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Lookie lookie, seems I'm not the only one thinking along this line. Posted today: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/iran-trump-taco-play/683271/ Quote: President Donald Trump is being pulled toward war in the Middle East by his predator’s eye for a victim’s weakness and his ego’s need to claim the work of others as his own. But since his “unconditional surrender” social-media post on Tuesday, other Trump instincts have asserted themselves: above all, his fear of responsibility. Trump enjoys wielding power. He flinches from accountability. Days ago, Trump seemed to hunger for entry into Israel’s war. A dramatic victory seemed poised to tumble into somebody’s lap. Why not his? But as the hours passed, Trump reconsidered. Instead of acting, he postponed. He said that a decision would come within “two weeks.” Time for diplomacy to work? Perhaps that might be the case in another administration. In this one, as attentive Trump watchers have learned, the “two weeks” promise is a way of shirking a decision altogether, whether on Russia sanctions (deadline lapsed June 11, without action), trade deals (deadline lapsed June 12, without result), or a much-heralded infrastructure program (deadline lapsed May 20, 2017, without action then or ever).

Is that the first Travis -46 drop?

If it's S1 for the Boom, the IB did all the refueling 🤣

News says they're headed to Guam, but Guam staging doesn't make a lot of sense to me unless it's just for theatrics. Andersen-Tehran is only 800 miles less than Whiteman-Tehran and that's AFTER flying 6000nm to Guam. Maybe they avoid overflight dip issues in SEA vs Europe?

Probably wouldn't be hard for one of the 17Xs to build an entire ADS-B strike package and send it east. Or build two and send one east and one west. Watch the twitterverse explode.

Twitter shows the tankers returning and B-2 flights continuing west

Init qual check for the CO, and S1 for the Boom.

Hitting tanker right after takeoff would point to heavy load....Good messaging Could be just normal everyday ops. Probably going to be the most heavily tracked training sortie in USAF history.

Waning crescent… with what little moon there is below the horizon at night! Huzzah!

Ground assault. Chuck Norris and Bibi.

What’s the moon cycle looking like over the next 2 weeks?

How about no

Speaking of tin foil hats.. If Fordow was a primary target, then what was Israel's gameplan? Did they have assurances we'd bring the hammer once they did the heavy lifting? I doubt they just assumed DJT would do it without a discussion. Or is Fordow just not that big of a deal?

Just wait til Israel unveils the Persian Pulverizer Mark 9, complete with the Virginizer Mark 6.9.

Would love to see the phase flow charts for the IAF fleet right now. Imagine 5 of our squadrons going balls to the wall for almost a solid year, getting a tiny break then going full tilt for 2 weeks.

With Trump/surrogates announcing/peddling a 2 week taco, I think he's hoping Israel can mop this up and he can walk out, hands open waist high, claim victory and peace in the same sentence, work a weave or 3, and look like it was his plan all along. His goal, happy MAGA, Iran defeated. I don't think he gets both. He's along for the ride.

There has been a few of those since they started striking centered around their nuke facilities.

On that note, join me for some Tin foil hat time… Iran just had a 5.2 earthquake. Underground nuke detonations are in that range. I’m not sayin, I’m just sayin…

Atomic demolition munition - Wikipedia I wouldn't be surprised if Israel has something like this. Place this on the bottom floor set the timer and watch to make sure it goes off then call it a day. Leaving the underground facility Chernobyl irradiated for the next 1000 years would be a bonus IMHO. I'm sure Trump has no intention on waiting 2 weeks before he acts. He's just keeping it vague on a timeline.

Would love to see the Israeli ground assault plan for Fordo. 2 weeks is a long time for Israel.