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Mark Levin makes the case for putting troops on the ground in Iran: "Why would we need troops on the ground? …We've got to get the uranium… [Iran] can make dirty bombs… You need to get to the uranium." (Trump urged his followers to watch this show hours ago on Truth Social.)

I have questions.

🇮🇷🇸🇦🇺🇸 I'll buy the argument that Iran's targeting of AN/TPY-2 radars early in the war was part of a concerted campaign intended to neutralize high-end BMD sensors, but I think it is a stretch to characterize the reported damage to a USAF E-3 AEW&C aircraft as Iran undertaking something to the effect of an "asymmetric counter-air campaign." It was likely a target of opportunity, with IRGC planners being perfectly content if a KC-135, or even a "mere" chartered 737 or 767 that delivered military personnel and/or equipment, was damaged, if not destroyed, instead of an E-3. Granted, I can see how and why someone taking an unmistakably American perspective/POV might view this incident as evidence of a concerted Iranian "counter-air campaign," but I think this is the result of mirror imaging and hindsight. These strikes are not new. There have been reported Iranian strikes against al-Kharj/Prince Sultan airbase in Saudi Arabia for some time now. Why were the "usual suspects" not talking about a concerted Iranian "counter-air campaign" before reports/satellite imagery emerged of damage to aircraft on the sprawling apron at this Saudi airbase near Riyadh (and after we had reports of attacks against al-Kharj/Prince Sultan)?

Pictures show the total loss of 81-0005, an E-3G “Sentry” Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) Aircraft with the U.S. Air Force’s 552nd Air Control Wing based out of Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, following yesterday’s Iranian ballistic missile and drone attack on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. The strike appears to have purposefully targeted the most important part of the E-3, that being rear of the aircraft which holds its rotating radar dome, containing several sensitive instruments including antennas for the E-3’s AN/APY-2 Surveillance Radar System.

RFK JR: One time, Trump grabbed a placemat, turned it over, took a Sharpie, and drew a perfect map of the Middle East. Then he marked the troop strength of every country along each border on that map..

No Queens

All manosphere influencers seem to think they have worked out masculinity from first principles, free of social norms. But if you transplanted them to the last century, people would have assumed they were bizarrely vain. You didn't see DI Burnside on The Bill going to a gym unless it was to arrest the proprietor.