[National Review] In a Thursday afternoon, on a trip to a shared workspace in Jerusalem above its central bus station, I heard something I’ve never experienced before at any WeWork: children laughing. Alongside some Yiddish-speaking employees with twisted sidelocks talking about their Sabbath plans, hipster start-up founders, and a mélange of Israeli entrepreneurs conversing in French, I was surprised to find that I had rented an office with a kids’ movie theater and a playroom. I had never seen anything like it in any office in Washington, D.C., where I usually work.
Parents wrapping up their week — the Israeli weekend runs from Friday to Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath — had brought their kids along to the office to play. I texted my wife that the adults were outnumbered by a good factor by rambunctious children. The prophet Zechariah once envisioned a Jerusalem that "shall be crowded with boys and girls playing in the squares." I doubt he imagined they would also show up to co-working spaces.
Yet that scene was a handy illustration of an astonishing fact: Jerusalem’s total fertility rate in 2025 stood at 4.57 children per woman. That’s more than triple the rate of Washington, D.C.,and the cultural contrast is jarring. When a close friend of mine delivered at Sibley Memorial Hospital in December, which has one of the largest maternity wards in the D.C. area, a nurse flattered her by calling her a "teenage mom" — even though she was two weeks shy of her 30th birthday. The nurse explained that the median age of mothers in her ward was 36.
It is now common knowledge that Israel is the only country in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to have a natural fertility rate above the replacement rate — and nearly double that of the next-highest country. More children per capita are born in Israel’s capital city than in the capital cities of most sub-Saharan African countries, such as Nigeria and Zambia.
What is less commonly understood is why.
To keep itself going, any society needs a certain number of children to be born per year. And yet a specter is haunting the world — the specter of childlessness, of sparsely populated playgrounds and schools. In Japan and South Korea, companies that once produced baby diapers have retooled to make adult diapers. Chinese baby formula companies are pivoting to selling vitamins and supplements. Market forces have a way of revealing what politicians prefer not to say out loud, and the same will happen in the United States soon.
[Blaze] Half a century after the book "Why Johnny Can’t Read" sounded an alarm about the rise of illiteracy in the U.S., the problem has only gotten worse. A quarter of all young adults, many of them high-school graduates, are now functionally illiterate. Unable to read more than basic, short sentences, their prospects in today’s information economy are bleak.
This crisis gave rise to a movement that embraced the science of reading and produced a surprising success story in the Deep South, a region dogged by the highest rates of childhood illiteracy in the nation. State leaders and education reformers in Mississippi and Louisiana led a remarkable improvement in elementary reading scores that now rank among the highest in the nation.
The turnaround was a long slog, requiring a heavy hand from the state to win buy-in for a wholesale transformation of curricula, teaching methods, accountability, and more. Former state education chief Carey Wright called it the "Mississippi Marathon." One of the biggest questions in public education now is whether the southern surge can spread nationwide, turning millions of struggling students into proficient readers with a brighter future.
But such a top-down approach is running into resistance, particularly in blue states like New York and Illinois, where strong teachers’ unions have fought to preserve local control over schools. And nowhere is the political battle over who runs the classroom more pronounced than in Massachusetts, which has long boasted the nation’s best public schools.
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I worked in several high schools as a sub (child support), teaching biology, chemistry, and math. None of teaching college grads I've knew their subject worth sh*t. Lots of psychology babble - zilch understanding of the subject.
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Just think, given the current Public School NEA controlled educational system and its failure to educate students to anything near basic 7th grade level skills.
Those that Home Schooled, sent their kids to Christian church ran schools and trade schools, not Liberal Arts colleges.
Will be looked on as the Builders, Scribes and Oracles of the future.
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#4 - teachers have a Constitutional right to free association and petition. They do not have a right to bargain with a sovereign government.
The solution is competition, vouchers and alternatives. Secondly, dissolve colleges of education at state run universities and colleges. Instead require bachelor's level proficiency in specific subject matter.
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Mississippi and Louisiana achieved much better reading students by emphasizing phonics.
Somehow the 'whole word recognition' cult is still hanging on in some States even though many of the 'scholars' in 'whole word recognition' teaching recognize the problem with their theory.
Of course it's not just that, there are more issues, but phonics is a big winner and should never have been removed from K-7 teaching.
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Fads seem to be popular among recent teachers. Results, not so much.
