Sam (ABeardedPanda)

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“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

There's a ton of talk about how CENTCOM is pushing this because of memories of Iranian intervention in Iraq in the 2000s. I might just be a simple country lawyer, but I had long presumed that the purpose of a professional military was to *not* engage in gangbanger bullshit.

Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die' In an interview with 'Time,' President Donald Trump acknowledged the possibility that Iran retaliates with attacks on U.S. soil, saying, 'We think about it all the time. We plan for it'

Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'

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Years ago my team at CNA did a review of the US use of proxies.

A pertinent finding: “Policymakers & the US military should restrict the use of proxies to irregular warfare activities against states or other nonstate armed groups & avoid any temptations to use them as surrogate conventional armies”

Not a lawyer, but it seems like Hegseth's explicit order to relax rules of engagement, thereby deliberately endangering civilians, would make this a war crime for which he is responsible. He should he prosecuted as a monstrous war criminal at the earliest opportunity. His order killed 165 children.

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

"No stupid rules of engagement." — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, March 2, 2026

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East." — Reuters, March 5, 2026

Losses are to be expected, but i don't think the US has enough C-UAS assets in theater. For a long time now, there has been a particular lack of passive defense planning by the US for its IAMD assets. I can't say this loss was totally unexpected, it was eventually bound to happen.

Point/Counterpoint This War Will Shut Off 20% of the Global Petroleum Supply for A Month and Send the Economy into a Stagflationary Tailspin vs. No It Won’t Published: March 26, 2003

Never forget that this what The Washington Post said when Noem was nominated.

Be prepared to hear a lot of excuses that are pulled directly from "Armies of Sand"

Probably first major US loss of the conflict when it comes to ballistic missile defense. One of TPY-2 radars belonging to the THAAD battery deployed to Muwaffaq Salti Airbase in Jordan seems to have been struck. The full radar set goes over $200M.

There is a very funny juxtaposition of a lot of Certs having comparatively small guns because they have to get in and out of vehicles and then a Gennie built like a twig with an M1 Garand

That goes for Americans who oppose this war as well as those who back it. A lot of quick judgements being made on day 5 about the impact hugely destabilising use of US airpower will be when in reality the wider effects will play out over months and years after Trump declares victory and walks away

I hate how funny he is when he displays his obvious and correct contempt for us, the American people.

"Yeah, somebody's probably going to blow himself up at an airport or w/e. I don't really care. If you guys didn't deserve it, you wouldn't have elected me and the security for my plane is great."

This stupid fucking meme has got body shape exactly backwards. Half the fuckin population had just spent the better part of a decade being extra malnourished in the 40s while today even pogs get addicted to lifting and creatine

There's a lot of reasons why you don't want to be the guy firing bespoke interceptors at one-way attack drones because eventually you're gonna run out of stuff to steal from INDOPACOM

like the most basic takeaway from Russia's strategic bombing campaign should probably be that you should have a high/low mixture of air defense assets because your enemy is going to have a high/low mixture of strike weapons

It's honestly so fucking funny how much American commentary from super serious™ natsec types was "bro we wouldn't do it like this, there's no *real* lessons to learn here"

This actually isn’t surprising in the slightest from an American POV. The only people trying to actually learn from this war are like Mike kofman, Rob Lee, 4 rando freelancers, and 7 people on here

look what I really want to know is, what are the odds I live to see Ian Miles Cheong literally eaten by his servants

>indefinitely at war with Persia

Yeah that checks out

How it started / how it's going

"We're fighting to win the war"

We are a week in and absolutely nobody has any idea what the political aim we're attempting to achieve is. Win what? Literally what are we fighting to achieve at the moment.

I have absolutely no idea atm if we are close to winning because I have no idea what we want

This is not getting picked up in western media but it's an insane story. Oschadbank is a Ukrainian state bank, and Hungary has detained it's employees and millions of dollars in cash and gold on the way from Austria to Ukraine.

Like what the fuck?!

⚡️🇺🇦🇭🇺 Oschadbank announces the theft of its employees, collection vehicles and valuables in Hungary.

Two vehicles of collection service, 7 employees of the team, were unjustifiably detained in Hungary while carrying out a regular transportation between Raiffeisen Bank Austria and Oschadbank.

>but what about when the Tiger shot them and their lumber based plot armor deflected it

Everyone knows that only Americans can commit war crimes, which by the way, they committed another one when the nazi crew of the tank bailed out and they gunned them down

Everyone knows that the tank battle in Fury was a war crime because when the Tiger I bounced a round from Fury's main gun they don't get takebacksies

It's the intentionality that matters because Israeli/Russian double taps are done on civilian targets that they know are civilian targets with the expectation that first responders will arrive so the delay between strikes is intentional rather than the result of transit time

no no no no no

"Double tap" is a very specific thing that basically only the Israelis and Russians do that this website has since decided should refer to any strike where you hit a target more than once, for any reason