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@forallcurious so far.....

🚨: Christina Koch has officially become the only woman to orbit the Moon!

@reason oh i see the article cites the authoritative North American Times as a source.... I wonder how many people vetted its Law of War analysis. Same editors is my guess....

@reason Is bombing airports a war crime? how about missile manufacturing facilities that are sending dumb ballistic missiles at civilian populations in Israel? can you bomb the facilities source of electricity and supplies? the roads that support the facility?

Following through on this latest threat to destroy Iranian power plants and bridges would be a war crime under the Geneva Convention and other international agreements that prohibit the deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure. reason.com/2026/04/06/i-a…

@Real_Politik101 and the US would most likely support Milei .. or at least sit on the sidelines.

If NATO is gone, Argentina is definitely invading to retake the Falkland Islands. With Chagos, Starmer completely torched the deterrence Thatcher built with the last war. And Milei could easily take it. Britain can’t do anything. No ships. Now all of LATAM now recognizes Malvinas as Argentina’s. With them also becoming one of America’s most loyal ally, chances are high the U.S. stays out and lets it happen

@hkuppy too bad they are running out of weapons and their targeting sucks .. really bad

Iran finally figured it out. Investors literally don’t care about inflation or casualties or GDP or energy assets or literally anything except data-centers...

@The_Real_Fly @SenRickScott when did 30 days become forever?

@SenRickScott How about stopping the forever wars you moron?

America is over $39 TRILLION in debt. If it were up to DC politicians, nothing would EVER change. This is unsustainable! President Trump wants a balanced budget — and I’m fighting to help MAKE IT HAPPEN so our kids and grandkids have a strong future!

@StealthQE4 And why dont they have access to energy? I thought the sun never stopped shining in Europe and the wind sends endless breezes

One of my worries is if this war goes on long and oil soars How long until most countries including NATO start to look at us as an actual enemy Think about it. We are about to destroy their economies if we cutoff their access to energy Will we have any allies left after this?

@MediawatchNw @RadioFreeTom @TheAtlantic And i am sure an article in the @TheAtlantic written by @RadioFreeTom wil be very persuasive inside the GOP. He only called them Nazis - I am sure they were fine with that

Never thought I would have to suggest this but maybe @RadioFreeTom should write a piece for @TheAtlantic on why dropping a nuke on Iran would be very, very bad. I don’t think the GOP gets it.

They lost me (and Trump) at "guarentee"

@johnkonrad Negative. Europe just isn’t that important in the grand scheme of economics right now

What if America is already far richer than anyone in the swamp is allowed to admit? What if the real drag on the Republic isn’t taxes, isn’t debt, isn’t even the deficit, it’s Europe? What if NATO was never a mutual defense pact, but a 75-year subscription America forgot to cancel? What if “burden sharing” is the most expensive euphemism in the English language? What if the City of London cabal is draining our banks? What if the advice from globalists is terrible advice that’s costing us big? What if every European basing agreement, every forward-deployed brigade, every Ramstein runway, every Aviano hangar, every Souda Bay pier is a tax American workers pay so Berlin can run a welfare state and Paris can run a 35-hour week? What if foreign aid to Europe isn’t aid, it’s tribute, flowing the wrong way? What if transporting the vast majority of trade on European owned ships costs more than we realize? What if the NGO archipelago in Brussels, Geneva, and The Hague is just a money-laundering loop where US taxpayer dollars get rinsed through a “civil society” conference and returned as lectures about our democracy? What if the UN isn’t a parliament of man, it’s a Manhattan timeshare with diplomatic plates, an accounting black hole, and a Human Rights Council chaired by people who’d jail you for tweeting this? What if “the rules-based international order” was always code for: Americans build it, Americans pay for it, Americans bleed for it, and Europeans grade it? What if $36 trillion in debt looks a lot smaller the second you stop underwriting a continent that sneers at you in three languages? What if you zeroed out the Europe line, the NATO line, the UN line, the NGO line, and woke up tomorrow in a country with the fiscal headroom to rebuild every shipyard, every foundry, every rail line, and every Navy hull we’ve let rot since the Cold War ended? What if American tourists went to American cathedrals, American opera, American museums, American cities instead. I’m not saying I believe all of it. I’m saying maybe, just maybe, we could pay down all our debt and wouldn’t have to pay taxes at all if we cut Europe loose.

Tuesday is furniture day . Wednesday is piss on carpet day ….

@EricMGarcia @RadioFreeTom Tuesday is furniture day . Wednesday is piss on carpet day ….

My Cat: Open the Fuckin’ Wet Food, you crazy bastard, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.

@no_luck_4_you @NursultanSays @WarMonitor3 What the manual says and what the actual conditions on site and airworthiness are two completely different things

@rcjackson @NursultanSays @WarMonitor3 Lockheed knows… The manual says pasture is even fine. lockheedmartin.com/content/dam/lo…

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.

@kellyenz @douglassmackey Maybe they should be so dependent on Iranian oil

Apocalyptic might be an overstatement but nonetheless Meloni is pretty rattled here. There’s a growing line of world leaders saying that all is not well. Which makes sense as it isn’t.

@LukeGromen @Wade_Finley @FreightAlley I agree. It’s an interconnected world.

@rcjackson @Wade_Finley @FreightAlley 2/ Greg Hayes, CEO of Raytheon, said the company had “several thousand suppliers in China and decoupling . . . is impossible”. “We can de-risk but not decouple,” Hayes said in an FT interview, adding that he believed this to be the case “for everybody”.

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 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.

@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 .