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The latest dumbshittery:
Israel’s determination to attack Iran and the certainty that US troops would be targeted in response forced the Trump administration to take pre-emptive strikes, the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said, in a new explanation for Washington’s surprise entry into the conflict.
In other words, hurry up and fuck up:
The first US service members to die in the conflict between the US and Iran were killed by a direct Iranian strike on a makeshift operations center at a civilian port in Kuwait on Sunday morning local time, a source familiar with the situation told CNN.
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Earlier Monday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the strike that killed the service members hit a “tactical operation center that was fortified,” but there was “one” projectile that made it through air defenses. CNN previously reported the event was a suspected drone strike.
The source familiar said it was a direct hit just after 9 a.m. local time, on the center of the building they described as a triple-wide trailer with office space inside. The attack came quickly and with no warning or sirens to alert troops to evacuate or get into a bunker, the source said. Hours after the strike, fire was still smoldering in some parts of the building, the source described – the inside of the makeshift operations center blackened and the walls blown outwards from the blast, some parts peeling away from the building.
Since we are weak and beholden to Israel, we had to rush things, so we had troops in a trailer with no air raid sirens, a.k.a. a “makeshift” operations center.
This might not be directly related, but it is a pretty strong indicator of how little our allies think of us:
French President Emmanuel Macron announced Monday that France will increase its nuclear arsenal and, for the first time, allow the temporary deployment of its nuclear-armed aircraft to allied countries, in a new strategy aimed at strengthening Europe’s independence.
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Talks about such deterrence cooperation have started with Britain, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Sweden and Denmark, Macron said.
France also will allow partners to participate in deterrence exercises and allow allies’ non-nuclear forces to participate in France’s nuclear activities, said Macron, who is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces under the French constitution.
Since our timeline is a river of sewage, this little turd won’t make much of an impression. If Macron had done this on Biden or Obama’s watch, the mainstream press, rightwing media and Republicans would be yelling about “weakness” at the top of their lungs. The same is true for the trailer house ops center.
Also, as I mentioned yesterday, drones are inexpensive compared to our anti-aircraft missiles. Two of them hit the US embassy in Riyadh yesterday.
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