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AMA will be tomorrow night - goal is to try (read: probably fail) to get some sleep in a sec!

07.03.2026 04:09 πŸ‘ 913 πŸ” 56 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 2
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I’m seeing a ton of this floating around.

It’s true, we’re bombing the hell out of Iran, but this war isn’t as one sided as they’d have you believe. In a week, the US has lost at least two (possibly more) AN/TPY-2 radar.

We have less than 15 of them and they take years to make.

07.03.2026 03:57 πŸ‘ 2159 πŸ” 684 πŸ’¬ 200 πŸ“Œ 30

Oil up by $12 a barrel in less than 12 hours.

Gas prices skyrocketing.

Almost 100,000 jobs lost last month.

Another war in the Middle East.

Are we great again yet?

06.03.2026 19:21 πŸ‘ 10706 πŸ” 2940 πŸ’¬ 563 πŸ“Œ 127
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1 week

Ok maybe 3 weeks

Wait, 5ish weeks seems right

Probably until September

INDEFINITELY!

06.03.2026 17:58 πŸ‘ 2933 πŸ” 744 πŸ’¬ 289 πŸ“Œ 47
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Radar bases housing key US missile interceptor hit in Jordan and UAE, satellite images show | CNN New satellite images from several key military bases in the Arabian Peninsula suggest that Iran is seeking to degrade air defenses by destroying US-made radars that detect incoming missiles and drones...

Oof. Multiple THAAD radar systems have reportedly been destroyed by Iran. That’s bad.

I’ve also seen some surprise that Russia is providing Iran with targeting data for US forces, but that was expected. We’ve been providing Ukraine with targeting data for 4 years.

www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/m...

06.03.2026 12:30 πŸ‘ 2083 πŸ” 689 πŸ’¬ 124 πŸ“Œ 28
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The fuck kind of answer is this

06.03.2026 02:37 πŸ‘ 14204 πŸ” 4768 πŸ’¬ 2028 πŸ“Œ 691

And that’s how congressional hearings are supposed to work.

Hopefully there will be some fraud charges to go with it.

But way to shit your pants and change your shirt, Trump.

05.03.2026 18:58 πŸ‘ 2959 πŸ” 520 πŸ’¬ 143 πŸ“Œ 13

Trump is quizzing people on the Hill on whether or not he should fire Noem.

A lot of them are saying yes.

05.03.2026 14:44 πŸ‘ 3301 πŸ” 450 πŸ’¬ 274 πŸ“Œ 41

It’s looking increasingly likely that Kristi Noem and Lewandowski funneled almost 200 million in government money to a company that is run by her friend and that nobody can give an address for.

Oh, and it was 8 days old when it was awarded the contract.

04.03.2026 19:03 πŸ‘ 23671 πŸ” 9339 πŸ’¬ 1241 πŸ“Œ 611

Just a thought, maybe SecDef shouldn’t jerk himself off on live television at the thought of casualties in war.

War isn’t something to be giddy about. Were the most powerful nation on the planet. We’re supposed to be the quiet professionals, not carnival barking morons.

04.03.2026 13:39 πŸ‘ 3571 πŸ” 940 πŸ’¬ 416 πŸ“Œ 69
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Check out the number of votes.

04.03.2026 02:07 πŸ‘ 7529 πŸ” 1201 πŸ’¬ 313 πŸ“Œ 69

A democratic candidate just won in the *checks notes*

Arkansas state house special election.

Flip from R to D.

04.03.2026 03:22 πŸ‘ 25270 πŸ” 4084 πŸ’¬ 414 πŸ“Œ 165

Bunch of Senators on both sides sounding the alarm about possible boots on the ground in Iran after their classified briefing today.

I was told Kamala was going to send my children to fight in Iran. What happened?

03.03.2026 23:16 πŸ‘ 7894 πŸ” 1912 πŸ’¬ 367 πŸ“Œ 73

I need to stress something here:

The US destroying Iran’s navy is about as impressive as prime Michael Jordan dunking on a toddler.

I know the administration needs something to brag about, but this outcome was literally never in question.

03.03.2026 21:28 πŸ‘ 6875 πŸ” 1387 πŸ’¬ 231 πŸ“Œ 28

This is fantastic. I just wish they had courage before they announced retirement

03.03.2026 19:14 πŸ‘ 5953 πŸ” 1125 πŸ’¬ 213 πŸ“Œ 31

I love it, but it would be nice if they had courage before they announced retirement.

