President Donald Trump is scheduled to hold a press conference on Monday afternoon at 1:00pm ET. This comes after the president made a series of Truth Social posts about how the United States will target Iran’s power plants and bridges on Tuesday if the Strait of Hormuz is not reopened. Livestream Links Below:
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This should be good
I hope he makes it clear that civilian targets are next. Art of the deal!
I tend to agree with Jack Keane that if you let the bastards determine the opening and closing of the Strait, they’ve established leverage.
In the end, they are simply not going to be allowed to do that. Commercial waterways are not toll-roads, and you cannot extort the traffic that needs to pass through them.
Of course, for 47 years(!), they were able to do that. Amazingly, the countries which had the most to lose never did anything at all to counter them. (And they still try to say, “It’s not our fight.”) Dude, guess what: “it’s your oil!” (Not ours.)
LOL, Liberal heads will be exploding tonight. When the media asked President Trump if the US might charge tolls for ships to get through the strait he replied, “Why not? We’re the victors. To the victor goes the spoils.”
I’m not sure if he’s serious, or if he just likes to jerk their chain. lol
I think he likes to jerk their chain. He’s always 2 or 3 steps ahead of the rest of us. The art of the deal, baby! Keep ‘em guessing!
This ought to be a humdinger.
The Fake News Piranhas are in a feeding frenzy by now.
MSM is spouting all kinds of nonsense, the usual politicians are saying the President has gone rogue and sync is posting all the negative news here he can find.
No one knows what will happen tomorrow at 8pm, which is a good thing. Our President has the IRGC on the ropes with two options – surrender or die.
A key observation is that “operational security is obviously airtight.” They DON’T know what to expect, and neither does the enemy.
“MSM is spouting all kinds of nonsense, the usual politicians are saying the President has gone rogue and sync is posting all the negative news here he can find.”
THAT.
That, quite literally, is something President Trump is using to his advantage.
They are accidentally helping him and are too ” pick a word or a phrase” to even figure it out.
12 year supporter of President Trump… I prefer he not take out civilian infrastructure.
Thought—when a regime dictates the manner of dress, it’s not likely that “civilian infrastructure” is a valid concept in their culture. Everything is at the disposal of the state and military.
If there was ever a near – perfect real world example of a fascist state, it would be the islamic Republic of Iran.
The only way the Iranian military can operate is with intact power plants and bridges. These are dual use targets and not strictly civilian.
and the IRGC is powered by …BITCOIN! look it up. bitcoin mining in iran is big &very profitable.
follow the money, cui bono?
“Iran has become a significant player in Bitcoin mining, largely due to its cheap electricity costs, which are around $1,320 per Bitcoin. The country uses mining as a strategy to circumvent international sanctions and generate revenue, despite facing challenges like high energy consumption and regulatory scrutiny.https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/ip3/www.elliptic.co.ico elliptic.cohttps://external-content.duckduckgo.com/ip3/m.economictimes.com.ico The Economic Times
Overview of Bitcoin Mining in IranIran has emerged as a notable player in the Bitcoin mining industry, primarily due to its low electricity costs and the government’s strategic use of mining to circumvent international sanctions.
Key Factors
Summary TableAttributeDetailsCost to Mine 1 Bitcoin~$1,320Electricity Rate~$0.005 per kWhLegal StatusLegalized in 2019Percentage of Illegal MiningUp to 90%Main ChallengesHigh energy consumption, regulatory scrutiny
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bitcoin+mining+in+iran
In WWII the Allies had to bomb every means the Nazis used to maintain their military might. This included oil refineries, manufacturing infrastructure, bridges, supplies, etc. That is the harsh reality of war. The objective is to force the enemy to surrender. Fortunately they didn’t have to deal with Liberals crying at home, as we do now, to protect enemy infrastructure and provide ceasefires, so the enemy can restock their weaponry and receive supplies that we are to provide, for “humanitarian aid”, as has happened to the Israelis in Gaza, and which mostly went to the Hamas terrorist forces and not to the civilians it was intended for. What a surprise<sarc>. China and Russia are undoubtedly happy to resupply the Iranian terrorists with more missiles & drones if the opportunity presents itself.
Nowadays the Neocons prefer Forever Wars for the lucrative insider deals and money-laundering opportunities, instead of for conflicts to end quickly. They have found a clever way to use the Liberal media and crooked politicians to achieve their objectives. Hopefully they will not succeed under President Trump. He wants to end things quickly. Without the help of our fake, cowardly allies, as well as the threat of a large seditious element in Congress who support the Iranian terrorists and want our Republic destroyed, this will be harder. It would be lovely to see President Trump go Abraham Lincoln on the latter.
Demanding an unconditional surrender certainly didn’t help, though.