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[Townhall] CNN is easy to hate for a few reasons: they’re always wrong, they lie, and they’re laughably inept. The best part is that they’re too stupid to correct their mistakes, even when someone who isn’t a news junkie could spot the errors. They’re a favorite punching bag for the Trump White House and the MAGA movement, and they released a funny statement about how they won’t cave to bullying, and how they’re beacons of truth.
Right, so, explain host Abby Phillip apologizing for lying about the NYC ISIS-inspired IED attack, the ’Trump’s team didn’t plan for the Strait of Hormuz closing’ story getting undercut by the people in the room, which led to a correction that made the story irrelevant, and Paul Begala lying about lobstergate vis-à-vis Pete Hegseth.
Why are they against us? We know they’re anti-Trump, but to do this while our troops are in danger, fighting these Iranian psychopaths, is another. Not shocking, yes—but still unseemly.
Maybe it makes more sense that this network got caught partying with the Iranians at their embassy in London (via Newsbusters):
The hits just kept coming for CNN this week. Amid criticism of the network’s biased reporting from Iran, bias about the conflict, and how they got access to the country, two high-ranking CNN officials were caught at the Iranian Embassy in London attending a celebration for the founding of the Islamic regime. Additionally, the daytime edition of CNN News Central on Thursday aired four-uninterrupted minutes of Iranian state television delivering a purported written statement from the latest ayatollah, who’s in a coma.
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Seems like CNN is a CIA front based on their total lack of regard to ratings. If it’s all a front to infiltrate bad actors, I don’t care so much that they are partying with the Iranian regime. I don’t think they have much effect on Americans anymore.
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William Tecumseh Sherman: 'I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.'
[YouTube] In March 2026, Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office, publicly berating the United Kingdom. It seemed like a routine political drama. But at the same time, a catastrophe was unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz: 150 tankers carrying 150 million barrels of oil ($12 billion) were frozen at anchor. The world's oldest insurance monopoly, Lloyd's of London, withdrew its coverage.
London thought it had Trump by the throat. But they were wrong.
Watch this video:
How the US replaced British insurance policies with Dependent Sovereignty Facility (DFC).
Why this was the final humiliation for Charles III and Keir Starmer.
How a new "Pragmatist Axis" (US-Germany-China) formed, casting the "old elites" to the sidelines of history.
The world is divided. Neutrality is no longer possible. This is the end of 300 years of dominance and the beginning of the new reality we deserve.
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I looked at Q during the COVID era to try to figure out what it was. There was a good portion of the Q psyop was true information mixed with stuff that was knowably false at the time, stuff that proved to be false later on (trust Wray, Pence and Pompeo,) stuff that I thought was false and am reevaluating, and stuff the I could not figure out. The Promethean Action stuff seems to fall into that last category.
The lady in the videos has a very consistent message. She’s bringing the same template for whatever happens. It’s cowbell and more cowbell without any triangle or washboard for nuance. What I have trouble with, I guess, is that it seems the Brits would not suck so bad if her premise was the overriding impetus for world power. That is the impediment to my credulity. I do respect her commitment to her message, though. I think if I showed her the troubles that the Cleveland Browns have had this century, she could tie it to the cabal running the City of London.
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[REGNUM] The recall of the Spanish ambassador from Israel has become one of the loudest diplomatic signals in Europe amid the escalating conflict in Iran.
Note that the withdrawal is permanent, not temporary. Israel will now be served only by a Spanish chargé d'affaires. And only a few years ago Spain was offering citizenship to any Jew who could document unbroken descent from those expelled by Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492 — in the hope of jump starting Jewish tourism and a sentimental investment in Spain’s economy.
Madrid's decision to effectively downgrade diplomatic relations with Tel Aviv demonstrates the depth of the disagreements between the Spanish government and the Israeli leadership.
Moreover, criticism from Spain concerns not only Israel’s actions, but also American policy in the region.
THUNDER IN PARADISE
Over the past decades, the unity of the Western coalition, of which Israel is traditionally considered a part, has become perceived as so unshakable that any serious disagreements between its members that spill into the public sphere are perceived as nothing less than a bolt from the blue. Or, to recall the famous quote of former head of European diplomacy Josep Borrell, "in the European garden."
This is precisely the tone of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's statements, which he has repeatedly and harshly criticized in recent weeks for the military operation against Iran. At one press conference, he declared that what is happening is a grave mistake.
“This war in Iran, in my view and in the view of the Spanish government, is a huge mistake for which we will pay,” Sanchez emphasized.
