Blue Bear

I have never been so bullish on the United States of America.

…One thing disgusting about Americans and absolutely absent in Europe (but which they shared with Soviet Russians) is them relishing their low background and poor genetics. The worst part is that it's NOT EVEN TRUE – it's a *classist ideology grounded in ressentiment*, that proactively justifies low-class behavior. For years on a certain forum, I've been subjected to rants of a PTSD'd Iraq vet, explosives expert, who boasted of how "we simple mutts" crushed those haughty European Aryans, bombed them into the dust, showed them what's what, for Christ and Constitution. In his insane inferiority complex, he even imagined Soviet Russians (humble children of serfs mostly, their elite preaching mongrelization into a uniform brown mass of New Communist Man) to be racist Imperial aristocrats curling their lips, gay chessmasters, effete poets and philosopher-kings – and of course those, too, lost to the street fighting spirit of plucky hard-working Amerimutts rolling with the punches, praising Christ, pursuing freedom and happiness; the way Ivan Drago lost to Rocky Balboa after the training sequence. Far as I can tell, he was himself of pure Mayflower stock; generations upon generations of Anglos of the endogamous military caste, each next one more brainwashed and golem-like than the last. I guess it was him who taught me to view Americans as a uniquely degenerate and flawed population, for reasons that have nothing to do with HBD. With Vance, Hegseth and Trump in control, all of them purebred Western Europeans who behave like room temp IQ hoodrats, we are seeing that vet's doctrine going mainstream.

I’m noticing a lot of foreigners who seem to not understand why we’d risk hundreds of lives, spend millions of dollars, and sacrifice several aircraft to rescue one guy. And the reason they don’t understand is also the reason people can’t be made American by a piece of paper.

The conventional deterrent in Asia vanished not with the expenditure of missile inventories. It vanished once it was demonstrated that the US cannot suppress Iranian missiles and that US forward bases cannot survive under Iranian missile fire. This is elementary but important to understand. The conventional deterrent threat in Asia is that the US will fight China if the latter attacked Taiwan. Can the US now credibly promise to do that? No, it cannot. In order to fight China, US forces need to survive in the Western Pacific. Where are they supposed to survive? Which bases are secured from Chinese missile fire? Which ships are secure? If you have dispersed forces, as the Archipelagic Defense proposal suggests, maybe survival rates would be marginally higher. But how do you propose to resupply them without a functioning surface fleet in the region? How does the US propose to fight the air war? Even if the Anderson and Press proposal for base hardening is followed, what will be the survival rate of the hardened bases? They model a 30 day war. Why will China stop at day 30 if there are bases still standing? On top of the paramount issue of base vulnerability is the magazine depth issue. Not in the sense that Kelly is implying: that we’re emptying the magazine. Rather in the sense that if even the full magazine is insufficient to subdue Iran, it was already laughably insufficient for war in Asia. Iran has proven that the US cannot fight China. Get over it. Or we will end up in a vastly larger military humiliation than we are suffering right now.

A suicide note.

BREAKING: The two MC-130 aircraft that ferried roughly 100 U.S. special operations forces into Iran to extract the final F-15 crew member, the WSO, suffered mechanical failures and were unable to take off, risking leaving commandos stranded behind enemy lines - Reuters

"The crisis begins as an attempt to overthrow an unfriendly regime in the Middle East, in concert with the state of Israel. It is also a struggle for control of a key commercial waterway. Despite lacking a plausible basis in international law and popular support at home, the military operation is nevertheless a success in its own terms. The armed forces of the invaded state are swiftly overwhelmed." 2/5

Who believes the U.S. bombed those planes? Were 3 planes malfunctioning? I never believe the United States.

The "leave no man behind" doctrine is actually a strategic weakness disguised as a virtue. Name one other military on earth that destroys 6 aircraft and fights a ground battle inside a sovereign nation to recover one pilot. You can't. Because no other military confuses tactical sentimentality with strategic logic. Soldiers serve the mission. The mission doesn't serve the soldier. The US has now established that Iran can shoot down an F-15, then watch America spend $300M and expose Delta Force trying to prove it didn't happen. That's not military doctrine. That's politics with weapons. A military that cannot accept the risk of loss cannot win wars. The US hasn't won one since 1945.