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hence my post...

*looks up which Navy vessels, if any, can do minesweeping*

Fam, the answer is somehow worse than 'none.'

Putin seeing oil prices spike and US burn through interceptors /// Putin seeing Ukraine become indispensable to security for US bases and rich Gulf states

Aside from inflation, does suggest Hegseth might be splurging on good grub to win over the rank and file as he starts new wars and conducts outright racial and political purges of the officer corps.

ehhhhh, it's a big org, troops and civvies gotta eat and keep up morale and quite often play host for allies. I'd rather focus on shit like the expensive rebranding, Hegseth's makeup studio, Trump parades, domestic guard deployments, wasting all our standoff weapons and interceptors for memes...

It wasn't really a "nuclear" winter only a few missiles landed. Just a short volcanic ice age.

Morality aside it was a new corvette and we have SE Asian allies that could desperately use the hulls. POWs are bargaining chips in war, especially when the threat remains of aircrews being taken prisoner every time they fly into Iranian airspace.

A wasted opportunity in a pointless war.

The Content Wars of 2026

look folks I came here in part because I have no fucking clue what the CEO's name is and still don't.

Also 'victory' being defined down to destruction of the surface Navy and Air Force...which as institutions were really Shah-era holdovers and had provided some, if progressively diminishing, political counterbalance to the IRGC/Basij. Now the whole military will be rebuilt in IRGC's image.

bsky.app/profile/pear...

'Kamala's gonna girl boss her way into drafting your sons to fight WW3' was a mainstream plank of the GOP and you're gonna fuckin stand there and do their spin for them on this???

We just had a month of discourse about Roswell, UFOs, Area 51 with Trump threatening state secret charges because Obama extemporaneously opined that we aren't the only planet in the universe capable of sustaining what we perceive to be life.

Can we be like them just a little bit? For votes?

The thing is his press secretary did, in fact, leave open the possibility of a draft. Will it happen? No. Was she even being serious? No. Did she misspeak and really just trial balloon ground troops? Maybe.

That doesn't mean you don't RAKE EM OVER THE GODDAMN COALS FOR IT LIKE THEY ALWAYS DO TO US.

Jesus, you really screwed up.

70s Malaise with Epic Bacon characteristics

“[Marx/Christ] left us all the instructions in the handy guidebook, so we can just actively speedrun through [capitalism/the birth pangs] to get to [eternal communism/the Kingdom of God] because we know [the fixed and immutable laws of history/the day and hour]”

With 1-in-4 odds we left Iran enough of a rational, centralized command structure to reciprocate in a way that matters.

I'm gonna say unilateral ceasefire attempt by Wednesday.

The practical scenarios for another draft are basically:

1 - internal security & reconstruction after a limited nuclear exchange.

2 - zombie apocalypse.

3- Giant Alien Spider invasion.

So this is just Leavitt's default answer being 'Janice Can Do Whatever She Wants To Do!!!'

Trump wants the Venezuela Bribe Part Deux.

Netanyahu wants total regime collapse and a civil war that takes Iraq, Syria and Lebanon down with it.

Hegseth wants to play Crossfit Curtis LeMay until the Voices stop.

Also horrendously expensive static radar-emplacements getting railed by cheap one-way drones.

The 20+ year game in Iraq was 'GTFO before Sistani dies or turns against us.'

Leave it to the guy whose casino went bankrupt to fuck it up.

first reply to make a hiding in the couch joke is catching a block

On the bright side this is the longest expanse of time I haven't had to hear JD Vance since being made aware of his existence against my will.

He's gonna openly rebrand it as a war for oil and start doing Eagle Claw redux shit not for hostages or HVIs but soul-sucking black sludge from the ground.

Lots of trauma for sure but has real deep issues with empathy vs sympathy. If she doesn't personally relate to the life of a patient she can be almost shockingly callous and disinterested.

Santos who yes is often grating and a loose cannon but I'm pretty sure is written as a high-functioning sociopath.

The important thing is I'd take a bullet for literally any of these characters.

Fourth one could be three different people tbh

Helping Lebanon (NOT ISRAEL) expel and dismantle Hezbollah would have been a much better use of our time and logical next step after Assad's fall/Gaza ceasefire than whatever blood-drenched, gas-spiking FoxNews nonsense we're doing now.