In another statement, the prime minister noted that disagreement with Iran's political regime does not mean support for military action. He argued that one can oppose the government in Tehran and simultaneously consider military intervention unjustified and dangerous. The Spanish leader called for immediate de-escalation, respect for international law, and a swift return to diplomatic dialogue.
Sánchez's position can be explained by the fact that he leads a left-wing coalition, which includes strong parties and movements traditionally critical of Israeli policies and US military operations in the Middle East. The Spanish left's opposition to Israeli actions and US military operations in the Middle East has historical and political roots.
It is linked to the peculiarities of Spain's political history. During the civil war of 1936–1939, the country itself became a testing ground for the superpowers, who rehearsed the future great war on its soil. Spain paid for this with hundreds of thousands of lives and the establishment of the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, which resulted in prolonged international isolation and devastation.
Following the change of power in the 1970s, Spanish policy increasingly embraced international law and multilateral institutions as a guarantee of preventing new conflicts. This was seen as a way to ensure predictability in global politics and protect the interests of medium-sized countries that lacked the military or economic clout of superpowers.
Therefore, anti-war sentiment is generally strong in Spanish society, especially after the mass protests against the country's participation in the US operation in Iraq in 2003, which involved millions of Spaniards.
Relations between Madrid and the Tel Aviv-Washington coalition deteriorated gradually. Differences had been building for many years and primarily concerned Israel's policies in the Middle East and its stance on the Palestinian issue,
…Israel insists on existing, the Palestinians insists it must be erased, taking the Jews with it…
and more recently, Israel's extermination of the Arab population, as Spain had long advocated for the creation of a Palestinian State.
With tensions running high against the backdrop of a new war in Iran, the ambassador's recall has become a symbol of this deep diplomatic crisis.
This time, Spain's disagreements also affected its relations with the United States. A notable episode was the Spanish government's decision to deny the American military access to joint bases in the country for operations against Iran.
The bases in question are Rota and Moron, key locations for the American military presence in southern Spain.
Foreign Minister José Manuel Albarez said they are not and will not be used for actions that go beyond the scope of bilateral agreements and are not in accordance with the UN Charter.
This position, of course, provoked a sharp reaction in Washington.
"I think they're not cooperating at all. Spain. I think they're behaving very badly, very badly, not well at all. We could stop trade with Spain," Trump said on March 11. However, this hasn't led to any real consequences yet.
However, for the Sánchez government, perhaps more importantly, its anti-war stance allows it to retain the support of its own coalition and a significant portion of the electorate.
SPAIN IS NOT ALONE
While most EU countries supported the war with Iran, Madrid was not the only critic of Israel and the US actions in Europe.
For example, Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide stated that the Israeli strike on Iran cannot be considered a legitimate preventive action.
“Preemptive strikes require an immediate and imminent threat,” he recalled.
Finland took a reserved stance. President Alexander Stubb stated that Helsinki condemns both the US and Israeli strikes and Tehran's retaliatory actions, and calls on all parties to exercise maximum restraint.
Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands, and Slovenia also previously announced a boycott of Eurovision. This occurred before the war with Iran began in late 2025, and was due to Israel's admission to the contest.
In general, in many European countries, attitudes towards military action in the Middle East have become noticeably more cautious following military campaigns in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria.
Initially, these operations were seen as an attempt to stabilize the region and eliminate a perceived threat to Europe. However, over time, it became clear that their consequences were far more severe than expected.
The wars in Iraq, Libya, and Syria led to prolonged instability, a rise in radical groups in the region, and a massive wave of refugees whose upkeep fell on Europe, while the campaign in Afghanistan lasted nearly two decades and ended with the flight of the international coalition forces and the return to power of the Taliban movement (the movement is under UN sanctions for terrorist activities).
For Europeans, this was a lesson: attempts to resolve the Middle East's millennia-old problems by force do not lead to a quick political settlement, but only exacerbate instability.
SMALL SIGNS OF BIG DIFFERENCES
For European countries, stability in the Middle East is important both economically and politically.
First, European economies remain heavily dependent on energy supplies from the region. Oil and gas from the Persian Gulf play a significant role in the energy balances of many EU countries. Any escalation of the conflict threatens to lead to supply disruptions or a sharp rise in energy prices, as has already happened this time.
Secondly, European governments fear the political consequences of instability in the Middle East. Experience over the past decades shows that major conflicts in the region are often accompanied by increased migration flows to Europe. A similar situation has already been observed after the wars in Syria and Libya.
