ABigGuy4U
21hr ago
Those had the benefit of being run mostly through cutouts like Wagner or CIA SAD. Pretty different than NATO peacekeepers firing on officially flagged Russian Spetznaz.
Eventually, but if Blunt had just thought of his career and followed the order like a moron, I don’t think Jackson would have been able to make that call.
Also, this seems a bit anemic for a top level post.
That’s because I meant to post it in the Friday Fun Thread 😬
Why does English pop-rock musician and one-hit-wonder James Blunt get so little credit for saving the world from nuclear hellfire in 1999? He’s the Vasily Arkhipav of the 21st Century. He should have gotten the Medal of Honor for that.
ABigGuy4U
23hr ago
Anon, it’s already crossed 4 billion gross revenue from pre-orders alone.
ABigGuy4U
23hr ago
I see Barbara shattering the Union either way it goes. It’s our Dredd Scott.
ABigGuy4U
5d ago
Yeah well flashing your cop lights at me just because you disagree isn’t that nice either.
ABigGuy4U
5d ago
It’s not one base. The lowest mainstream media numbers are 250 separate impacts (and these are one to two thousand kilogram warheads) over at least 16 different facilities in the Middle East. I don’t mean to be a jerk, but you’ve clearly read very little of even just the basic media coverage about this.
ABigGuy4U
5d ago
I don’t think it’s unfair to call a base that’s been hit by so many missiles that it’s basically rubble and can’t be used anymore “glassed”. You are latching on to an at most slightly hyperbolic term.
ABigGuy4U
5d ago
However, I remain skeptical that you were being sincere in your claims that US military bases have been glassed and the IAF has been destroyed on the runway.
You might disagree on the degree. But look at the communications coming from Trump, Vance, Rubio, Netanyahu and Ben Givr. Does it sound like things are going really well to you? My version of events matches the chatter a lot better than the one where Iran is collapsing in two weeks.
Iran has hit far more U.S. military assets than reported, satellite images show
The Washington Post, May 7, 2026
*The End of the American Way of War?
“The Iran war has called into question the feasibility of the American way of war. For decades, the United States has premised its national strategy on the ability to fight using forces forward deployed close to enemy territory”
The Brookings Institute
Anon, this stuff is literally all just in the news, it’s just that no one is paying attending. Almost every major US base in the Persian Gulf has sustain serious damage (article 1) to the point that the military is concerned that they won’t be able to effectively forward deploy to the Middle East anymore (article 2). That’s just two articles I was able to find with five minutes on Google. There’s hundreds like this.
The Iran missile stockpile:
U.S. Intelligence Shows Iran Retains Substantial Missile Capabilities
“Secret new assessments say Iran has operational access to 30 of its 33 missile sites along the Strait of Hormuz, suggesting that its military remains far stronger than President Trump has asserted.”
The New York Times, May 12, 2026
The IAF thing:
Ramat David Airbase hit by missile fragment during Sunday's Iran escalation, IDF confirms to 'Post'
The Jerusalem Post, June 10, 2026
The article is currently claiming “minor damage” from a “missile fragment” but it was enough to cancel Israel’s planned 200 plane strike. Remember, this “minor damage” stuff was the party line we were hearing about the USS Gerald Ford for months.
And in any case, you are misapplying the rule to speak plainly. I’m not required to soooooooooource you just because you don’t like what I’m saying.
ABigGuy4U
7d ago
Yes it’s always lucky when a conveniently timed terrorist attack gives you an excuse to do exactly what you already wanted to do anyway. Russia, America, and William Randolph Hearst would approve.
ABigGuy4U
7d ago
There aren’t a lot of options. Burgerland and Israel got their assess kicked, the news just isn’t reporting it. The “laundry fire” on the Gerald R. Ford was so bad that there are now serious concerns the ship will never sail again. Basically every American base in the Middle East has been glassed. The final kicker was when most of IAF got unexpectedly blown up on the runway a few days ago. This was in exchange for attriting about 10 percent of Iran’s missile stockpile. Your only options are Operation Overlord 2.0 or nukes.
I’d argue that if there was a betrayal, most the architects were men of the Lost Generation, like Allen Dulles and his brother. Boomers are just the fall guys because they’re the only ones still around to blame.
ABigGuy4U
8d ago
I'd personally just go full globohomo: money under the American aegis is nice. Get a luxurious villa on the Caspian, drink nice Shiraz every evening watching the sunset.
The problem that IRGC Colonel Mottezen has is that the Iranian people remember all the fingernails he pulled out for God, and the United States remembers those 40 years of him being an intractable pain in the ass. Neither one of them want him administering the new globo-homo wonderland Iran. The first second they get the chance him and his entire family are going to be hanging from construction cranes. And he knows this.
So for weeks I’d been hearing insane levels of word of mouth about the movie Obsession: It heralds the arrival of Gen-Z filmmaking. It says deep things about the anxieties of modern dating. It’s a genuinely spine-chilling horror film. Man, I was hyped.
Then I get to the kinoplex and I am shown a rather dull and prosaic romantic comedy about a man dating a Latina. If there are supernatural elements, I’m not sure where they went. Maybe critics were referring to the bog-standard dark brujeria that the female lead used to ensnare and damn her sensitive white boy gf. I hate to be one the one to tell you this, but they’re all doing that (I bet you believed her when she told you have a tinder account either).
After that it hits all the usual Latina gf notes: the honeymoon phase, the love bombing, the ethnic cuisine, the BPD, the paranoia. And as for the “shocking” twist ending, it was a bit of a downer but statistically that is the second most common way these relationships end, after marriage.
What did you guys think of it? Overall I would rate it 2.5/5, the scene where he’s on the phone with Latina tech support will definitely get a laugh from anyone who’s been there. When it hits streaming it would make a good double feature with Fools Rush In.
ABigGuy4U
16d ago
Astroturfed bullshit has to allowed to spread, when it’s big and real it’s tough to stop with anything.
ABigGuy4U
16d ago
But that’s partially because January 6 was very small and contained. A white people equivalent of the George Floyd or Rodney King riots would be a lot harder to deal with, as unlikely as it is.
ABigGuy4U
17d ago
You bury TWO Nazis in Mount Zion and Arlington cemetery, and suddenly people think you can just grab a shovel and stick the buggers in anywhere. It needs to be a tasteful, limited number of Nazis, just the good ones. Otherwise people start getting the wrong idea. Once your start building thousand-Nazi necropolis monuments in Canada you’ve crossed the line.
These people have been rioting for a hundred years.
Yes, but that also means that they are trained, heavily armed, and not particularly squeamish. Northern Ireland could pop off incredibly fast in a way mainland England just can’t. The paramilitaries never fully complied with the Good Friday Agreement. There are still sweet old Irish farmers in South Armagh with crates of Libyan AK’s and rocket launchers buried under the barn.
Additionally, the demographics are a lot different in NI. Decades of civil war and deindustrialization hit the economy hard, so it was never an attractive destination for migrants.
Just because everyone hates the current regime doesn’t mean they’re going to agree on a replacement, especially since Westeros wasn’t even one country when the Targaryens arrived. Robert getting personally slighted by Aegon and going on a suicidal revenge spree finally created a scheming point for everyone to rally around. Many such cases in real history.
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