Artemis 🇺🇸

Conservative, Catholic, retired USAF officer for the most exceptional nation on earth. NO socialism.

[Artemis 🇺🇸 @HuntressofCrete]

Happy 250th Independence Day to this exceptional nation and her fellow Americans!

[Artemis 🇺🇸 @HuntressofCrete]

@cdrsalamander Look, it Tucker's new party!

[Artemis 🇺🇸 @HuntressofCrete]

@CynicalPublius

[Artemis 🇺🇸 @HuntressofCrete]

Trump hired CQ Brown. He was a DG right out of ROTC, earned his slot as a F-16 pilot, was a squadron and wing commander in Korea, the former USAFWS commandant, PACAF commander, and more. I don't think he's the one with the bias.

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

Charles Q. Brown, Jr. was a DEI hire under Biden. He’s worthless. He’s also bitter that @PeteHegseth fired him.

That’s all this is. DEI hires are, mostly, inadequate and under performers. Brown fit that mold.

Good riddance, “sir.” Now, get lost.

[Jim LaPorta @JimLaPorta]

I’ve limited my social media engagement while on vacation but…on June 12, a Marine I served with in Afghanistan passed—Sgt. Richard Stroud. He is survived by his wife and five children. Some 2/8 guys started a Go Fund Me for his family. https://t.co/95srXTe0Hs

[Andrew T. Walker @AndrewTWalker]

The rule of American Order is backed by the rule of American Force.

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

Chris Cuomo (of all people) just effortlessly unmasked Tucker Carlson as a Russian propagandist.

Cuomo: “I'm a journalist. I'm not allowed into Russia. Why are you allowed in?”

Just watch how Tucker squirms.

[Artemis 🇺🇸 @HuntressofCrete]

@cdrsalamander That was for recruiting. And in line with historical practice of the military. Should all officers who disagree with Hegseth's lawful orders now resign?

[Heidi @HeidiBriones]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the world needs exactly zero additional podcasts.

[Artemis 🇺🇸 @HuntressofCrete]

Putin is facing a political crisis with the highly effective drone strikes from Ukraine, and the war dragging on longer than WW2. He's facing a decision on mass mobilization and conscription. I'm for NATO countries meeting their obligations and stepping up, but it would be extremely poor strategic timing to conduct a drawdown.

[Rebeccah Heinrichs @RLHeinrichs]

It would be a big mistake to signal withdrawal or any less of a commitment at this time of all times…. Truly undermining other initiatives. @FoxNewsOpinion

[Artemis 🇺🇸 @HuntressofCrete]

Iran is not even meeting face-to-face with the US negotiating team. They're meeting through Qatari mediators which will allow Iran to claim they never agreed to US demands. Oh, and they're also insisting on charging tolls for SOH passage.
https://t.co/YUo01obRRj

[Artemis 🇺🇸 @HuntressofCrete]

The UK is a small country. Now imagine the airspace over the US. The counter-UAS problem is going to pose huge challenges for the US in both peacetime and war.

[Tom Cotterill @TomCotterillX]

🚨BREAKING🚨Vladimir Putin launched drones from his fleet of sanctioned oil tankers to spy on nuclear weapons in Britain, intelligence experts have claimed.

The drones “exploited numerous gaps” in Nato air defences during a “sustained” 15-month campaign by the Kremlin, according to a report published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).

Among them was RAF Lakenheath, a US base in Suffolk that is preparing to host nuclear bombs. In November 2024, drones breached its airspace, along with three other US sites in England. A sanctioned Russian tanker docked in Hull at the time has since been blamed for launching the drones.

Bases across Europe were also spied on. A secret submarine base at Île Longue in Brittany, northern France, which houses the bulk of the country’s nuclear missiles, was targeted as well as air bases containing nuclear bombs in Belgium and the Netherlands.

Analysts pinpointed the dates and times of drone sightings at military bases, airports and critical civilian infrastructure in 13 European countries between August 2024 and February 2026. On each occasion, one or more Russian shadow fleet tankers happened to be nearby.