Migration crises often exacerbate internal political tensions and can contribute to the growth of radical sentiments in European countries. Furthermore, instability in the Middle East inevitably leads to a growing terrorist threat, which directly impacts the security of Europeans.
Finally, there is also a structural difference between US and European interests.
For Washington, the Middle East remains a region of national importance, but the American economy is significantly less dependent on Middle Eastern oil than the European one. Furthermore, the United States is geographically much further removed from the potential consequences of regional instability, whether from the aforementioned terrorist attacks carried out by radicals or a direct military response from a Middle Eastern country.
For European countries, the Middle East is a neighboring region, and any crises there inevitably impact life within Europe. This is why many of its governments prefer to maintain a more cautious approach than Washington.
Despite harsh statements and diplomatic demarches, there is no deep rift within the Western camp yet. Spain remains a US ally and NATO partner, and economic and military ties between the countries remain strong, despite the harsh rhetoric of politicians.
At the same time, the current situation clearly shows that contradictions are increasingly emerging within the Western world, including over policy in the Middle East.
And although it is too early to talk about them developing into a large-scale internal conflict in the near future, what is happening indicates that behind the façade of unity there are serious disagreements that are gradually undermining the cohesion of Western countries.
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And only a few years ago Spain was offering citizenship to any Jew who could document unbroken descent from those expelled by Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492 — in the hope of jump starting Jewish tourism and a sentimental investment in Spain’s economy.
So it seems that in Euroland as well as in the U.S. that leftist parties have made the calculation that they can grift more money from expansionist Islam than they can from Jews, so the Jews are being thrown under the bus.
I predicted this almost twenty years ago. The Democrats always hire the best accountants, with the least morals.
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Maybe Portugal would like the revenue that is generated by American military bases. Or Gibraltar although there might not enough room there.
[National Review] Two jihadist attacks were carried out on Thursday. That makes four since the start of March — that is, since U.S. and Israeli forces commenced the aerial invasion intended to finish the jihadist war the Iranian regime has been waging, mainly through proxies it controls and inspires, since 1979. (See our editorial regarding the four recent attacks, and our editorial regarding the March 1 attack in Austin.)
At this early stage, we don’t know if any of these attacks was triggered by the war. Thursday’s two are intriguing in that regard.
In this post, I’ll address the Michigan attack. In the next one, I’ll turn to the Virginia attack.
In West Bloomfield, shortly after noon, Ayman Mohamad Ghazali plowed an explosive-laden car into Temple Israel, a synagogue with a preschool on the premises. He was armed with a rifle and began firing. Security personnel — which, infuriatingly, synagogues must now retain in the United States of America due to the rising tide of Jew hatred — returned fire. Ghazali perished as the car burst into flames. One temple congregant was knocked unconscious, but the 140 preschool children and other attendees were unharmed.
Ghazali, who was 41, resided in Dearborn Heights, a municipality bordering on and deeply interconnected with Dearborn. The latter, with over 100,000 residents, is the first city in our nation with a majority Muslim population — about 55 percent. Dearborn Heights, with over 60,000 residents, is close to 40 percent Muslim.
In both places, the percentage of residents of Lebanese descent is high. Lebanon, of course, is the birthplace and stronghold of Hezbollah (the "Party of Allah"), Iran’s most ruthless jihadist militia, whose first acts included the murders of several U.S. officials, culminating in the 1983 bombings in Beirut of the U.S. embassy (killing 17 Americans and at least 43 others) and a U.S. Marine barracks (killing 241 American servicemen; a separate, nearly simultaneous bombing killed 58 French paratroopers in their barracks). Dearborn and its outskirts, perhaps not surprisingly, have long been notorious hotbeds of sharia supremacism.
The other three, for reference:
3/1/2026: naturalized Senegalese illegal immigrant Ndiaga Diagne, 53, killed 3 and wounded 14 at Buford’s Backyard Beer Garden near the University of Texas-Austin campus for the glory of Iran before police shot him dead a minute later.
3/7/2026: Emir Balat, 18, troubled child of a prosperous Turkish immigrant house painter, and Ibrahim Kayumi (Ibrahim Nikk Kayumi), 19, second son of wealthy Afghan immigrants, threw faulty TATP nail bombs at anti-Muslim protesters and police for ISIS in front of New York City’s mayoral residence, Gracie Mansion. The police arrested both as they fled down the street, and then the FBI got involved.
