'Ya know, I used to live like Robinson Crusoe; I mean, shipwrecked among 8 million people. And then one day I saw a footprint in the sand, and there you were.'
A dimensão comunitária presente em https://mostbet-portugal.info/aviator/ é suportada por uma API de chat integrada que permite a interação entre jogadores em tempo real. Esta funcionalidade social não é apenas um adereço estético, mas uma ferramenta técnica complexa que sincroniza mensagens através de múltiplos canali de dados sem interferir na performance do jogo principal. Em Portugal, a capacidade de partilhar resultados e estratégias instantaneamente eleva a experiência do Aviator a um novo patamar de interatividade.
This isn't just Israel's war or our war... this is simply a regional war for the protection of Middle East OPEC nations and they flat out bought our military just like every war since WWII. This is our way of allowing our POTUS to fleece other countries while fleecing us by selling our military for personal enrichment...
Pretty simple plan if you think about it... We pay for the bombs, he sells them to Qatar for a gilded airplane and a few $bil in Trump digital currency. We pay for the aircraft carriers, he rents them to Saudis for $2+B in investments for his daughter and her husband. UAE dropped a paltry $500M into the Trump digital currency plan, so I expect them to face heavier damage than the other bigger "sharks" at the Mar-a-Lardo poker table.
I read in several outlets last year that the 12-day missile war used up nearly 11 years' worth of US production.
And that the missile systems are so complex and delicate, US naval ships have to return to their home ports to be re-armed. That's why we declared victory and left the Houthis in place in Yemen. Out of bullets.
That’s one problem with fancy weapons. You can’t make more for the next day with a campfire, bullet mold, and the ones that were fired at you that you dug out of trees or the pile of amputated limbs outside the field surgery. You need a clean room, fancy computer chips with rare earth metals etc., and a special crane to lift them, which can’t be done on underway replenishment because they might make you go boom if a wave hits at the wrong time.
Three US service members have been killed in action, the US Central Command (Centcom) says. They are the first known American fatalities since the US began striking Iran on Saturday.
Five others have been "seriously wounded", the US military says.
If he wants to be like the great presidents (and even the not so great ones), Lincoln and FDRs sons served in the military while daddy was president. LBJ’s son in law was a Marine. Washington’s stepson died in the revolution. TR’s served post presidency, including 2 killed (one KIA in WWI and the other died in WWII). Eisenhower’s son served (his dad missed his West Point graduation for DDay). Hell, since he admires the confederates so much Lee’s son served in the confederate army.
Ending wars is always difficult, unless you can make a deal with the other side to just leave. As Trump did in Afghanistan and Kissinger did in Vietnam.
Yes. They were in Oman, negotiating. Oman isn't happy to be played for a fool, not that the US cares.
Iran had reiterated their long-standing position that since they haven't been developing nuclear weapons for decades, there wasn't much point in the US demands that they not do what they weren't doing. They had agreed to all of those US demands, in fact. As they had in the negotiation of the JCPOA, with Obama and the EU.
We'll have to watch how the ripple-effects affect the world before we can confirm what the real intent of this is. Of course I have my suspicions, but as always it takes a while to see whether such suspicions are warranted or not.
But we can be certain it had nothing to do with nuclear weapons, if we weren't sure of that before.
Khamenei, whatever else his, ahem, shortcomings, were was pretty solid on 'nuclear weapons are incompatible with Islam'. I wonder what his successor's take will be?
That's why it requires such self-discipline from the likes of Carney and Starmer to keep a straight face about Witkoff's claims that Iran was a week away from having bomb materials.
They know Iran hasn't been pursuing nuclear weapons for decades. Not hard to know that; they keep saying that; and when the JCPOA was in effect, it was obvious.
Which is why JCPOA had to be destroyed. With that in place, the excuses to destroy Iran were thin and risked exposing the true motivations. Which are hardly concealed; it's just that in global diplomacy, fig leaves matter.
Idiot sociopath skips right over "the beatings will continue until morale improves" and goes straight to "the bombings will continue until there's peace in the Middle East".
Tiedrich's adorable. I like him. I enjoy his takes and his snotty delivery.
But he fundamentally doesn't understand how this Empire works. He seems to think that the flaming chaos and global instability and heightened risks are somehow not the entire point.
Yeah, Jeff. There is no plan to avoid blood-drenched horror in an extremely strategic location. Because the blood-drenched horror in an extremely strategic location is the objective.
Agree. If there is a plan, I don't get it except to crush. Wallowing in the terror, blood and guts of innocents seems to be the constant. Can't torture and rape virgins anymore? Then terrorise, torture and murder innocents and rape and pillage their land. These sadistic Nazis very much remind me of the character Vladimir Harkonnen in "Dune".
And when it comes to America from many fronts, they will wallow in the same.
I think it's important to clarify the difference between wanting the oil and gas, and wanting nobody else to get it.
I think the latter is far more weighty at the current moment.
The remarkably stupid and personally corrupt thing Trump did was to sabotage US renewable energy. He should have sped that up to Warp Speed, thereby making the US abundance of carbon energy even more strategic a weapon, since we wouldn't need much of it ourselves.
