Nicholas Slayton

Just to recap from my soda-straw perspective:
My government started a war of choice that led to my home being bombarded by missiles and drones depleting our air defenses which they refuse to resupply while telling us to evacuate after our airspace was shut because their war put us in danger

Trump/Hegseth operational security: at Joe’s Stone Crab, a restaurant a 2-minute walk from the White House, someone was having a conversation about the attacks on Iran that were going to start in 6 hours. Loud enough for the founder of @TMZ.com to recount it in real time with his podcast cohost.

Yeah the MRFF is legit. Can't speak to this report but worth looking into

Just because it's liberating to say obvious shit out loud sometimes: this is not what "defensive" means.

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Wonder how this "Israel pushed us into war with Iran" argument from Rubio is going to play, including with MAGA and the America First folks.

Rubio's justification for attacking Iran:

Iran would have retaliated against the US if Israel attacked Iran. Therefore the US acted preemptively.

So, why didn't the Trump admin just restrain the principal recipient of US military assistance from launching such an illegal attack in the first place?

Navy shoots down its own F/A-18 in Red Sea fight The incident happened while the Navy and Air Force engaged Houthis in Yemen. The two aviators ejected and were recovered safely.

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December 2024. A Navy ship shot down a F-18 in the Red Sea on accident

Screenshot of a 3hr old post from the GW Hatchet: “BREAKING: GW sold its Virginia campus to Amazon Data Services, an Amazon subsidiary that manages the company's data centers, for $427 million on Friday. The deed, obtained by The Hatchet, authorizes ADS to develop the campus into a data or information technology center. STORY TK”

GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn

If Irans plan is to wage war on all the US allies in the region with drones until the US is forced to make a business decision, I gotta say I've heard of worse tactics to destabilize the region. It's not a bad plan.

Ukraine: no shit sherlock

No one could've foreseen this.

BREAKING: I just spoke to President Trump he said you’ll find soon what the retaliation will be for the attack on the U.S. embassy in Riyadh and for the U.S. service members killed. He also told me he doesn’t think boots on the ground will be necessary.

notable that Trump's media strategy to sell this war is doing bespoke phone conversations with individual reporters instead of answering questions publicly

Trump routinely dodges questions he doesn't want to, or can't, answer by saying "you'll find out," but this is the first time I've seen a reporter communcucate that as news. 'BREAKING: I asked Trump a question and he refused to answer'

U.S. University Campuses in Mideast Move Classes Online as War Spreads

“Members of N.Y.U.’s Abu Dhabi campus, in the United Arab Emirates, have been sheltering in place since Saturday. Classes were canceled on Monday and were scheduled to resume remotely on Tuesday, in accordance with guidance issued by the UAE Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.”

Just like.

Damn.

Wow.

My bud just pointed out to me that the soldiers who died are going to have "Operation Epic Fury" on their tombstones.

Adm. Brad Cooper, the top U.S. military officer at CENTCOM, sent this message to the roughly 50,000 U.S. troops directly involved in operations against Iran, I'm told.

Red Crescent: At least 555 dead in Iran after Israeli-US attacks Iran's Red Crescent says that at least 555 people have been killed as a result of joint Israeli-US attacks, the Fars news agency reported on Monday. In a statement, the aid organization said more than...

At least 20% of the death toll is elementary school girls
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My concern is this: Iran is using the cheap stuff to deplete the region's air defenses. Then, in a few days or a week, it launches what's left of its more capable missiles.

jfc

lol

thats uh a lot of people

Iran conflict: Rubio says US launched war on Iran after learning Israel planned to attack Secretary of state says US had to move ‘preemptively’ to stop Iranian retaliation against American forces

so let me get this straight. attacking iran is justified because iran was going to attack US bases, only after israel attacked iran first. so instead of stopping israel from carrying out the attack, the US just had to bomb iran too.

White House talking points for congressional Republicans say we're not at war, we're just in "major combat operations against Iran" lol

i know exactly who needs to hear this but being against the procedures by which the president started a war isn't the same as being against the president starting a war

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One of the greatest, Bruce Campbell, announcing he has cancer. Our hearts are with you Bruce, Hail to the King.

Defense is woke, only offense is based