They've deployed mines and struck three tankers.

#27 | Posted by Zed at 2026-03-12 10:15 AM | Reply | Flag:

To deploy mines you have to deploy mine layers. Their attempts have ended poorly and less than 10 minutes have been laid. Just firing up the engines to get underway is a death sentence. The only thing that's having any success for them are small drones.

As if the "troops" ever got a taste.

#4 | POSTED BY REDIAL AT 2026-03-10 10:50 PM | FLAG:

Troops getting fed steak and crab legs is how most people knew something was about to get blown up and possibly invaded. The pictures circulated on social media a few days before Iran was bombarded. Historically we always strive to give our troops a special meal before they're put directly in harms way.

Definitely don't stand close to that guy.
#17 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG AT 2026-03-09 04:17 PM | FLAG: | FUNNY: 3

and he's been blown up. Reportedly in a coma and missing a leg.

Which means whatever medical facility he's in is about to be blown up, even if it's near a school during school hours.

The proximity to the base probably had it labeled as something ambiguous but worth the several million dollar cruise missile they hit it with.

#22 | Posted by jpw at 2026-03-10 03:13 AM | Reply | Flag:

It was an IRGC clinic on the base. It made the targeting list because the head of the Iran Revolutionary Guards Command personally came in and did the ribbon cutting there last year, making it important to the IRCG (maybe). Satellite shows it was hit directly on the roof. It's probable the overpressure from the blast triggered the partial collapse of the school building on the other side of the compound.

China still subsidizes them.

Anyways, the original joke was an oil price reference.

"The Obama administration imposed tariffs of 31% to over 250% on Chinese solar panels and cells in 2012, targeting what they identified as illegal subsidies and dumping practices."

"2018 Initiative: President Trump imposed 4-year tariffs (starting at 30%) on imported solar cells and modules, specifically targeting China's 80% global market share."

"The Biden administration has significantly increased tariffs on Chinese solar products to protect domestic manufacturing, raising tariffs on solar cells (whether or not assembled into modules) to 50% in 2024. These measures also include a 50% tariff on solar wafers and polysilicon, along with restricting exemptions for solar manufacturing equipment."

"In early 2025, the Trump administration significantly intensified tariffs on Chinese solar products, raising duties to 60% and initiating investigations into key components like polysilicon. Additional 10"25% tariffs were imposed on related materials, with efforts to close loopholes for Chinese products routed through Southeast Asia. These measures aim to protect U.S. manufacturing but are expected to increase costs for solar projects."

$19 million to polish a turd.

#11 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-10 11:17 PM | Reply | Flag:

Like every US state, it's nice as long as you're not poor. Suburbs are cookie cutter.

Fear not, they're about to be really popular again regardless of subsidies.

Definitely don't stand close to that guy.

If civilians are near any military installation, no military action can be taken against the target.

#51 | Posted by Petrous at 2026-03-09 09:59 AM | Reply | Flag:

Civilian proximity does not make a military target immune from attack. An attack is illegal only if the expected civilian harm would be excessive compared to the anticipated military advantage.

It's almost like the laws were written by attorneys.

Israel is flying around 500 sorties per day. Assuming each sortie is a strike

#47 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-03-09 12:43 AM | Reply | Flag:

Sortie count does not equal strikes. A sortie is just 1 takeoff and landing per aircraft. There's tankers, combat air patrols, ELINT, bomb damage assessment, suppression of enemy air defense flights, etc. Strike aircraft can conduct zero, one, or many strikes until they run out of ordnance.

There's nothing definitive about this yet, just competing propaganda claims.

I wonder what target, in Tehran, they intended to bomb?

#6 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-03-08 07:59 PM | Reply | Flag:

There's images of this location with air defense missiles going up and coming back down on their heads.

The Russian-Ukrainian war has shown us how common that is, especially with Russian lineage weapons.

and for the love of jesus (pronounced hay-suess), don't start off sanctimonious.

With consenting women. What's your point?

#137 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-03-05 06:14 PM | Reply

They're not joining MAGA because they're sexually frustrated. Maybe talk to them to find out why.

Those are the dudes that are joining maga out of sexual frustration because no woman wants anything to do with them. Their fantasy of fascist takeover would mean the value of fascist men would increase, and therefore they could maybe--------.

#126 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY AT 2026-03-05 03:30 PM | REPL

Try talking to the guys that mow your lawn about women's rights. They tend to have a lot of kids.

That doesn't necessarily indicate anything hinky going on.

#60 | Posted by jpw at 2026-03-04 04:07 PM | Reply | Flag:

Nothing hinky went on.

Systems can be correct and have a large number of agents (people) still contest the outcome because they don't believe in the authority of the system's mechanisms and overall legitimacy.

and when outcome doesn't match feelings, well, sometimes you might storm a capitol building.

I'm seeing lots of stuff on Threads/Blue Sky that the Dems are already walking into a blunder with Crockett questioning the results and planning a challenge.
Self-interested, self-absorbed politicians will be the end of us.

#2 | Posted by jpw at 2026-03-04 11:21 AM | Reply | Flag:

She was crushing him until she lost. At one point it was +10% in early voting.

Take whatever the population is and * by 0.02. So Iraq 2005 had a population around 28 million. We needed to have 560,000 security personnel on the ground. We committed only 150,000, surging to 170,000. In Vietnam we needed over 800,000, but peaked at 543,000. The numbers we sent include logistics, not combat forces, so we tend to send 1/20th of what we needed to.

Which means... 1 maxed out division for Tehran, or 2 regular divisions.

If you want to fully occupy Iran, you need 1.86 million security troops.

That's the upper bound. It's constrained towards smaller numbers by legitimacy, local governance capacity, force quality, intelligence reach, geography, and external support for both sides.

That doesn't count logistics. That's only uniformed security troops.

You need 194,000 occupation troops. That's 20 divisions.

Didn't realize you were a billionaire.
Why are you

#34 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-03-03 06:05 PM | Reply | Flag:

How did that context confuse you that fast? 3 F-15s is nothing for America. We shop like a Trillionaire.

Cheaper cuts were always the smarter buy, if you knew how to cook them.

#27 | Posted by jpw at 2026-03-03 03:19 AM | Reply | Flag:

Skirt steak was a "cheap cut" until the 80s. Once fajitas were popularized the same cut wasn't cheap anymore.