"Everyone says he is crazy - which maybe he is - but the scarier thing about him is that he is stupid. You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don't." -Fran Lebowitz
A dimensão comunitária presente em https://mostbet-portugal.info/aviator/ é suportada por uma API de chat integrada que permite a interação entre jogadores em tempo real. Esta funcionalidade social não é apenas um adereço estético, mas uma ferramenta técnica complexa que sincroniza mensagens através de múltiplos canali de dados sem interferir na performance do jogo principal. Em Portugal, a capacidade de partilhar resultados e estratégias instantaneamente eleva a experiência do Aviator a um novo patamar de interatividade.
Thank you for "Dave." Watched it 4 times in 2 days :)
Darn. I love The Apartment. Shame I missed it.
Co-starring David Lewis who, fun fact (that no one asked for) played the original Edward Quartermaine on General Hospital back in the 70's and 80's.
I remember him (on GH)!
[Moved to current thread.]
This isn't just Israel's war or our war... this is simply a regional war for the protection of Middle East OPEC nations and they flat out bought our military just like every war since WWII. This is our way of allowing our POTUS to fleece other countries while fleecing us by selling our military for personal enrichment...
Pretty simple plan if you think about it... We pay for the bombs, he sells them to Qatar for a gilded airplane and a few $bil in Trump digital currency. We pay for the aircraft carriers, he rents them to Saudis for $2+B in investments for his daughter and her husband. UAE dropped a paltry $500M into the Trump digital currency plan, so I expect them to face heavier damage than the other bigger "sharks" at the Mar-a-Lardo poker table.
We have a pattern, vote in (or allow cheaters to waltz in) a republican president, cut public services and taxes on the rich, start a war in the ME.
#regerts :D
And some of the Iranian missiles are getting through anyway.
𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘜𝘚 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘳𝘶𝘯 𝘥𝘳𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴. 𝘌𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘛𝘏𝘈𝘈𝘋 𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴 $15𝘔. 𝘞𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘓𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮. 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦.
https://xcancel.com/gCaptain/status/2027844045469274156#m
Every single one of those THAADs costs about the same as providing breakfast for more than 10,000,000 hungry children. More fun to kill people?
You have to ask?
Forget it, Jake, it's MAGA.
I read in several outlets last year that the 12-day missile war used up nearly 11 years' worth of US production.
And that the missile systems are so complex and delicate, US naval ships have to return to their home ports to be re-armed. That's why we declared victory and left the Houthis in place in Yemen. Out of bullets.
That’s one problem with fancy weapons. You can’t make more for the next day with a campfire, bullet mold, and the ones that were fired at you that you dug out of trees or the pile of amputated limbs outside the field surgery. You need a clean room, fancy computer chips with rare earth metals etc., and a special crane to lift them, which can’t be done on underway replenishment because they might make you go boom if a wave hits at the wrong time.
Hence there will always be a market for AK-47s and pointy sticks.
Say, you know who actually illegally acquired nuclear weapons?
Ernst Stavro Blofeld?
Slade?
Israel?
North Korea?
Raven?
JFC people. What have I said about allowing this shit to happen when I step away from the forums for a day?
blame Gallbladder
https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/03/01/first-oil-tanker-attacked-in-the-strait-of-hormuz-according-to-oman
> *five Iranian crew members on a US-sanctioned tanker.
Marine insurers have suspended coverage for vessels operating in the area, according to the story.
I feel sort of bad for chuckling grimly at that.
Three US service members have been killed in action, the US Central Command (Centcom) says. They are the first known American fatalities since the US began striking Iran on Saturday.
Five others have been "seriously wounded", the US military says.
I’m sure Baron Trump will step up, join Hegseth, to represent his family and the US warriors. 🧐🤭😂
If he wants to be like the great presidents (and even the not so great ones), Lincoln and FDRs sons served in the military while daddy was president. LBJ’s son in law was a Marine. Washington’s stepson died in the revolution. TR’s served post presidency, including 2 killed (one KIA in WWI and the other died in WWII). Eisenhower’s son served (his dad missed his West Point graduation for DDay). Hell, since he admires the confederates so much Lee’s son served in the confederate army.
Does Barron even lift, bro? How many pullups can he do?
He's keeping his limited energy in reserve so he can live longer.
He’s a Trump AND he’s tall! He MUST be over-achieving at everything he does.
does he LOOK like he lifts??
No details whatsoever, that I've seen. Nothing about location or nature of incident or incidents.
Sounds like shrapnel hits and blow ups from the Iranian missile and drone attacks on our bases...
That's my theory at this point.
That is thoroughly frustrating.
Well, if you start a war you’re in a pretty good position to end it.
Ending wars is always difficult, unless you can make a deal with the other side to just leave. As Trump did in Afghanistan and Kissinger did in Vietnam.
Not necessarily...
Just do what US always does after destroying a country, pack up and leave. No more war.
Well, today's annual tomato and other seed planting day so I'm off for a bit.
Has Hucklebutt ascended yet ?
