US intelligence indicates China is preparing to deliver new air defense systems to Iran within the next few weeks

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-04-12 07:05 AM | Reply | Flag:

The last batch did so great. A lot of work to end up as scrap on a 60 second Trump highlight reel.

Gamers... Well, they would be employees unbothered by the carnage playing out their screens.

#10 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2026-04-11 05:26 PM | Reply | Flag:

and people call me cynical lol. jeez. Your ATC are already gamers, to de-stress, and they do actually care if you live or die.

You wouldn't take that offer.
What's enough for you?

#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-04-11 05:27 PM | Reply | Flag:

I saw base salary offerings of $173k 2 years ago. With OT they make >$200k if they're in a busy city. +20% for training roles. +10% for being in charge of the tower at any given time.

You don't even have to work for the Fed.

How much is your mental health worth? 4x the rate of anxiety as the general population. 3x the suicide rate. Big culture of fear, breaking costs you your career.

Two things: One, they face an equation no other entity faces, including other quasi-governmental entities.
And remind me: What's the final "S" stand for???

#6 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-04-11 12:51 PM | Reply | Flag:

The Postal Service Reform Act of 2022, signed into law by Joe Biden, has them paying normal actuarial contributions like every federal agency for FERS. Senate vote: 79-19; House vote: 342-92.

They're setup to fail structurally. You can't have massive legacy labor costs, a collapse in your primary revenue stream because the Internet took over, and a universal coverage mandate. The concept is out of date.

I don't think the ban was really stopping anybody... you can get stills on Amazon Prime.

Pirates during the "Golden Age of Piracy" (roughly 1650"1725) practiced and promoted several ideals that later became cornerstones of American democracy

#15 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-04-12 12:14 PM | Reply

Oh lawd the irony. Henry Every, the King of Pirates, the guy credited with kicking off the Golden Age of Piracy, was former Royal Navy, then an Atlantic chattel slave trader, known for luring other slave traders onto his ship, taking their slaves as.. well, slaves, and enslaving the traders too. He mutinied for not getting paid. When his crew made it to the Indian Ocean, whom had many people that had just fought in the Anglo-Mughal War, they pulled off the Capture of the Grand Mughal Fleet, then raped and tortured all the Muslim women to death that didn't jump overboard and commit suicide.

Was he so progressive he didn't charge a mark up for his white slaves? Details lost to history.

They pissed off Pakistan. A PAF Il-78 tanker is now flying refueling ops over Saudi Arabia.

#168 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-04-07 09:48 PM | Reply | Flag:

Yeah, none of them have relatives in those. They are completely inhuman animals that want to be bombed by Trump so they can be more powerful.

gtfo lol.

That war isn't viewed as a win because of anything that happened in the war,

#166 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-04-07 09:46 PM | Reply | Flag:

If only we could rewind and let you loose in the Enola Gay exhibit debates.

and this is the first time in any of our lives that we have a president that might not have that restraint.

not good.

and no, it doesn't take nukes. We have the capability to reduce their infrastructure to nothing and trigger the biggest humanitarian and refugee crisis in written history. We can do to Iran what Russia wishes it could do to Ukraine. The only thing that checks it is political restraint.

My, how positive you are.

#162 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-04-07 09:35 PM | Reply | Flag:

Fool. Ask a Republican why we lost Vietnam.

Republicans want war policy that fights every war like it's against Imperial Japan. That's the last time we overwhelmingly won. That's what will happen to Iran if Trump goes all in.

They intended regime change. They killed off 3 tiers of leadership. The regime did not change. Primary strategic objective failed.

We have ZERO ------- NEGOTIATING POWER right now.

#159 | Posted by Sycophant at 2026-04-07 09:22 PM | Reply | Flag

Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada!

Minus those thousands of airstrikes and total ability to end their civilization without even bothering to use nukes.

I looked at the official statement from Iran. It does not say Trump agreed to the 10 points. It says the 10 points are a basis for negotiation.

Sanctimonious as ever. The two party system shows that civilian deaths are a talking point, not a voting issue.

By identifying patterns and making real-time predictions, AI helps

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-04-06 10:39 PM | Reply | Flag

If this is the final agreement, we've lost.

#154 | Posted by Sycophant at 2026-04-07 07:50 PM | Reply | Flag:

It's not. It's a general framework for negotiations per Iran.

So Trump can.. make an Iran Deal...

The Gulf States and Israel are censoring

#135 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-04-07 07:08 PM | Reply | Flag:

So is Iran. So is Russia. It is not effective in 2026. All war can be followed, easily, in real time, on multiple live maps that aggregate everything going on.

The United States and Iran reached an 11th-hour cease-fire deal on Tuesday evening, hours after President Trump threatened to start wiping out Iran's "whole civilization" if it did not allow commercial shipping to pass safely through the Strait of Hormuz.

A WW1 troop going over the top at Verdun had better survival odds than a Chinese Marine having to cross that strait.

"China is building at least five new special purpose barges which appear tailor made for amphibious assault."

#7 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-04-06 02:22 PM | Reply | Flag:

3 to 5 connectors. Your own article lol.

Lets pretend its 80.

What lifespan do you give that in the face of drone swarms?

Some early estimates have it at > 2000 dead Iranian civilians.

Starting 12 hours ago the IDF began destroying most of the major bridges and railroads in Western Iran, along with destroying the majority of their aluminum industry, some chemical plants, etc. The US has struck multiple sites on Kharg, and Kish. Iran wounds 15 US soldiers at a Kuwaiti air base, the rest of their drones and missiles fired over the weekend being ineffective.

Great time for them to grab Taiwan, eh?

#2 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-04-04 03:48 PM | Reply | Flag:

With all 4 landing ships? It's a long swim.