Civilians manufacture the weapons of war.
Defeat of an enemy that won’t surrender REQUIRES elimination of ability to continue to resist.
This is not a video game. Reality requires victory. If the enemy refuses to concede…destruction of that enemy is required.
Reality will be present at the table whether a place has been set for it or not and, in this case, “Reality requires victory.” (L4Grasshopper)
Yup. Agreeing to the idea that one must prioritize nuance and ambience in everything sometimes puts one at a distinct, sometimes life-threatening, disadvantage.
We’ve been engaged in decades of middle east war with much destruction of civilian infrastructure. Military/Private contracts rebuild it along with a cut for the bug guys, then, let the enemy resurge and sometimes destroy it again.
Maybe this time we just take out the enemy once and for all. It can be rebuilt.
I hope he does. Turn out the lights Tuesday.
I do as well. The Iranian people want freedom and if this is what it takes, so be it.
It would be better if they could achieve freedom without more destruction, but “things” can be rebuilt.
Iran is conscripting 12 year olds to fight. There is no such thing as “civilian” under a Jihadi dictatorship like Iran.
The only way to preserve civilians and civilian infrastructure is to get them out from under the regime’s control as soon as possible, and that can only happen by obliterating the regime.
Have you ever lived or visited Tehran?
Or watch a relative beheaded in or around
“ civilian infrastructure “
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Sorry but…take it out…
You gave yourself away saying you were a 12 year supporter of our President…
That means you are a troll…
Generally Trump does not broadcast when an attack will occur. There’s something here that doesn’t meet the eye.
Trump told The Hill he “would not rule out sending ground troops.” He told Fox News he is “considering blowing everything up and taking over the oil.” He told ABC: “I have no idea with these people. There could be a deal, and there could also not be a deal.” Three interviews. Three different registers: military escalation, energy seizure, and honest uncertainty. The President who called the rescue an Easter Miracle is the same President who signed his Hormuz threat with the words “Praise be to Allah.”
You’re ridiculous and you, people like you…your schtick had grown old, and tired.
Stop being ridiculous.
If those interview quotes are indeed accurate, then why is the poster being “ridiculous?”
Sigh. He’s ridiculous because after all this time, it is clear to anyone with two brain cells to rub together that 1) all things in military negotiations are on the table and will depend on the Iranian response; and 2) in the art of war, you keep your enemy guessing.
In short, it’s called leadership interested in AMERICA WINNING with as little loss of American and Iranian civilian lives lost.
Being intentionally obtuse is getting really tiring with people like sync.
You must be a Bushie. He always spoke nicely.. How’d that work out for you?
It does not matter how “it worked out for us.” What matters is that President Trump blasphemed the name of Jesus on the very day many of us celebrate Jesus rising from the dead and he did not even mention Jesus at all let alone give Him the praise or at least recognition He deserves for dying on the cross for our sins. Instead he writes “all praise be to allah.” If that is acceptable to you I don’t know what to say except that it is not acceptable to me. I will be expecting another wisecrack from you about this but it will not phase me or change my mind.
Have a nice day.
Interview quotes are media fodder and always directed at the feeble minded or easily swayed.
I was just going to say the same thing. Personally, I did not like him writing “all praise to allah” – that was blasphemy. He did not say anything about Easter or the sacrifice of Jesus – why? Doesn’t he call himself a Christian?
Your concern is duly noted.
Would you like to speak to the manager?
I guess you don’t recognize trolling and sarcasm, Sync.
Yes: that is the “Amelia Bedelia Syndrome” [ABS] at work.
I saw 250 train cars go through mainline near upstate sc all were military vehicles. about every 10 cars was a military vehicle with a large gun. it looked like a tank but wasn’t
Looked like new equipment.
It ain’t being moved to arrive with no troops.
Those are towed howitzers, 155 type.
Or M109A7 Paladin self – propelled howitzers.
Read Sun Tzu’s Art of War.
It will give you a better understanding of what President Trump is doing.
Thinking its not what is truly written especially the praise part. Who knows. Perhaps there are those who want the strait open who does so praise.
Maybe a message to the civilians to get under shelter?
“The Iranian people wanna hear bombs because they want to be free”
So the Iranian accounts on X have been saying.
Tonite is still day 10
I think he did this to warn the civilians.
It’s a no brainer if you’re a civilian residing near a MILITARY INSTALLATION or facility to think about getting the heck out of Dodge; but if you’re a civilian residing near INFRASTRUCTURE like electrical plants and bridges that service both civilians and the military, you have to know that your days may be numbered.
In calling out a date, Trump just sent civilians there one and only signal they will get: Move, and move NOW.
That makes sense.
@Recalcitrant Refusenik and @Black Irish Rose… makes a lot of sense.
