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South Korea just put its air defenses to the test against one of the fastest-growing threats on the battlefield: drone warfare.
During its first-ever live-fire exercise simulating a coordinated swarm attack, 50 drones flew in low from about a half mile away. Air defense crews shot down 44 with Vulcan guns, while a portable laser and shotguns took out the remaining six.
The drill comes as militaries around the world race to adapt to the growing use of coordinated drone attacks in modern warfare.
A German fan said it best:
“If you want to hate America, watch the news. If you want to love America, drive through it.”
Over 3.6 million fans packed stadiums for the World Cup, breaking attendance records. Millions came from every corner of the globe and experienced what the headlines never show: welcoming people, incredible hospitality, and a country unlike any other.
The media sells outrage. America sells itself.
Elon Musk: "It's pretty wild that a tiny tax on tea started the Revolution, and now we get the living daylights taxed out of us and there’s no revolution."
I deeply respect Japan’s head coach Hajime Moriyasu, not only as a manager, but as a person.
And after yesterday’s match, there was a moment in the press conference that showed exactly why.
Japan faced the Netherlands, ranked 8th in the world, in their opening group stage match.
Japan came from behind twice and earned a 2-2 draw. Both teams took one point.
But after the match, the most memorable moment was not only the result.
At the very end of the press conference, Coach Moriyasu asked:
“May I say something?”
Then he turned his words toward the Dutch journalists in the room.
He said he wanted to express his gratitude to the people of the Netherlands.
Moriyasu explained that when he first became a Japan national team player, Japan did not yet have a fully professional football league.
During that era, he was coached and developed by Hans Ooft, a Dutch coach who had a huge influence on Japanese football.
And Moriyasu said it was not only him.
Many Japanese coaches were influenced by Dutch football, and that helped lead to the development of Japanese football today.
He also mentioned Wim Jansen, a Dutch legend.
Jansen coached Sanfrecce Hiroshima in the J.League and also worked with Urawa Reds, contributing greatly to Japanese football.
Moriyasu said it was not only those two men.
Many Dutch coaches and players helped raise the level of Japanese football in Japan.
And then he ended with these words:
“Thank you very much.”
The room applauded.
On the pitch, Japan fought the Netherlands with everything they had.
But after the final whistle, Moriyasu still remembered the people who helped Japanese football grow.
Not just with a casual “good game.”
He spoke about the history, the influence, and the gratitude Japan owes to Dutch football.
Every time I see this side of Coach Moriyasu, I feel that the strength of Japan’s national team is not only tactics or technique.
It is respect.
It is gratitude.
And it is the heart to never forget those who helped you grow.
That is why I respect Hajime Moriyasu so much as a person.
Japanese fans cleaned the WHOLE stadium after Japan tied the Netherlands. Hours later, NYC Knicks fans torched buses celebrating their first NBA title since 1973. Same win, opposite
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After Japan battled the Netherlands to a 2-2 draw, the Japanese fans stayed behind and cleaned up every single piece of trash from their section at Dallas Stadium after the game.
Happy Birthday America ... and thank you Americans for making this possible. Your grace and your love will always be appreciated and treasured. We love you and we are forever grateful ... the boat people of 1975.
Congratulations @ElonMusk.
Thanks to SpaceX's IPO, he's the first Trillionaire.
He didn't TAKE money from anyone. He CREATED wealth.
He launched satellites that connect even the poorest, most remote parts of the world.
Our world needs more MAKERS like Musk; fewer TAKERS like:
Take a few minutes and listen.
This is the best message I’ve heard re: the Karmelo Anthony case by far…
The world needs more women like this.
The world needs more wisdom like this.
The world needs more truth like this.
Kimberly Blakes
https://t.co/xllwuS8wMC
H/T @deluxe_pepe
Elon Musk defended America better than every politician in Washington combined.
Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”
One nation on earth held a weapon nobody else had.
Total dominance. Zero competition. No risk of retaliation.
Every empire in history that held that kind of advantage used it.
Rome. The Mongols. The British. The Ottomans.
They conquered until they collapsed.
America had a bigger advantage than all of them combined.
And it rebuilt the countries it just defeated.
Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”
Almost unprecedented?
It had never happened before. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded history.
The Marshall Plan wasn’t foreign aid.
It was the most radical act of restraint any superpower ever committed.
America turned its enemies into allies. Turned rubble into economies. Turned surrender into partnership.
Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a generation.
Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.
Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.
A city in the heart of the nation that just tried to destroy it.
That’s not policy.
That’s a civilization deciding what it is at the exact moment it has the power to be anything.
You’re being told a story right now.
That America is the villain of history.
You hear it everywhere. Media. Universities. Social platforms.
Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”
Every nation on earth has dark chapters. Every single one.
The difference is what a country does when nobody can stop it.
And when nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.
Musk: “The history of China suggests that China is not acquisitive. Meaning they’re not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.”
Probably right.
China has historically built walls, not fleets.
But the real question isn’t about borders anymore.
We’re approaching a moment that mirrors 1945 in ways nobody has fully processed yet.
AI is going to give a handful of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look quaint.
If someone is going to hold that kind of power, who do you want it to be?
The country that conquered when it could? Or the one that rebuilt when it didn’t have to?
Every alliance. Every trade route. Every economy.
Billions lifted out of poverty.
All of it traces back to one act of restraint that had never been done before.
And carries no guarantee of being repeated.
The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.
It was what it didn’t do after.
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