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re: At Least 112 USAF C-17 Aircraft Headed To Middle East
Posted on 2/8/26 at 1:08 pm to CharlesLSU
Posted on 2/8/26 at 1:08 pm to CharlesLSU
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Goes against his running platform.
That's true, but how dumb and clueless do you have to be to have believed that?
Trump took aggressive military action his first term. Bombed Syria twice, assassinated an Iranian general, etc.
There was absolutely no reason to believe that he was going to change his foreign policy on military intervention the second time around.
Before someone starts wailing about TDS, Trump gets higher marks from me on foreign policy than any other category. I don't love Trump the "economic architect," or Trump the "2nd Amendment advocate," but I LOVE Trump the CIC.
But Trump became a lot more of a politician between his first term and his second, he looked around and saw that his base was foolishly listening to Huckster Carlson's nonsense advice about adopting the foreign policy stance of, say, Jimmy Carter, and he told you what you wanted to hear to make sure you went out and voted.
If you believed it contrary to the copious evidence from his first term against it, I lean towards the viewpoint that that's on you.
This post was edited on 2/8/26 at 1:09 pm
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Posted on 2/8/26 at 1:09 pm to wackatimesthree
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That's true
It doesn't matter how you try to spin this up, this isn't true. And your examples are not examples of him starting new wars. Don't be dishonest.
Posted on 2/8/26 at 1:11 pm to Night Vision
112 C-17s is not a bluff. that's way too expensive and requires too much coordination only to simply show force
Posted on 2/8/26 at 1:11 pm to wackatimesthree
The shortest war in history lasted 38 minutes
Posted on 2/8/26 at 1:20 pm to roadGator
One if the things that hurts the US in a show of force is the orher countries know we will not use it all bc we do not want civilian casualties. We fight by rules for the most part
Posted on 2/8/26 at 1:31 pm to SPEEDY
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Trump is gonna make sure no one watches that Bad Bunny halftime show
POTD
Posted on 2/8/26 at 4:57 pm to Night Vision
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looks like the build-up to major war in Iran.
Only if Iran has outside help on deck. Russia is tied up in Ukraine and China won't want that smoke. I mean, we dragged sack across Iranian face with the nuclear facility strikes and they did nothing because they could do nothing, and now they have literally millions of their own citizens ready to physically fight them not just in protest.
If we get involved though, Chini may see his opportunity to move on Taiwan. Or maybe this is just putting more resources in place nearer to where we expect something to break out, and it just has the added effect of moralizing the Iranian resistance and intimidating the Regime.
I don't take anything at face value any more. Nobody saw the night raid that captured Maduro on his own soil coming. Every move on the board, is just to set up something else later in the game.
Posted on 2/8/26 at 5:26 pm to TigerAxeOK
112 C 17 can deliver an overwhelming force to the ME. There should be some puckering up in Tehran…… Make a deal or bye bye….
Posted on 2/8/26 at 5:45 pm to Boodis Man
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112 C-17s is not a bluff. that's way too expensive and requires too much coordination only to simply show force
You are exactly right. You can bet this mission is clearly defined. Maybe it becomes the Super Bowl "HALFTIME" Show!!
Posted on 2/8/26 at 6:06 pm to Jbird
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It's specific requirement for flying over certain countries.
They don’t obey it or those countries aren’t between the US and Middle East or Africa, or Asia because I know of C-17s hauling tier one assets and never see them transposing. In fact a few years ago a C-17 made the mistake of transposing when they left Ft. Campbell and it was then shut off by the time they were over Pennsylvania. I know because I asked someone on that flight what happened.
Posted on 2/8/26 at 6:14 pm to Mid Iowa Tiger
Lol I was in Transcom and AMC tell me about C32B aircraft and ADS-B.
Posted on 2/8/26 at 6:19 pm to Mid Iowa Tiger
Iran will NEVER agree to stop uranium enrichment, no matter what you may believe. Someone has to stop them. The rest of the world is too pussified to do anything. Add in the fact that they are murdering thousands of their citizens, we would be justified in taking action.
Posted on 2/8/26 at 6:34 pm to PorkSammich
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We didn’t topple a regime in Venezuela, we took one leader.
And it’s amazing since we captured Maduro all those fishing boats have stopped going fishing.
Posted on 2/8/26 at 7:01 pm to Miketheseventh
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And it’s amazing since we captured Maduro all those fishing boats have stopped going fishing.
Bunk is about to be out of work in that case
Posted on 2/8/26 at 7:17 pm to idlewatcher
I thought Iran’s nuclear program/aspirations had been completed obliterated.
What happened in the last 6-9 months?
What happened in the last 6-9 months?
Posted on 2/8/26 at 7:58 pm to Jbird
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Lol I was in Transcom and AMC tell me about C32B aircraft and ADS-B.
I won’t. I’ll tell you about tier 1 operations and the absolute truth they do not transpond their location when deploying.
Posted on 2/8/26 at 8:01 pm to Mid Iowa Tiger
Lol so a planned Rch callsign from Travis to Ramstein will transition the United States IFF and all transponders out?
Posted on 2/8/26 at 8:04 pm to Night Vision
Just shows how technology has changed.
During buildup to Desert Storm Bush announced he was sending the 82nd Airborne. When he made that announcement they were bedded down in our gymnasium at Torrejon AB Spain and would be flying the remaining journey to SA the next day.
There were already a dozen or more C-5’s on our tarmac.
This is no flex
During buildup to Desert Storm Bush announced he was sending the 82nd Airborne. When he made that announcement they were bedded down in our gymnasium at Torrejon AB Spain and would be flying the remaining journey to SA the next day.
There were already a dozen or more C-5’s on our tarmac.
This is no flex
Posted on 2/8/26 at 8:16 pm to Night Vision
The boil's about to bust.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 6:05 am to Jbird
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Travis
From Travis or wherever to Campbell they may transpond. Once the group I am speaking of is on board they run silent to their destination.
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