Although, it seems Trump’s date is a strategy meant for the enemy, thinking misdirection plays a part.
Unfortunately their military hides behind women and children and hospitals and schools. They are sniveling cowards. That makes it more difficult to avoid civilian casualties but as they say, war is hell. There’s no easy way to solve this mess.
The War Is Turning Iran Into a Major World Power
“The Iran war has reached a point Washington still refuses to say out loud:
either the U.S. escalates to a ground war—or Iran emerges as a new center of global power.
Think about—what stops this future?”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/opinion/iran-war-strait-hormuz.html
Absolute BULL***T.
You’re quoting the NYT?
Your posts have always been flakey but now they’re in left field.
<Your posts have always been flakey but now they’re in left field.>
They’re out of sync 🙂
All quotes:
This is the Escalation Trap
Initial strikes don’t resolve the conflict—they expand it
The U.S. now faces a narrowing choice:
–escalate to restore control
or accept a new balance of power
The answer may determine whether the world economy goes over a cliff
Even proposals now being discussed—like massive strikes on Iran’s infrastructure—don’t solve this
They impose major harm on civilians
expand retaliation across the Gulf
and deepen global blame on Washington
That strengthens Iran’s position—not weakens it
Iran’s power isn’t changing because of new capability
It’s changing because of geography and opportunity
The U.S. struck first on Feb 28
Now Iran’s moves are seen globally as response—not aggression.
That reshapes world reaction to Iran’s growing power
You can cheer for hobbled Iran all you want. I will admit they aren’t destroyed to the extent that Obama crushed Libya and Syria for his Qatari and Saudi masters.
“Assad must go!”
– dear leader Obama
Thanks for the comic relief.
Oh… look!
An “expert” opinion.
“Ex is a has-been and spurt is a drip under pressure”
Someone who knows more about less and less.
Oho!
I get it!
Mister sync must be a BOT.
Keep ’em guessing.
Iran a major power? Seriously? They are smoke and mirrors right now, barely hanging on. Yet someone thinks they will now be a major power? Take their oil and see what happens. That’s not off the table either and the USA is very capable of doing so, but really they don’t need to..
Take or disable their oil capabilities just for kicks and giggles and watch ‘em squirm.
“Now Iran’s moves are seen globally as response—not aggression“
Perhaps to the EU, but certainly not true for surrounding Arab states.
Ahh, the Times. They frame the conflict as two choices, where both are bad. Typical bovine excrement.
Is there a contest going on to see who can post the absolute most stupid sounding quote from a rag?
You win.
No account, no read.
Only an idiot would believe this. Iran’s army, Navy and Air Force don’t exist. LOL
Thanks to Iran, Iran can’t sell oil now. Wow, what power!
I’m surprised the New York Times is wrong, since they were 100% accurate regarding Trump being a puppet of Putin.
Stop posting. This asshole is a bot. Controlled to come here and shit on the users
Came over from X to do as they have been doing on X; they are all desperate propagandists.
complete call out as sync is posting like a mad’bot’ all the anti trump talking points
You’re spamming and you’re ridiculous, FFS.
Is this the same Times who printed the North American Treaty Organization?
Probably written by the same cretin who today proudly announced in the press conference that he’s with the New York Times.
It takes time for stupid people to catch up.
Same ones who backed the Nazis.
He’s dropping the hammer on the NYT
Hahaha a NYT times link
Iran has no leadership, functioning military, financial resources, allies, or leverage. Every time it turns down the chance to surrender it becomes weaker due to the consequences of continuing its belligerence. It lacks any power to negotiate. It has already lost a war and is bleeding out.
The War Is Turning Iran Into a Major World
PowerCrater. (fixed it for them)NYT needs to hire better proofreaders. They keep misprinting their headlines.
Speculation by propagandists. Opinion from the NY Times? Worthless.
NYT? Who cares what they print. They generally are as left as can be and push the antiTrump garble all the time. Obama was praised by that company for his handling of Iran and the ME and they never went after Biden for his screw ups nor his mental health. Quote them if you want to but they are as far from unbiased news as you can get most of the time.
Maybe the NYT should be renamed The Mamdani Herald.
“Who cares what they print?” 👍
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Thank you for providing us with LOL moments and our day’s entertainment…..
We got unconditional surrender from Japan without a ground war. Saved over a million US lives. Being under fire for 30 days or more takes the fight out of even the best trained soldiers, except for a small percentage of complete psychopaths. Watch and learn. Use the Times for its intended purpose, wrapping garbage or potty training dogs.
Unconditional surrender was actually the problem there, though. The Japanese were more than willing to surrender at that point as long as the U.S. guaranteed that the Emperor would not be subject to any harm or indignity.
