Israel strikes Tehran

[AC&W]

31 minutes ago, uhhello said:

Could be just normal everyday ops.

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

[uhhello]

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

[nunya]

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. 

[ClearedHot]

[nunya]

6 hours ago, uhhello said:

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

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?

Edited yesterday at 01:10 PM by nunya

[Sua Sponte]

9 hours ago, AC&W said:

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

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

[disgruntledemployee]

15 hours ago, BigE said:

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

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).

[brickhistory]

Edited yesterday at 05:20 PM by brickhistory
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[TreeA10]

An opinion from the Atlantic is a lot like gas station sushi and a wise person would not trust it.

[ecugringo]

Gabbard now saying Iran is weeks away from nukes

 

it is Fox News but an interesting take on the regional policy

 

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trumps-unpredictable-middle-east-moves-actually-follow-brilliant-master-plan

[Mole]

11 hours ago, nunya said:

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. 

Fence lovers over in the UK would go nuts when nothing showed up. Would be epic!

[McJay Pilot]

ooooooooh shit.

[uhhello]

We indeed got okie doked

[Standby]

Fake news…the libs on this forum said Trump was bluffing and wouldn’t do anything. 

[BashiChuni]

this is going to get spicy

[Lord Ratner]

Look at that. America can still look strong. 

FA;FO

[Lawman]

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[Anon1]

2 hours ago, Standby said:

Fake news…the libs on this forum said Trump was bluffing and wouldn’t do anything. 

[Anon1]

Back to SAC? 

[Standby]

3 minutes ago, Anon1 said:

Shut up hippie.

[Anon1]

4 minutes ago, Standby said:

Shut up hippie.

I didn't say a word. Or was that directed at the President?

[arg]

1 hour ago, Anon1 said:

You just don't realize all the peace this action is going to bring

[ClearedHot]

8 hours ago, Anon1 said:

[Clark Griswold]

This was inevitable 

A state fueled by petrodollars, exporting and supporting terrorism, tacitly backed at times by Russia and China with the capacity to threaten the stable trade of hydrocarbons and freedom of significant parts of the global commons was/had to be struck.

The reestablishment of deterrence, the definition of the new free world, the update of our alliance structures and trading relationships, the extension of friendship and establishment of inroads to the developing world to choose our system versus the Chinese system and the reformation of our military-industrial-technological-intelligence-development system.  This is the challenge for the next leaders on deck and at bat now (Vance, Rubio, Cotton).  

[Anon1]

1 hour ago, ClearedHot said:

Classic deflection.

 I really don't give a shit about what someone who hasn't been in the political scene since 2016 has to say. I care that our President who ran on the platform of no new wars/peace and currently has that power/authority just put targets on the backs of all my buddies still in the shit hole called the middle east. 

P.S. Full context of this quote: “If Iran were to launch a nuclear attack on Israel what would our response be?” Clinton said. “I want the Iranians to know that if I’m the president, we will attack Iran. That’s what we will do. There is no safe haven.”