During one incident, drones were seen deploying from a Russian spy ship before flying towards a French aircraft carrier, according to the report.

The IISS suggests this paints a picture of a widespread “coordinated” operation over Europe’s skies, making it “likely” that the Kremlin was using its sanctioned ships to deploy drones and spy on Nato’s most sensitive military locations.

“The pattern of sightings across 15 months and 13 countries cannot be explained by misidentification or opportunism alone,” said Charlie Edwards, IISS’s senior fellow for strategy and national security and a co-author of the report.

“Russia has demonstrated, repeatedly and in public, that it can penetrate the airspace of Nato member states – including over nuclear sites – without triggering a collective allied response. That gap between capability and political will is now a strategic vulnerability.”

It comes as The Telegraph can reveal another sanctioned ship, the crude oil tanker the Nyxora, which was sanctioned by the UK in July last year for aiding Russia in its war with Ukraine, is today sailing through the Channel.

The vessel entered the shipping lane near Dover shortly before 8am having left the Russian port of Ust-luga near the Estonian border on June 26 on its way to Singapore.

In March Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, gave the military the approval to board and seize the shadow fleet tankers in UK waters. It followed similar actions undertaken on the shadow fleet in the Mediterranean and Atlantic by French and American forces.

Royal Marines last month boarded their vessel, the Smyrtos, following a six-hour operation.

But Putin has continued to defy the Prime Minister, sailing more of the ships through the Channel, often guarded by Russian warships.

Full story: https://t.co/jriTivlfgg

[Artemis 🇺🇸 @HuntressofCrete]

I served under 5 different Presidents, Republican and Democrat, and raised a right hand to obey all their lawful orders. Never was I so gripped with main character syndrome that I thought my opinions overruled the votes of millions of my fellow Americans who chose my commander-in-chief.

[American AF 🇺🇸 @iAnonPatriot]

BREAKING 🅱️ Active-duty U.S. Air Force Major Jason Watson DEMANDS that President Trump and Vice President Vance be impeached while in uniform.

👀

[Artemis 🇺🇸 @HuntressofCrete]

@cdrsalamander He'll probably run for political office.

[Artemis 🇺🇸 @HuntressofCrete]

@CynicalPublius Hope he enjoys court-martial.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: FAA moves to legalize civilian supersonic flights over U.S. land for the first time in 53 years.

[Artemis 🇺🇸 @HuntressofCrete]

Rule by committee almost never works.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Iran's top negotiator Qalibaf:

It has been decided that Iran, the United States, and Lebanon will establish a committee to oversee the end of the war in Lebanon.

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Iranian state media says it has now "no choice but to obtain the atomic bomb" to remove "the military option for the occupation and partitioning of Iran" from the table, arguing Iran must "absolutely reach nuclear deterrence" before current negotiations can be conducted "from a correct position," per Fars.

Iran adds the acquisition is not only driven by negotiation leverage but also by Trump's two recent nuclear threats against Iran, including his April warning that "a whole civilization will die tonight" and his May threat of "one big glow coming out of Iran."

This is also among the most direct nuclear weapons advocacy published on Iranian state media to date.

[Artemis 🇺🇸 @HuntressofCrete]

@Apelham8 @cdrsalamander Geopolitically, Iran is a much more strategic country that has killed thousands of American soldiers. If they retain leverage over the SOH and maintain their asymmetric capabilities, it's a huge defeat. I hope that doesn't happen, but I'm not optimistic with this regime.

[AG @AGHamilton29]

Someone will need to explain to me how the alt-right podcast team manages to claim that unnecessary wars and civilian deaths in wars are indefensible and unpatriotic when the U.S. or Israel are involved, but also frame Putin as the greatest leader and someone who totally cares about his country while he has sacrificed hundreds of thousands of drafted Russians and countless Ukrainian civilians in a completely pointless war…