3/12/2026: Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, 36, naturalized citizen of Sierra Leone, killed one in his second try for the glory of ISIS in a ROTC classroom in Old Dominion before the students killed him with their bare hands (and a knife)
The brother of an armed man who rammed his truck into a Reform synagogue and preschool in Michigan last week was a Hezbollah commander, the Israel Defense Forces said on Sunday, confirming earlier reports on the matter.
"Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Muhammad Ghazali was responsible for managing weapons operations within a specialized branch of the Badr Unit. The unit is responsible for launching hundreds of rockets toward Israeli civilians throughout the war," the IDF said in a post on X.
The IDF said that Ibrahim was "eliminated in an IAF strike on a Hezbollah military structure."
Sources told CNN that Ghazali had been flagged in US government databases for connections to members of Hezbollah, but was not thought himself to be a member of the terror group.
Security guards opened fire on Ghazali after he smashed a truck through the doors of the Temple Israel synagogue and preschool in West Bloomfield, near Detroit.
Jennifer Runyan, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Detroit field office, said during a news conference Friday that ultimately Ghazali fatally shot himself after he got stuck in his vehicle and the engine caught fire.
Officials later found large quantities of commercial-grade fireworks and several jugs of a liquid believed to be gasoline.
The FBI, which is leading the investigation, has described the attack as an act of violence targeting the Jewish community. Runyan said that law enforcement didn’t have enough evidence to call the attack an act of terror at this time, but that investigations were ongoing.
None of the 140 children, teachers and staff inside the synagogue were injured, authorities said.
According to the US Department of Homeland Security, Ghazali came to the United States in 2011 on an IR1 immigrant visa, given to spouses of US citizens, and was granted citizenship himself in 2016.
He worked at a popular restaurant in Dearborn Heights, Hamido, but had been absent in recent weeks, fellow employees told The New York Times. He was divorced and had at least one child, according to The Detroit News, which cited court records.
The ex-wife and child are back in Lebanon — he called her just before the attack, telling her to take care of it. This suggests it was a sham marriage for U.S. residence and citizenship for a Hezbollah sleeper agent… and therefore she and the kid should be stripped of their citizenship for participating in, and being the fruit of, the fraud.
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"He was an aspiring rapper who was affected by Zionist violence. OK, sure, his family was Hezbollah but he had aspirations! Like killing Jooo children"
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If anyone is interested, the parents at Temple Israel have started a GoFundMe specifically as a way to thank the security guards, police officers, and staff who responded to the attack. https://t.co/HaCrDRpfY1https://t.co/Pw9z3xPyou
[Hot Air] We have reached the point where the Democrats and the media are trying to convince the public that the military and Trump were unaware that the Strait of Hormuz was a strategic chokepoint, vulnerable to Iranian attack.
Newsflash: the US military can read maps, and Trump has spoken about the importance of the Strait since the turn of the century.
The media and Democrats are desperate to portray what is, legitimately, the most successful military operation in modern history as a chaotic, strategy-free, and failing war that Iran is winning.
Tactically, the operation has gone almost flawlessly. Strategically? We won't know for weeks or months when the dust settles. Compared to prior military operations, perhaps the only one that has excelled the metrics of success is the capture of Maduro, which was executed flawlessly and achieved strategic success. Venezuela was fundamentally transformed in a night, and is now bending over backward to please us.
Not to mention that it has triggered the imminent collapse of the Cuban regime.
The military strikes taking place now have all been preparation for a new phase in the war that is unfolding as we speak, and the one intended to achieve the strategic objective of the war. Nobody at the top levels of the government here or in Israel expected that bombing of the military sites alone would achieve the political objective. Those attacks are vital to achieving the mission, but not the mission itself.
The mission is regime change, but not necessarily in the sense of eliminating Iran's government. In fact, I suspect that the hope is to keep much of the government structure in Iran intact to speed economic recovery.
What does that mean? How can a regime change but the government remain largely intact?
To understand that, you have to understand that Iran's government is a tool of the regime, but not the regime itself. In some cases, that is obvious: the IRGC and the Basij are parallel institutions to the army and the police. The former exist to enforce regime preservation, while the latter are organs of power little different from those in any other state.
Message from an Iranian regime officer:
They’re cursing everything now. Salaries slashed, guy’s actually considering selling his kidney just to survive !! This is the reality for the mullahs’ security forces!
The biggest targets in this new phase of the war will be Iran's organs of internal control—the people who shoot protesters when they mass in the streets—and its financial and economic lifelines.
