I just keep stepping on the rake of trying to speculate what they will do based off of rhetoric and flight radar.
So, I'm trying to just comment more on what they do, but being reactive sucks. Still, my urge to buy plates has calmed down because of my change in mindset.
I'm excited to read your post mortem of it.
Hes top secret posting again!
"Sixteen of the 88 planes are already in production, while the Swedish manufacturer Saab has pitched Canada on a mixed fleet, integrating both the F-35s it’s already committed to with Saab’s Gripen model."
Mixed fleet would be great, gets the RCAF back up to fighter strength of pre-1995
and like sure blockade SOP is similar to vehicle checkpoint SOP's, but again my questions turn to ROE, the complex situation of the ceasefire and ongoing negotiations.
Therefore my feeling is that disabling the ship before boarding, even if legal, was not the right call diplomacy wise.
Right, but after 6 hours they decided to fire. Why not board right away?
It seems like ROE for the blockade had not been established, or it was being actively determine din the moment, again if it took 6 hours to make a decision.
I think their is a reasonable use of force question.
Its an oil tanker, maritime boarding and interdiction of a moving ship is a practiced skills set of marine boarding parties, and was recently done in the atlantic.
Did they really need to shoot the ship?
We are at the hopium stage.
An also china is actively looking to sell solar panels to Cuba and carve out a new market and demonstrates its technology
it's remarkable how crazy this video is, especially in light of what we just learned in that Atlantic article
According to the Jerusalem Post and Times of Israel, the IDF is investigating this image of an IDF soldier smashing a Jesus statue in Southern Lebanon.
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Shifting from a balance of power to a balance of terror.
Its not about who's the strongest world politics is now about who is willing to do the worst damage.
I take this as more of a Woodrow Wilson nod.
If true, given the current mood among the regime's hardliners, this will be seen as a major escalation. The question is how the IRGC will respond.
Salute to an all-time tweet
According to The Wall Street Journal, Trump was in such a volatile state after Iran shot down a U.S. jet that he spent hours screaming at aides in the West Wing, obsessing over the political fallout and invoking Jimmy Carter and the 1979 hostage crisis. 2/
19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite's intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures... have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?
These, in fact, are excerpts from The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska
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and hes sinatra posting.
Looks like hes up to shenanigans
well at least its official?
Iranian military:
*weapon barrel
the picture appears to be taken from a black/ seahawk.
The out of focus rifle barrel looks like it belongs to an m240.
“He was a recruiter of girls for (Jeffrey) Epstein.”
“In Washington, he would host parties attended by underage girls who were accompanied by older men.”
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So if DOD ushered in food stuffs to cover up the logistical shortcomings it sets a bad precedent two ways.
Firstly, that sailors and soldiers leaking info to jurnos gets them what they need.
Secondly, Troops could blackmail the brass into getting what they want.
a “human community that claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.” - Weber
Looks like it is the strait of Iran.
Yes running from your demons, totally a mentally healthy thing
Trump: "I don't have time to be depressed. You know, if you stay busy enough, maybe that works too. That's what I do."
i think folks might be unfamiliar with "the pharisees", so let's make it clear: he's saying the jews run the press, and that they are conspiring to undermine the military. it's not just antisemitism, it's indistinguishable from nazism.
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