Nothing is ever really settled when you're dealing with chronic liars.
And don't come back with nonsense that the US is chronic liars too.

#151 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-08-29 06:16 PM | Reply | Flag:

Trump is the most frequently lying politician in US history. Like Truth up there talking about Trump taco'ing over a US base getting shot at.

That's crazy. Trump doesn't give a ---- about US bases. He's lying about that.

As for the depletion of American missiles. That's supposed to happen. We've invested billions in low cost munition production and longer range air to air missiles. AIM-424 showed up at Tail Hook. AIM-260 is headed for the field. There's 4 different low cost cruise missiles being rushed to the front which already had production runs going for 2027 through 2029 delivery windows. RAACM, Black Arrow, Rusty Dagger, Barracuda. Thank you Joe Biden, for a administration with the foresight to see our obvious low inventory Ferrari problem and launch all of these programs designed specifically to do something about it.

And the MAGA crowd doesn't care about refugees unless they wind up on the US-Mexico border. Us Dems aren't letting them in either, they can wait in Mexico and eventually get processed maybe sometime in the next decade.

< 60% and declining on missiles, with terrible CEP. < 40% on drones, which can no longer get past the cope cages anyways and can only be thrown at boats usefully. The usefulness of that is declining.

When the famine hits it lands in poor countries like Iran. It's not new for them. Western powers starved them in 1942-43. There was food for Westerners, but not Persians.

Iran's "vast stockpile of missiles" doesn't exist anymore. It's a very modest stockpile of missiles with a launch rate that went from shock and awe with hundreds of launches to < 10 missile volleys. Nobody is exempt from the depleted burn rate curve.

Now do fertilizer and natural gas and phosphorus

#64 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-08-28 10:33 PM | Reply | Flag:

Less than 20% of the global nat gas, much of which gets redirected. That goes to Asia anyways, China, Iran's #1 backer. So if nothing moves through the Strait, Iran's allies are the ones that starve. The strategic result is more hardened, buried pipelines. Phosphorous moves in a slurry through pipelines. Dry bulk fertilizer gets redirected through multi-modal shipping. The fertilizer plants move to the Eastern receiving end of ADCOP and Petroline.

What kind of child thinks the Sunni are going to let their economies be held hostage by Shia in the long run?

Putin thought Ukraine was weak too. 1.5 million casualties later they're not very far from where they started.

Terminals, buried pipelines, hardened existing sites, etc. I see the articles about how Iran is the supreme power of the region. They don't seem to take into account the strategic adjustments by economies that dwarf Iran's. Oil facilities are being dressed in cope cages built like a nascar catch fence, compared to the rusty chainlink Russians weld to their tanks and can't afford for their own infrastructure.

Oh ----, now do Elon Musk. He's not even a PhD candidate.

According to UAW Local 4121, CBP claimed that during the inspection process, Orwa "disclosed information about previously working without work authorization in violation of our laws," and that he and his son subsequently withdrew their application for admission and departed voluntarily.

One thing this put a pin in, the importance of the Strait to begin with. It's going out with a whimper as the workarounds continue to come online. It will never go back to pre-war export levels.

Sooooo...perhaps the only reason Trumpanzee hasn't said "mission accomplished" is he can't fit in a flight suit?
#45 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2026-08-28 10:54 AM | Reply | Flag:

They come in 3XL and bigger.

Oh I can do that one.

AeroVironment makes the laser. They have a near billion dollar deal with Israel, after Congressional approval was given for foreign arms sale, for the lasers, switchblade drones, etc.

They also supply Ukraine, US ME regional allies, basically everybody that's against the Russian-Iranian axis and their surrogates in Palestine, Yemen, Lebanon.

Time to dispatch Portnoy for the 1 bite review.

3.5 to 6 years. Just enough time for owner burnout to set in.

So, why does he send his CIA Director to Moscow for talks?

#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-28 12:00 AM | Reply | Flag:

Those trips, pre-Trump, were spy swaps.

Competing in the land of old brick ovens? Must be good pizza.

81% of Republicans have a favorable opinion of Trump. I need someone to explain to me how that is possible.

#32 | Posted by madbomber at 2026-08-28 07:24 AM | Reply | Flag:

It's a cult.

If you go boating in a semi-submersible, I'd like to tag along. Just not anywhere near America.

Was it brown kids that died?
Asking for MAGA.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-08-25 12:27 PM | Reply | Flag:

It's pretty much always white religious nuts. Mennonites from Texas to New York. It's okay, this is their gods plan for them.

Lets check out how it's going for Iran's allies.

Two Israeli airstrikes targeted the Ali al-Taher heights on the eastern outskirts of Nabatieh al-Fawqa this morning.
Israeli airstrikes targeted the town of Mansouri in the Tyre district at dawn today, and the sound of the explosions was heard in Tyre and the surrounding villages.
IDF Artillery targets Bani Hayyan.
IDF Artillery shelling targets Wadi al-Salouqi and Israeli army carries out bulldozing operation on a number of buildings in the town of Houla.
Israeli artillery shelling targeted the town of Al-Mansouri, coinciding with vehicles carrying out a bulldozing operation in the town of Bayt al-Sayyad.
The Israeli army carried out massive bombings in Mansouri.
Two raids between Wadi Hassan and Tayr Harfa.
Two Israeli airstrikes targeted the town of Mansouri and the outskirts of Majdal Zoun in the Tyre district.
The town of Bani Hayyan is being subjected to Israeli artillery shelling, coinciding with movements of Israeli army vehicles in the town and rising smoke resulting from bulldozing and burning.
A large explosion in Zawtar al-Sharqiya. And an airstrike below Deir Mimas.
The town of Ainatha in the Bint Jbeil district was subjected to Israeli artillery shelling.
A violent explosion in Zawtar al-Sharqiya

That's general reports from just the last 48 hours in 1 sector.

The war is over when Iran lets

#8 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-08-27 05:08 AM | Reply | Flag:

Lebanon on line 1.

Semi-submersibles are not used for fishing. It really narrows down the purpose of what you're doing with it.

Looks propaganda-ish but doesn't seem wrong, lines up with other sources. There's a cutoff Russian force in a terrifying position. Encircled and it's raining drones.

Cope cages on a scale never seen before, covering entire floating roof tanks 3 and 4 layers deep to the point drones are irrelevant and you have to shoot MRBMS at them. Poor Putin can only look on and weep with envy.