🇷🇺⚡Watch the Russian Kh-101 missile deploy countermeasures just in time. The rocket is veered off course but recalibrates midflight and races to its target.
Impressive technology.
Trump’s “victory timeline” claims.
Mar 3: "We won the war."
Mar 7: "We defeated Iran."
Mar 9: "We must attack Iran."
Mar 9: "The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully."
Mar 11: “You never like to say too early you won. We won. In the first hour it was over.” Mar 12: "We did win, but we haven't won completely yet."
Mar 13: "We won the war."
Mar 14: "Please help us."
Mar 15: "If you don't help us, I will certainly remember it."
Mar 16: "Actually, we don't need any help at all."
Mar 16: "I was just testing to see who's listening to me."
Mar 16: "If NATO doesn't help, they will suffer something very bad."
Mar 17: "We neither need nor want NATO's help."
Mar 17: "I don't need Congressional approval to withdraw from NATO."
Mar 18: "Our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 19: "US allies need to get a grip - step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 20: "NATO are cowards."
Mar 21: "The Strait of Hormuz must be protected by the countries that use it. We don't use it, we don't need to open it."
Mar 22: "This is the last time. I will give Iran 48 hours. Open the strait"
Mar 22: "Iran is Dead"
Mar 23: "We had very good and productive talks with Iran."
Mar 24: "We’re making progress."
Mar 25: “They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I’m not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize.” Mar 26: "Make a deal, or we’ll just keep blowing them away."
Mar 27: "We don’t have to be there for NATO."
Mar 28: No major quote
Mar 29: Claimed talks were progressing
Mar 30: "Open the Strait of Hormuz immediately, or face devastating consequences."
Mar 31: Claimed a deal was "very close" and that Iran would "do the right thing"
Apr 1: "We’ll see what happens very soon."
Apr 2: Repeated that a deal was likely, while warning of continued strikes if not
Apr 3: "Something big is going to happen."
Apr 4: Said Iran must comply "immediately" or face further consequences.
Apr 5: "Open the fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."
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This is literally what Trump just told you. The US flew in, built a secret US base, landed 2 C130s ran 35 miles to a distant mountain, rescued a severely injured pilot from the mountain travelling 35 miles back by foot across open plain, while engaged in massive night time fire fight. Tried to take off in 2 c130s that got stuck in airport. Kept battling until more troops came and took them away, then blew up the C130s in air.
@_tech49@MarioNawfal They are firing less missiles to extend their stockpiles, the reason they are getting through now is depletion of AD and lack/destruction of radars in the region.
World War III: The Fatal Mistake In Iran /🧵
... and why nothing can stop this war except the defeat of the United States.
Introduction: Salami Tactics
Imagine a heavy roll of salami, sitting on a table. It's usually a substantial amount of meat, and not something you can eat in one sitting. In fact, to properly dine on a piece of salami, you should slice it thinly and make a sandwich out of it. Gradually, salami slice after salami slice, the roll will disappear. But at no time except at the end of the roll, do you feel such a substantial amount of meat will run out.
This is the classic "salami tactic" concept, and the same idea applies to every aspect of life and war. Let us start with something that should be immediately familiar to any professional.
Office bullying can be modelled through salami slicing. Imagine a slight against you — very small, not enough to make you retaliate. Everyone prefers a comfortable peace, after all. You might even rationalise it as a mistake. But then it happens again and again, with each move it perhaps slices deeper into your personal space or rights.
But with each slice, your standing is lowered to the point where you're faced with the same dilemma: It's cheaper to let it slide and hope it doesn't happen again. Before you know it, you've been completely undermined and removed from the picture with miserable prospects for the future.
This is the most basic form of what is usually termed coercive gradualism, or gradualist tactics supporting a grand strategy. In RAND parlance, "threshold stretching and exploitation". In fact, this is exactly what started this war with Iran which is bound to expand as all means by which it can end have already been destroyed.
This isn't the first time this has happened, in fact, another war was started by the exact same mistake. Let us discuss that first before moving on to the current war that is raging and expanding horizontally (geographically) and vertically (in terms of escalation).
Which war am I talking about exactly? You see, that war was World War II.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was abruptly pulled from a live interview after being told “the President wants you right away.”
After returning, his voice was noticeably shaken.