That’s a salient point. By demanding unconditional surrender, but then allowing some saving of face for Japan in keeping the emperor, the U.S. achieved the goals.
So, like 1945, Trump may have a sop in mind to offer the Iranians, while acheiving “near” unconditional surrender.
So silly.
Sync = 🧌
I recall Rush often said how you win a war. “You break things and kill people until they surrender!”
“War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them
all they want.”
― William Tecumseh Sherman
Or
“War is cruelty. There’s no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.”
― William Tecumseh Sherman
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/177344.William_T_Sherman
As a southerner I can attest to the cruelty of Sherman…He burned and pillaged the innocent women and children of my State of Georgia..
Sherman restrained himself in Georgia, not so much when he went north into South Carolina…
SC faced Sherman’s fury because this was the state from which the North considered secession raised its head (Fort Sumter) – the last straw that broke open the gates to kinetic Civil War.
My (Alabama) grandparents were always quick to point that out anytime subject came up.
I know…I still consider myself a ‘Charlestonian’ (when I am not being a Canal Zone Brat)…i get it!
All’s good🥰 We friends here..💞
He was a madman. What he did was overkill.
Before one calls General Sherman insane or a madman, one should read a biography of the man, or even Sherman’s own memoirs:
See this for suggestions:
https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/article/five-best-books-on-william-t-sherman/
he burned everything he could — he would spare only what he could fee his animals and he took that.
it was for your freedoms.
It was. Total war is total war. Anything short is asking for another.
And General Sherman might have wondered how many thousands and even millions of African slaves were whipped, raped, molested, beaten, hanged, butchered, and otherwise murdered during the hundred + years of Georgia’s and The South’s “peculiar institution” !
Not to mention the ones suffocated, drowned, and dead from disease on the slave ships!
With those atrocities in mind, one might understand the lack of sympathy from General William Tecumseh Sherman toward the slavery-protecting Southerners!
one might understand the lack of sympathy
Sure. One might. But then, others might question moral justification of that one’s logic.
See one or all of these books:
https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/article/five-best-books-on-william-t-sherman/
I’m sure you’re aware many slave ships arrived in Northern ports to be trafficked South….and that vast majority of Southerners did not own slaves?
What’s moral justification for burning and pillaging innocent women and children?
I doubt your reading list will answer that.
There is none: I am recommending these for a deeper understanding…
Try this one:
“…Sherman’s march has remained controversial to this day. But as Parten reveals, it played a significant role in ending the Civil War, due in no small part to the efforts of the tens of thousands of enslaved people who became a part of it. In Somewhere Toward Freedom, this critical moment in American history has finally been given the attention it deserves….”
See:
https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/shop/books/somewhere-toward-freedom-shermans-march-and-the-story-of-americas-largest-emancipation/
War is hell.
The British operatives and slave holding elites undertook a well thought out pre-war psy op campaign to convince the vast majority of poor whites who never owned any slaves that they were fighting for their homes and rights.
Divide and conquer and keep the South in debt and agricultural slavery to the British System . . .
Nothing new under the sun.
They almost succeeded. Hang the Royal family and the Privy Council for it? I would not have minded.
There’s some of my family blood on their hands, rotting in the ground from a diseased death the concentration camp at Camp Chase, Ohio.
As far as I know, they never owned a slave.
Generations later, Sherman’s name is still spit on, in the South. That’s a lasting wound on the whole nation.
I wonder whether he thought about the consequences down to the 5th generation.
Lincoln chose reconciliation. The National Cathedral and BLM tore it up, a hundred and sixty years later.
Not a lasting peace, was it?
I wonder how many “northern” sympathizers know what “reconstruction” was like in the south? it was BRUTAL. Waldron and Scott Co. Arkansas fought it until 1879.
“There’s some of my family blood on their hands, rotting in the ground from a diseased death the concentration camp at” Point Lookout Maryland. the POW camps the north ran were a 1000x worse that Andersonville. The South didnt have food or provisions for POWs. The North did and starved the POWs anyway.
The Louisiana campaign was cruel in that much of it was fought in poor areas where the white subsistence farmers had no slaves. My father told second-generation stories of the 1860s in which an unfortunate percentage of the Union troops just plain pillaged, due to lax enforcement of commanders. Ripping earrings out of women’s ears and leaving them crying and bleeding in the road.
This made some of the non-slave-owning poor whites go after the Union troops with personal vendettas, instead of secessional vendettas. Running barefoot for twenty miles to shoot up the Union troops in a Baton Rouge cemetery (headstones are still spalled from the bullets). My great-great-grandpa and his men shot a lot of those boys in blue, in revenge for what was done to the rural Louisiana women.
the war was not about slavery.
Thank you, Susan. The war was not about slavery.
Well, it was.
Just on a much broader scale than previously thought.
