Daractenus

For the record, the president of the United States is now simultaneously claiming that he has won the war, is currently winning the war, needs help to win the war, and needs no help to win the war. All to destroy the nuclear program he claims to have already destroyed last year.

Trump is, again, lying about shortages of ammunition for the war against Iran due to some imaginary supplies to Ukraine. Here are some facts: The kinds of weapons we are using to strike Iran were NEVER sent to Ukraine: PrSM (entered service in 2024), LUCAS drones (brand new), Tomahawks (Trump talked about sending some, never did), and of course B-2 Spirit stealth bombers, F-22 Raptors, and F-35s -- obviously none were ever transferred to Ukraine. The only weapons one might plausibly refer to would be ATACMS: the entire stock we deigned to send Ukraine was about 50 rounds (we had used 800 in the opening days of the Iraq invasion). The US used over 20 weapons systems to hit over 1,000 targets simultaneously during the opening hours of Operation Epic Fury. An estimated 300 Tomahawks were used and the Pentagon ordered... 57 new ones in the current fiscal year. There have been no deliveries of THAAD interceptors since 2023 and no new orders were placed this year. The military will get 39 in 2027, six years after ordering them. If we are running short on ammunition, it's because the people ordering this war did not plan adequately for contingencies and spent like drunken sailors, not because of our (really nonexistent for the past year) aid to Ukraine. Our big problem is that right now, we are still using extremely expensive systems like Patriots ($3-4 million per missile) and NASAMS/AMRAAM interceptors ($0.8-1.2 million per missile) to combat mass-produced $20,000 Shahed drones. This asymmetric exchange ratio between offense and defense is what kept analysts at night during the Cold War and why eventually defense systems would be scrapped for being too easily overwhelmed by numbers despite being technologically superior. Ukraine has been fighting and innovating precisely to deal with the asymmetric offense capabilities of Russia for years, and they have learned how to do it. But when they offered to help us last year, the Trump administration arrogantly brushed them aside. Now we are squandering premier weapons designed to stop ballistic missiles on cheap drones. And we can't keep doing it no matter how wealthy we are. Missiles take months, sometimes years, to make, while drones can be mass produced in weeks. You lose wars not when the offense peaks --- as the current bombing afficionados at the White House have you believe with their nonstop meming about raining destruction on Iran -- but when your defense capacity is stretched to its limits and cannot cope with things that keep coming at it.

@TheUnrealGC7 If the only means available are starving and plunging the entire population of said country into total darkness, might be best to leave things as they are and wait until a more humane, less cataclysmic alternative presents itself.

@Daractenus So how do we end dictatorships?

With the last oil tanker having docked in Havana on Jan 9, Cuba’s electricity grid and entire economic system are now on the verge of reaching a breaking point. The entire island is about to be plunged into near total darkness and a cataclysmic humanitarian crisis.

It's amazing how many Americans apparently believe that it's enough for Washington to snap its fingers and all of Europe should immediately be up in arms for America's wars, yet when Europe itself is threatened, America is nowhere to be found. Greenland isn't forgotten either.

Hard to believe this was less than two months ago, what a capacity for ruin and disaster this man has.

ZELENSKYY: War no longer has distance. Drones already fly 3,000–5,000 km today, and soon they'll reach 10,000 km. Every day, Ukraine faces 350–500 drone strikes. Imagine any country dealing with that. No continent is safe anymore. Distance is now a matter of months, not decades.

"Although President Donald Trump says he has destroyed 100% of Iran’s Military Capability, the 0% that remains is playing havoc with the global economy.” - The Economist

@JenniferGa29345 To think there's still some 40% of the US voters that would die for this man.

@Daractenus Bloody hell how rude & insulting can you get the look on the Japanese PM says it all, how the hell do these heads of state keep there temper when dealing with this idiot, he has absolutely no filter at all just spouts out total shite, ffs America he's making you a laughing stock

Japanese Report: "Why didn't you tell US allies about the war before attacking Iran?" Donald Trump: "Who knows better about surprises then Japan. Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?" This man belong in a psychiatric ward.

@SACAGAMERWI "Although President Donald Trump says he has destroyed 100% of Iran’s Military Capability, the 0% that remains is playing havoc with the global economy.” - The Economist

@Mangustinii Hard to argue against!

@Daractenus He's retarded

@porkchopxjack @ThomasH12738713 True.

@Daractenus @ThomasH12738713 Its more like 24% given how many folks voted.

@ThomasH12738713 There's about 40% of them that seem to absolutely love this, while the rest are in complete despair.

@Daractenus Americans think this is normal?

@aemond Most pollsters continue to put him at a 37% or so approval. Everything he's done for the past 3 months, from US citizens getting shot by his Gestapo, to the files being released, war with Iran and his threats to annex Greenland, all cost him about 3%.nytimes.com/interactive/po…

@Daractenus Good lord. The US have fallen, and we still see no REAL reaction of US citizens (or I should say reactions that have an impact), as if this entire country had no soul.

@brendap07967019 No, I don’t think Donald Trump realizes that. I don’t think Donald Trump does much realizing at all at this point.

@Daractenus Does Trump realise that the Japanese tactics were unsuccessful. They lost the war.

@DanielR05ca Yep.

@Daractenus There was a very brief moment when the Japanese PM looked at her watch with a very cold and impatient look. I think this meeting was a mental torture for her.

@Prince_Knut Yeah, if her eyes could kill...

@Daractenus She looked at her watch several times when he went on his 'excursions' as if to say, "Ffs, when will this be over?" 😬

@PinkFraternity No, I'm afraid not. He's actually selling sneakers now: @realDonaldTrump/posts/116256171120186590" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru…

@Daractenus Not a fake 😳???

Meanwhile, the utterly insane president of the US has now begun selling sneakers to the Middle East.