No ? Well I guess the bombing will have to continue . . .
Your vector coordinates are off by 180 degrees.
"We urge the Iranian leadership to seek a negotiated solution...," the three leaders said.
>UK, France, Germany yesterday. As if there hadn't been negotiation underway.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20l1v0ldqzo
And the EU should seek a negotiated end to tariffs.
Wasn't Iran in the midst of negotiations with the US when the US/Israel attack began?
Anyone would be crazy to trust lying liars that lie.
Yes. They were in Oman, negotiating. Oman isn't happy to be played for a fool, not that the US cares.
Iran had reiterated their long-standing position that since they haven't been developing nuclear weapons for decades, there wasn't much point in the US demands that they not do what they weren't doing. They had agreed to all of those US demands, in fact. As they had in the negotiation of the JCPOA, with Obama and the EU.
Thanks. And now this is conveniently forgotten. Everything is empty lip service.
We'll have to watch how the ripple-effects affect the world before we can confirm what the real intent of this is. Of course I have my suspicions, but as always it takes a while to see whether such suspicions are warranted or not.
But we can be certain it had nothing to do with nuclear weapons, if we weren't sure of that before.
Khamenei, whatever else his, ahem, shortcomings, were was pretty solid on 'nuclear weapons are incompatible with Islam'. I wonder what his successor's take will be?
That's why it requires such self-discipline from the likes of Carney and Starmer to keep a straight face about Witkoff's claims that Iran was a week away from having bomb materials.
They know Iran hasn't been pursuing nuclear weapons for decades. Not hard to know that; they keep saying that; and when the JCPOA was in effect, it was obvious.
Which is why JCPOA had to be destroyed. With that in place, the excuses to destroy Iran were thin and risked exposing the true motivations. Which are hardly concealed; it's just that in global diplomacy, fig leaves matter.
Needs moar yellow cake
The yellow cake is a lie.
not the cake we like
Chocolate frosting for mine, please! XD
Everybody, and I do mean everybody, loses in a nuclear war.
Piggy is itching to drop a nuke.
Imagine how manly and strong everybody would see him then!
He'd be a shoe-in for the Nobel Peace Prize then!!
I wish I didn't agree with you. He has zero understanding of the repercussions of doing so. Hopefully his puppet masters will dissuade him.
Don't worry. They will fix everything in post production editing.
Too bad it won't matter at that point.
But the rushes were spectacu …… (Bright white light fills the theater.)
From what I understand his son will succeed him. Whether or not he shares his late father's perspective in that context remains to be seen.
The son is dead also...we have The President of Iran, An Iranian Chief Justice and a General in charge now...
Thank you for clarifying that for me, comrade.
Idiot sociopath skips right over "the beatings will continue until morale improves" and goes straight to "the bombings will continue until there's peace in the Middle East".
He hasn't skipped over the beatings, see ICE.
Tiedrich’s take on the Iran War.
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/a-war-in-the-middle-east-but-with
Whoever took that "Arse of the Free" photo deserves all the accolades.
Tiedrich's adorable. I like him. I enjoy his takes and his snotty delivery.
But he fundamentally doesn't understand how this Empire works. He seems to think that the flaming chaos and global instability and heightened risks are somehow not the entire point.
Yeah, Jeff. There is no plan to avoid blood-drenched horror in an extremely strategic location. Because the blood-drenched horror in an extremely strategic location is the objective.
I don't like seeing it, myself. But I see it.
Agree. If there is a plan, I don't get it except to crush. Wallowing in the terror, blood and guts of innocents seems to be the constant. Can't torture and rape virgins anymore? Then terrorise, torture and murder innocents and rape and pillage their land. These sadistic Nazis very much remind me of the character Vladimir Harkonnen in "Dune".
And when it comes to America from many fronts, they will wallow in the same.
The fundamental assumption of Global Empire is control of Eurasia. Goes back to Alexander The Great, Genghis Khan, the Brits, everybody.
The US can't just invade and take over the place. So we have to make sure nobody else can, either.
We don't need the oil or gas from Western Asia. We have our own. But China and Europe need it.
So destroying civil society in that region so nobody can get anything done; that's the point.
I've never understood the tedious carping on the lust for oil and gas. The need seemed redundant. This clarifies it. Thanks.
I think it's important to clarify the difference between wanting the oil and gas, and wanting nobody else to get it.
I think the latter is far more weighty at the current moment.
The remarkably stupid and personally corrupt thing Trump did was to sabotage US renewable energy. He should have sped that up to Warp Speed, thereby making the US abundance of carbon energy even more strategic a weapon, since we wouldn't need much of it ourselves.
"Everyone says he is crazy - which maybe he is - but the scarier thing about him is that he is stupid. You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don't." -Fran Lebowitz
I like the spoiler alert.
this for the win:
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qfmJ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3fc8fcf8-1900-450b-93c1-7aecb01acfa7_1179x1519.jpeg
Polishing his missile.
An arse indeed!
Draft Barron Trump.
100%.
"Good thing Congress isn't alive to see this."
That was brilliant.
It was.