the buck stops … somewhere, maybe
11.03.2026 17:18
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the buck stops … somewhere, maybe
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“.. An ongoing military investigation has determined that the United States is responsible for a deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the preliminary findings.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...
Scoop: The Pentagon barred press photographers from briefings on the ongoing U.S.-Israeli military conflict with Iran after they published photos of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that his staff deemed "unflattering."
I said I’m NOT nitpicking lol the thread is good, ignore my pet issues
Oh for sure— there is “how it nominally works” and then there is … what is happening now. But the SDOB Machine is definitely still running lol
This is a good thread and informative enough that I won’t even nitpick about COCOM vs CCMD, or all the GFM shit before the SDOB, or even the one tiny niche area where the chairman does(!) have operational authority
if you remember this joke … you should consider adding more fiber to your diet and then go take some ibuprofen for that back pain
5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.
Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.
3/ Second, they confirmed "regime change" is also NOT on the list. So, they are going to spend hundreds of billions of your taxpayer dollars, get a whole bunch of Americans killed, and a hardline regime - probably a MORE anti-American hardline regime - will still be in charge.
2/ Maybe the lead is that the war goals DO NOT involve destroying Iran's nuclear weapons program. This is, uh...surprising...since Trump says over and over this is a key goal.
But then of course we already know air strikes can't wipe out their nuclear material.
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:
its cool how we’ve spent decades anticipating this exact scenario where a cornered iran would mine or otherwise deny access to the strait and the US gov is just like “woah, no idea they’d play this card in response to [operation: no iranian government official left alive]”
……….fine, I’ll do it
Also humble!
“we can get a waiver for that” —MEPS in 2045, probably
bc fighter jets and tanks are way cooler
Not busy enough, apparently!
Certainly difficult, perhaps impossible to completely zero out, but this seems like a complete failure to degrade it at all:
bsky.app/profile/ship...
Oooooof
To illustrate the scope of failure, this is like if EUCOM let Russian tanks drive through the Suwalki Gap, or if NORAD missed a few dozen Tu-95s flying around over the continental United States
USCENTCOM’s entire reason for existence for the last forty years has been to prevent exactly THIS ONE THING from happening
and yet
CENTCOM has had like forty years to prepare for this ONE THING and they still can’t keep it from happening?
DOGE (leftishly)
I mean THEY don’t play it, if/when it needs to be played they bring in a band professional to do it — the entertaining guests he mentioned isn’t personal friends, it’s foreign chiefs of defense and similar. Diplomatic representational stuff.
“Every day of life under Trump is waking up to a headline like, "Wyoming is missing” over a post about a FAA ground stop for Jet Blue
airlines requesting ground stops bc of internal system outages or whatever are common, happens all the time, idk why this one (which lasted ~90 min) is attracting attention
“numerous other nations have tomahawks”
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I know nothing matters any more but here's the president admitting that he accused Iran of bombing a school full of their own children based on absolutely nothing.
time is a cruel mistress
Even for a Grandpa Just Says Things lie, “Iran has some tomahawks” is an all-timer
Like Rick Scott today “well what if Iran had a nuke they would use on us? and what if they we able to 3x-4x the range of their ballistic missiles? they don’t have a nuke, and couldn’t reach us if they did, but WHAT IF??”