Pooky

VDH needs to stick to politics. I’ve tried watching some of his YouTube stuff on WWII and he’s about as accurate with his facts as a Michael Bay movie ☠️

Bye, Jasmine ☠️

Not enough of them, not enough coverage, and rather initially cost-heavy. What we need are A-10s, loaded out with multiple APKWS launchers. They’re relatively cheap, but the USAF are in the process of retiring the ‘Hog, and I really hate the new OA-1K Skyraider II. Whoever approved its purchase needs to be condemned to fly one for the rest of their career. 😒

Don’t knock the Iranian drones. Intelligence reports have Iran carrying a stockpile of around 80,000 drones and still building them at a rate of 400 per day. Yes, they’re basic, yes they’re cheap, at maybe $20K apiece. But it’s the numbers that are doing the damage. An AMRAAM costs over $1m, a Sidewinder $500K, and our SAMs are even more expensive. We will run out of missiles and money long before they run out of drones. We need another way to kill them and cheaply. Welcome to Drone Wars. ☠️

Did the Islamic regime or their proxies ever give a Flying Burrito Brother about the children they unalived? No, the children that died were specifically targeted. Did the strikes on Iran target the children specifically? No. Is it a tragedy that children have become collateral damage in the attack on this barbaric Islamic fundamentalist regime? Absolutely. Could the strikes targets have accomplished what they have without such casualties? Absolutely not. Are we to give more consideration to our foes that they would ever give to us if the roles were reversed? That’s an interesting question. 🤔

… and Kackala ☠️

The most interesting part to me is that after deciding not to follow network instructions, he went on to provide a balanced take on the protests, not weighting his report to the pro- or anti- strikes side. This is what American news media has been missing. If management had prevailed, the report would have slanted heavily toward the ant-strike protests, following the agenda. Instead, we got the news. We saw what was happening, not what some empty suit wanted us to see. There is hope yet.

The only thing that will dawn on them is dish soap. ☠️

Where are the worldwide protests? Where is the righteous indignation? Where are the anti-war protesters? The silence of the answer is louder than the silence of the (non-)protests. ☠️

Method #297: Oppose the strike against Iran intended to provide an opportunity to overthrow the barbaric Islamic extremism’s and restore a peaceful, secular government because … TRUMP CAN’T BE ALLOWED TO GET CREDIT FOR ANYTHING!!!!! ☠️

When the target of opportunity presented itself, the gathering of Iranian military leaders in and around Ayatollah Khamenei, Israel pulled the trigger without hesitation. It is clear that this operation was planned for months, ready to be put into action at a moment’s notice. What has been reported thus far shows a remarkable level of success. The fact that this operation was carried out in daylight reinforces the unexpected timing. U.S. and Israeli stealth assets are not usually committed in daylight operations, mainly because visual identification is still a thing. if the level of success is as reported and the Iranian population succeed in finally overthrowing the barbaric Islamic fundamentalist regime, this operation may be recorded in history as one of the most impactful steps on the road to regional peace. The removal of the most significant state sponsor of terror currently in existence may complete the collapse of Hezbollah, severely impact the continued existence of Hamas as a threat and degrade the Houthi threat, amount other regional impacts. The scattergun retaliation seen across the region may also have united the disparate nations, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and others, on the side of Israel, which would be a welcome additional benefit. This will not be a “forever war” as some have intimated. The majority of the Iranian people seem to have welcomed the attack. Let’s hope the Iranian military, or at least a majority of it, sides with the Iranian people and gives them the future they have been seeking.

Quite possibly where Top Gun: Maverick got “It’s not the plane, it’s the pilot” quote from, as well as Maverick’s father’s fight over the wrong line, from the original movie. Williams was flying a Grumman F-9F-5 Panther, a straight-winged carrier-based fighter. The Russians were flying swept-wing MiG 15s. They had about a 100mph speed advantage, could climb faster and their guns carried a heavier punch. And yet Lt. Williams, as he was then, in what ended up a 7 vs 1 dogfight, left 1 Russian plane flyable after the dogfight. There is no way that ever should have happened. It’s not the plane, it’s the pilot. Legend. 🫡

Not watching 🙈

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