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News this morning saying that both Iran's president and foreign minister were killed in the crash.

philip964 wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2024 10:21 am https://nypost.com/2024/05/19/world-new ... er-convoy/

Iran President involved in hard landing in a helicopter.

Rescue teams are trying to find the President. Fog, rugged terrain hampering rescue.

No real updates after 8 hours. The only snippet that seemed like new news was at Fox, and it isn't much:

Search teams later told Iranian state TV that officials have found the helicopter and made contact with one passenger and one crew member, though that could not be confirmed.

2farnorth wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 9:57 am

philip964 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2024 10:23 pm Photo is AI.

He would be a disgrace the uniform if it was real.

No worries. He'd have his flag patch on upside down and trip over his forgot-to-tie boot laces. He'd never find his way to a war room briefing.

philip964 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2024 2:49 pm https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68122706

3 US soldiers are murdered in Iran drone attack in Jordan.

Sure glad we surrendered Afghanistan to be at peace.

And just think of all the money Uncle Joe saved us by not having tax dollars pay to transport back to the States all that military armament, ordnance, and equipment left behind.

philip964 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2023 10:56 am

Rafe wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2023 10:16 am

philip964 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 23, 2023 4:51 pm Fortunately protestors only glued their hands to the pavement.

There's a thought! Maybe if tons of people post all over the net about what a terrible thing it is, we can convince all antifa- and leftist-radicalized protestors that the most effective thing they can do to get attention--instead of screaming at and assaulting people, smashing store windows, trashing cars, and starting fires--is to Super Glue their hands and foreheads to the pavement.

Could be a way to also support Loctite: their Professional Super Glue is one of the best. Would be a traffic nightmare at whatever intersection they choose, but 250 fanatics with hands and faces glued to concrete ain't gonna being doing much in the way of violent rioting.

My favorite was when police used a jack hammer and tore up a piece of the road surrounding the hand and released the protestor from the road and said “you’re free to go”.

Another thumbs-up! This would be like Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter! Until the stymied potential rioter figures out how get the cyanoacrylate off, he'd be walking around with chunks of concrete stuck to his forehead and hands. Eventually he'd learn what having skin in the game meant.

philip964 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 23, 2023 4:51 pm Fortunately protestors only glued their hands to the pavement.

There's a thought! Maybe if tons of people post all over the net about what a terrible thing it is, we can convince all antifa- and leftist-radicalized protestors that the most effective thing they can do to get attention--instead of screaming at and assaulting people, smashing store windows, trashing cars, and starting fires--is to Super Glue their hands and foreheads to the pavement.

Could be a way to also support Loctite: their Professional Super Glue is one of the best. Would be a traffic nightmare at whatever intersection they choose, but 250 fanatics with hands and faces glued to concrete ain't gonna being doing much in the way of violent rioting.

Ya know, this was probably the most tinfoil-hat post I've made on the forum: viewtopic.php?p=1333345#p1333345

After a whole bunch of bullet points and what-ifs, I ended the tin-foil-hattedness with this:

What happens in the Oval Office if, simultaneously, Russia throws everything it has at Ukraine--and maybe even crosses into Poland--while Xi Jinping actively moves on the military "annexation" of Taiwan? Does the U.S. have any hope of responding to two, simultaneous military crises? And what if "the axis of evil" brings Iran into the picture and there is escalated aggression against Israel at exactly the same time? What if U.S. commitments to its allies has, simultaneously, war in Ukraine and Poland, Taiwan and the South China Sea, and Israel and the Middle East?

I admit I'm a bit more worried about such an outlandish scenario than I actually was months ago. I mean, Republicans are demonstrating they don't have enough cohesiveness to even elect a speaker of the house. We have the Biden/Harris circus in the catbird seat, and it's clear just how much that administration is respected globally. Deterrent, not. Rather than speak softly and carry a big stick, this administration is more like speak unintelligibly and forget where you put the stick. Worse, make sure the stick is sufficiently "woke," recruiting standards are reduced to their lowest bars ever for both mental and physical capabilities, and then still fail to meet recruitment goals. Oh, and spend billions on all sorts of stuff while letting some of the U.S. air and naval arsenals languish. And then forget where you put the stick.

And now it looks very much like Israel might end up fighting three (somewhat) separate wars on three borders, with undoubtedly Iran pulling the strings of its proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah. And we have idiot leftist congress critters who are flat-out anti-American and antifa finding another reason to "peacefully protest" in the streets over the "atrocities" committed by Israel.

You can almost feel Xi Jinping thinking, "Hm... I wonder..."

philip964 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 11:31 pm https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ ... ge-39-week

American panic buying of 5.56 fearing WW3 causes ammo price surge of 39%.

I'd bought a couple of cases of Wolf 5.56 back when it looked like Hillary was going to become president...just because, you know, preparedness. If all else fails, though I don't like shooting steel ammo through any of my ARs, at least I'd have a cheap backup supply. Now I think I just might hold onto it.

Because, you know, preparedness.

philip964 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 02, 2021 9:07 am https://news.yahoo.com/fire-strikes-lar ... 03271.html

Iran’s largest military ship catches fire and sinks.

Awww...