03.03.2026 19:13 πŸ‘ 1677 πŸ” 87 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s hard to say, because there’s some evidence that Iranian forces aren’t using much of their top tier stuff yet.

We’ve only seen a few missiles with submunitions so far.

Whether that means they’re saving them for later, or that they simply don’t have many is up for debate.

03.03.2026 11:59 πŸ‘ 138 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Finally, the military has hard stop inventory requirements for true β€œbreak glass in case of emergency” situations.

These are minimum stock levels that we won’t go below unless absolutely necessary, based on projected needs for a major war.

I just hope the admin listens.

03.03.2026 11:54 πŸ‘ 1284 πŸ” 139 πŸ’¬ 52 πŸ“Œ 3

We’re already seeing mission creep. We went from β€˜a week of strikes’ to β€˜maybe 4-5 weeks’ in literally a day.

I’m reminded of the conservative panic that Obama was using all our bombs on ISIS, and I hope someone is telling Trump that no, we can’t actually do this forever.

03.03.2026 11:54 πŸ‘ 1250 πŸ” 177 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 1
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2. Trump is already floating the idea of tapping into supplies at other combatant commands.

Talking about taking from PACOM to feed CENTCOM on day 3 is… rough.

At this point, it’s a race to destroy their missiles before we have to ration our interceptors.

03.03.2026 11:54 πŸ‘ 787 πŸ” 123 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 4
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1. Trump is already doing his hyperbolic: β€œwe could do this forever!” nonsense.

I’ve often joked that the military has so many stockpiles that our stockpiles have stockpiles, and that’s largely still true for offensive weapons.

Not the case for defense.

03.03.2026 11:54 πŸ‘ 786 πŸ” 135 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 5

Standard doctrine calls for using 2 (or more) interceptors per missile to increase chances of a successful hit.

At some point, this just becomes a math problem.

What does that look like? Eventually, you get to extreme interceptor rationing and accepting leakage.

03.03.2026 11:54 πŸ‘ 708 πŸ” 63 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2

Interceptors are expensive and slow to produce, especially when compared with the relative speed of cheap ballistic missiles and drones.

This quote nails it:

β€œThey can chuck garbage at us for substantially longer than we can chuck Lamborghinis at them.”

03.03.2026 11:54 πŸ‘ 1065 πŸ” 161 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 11

Let’s talk Iranian war.

You’ve probably seen a lot of hand-wringing over missile interceptor quantities. Are we running out? Can we fight for years?

As usual, the answer is somewhere in the middle.

Bottom line up front: interceptors are a finite resource. That’s a fact.

03.03.2026 11:54 πŸ‘ 2838 πŸ” 590 πŸ’¬ 103 πŸ“Œ 40
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Well, we did it because of the protesters

Nukes

I mean they’re building an ICBM

We did it defensively because Iran was going to attack us

I mean Israel was gonna do it anyway so we did it too

They were gonna attack us because Israel was gonna attack them so we attacked them

03.03.2026 02:30 πŸ‘ 4077 πŸ” 1121 πŸ’¬ 181 πŸ“Œ 43

Another side effect from his suspected Alzheimer’s treatment? Or is he turning into one of the lizard people?

03.03.2026 01:00 πŸ‘ 1657 πŸ” 313 πŸ’¬ 343 πŸ“Œ 14

The US Embassy in Riyadh seems to have taken a direct hit.

No idea on casualties, but it looks bad. Hope it was evacuated.

03.03.2026 00:15 πŸ‘ 4456 πŸ” 1252 πŸ’¬ 288 πŸ“Œ 64

Trump and Hegseth both opened the door to boots on the ground in Iran today.

Who the fuck voted for that?

02.03.2026 16:26 πŸ‘ 3721 πŸ” 938 πŸ’¬ 304 πŸ“Œ 55
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😲 Qatar says they shot down two Iranian Su-24s

02.03.2026 16:23 πŸ‘ 787 πŸ” 153 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 6

CENTCOM now says 3 F-15s were shot down by friendly fire over Kuwait. All crew members are alive and in good condition. πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

02.03.2026 12:03 πŸ‘ 1913 πŸ” 424 πŸ’¬ 198 πŸ“Œ 47