That’s the British system, after all, extracting resources from dependent debt ridden populations de facto, on top of systems that enslave people de jure.
Those dark Satanic mills all got moved to New England, then the South after the Civil War, then China . . .
It hasn’t gone anywhere, it is just less visible, or morphed into “our democracy.”
Still slaves.
Certainly wasn’t peculiar to the South, but I know it’s a popular position today.
We never teach American history in global context, or even in context.
At the time of the Declaration of Independence, slavery was legal in, I believe, all of the colonies.
Between 1776 and 1810, the Northern States phased it out, often choosing to make slavery illegal as to all children born after a certain date.
In the meantime, William Wilberforce was conducting his abolition campaign in England.
The Brits ended legal slavery in the Caribbean in the 1830’s, and compensated the owners.
England would have done anything to prevent a fully industrialized completely united, United States.
We were a threat to their dominance.
(*Washington DC followed the same approach BTW).
Right as the Europeans were working to divide the Union on the basis of that issue.
Expand your thinking.
Sherman used “freed” slave as canon fodder. He was an evil man. If that’s the path we do down, count me out.
My favorite Sherman quote, paraphrasing… “Let’s kill as many of them as we can, as fast as we can so we can be friends again”.
Sherman is the worst example of an American and if this is the path we’re going down we will ultimately lose.
I hate to say it, but humans with (genuine biologically occurring) testosterone coursing through their bodies know and understand this. Women have other ways of behaving with an adversary and I don’t doubt that they can be formidable. But IMHO, women do not (nor will ever have) the mental and intellectual fortitude to fight like this. God bless President Trump and the men he’s put in charge of our military. And yes, I’m a big fan of toxic masculinity 😀
Certainly seems like an all out war on energy infrastructure throughout the Middle East. Every energy facility is now a target.
Irans petrochemical facilities attacked:
Mahshahr Special Petrochemical Zone (Khuzestan Province, southwestern Iran)
South Pars / Asaluyeh Petrochemical Facilities (Bushehr Province)
Tabriz Petrochemical (northern Iran):
Iran attacked petrochemical and energy sites in the UAE (Borouge in Ruwais), Bahrain (Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company – GPIC), Kuwait (linked to Petrochemical Industries Company – PIC, Bahrain (Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company (GPIC))
Even Ukraine has attacked over 20 major facilities including refineries, storage terminals and oil tankers
California blew up at least one too.
Congratulations. You actually said something interesting.
Since Trump is a puppet of Russia (I mean Israel) this is really Bibi’s press conference. /s
Seems to me that after destroying the defensive and offensive weapons systems that bridges, roads, and railroads would be next with power transmission lines to follow. The attacks can focus on any transmission out of the plants but leave the generation plants in place.
By the way ancient Persia depended on a system of underground water transmission tunnels to move water to where they needed it. I assume the power lines and lots of other services may be far below ground. Bunker busters might be the only true way to get these folks back to the age they admire.
The Iranian war has seen us lose most our Middle-east bases.
Now with NATO ripping apart we could see the loss of European bases as well.
All in all this is a good thing.
Bring every soldier home.
Have they calculated the financial contributions that are made to the local economies of said countries? Not only by the soldiers and airmen but by the support personell?
They might turn into Cathy Hochul, begging them back?
You are exactly on-point..
If the strategic advantages to the USA of operating bases in any NATO country are eliminated by any host country, the economic benefits provided by the USA to the deniers become zero return investments and should be ceased.
Perhaps leftist/globalist leaders of such countries are willing to embrace the economic pain to be suffered by their populations in order to induce America to abandon its presence in their lands? Such an absurdity has a place in today’s geopolitical chaos.
which is it? you can’t keep your pro america or anti america straight in each post that is submitted by your motherboard
perhaps you are confusing what is pro and anti?
Try to keep up will you Woolley bully
Bot es et satis stultus es.
Cognitus est et stultiores sumus quia sententias suas legimus.
Stultorum nulla pati.
Should close them down and bring the troops home IMO anyway. Let the EU take care of Europe.
Bring them home and then train the MPs to be ICE agents.
Your desperation is embarrassing for all of us.
A lot of garbage in that “sink”.
You speak for you. Don’t involve others.
I’m not happy about the timing but I think the last 50 years has brought us to now or never moment as far as Iranian military capabilities…and so I’m glad they were set back and I’m glad the regime has taken some heavy blows. Yes we may pay a political price…but should we make every decision based on politics?
Weak trolling.
Maybe head over to the Politico boards to build your chops before posting this drivel here.
How long are the moderators here going to allow this trolling to continue? The site is becoming unreadable.
Don’t let what has happened to SeekingAlpha.com with their catering to leftist authors and trolls also happen here.
This is a free speech site.
