US officials are admitting that they and Israel have to choose which missiles to intercept because they are very low on interceptors, and the US has now taken it's THAAD inventory from South Korea. It's been 11 days. It feels like this really pierces the veil of American military invincibility.
It’s all gone on mansions, artwork, and yachts.
You thought that contracting government arms manufacturing to the private sector would be strategic?
Ukraine is an excellent example of the value of US “Security Guarantees”…
What’s THAAD’s intercept rate in the Middle East now?
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They don’t have enough, full stop. They had 7, 1 is on order still.
Iran killed two easily, while under bombardment.
That’s 5 left, worldwide.
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Fact checked: true!
If you can count them on one hand, it is indeed a *small number*.
You may have heard the outrage about HMS Dragon not being in Cyprus.
HMS Dragon carries a AESA radar, the exact same radar that is in all the THAAD systems that Iran has destroyed.
HMS Dragon is not being sent to defend Cyprus, it is being sent as a Radar for the USA.
The US is transferring Patriot and THAAD air defense systems from South Korea to West Asia.
It's telling that the US and Israel with their existing stock of air defense missiles can't handle Iran. And yet they think going to war with China is going to be a cakewalk.
Tweet by UK Report → @UK REPT: Korean media published an image from today, showing the US dismantling its THAAD and Patriot systems from S-Korea, to send to the Middle East.
This is a huge story in China bc it's a massive FAFO on S.Korea's part. They damaged economic ties and relations with China (their biggest trading partner) so that the US would give them this.
And bc the US has a stellar record of loyalty to non-⚪️ nations, it took its systems back when convenient.
Hardly surprising.
Iran has had nearly 5 decades to prepare for this exact scenario.
Prepared they are.
…hopefully.
So far THAAD appears completely useless in defending against *exactly the type of missiles it was created to defend against*, which is embarrassing.
1/3 🚨 US is dismantling THAAD and Patriot Systems from South Korea to send it to the Middle East
▪️ In 2017, South Korea sacrificed its diplomatic and economic relations with China to host US THAAD.
▪️ Chinese tourism to SK, worth billions of dollars, was abruptly stopped due to diplomatic standoff.
Such a good ally.
American tax dollars subsidize defense contractors' yachts. War is their product. Our tax dollars buy it.
Republicans funnel our money to the War Hawks & bypass EVERY tax funded program that would use our hard earned money on the American people.
WAKE UP, VOTERS.
War is profit - not security.
Nothing to see here—just the Trump administration officials who'd oversee an invocation of the Insurrection Act and subsequent martial law declarations moving into military-base housing.
Miller, Bondi, Rubio, Hegseth, the Secretary of the Army and Secretary of the Navy...
Pay no attention to this.
Holy cow, Ukraine offered to help the US prepare to counter Iranian drones, but the Trump regime turned them down, too focused on pushing the narrative that Ukraine “has no cards” and should surrender to Russia.
But now the US is back, asking for help after attacking Iran and getting fire back.
Witkoff admits he and Jared Kusher are communicating with Russia through Putin adviser Yuri Ushakov "independently." Witkoff goes on to say the Russians told them they are not sharing info with Iran. Pinky promised.
James Comer Says Trump DOJ Asked New Mexico Officials to End Jeffrey Epstein Investigation #Mediaite
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
Bombing for peace, got it!
Protestors gathered on the outskirts of Zorro Ranch for International Women's Day. ♀️
They brought flowers and called for justice for Epstein's unknown victims. (The FBI never raided the ranch, after telling the local police to back off).
1/ Has life expectancy fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic? In a new pre-print, we find that 31 of 34 high-income countries had still not returned to their expected life expectancy trajectories five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... #demography
There’s no such thing as a green car. What you’re thinking of is a less bad car that we’re at risk of having more of, and driving more, because we’ve been convinced it’s a green car.
Again, see the thread.
Trump says Iran has Tomahawk missiles when asked about girls school strike #AssociatedPress
‘Will Play Well At The Hague’: Trump’s ‘Sadistic’ Remark About Sinking Iranian Ships Sparks Fury #HuffingtonPost
WHAT ARE YOU FIGHTING FOR ?
The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Please tell me this is not real? Please tell me it’s an AI fake? It’s too horrendous to comprehend. While he jokes, the region is in chaos, economies upended, lives lost, and enhanced threat of terrorism worldwide, esp against Americans.
This is going to be even more embarrassing when the big Iranian ballistics start hitting.
It’s becoming painfully clear that the US haven’t a clue about Iran.
Imagine regime change being a stated operational goal of a lightning strike?! In Iran 😂
Not a fkin clue.