BREAKING NEWS: #morningjoe has learned that the UAE has frozen billions of dollars in Iranian assets. The move will likely have crippling effects on an already weakened Iranian economy. https://t.co/Da41RisQqY
Both are now being executed. Iran's financial lifeline in the UAE and Qatar is being severed, and the destruction of Iran's ability to defend Kharg Island is, as Duane argued, a checkmate. Oil is the lifeblood of the Iranian regime, and the United States now has a knife directly at the jugular.
Iranians are being encouraged to wait before they revolt, not to take to the streets yet. The decapitation of the Basij is vital to the success of a revolt. Failure to do so would just be throwing Iranians into a meat grinder.
We may be a good number of moves on the chessboard before the King is toppled, but it's hard to see how that result can be avoided. The bigger question is what comes next for Iran; strategic victory will only be achieved if we can replace the regime without destroying the governmental functions necessary for society to rebuild.
Nobody wants another Libya.
It has been two weeks, with the war plan being executed ahead of schedule. Yet the media is pretending that the failure to have completed the war by now is proof of failure.
We bombed Iraqi troops three times as long in the first Gulf War before the first tanks moved into Iraq, and that was one of the most successful wars in human history.
UPDATE: Iran opens Strait of Hormuz to all traffic from countries other than US or Israel, which is basically all traffic.
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The media is like a four-year old who starts asking "Are we there yet?" before the car is out of the driveway. But a particularly vicious four-year old.
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My take on the drone situation and the UUAVs will make many people uncomfortable. Drones are cheap to make easy to launch. In order to neutralize the threat the idea is to kill all the operators. Zero and Messerschmidt pilots were not very capable by the end of WWII.
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I read yesterday that Israel is crowd sourcing targeting of Hezbollah in Lebanon. Giving locals a QR thingy to keep in touch, call in target locations. Still very early but consider the implications from the Baddies point of view- any of those dudes out in the street with their phones out could be 2 minutes left of boom for me. Could shoot a couple but then? Now they’re all backing aw
This essay makes the case for MAGA's support for the war with Iran.
[Mordestack] A representative of the Iranian authorities, Mohsen Rezai, stated two conditions from Tehran for ending the war: payment of reparations to Iran by the United States for damage caused during the war, and the withdrawal of all U.S. bases from the Persian Gulf. "Yeeeeahhh...that's gonna be a hard no"
"The end of the war is in our hands. We will consider the issue of ending the war only when, first, we receive full compensation for all our losses from the United States, and second, we receive a 100% guarantee for the future, which is impossible without the withdrawal of the U.S. from the Persian Gulf,"
Most of the right simply trusts Donald Trump. Contrary to what influencers would have you believe, so far the popularity of the war falls cleanly on partisan lines with the main loss of support being among millennials, the demographic with the most intimate memory of the Iraq war. Iraq was disastrous and humiliating for Americans and spelled the decisive refutation of Neoconservatism, and they assume that intervention in Iran will go the same way.
Finally, there are those on the hard right who see Israel as controlling American politics, and think that America is being fundamentally used by Israel against American interests to fight a war that is not our own. While a minority of the right, probably the majority of my readers who disagree with the war fall into this camp. You might not be interested in foreign affairs, but foreign affairs are interested in you. Either we surrender and abandon our many allies in the Gulf or regime change Iran. Decapitation strike didn't work so ground invasion is the only remaining possibility. It won't be popular but is absolutely necessary.
A thoughtful exploration. Long. The tweet below is from deeper in the piece. Note the date — President Trump looks like he is just responding to whatever catches his hyperactive attention, but he has slow thoughts as well as fast ones:
While everyone is waiting and prepared for us to attack Syria, maybe we should knock the hell out of Iran and their nuclear capabilities?
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Kill that mf'er next. Shove those reparations straight up his ass!
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Shove those reparations straight up his ass!
That would make them asspirations, right?
As for the ground invasion, ain't gonna happen. At least not in the Thunder Run to Tehran sense. There may be some quick airborne in-and-outs (see Venezuela), but once Iranian long-range assets are destroyed and the Straits are open, who gives a flip what happens inside Iran?
Side note: there are reports of the IDF conducting drone strike on checkpoints and individuals based on phoned-in tips, so the balance of power is changing. The future is something the Iranians will work out for themselves, but the ground rules are being established: No nukes; no menacing the neighbors; the straits stay open.
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