Debate, mock, opine… As long as you aren’t nasty or hogging entire threads with OT Crazytown,
even so-called trolls are allowed their say.
Treepers are smart enough to handle things just fine.
Fake News was once Hate PDJT, NOW Fake News = Hate America.
I truly hope he decline Pakistan’s latest plan. Please, no cease fire.
If President Trump moves the deadline one more time he, and we, will be ridiculed from here on and always as paper tigers.
it is the former republic of the US that keeps proposing the ceasefires… iran keeps rejecting them.
Seven groups of aircraft used as decoys to confuse IRGC during rescue – Damn!
Yes!!! What other President would have gone to such lengths to save our brave defenders?
Thank God.
Thank you President Trump.
Showing the world how a courageous leader takes action!
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Europeans…or at least their media…are expressing publicly that it is beyond their comprehension the US would sacrifice so much expensive aircraft, time, and super human efforts to rescue one or two pilots deep behind enemy lines. I am certain the perfumed Euro princes are likewise befuddled.
They are truly perplexed.
This places President Trump and Secretary Hegseth on a moral plane which those nations abandoned years ago.
President Trump remembers Afghanistan and Benghazi. He has not forgotten the deadly betrayal of Americans there and elsewhere, lost for the political expediency of Obama, Biden, and H Clinton, all three who had nothing but disdain for those they sent to these hellholes for their personal conceits and purposes.
Not on his watch.
Never on his watch.
Never…
I was working in one of those three-lettered agencies in DC when Benghazi happened. All of us spent days/weeks/months/years in places around the globe, many of them s**tholes, in service of the nation.
When Benghazi happened, many had to confront the stark reality that (then) President Obama, (then) VP Biden and (then SOS and wanna-be POTUS) H Clinton would not only find it politically expedient to leave us on a rooftop to die or be captured by a mob and brutally thru the streets of a foreign city, but would blithely and without conscience lie to our families over our coffins that a video was responsible for the mob violence that caused our death.
The lesson: if you know the guy at the top of the chain of command, as well as his cabinet, would never put together a rescue plan should you ever need it, why take the risk? I for one never volunteered to go overseas again after Benghazi, and that includes the nice places (at the time): London, Berlin, Rome, etc.
Oops, forgot to <spit> when I said those three names……
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I have often wondered what effect that deliberate, cold blooded abandonment had on people working within government, Rose. And the parading of their coffins after for the cameras and political careers. More degenerate theatre it would be impossible to imagine.
As I watched then and Afghanistan after, I felt physically ill, and an anger I didn’t know I had in me. Probably Tue same as President Trump experienced. Stone cold anger.
I, too, spit with you. But as I always add, in the most ladylike manner I can manage..
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I was just saying to my husband that those guys in Benghazi were left to die… and all along it would have been MUCH easier to rescue them than it was to get our airman out of the Iranian mountains.
One of the most despicable eras. Obama and HRC both have blood on their hands.
Hang the leaker.
Could I interest you in a trebuchet?
I can’t listen right now.
Who/what is “leaker” about? TY!
We hadn’t told anyone about the missing airman (for obvious reasons), but somebody leaked it and a reporter relayed it.
To protect the 2nd airman, the original story was both airmen were rescued.
The leak was the 2nd airman was still behind enemy lines.
It complicated the rescue, alerted Iran that he was still in their territory and put the airman’s life and his lives of his rescuers in danger.
This is exactly why it is indiscreet to report every detail of our special ops extrication methods. This is not a made for TV movie. The war is ongoing with many lives at stake. We definitely should NOT give our enemies a play-by-play of sensitive missions and methods.
Will our enemies use this information to thwart future rescue missions? We can rest assured that when the media is this forthcoming, it cannot be for a good reason.
Someone leaked to the media that we were looking for the second man who parachuted from the plane, which caused the IRGC to offer a reward to anyone finding him.
Also the paper for printing the information.
Any chance we give Iran the nuke they have been clamoring for? Their people failed to rise up and take their freedom back, so at what point do we treat this as an actual war, and turn their country into a parking lot? Best at this point to just destroy the entire country so they cannot be a problem for the next few centuries.
It might be extreme, but given the chance, Iran would have launched nukes at everyone they fired missiles at.
perhaps we should ask whether the people rising up was ever a serious thing or a deep state talking point?
No, anyone aware of the facts knows the Iranians desire for freedom has never died in more than 40 years of suffering and the slaughter of thousands.
Once again you show your ignorance because you don’t look at facts. You sound like a rebellious teenager who never grew out of it. You would benefit from reading up on modern history in Iran.
45k Iranians unavailable to answer your question…..
Did you forget the 45 thousand killed, many likely leaders among them?
“Their people failed to rise up and take their freedom back….”
