminitor is a US Official? Maybe wait until the real US officials actually speak.

@rcjackson @WarMonitor3 The U.S. officials that broke the story and have been telling the same bullshit to the media since.

@LtTimMcMillan @cdrsalamander You last me at “French General” - disregarded everything having to do with military ops after that

French Gen. Michel Yakovleff saying that establishing an austere airbase inside Iran was crazy and that U.S. officials needed to "stop snorting cocaine" is now a TERRIBLE look for the French military. The U.S. did exactly that, just outside of Isfahan, FFS.

@tomricks1 For it

@tomricks1 Or, Trump is pulling their chain like he’s done for the past eight years and you continue to fall forward

1st thought: Trump is going crazy 2nd thought: Trump is revealing his true self 3rd thought: Is there a difference

@LukeGromen @FreightAlley What equipment used in this operation was made in china? Please name one piece

@FreightAlley RE: "Thanks to unmatched industrial production and logistics, fresh supplies were always available" - agree. Problem is China makes our equipment now, & this war will slow our ability to reshore, if not end it altogether:

Do not trust this guy or anything he says. Unreliable.

@NursultanSays @WarMonitor3 “Obviously?” How? And who claimed this? Some dude on X?

@rcjackson @WarMonitor3 What we do know is what they claimed, and it’s obviously a lie.

@2140btc @LukeGromen I do too. The people that take this all serious or hysterical because he does this all the time - keeps pushing the envelope and they fall for it every freaking time

@rcjackson @LukeGromen I am happy to give Trump a long leash, but I do expect a certain level of decorum from the White House. To be clear, I have voted for Trump three times and would do so again.

@LukeGromen “Screwing”

@LukeGromen He is screening with them. How many years can people see him do this and still fall for it …

@EthanLevins2 Dude, take the L. You were 100% wrong and completely misunderstood what was going on

@EthanLevins2 This is one of the stupidity things I have ever read form someone who apparent knows nothing about the military

The U.S. is trying to bomb and kill the surviving pilot in Iran. American jets have begun dropping massive payloads on the Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province (largely uninhabited). They’ve withdrawn all helicopters and recon planes. They are not trying to rescue him.