Not a true statement. I recall at least one time during Obama’s terms in office and another time during Bill Clinton’s, that the Iranian people DID take to the streets, they DID attempt to rise up and throw off their Mullah government. Each time, there was no support of any kind from the cowardly leadership in DC.
Even now, Trump related twice in this presser how when the women marched in January this year, snipers shot them between the eyes; how for some, just stepping outside or being caught at the wrong time in a public place got you killed; how the young Iranian wrestler expressed a thought about freedom and was publicly hanged—knowing all this and having NO weapons of any kind (and it’s been 47 YEARS of it), would you be so eager to rise up???? I think not.
Do NOT fault the Iranian people; the fault lies with world “democracy” leaders in general, and US leaders in particular over the past few decades.
Thousands in Iran have been slaughtered by the mullahs and IRGC just for wanting freedom, let alone when fighting for it If you do nothing else to educate yourself, you need to listen to President Trump’s talk. He gives specifics.
Was a Colonel really riding shotgun in a F15? If so, the USAF must be running out of pilots.
And we’re running out of bombs and missiles too! /s
“A CSO is a tactical expert in their aircraft, specializing in weapon systems employment, electronic warfare operations, and navigation.
CSO training merges Weapons System Officer (WSO), Electronic Warfare Officer (EWO), and Navigator training into one centralized pipeline producing versatile aeronautically rated officers for tomorrow’s Air Force.
CSOs are trained experts on employing both kinetic and non-kinetic effects at the right place and the right time supporting operations across the spectrum of conflict.
Whether dropping ordnance, delivering humanitarian aid, carrying out Special Operations, dominating the electromagnetic spectrum, or collecting intelligence, CSOs are at the tip of the spear executing Air Force operations around the world.”
https://afrotc.yalecollege.yale.edu/careers/rated/combat-systems-officer-cso
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They are not pilots.
If the draft is ever returned, tell your boys to enlist in the Air Force; where they send officers into battle while the grunts stay behind.
A colonel in the Air Force means you also command other aircraft in addition to your own… I’m pretty sure anyone short of a general flies operations if that’s what their specialty is.
Dems in the Senate have blocked promotions. and Hegseth said if you havent deployed, why should you get a promotion. Maybe the colonel wanted a deployment. Or was something else afoot? That we dont need to know the details of.
Perhaps he just likes to fly.
This is why Americans are the deadliest fighters on earth. I met a priest yesterday who just got accepted to chaplain school in Newport. I asked him the obvious question: Marines or Navy? Navy, he said. His face fell a little. He told me he could never be a Marine because every Marine is a rifleman, and as a priest he can’t carry a weapon…………………………………
https://nitter.poast.org/johnkonrad/status/2040781053867004389#m
Hmmm…deadliest fighters?
Opinion or evidence?
Take it up with the author.
I report. You decide.
I was an Air Force surgical technician and had to qualify on the M-16 before I was assigned to Incirlik AB, Turkey, for a one year assignment. What is the big deal?
Shot down Good Friday. Rescued Easter Sunday. Anyone who doesn’t see the Hand of Providence in this must not be paying attention. The pilot’s words as he was ejecting “God is Good.”
Amazing rescue.
As the President said at the podium “God was watching.”
I ponder the possible traumatic injuries, the most obvious to happen… while climbing 8000 feet up…that is altitude sickness territory…
We see the following with an MVA, the second pilot was ejected at 2-3G’s per J. Griffin earlier…
Broken ribs? Punctured lung? Cardiac contusions and possible related arrhythmias? Spinal compression fractures, other fractures? Ruptured spleen? Liver lac, Intestinal trauma? Head concussion or subdural/epidural bleeding/hematomas? Brain trauma…And the bleeding wounds…
Incredible info on the rescue…
To me, 2026 should be the year we began seriously targeting RINOs and democraps. Both actions long overdue.
hear hear
My eyesight is failing. I thought you said “bolt actions”. Not sure why I reread it.
…”these things we do, that others may live…”
Whelp. Islam is a death cult.
So death it will be.
The President is laying down some verrrry serious Truth Bombs. And he’s having none of the bull cookies the press is trying to serve up.
I see a Bigger Ugly on the horizon.
definitely agreed. no matter your opinion of the war, putting an american soldier at imminent risk is unconscionable.
death penalty
Freedom of the Press has never been construed to include treasonous activities endangering the American military.
Only Communists would twist treason into something pseudo-noble.
So, yes, let us find, prosecute, convict, and punish everyone involved in telling the Iranians what was happening!
I would start looking in the direction of the IC and Five Eyes. Bound to be something there.
Someone with intel access surely leaked it to spite President Trump and get our war-fighters captured by the IRGC for ulterior motives.
Silly little NYT fella.
thewack thwack thwack!
Military son sure does appreciate this policy…
I cannot imagine the mind that would disagree.
Sick indeed.
Look, all anyone needs to do is watch the Tousi.TV live stream (YouTube) broadcasts. He receives vids and info straight out of Iran, reporting on info well in advance of the trad-media here. The people rejoice and exclaim their approval each time an IRGC/Basij asset is bombed. You can hear this as they’re recording their vids.
Resurrection Sunday.
Tears of awe and thankfulness here. To God be the GLORY!!!!🙌🏻
Back seat was said to say “God is Good”….
Given the desperation evident of the disrupters, or their handlers, about Iran, one has to ask a question. Is the Left’s obsession in destroying the President driving their laughable coverage of Iran or is it something deeper? Is fear of a democratic Iran, shorn of the IRGC, based on the knowledge that
A) there were far closer ties between the regime and the globalist politicians, which might be exposed
B) a major plank of globalist policy has been removed
C) China’s strategy towards the ME is upended and its hundreds of billions of investment in the regime wasted
D) a victory over Iran will massively boost Trump’s legacy and equally damage the Democrat Party
Feel free to add any additional reasons and combos are allowed, though if possible try and rank them.
In a nutshell,
There Are Trillions At Stake.
Take note that congress is not rushing back to DC to stop what is coming next in Iran.
Not objecting is the same as giving approval.
That’s a delightfully apt way to put it.
I would start with bridges. That alone might be enough. However, I am not the Commander.
Lines of communication and main supply routes are certainly effective targets, but precision strikes on parts of the power grid, using existing weaponry (so-called graphite bombs) could be used to isolate specific areas of importance for regime control, i.e. Kharg island, which wouldn’t directly affect the civilian infrastructure, or grids supporting regime assets.
Either way the next phase will certainly suggest which end scenario the Administration are aiming for, and how they intend to get there.
The despicable, but all too predictable leak, to tip off the regime as to the presence of US pilots on Iranian soil seems like an attempt to try to divert the focus from this endgame by people who are obviously/probably aware of the real situation in the country, and concerned Trump will succeed.
Concur.
Power lines are easy to disable.
Has same ultimate effect as destroying power plants but when it is over easier to fix.
Splodey heads.
President Trump unapologetically endorsed the idea that God supports his endeavors. He means it too. 🙏❤️
Ooh whee…
Those screaming reporters just drive me insane!
Long on time but full of info…
I was looking for the perfect video of the tasmanian devil from Bugs Bunny show. That’s what the collective noise sounds like to me. 🤣
“Tell them to look out their window and watch” Love it!
If you can’t be proud to be an American today, you don’t deserve to be one
When I watch the “press Q&A sections,” I shake my head at how Trump is able to do it. Everybody is shouting!
Best presidential press conference ever.
To God be the Glory! I pray for God’s continued guidance over President Trump and his team as they navigate, according to your design plan and will. Amen. Godspeed
America is a strange place. We have the best and greatest military in the history of the world and yet we have the worst news media in the history of the world. What a bunch of shouting spoiled brats trying to make themselves relevant. It is pathetic.
Strange place, indeed. Enemies of liberty and freedom, the US Constitution, i.e Dems and Rino’s think the inverse is true. They hate the military and love the media.
Hope the neighbor next door has a portable electric generator for what’s about to happen over there!!
This is not new. Either a murderous and ruthless world bully is stopped, or it is allowed to continue killing, which it would certainly do with a nuclear weapon.
Wonderful recovery of both. Amazing that even the CIA came out smelling like roses except perhaps the leaker but who’s to say what department that might be. Hope they tell us when the find out and the leaker won’t get getting off easy along with the person who put out the story. National security is working for our side this time around.
The average American wasn’t old enough or alive to have experienced the Iranian hostage situation and what transpired after it occurred.
The average American doesn’t know the world BEFORE IRANIAN-LED TERRORISM AGAINST AMERICA ,THE WESTERN WORLD, AND THE MIDDLE EAST.
Unfortunately, our education system has failed them and us.
The world would be a very different place if we could obliterate these barbarians.
Mike Alfred
@mikealfred
BREAKING: My most senior source within the White House is now nearly 100% certain that a peace deal between the US and Iran will be signed shortly. The last minor sticking point is that the Iranian negotiators won’t stop screaming “Death to America and the Jews” on the calls.
1:50 PM · Apr 6, 2026
I doubt it. Iran’s regime is making the mistake of thinking that the world will make them the victims once the bridges and power plants are gone. Yeah, they’ll get France and a few others to side with them, but that’s about it.
Watching a replay of the news conference, I am seeing how long President Trump can stand without wobbling or needing to sit down. This man is in great physical shape! Now, contrast this to the last occupant of the White House.