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[Andrew Oplas @AndyOplas]

I think the worst thing about my Youth was that I thought I was a lot smarter than I really am.
It was also the best thing.

[Matt Wallace @MattWallace888]

The President almost just got assassinated and members of the media are using the opportunity to steal bottles of wine.

You don’t hate them enough!

[Cody Couch @Couch_29]

OTEGA OWEH CALLED IT

“Favorite moment still ahead of us”

[Brenden Schaeffer🎳 @bschaeffer12]

Is this real life???

[College Basketball Report @CBKReport]

Kentucky wins a tournament game in back-to-back seasons for the first time since 2018-19 🔥

[The Field of 68 @TheFieldOf68]

WHAT JUST HAPPENED! WE ARE HEADING TO OVERTIME!!!

[Andrew Oplas @AndyOplas]

@TheFieldOf68 Ohh myyyy!!!

[Circa Sports @CircaSports]

Wow!!! 😱😱😱… Insane finish to regulation in the Santa Clara / Kentucky game! The @CircaSports crowd goes wild as Allen Graves sinks a 3 with 3 seconds left only to see Otega Oweh tie it from 31 feet and send us to OT!

[Andrew Oplas @AndyOplas]

@BarstoolUK Something amazing about the month of March.
I don’t care what happens next games… this was Beauty.
The announcers are left almost speechless- it all happens so fast.

[The Field of 68 @TheFieldOf68]

MADNESS IN ST. LOUIS!!

KENTUCKY AND SANTA CLARA ARE HEADED TO OT

[Kentucky Men’s Basketball @KentuckyMBB]

CLUTCH

📺 CBS

[Mario A Maitland @MarioMaitland_3]

This is MARCH MADNESS!!!!

Otega Oweh at the BUZZER!!!!

[Commentary Donald J. Trump Posts From Truth Social @TrumpDailyPosts]

Trump's best SAVAGE comeback ever!!🔥

Japanese Reporter to Trump: "Why didn't you tell us before you struck Iran?"

Trump: "Why didn't you tell us about Pearl Harbor?"

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

How couples met (1930-2024)

[🎞️ EEAGLI]

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

BREAKING: The United States has confirmed B-52 Stratofortress bombers are now striking Iran.

Understand what this means by understanding the sequence.

On February 28, the US sent B-2 Spirits. The B-2 is a stealth bomber. It costs $2.1 billion per aircraft. The US has 20 of them. You send B-2s when the enemy’s air defences are intact and you need to penetrate undetected. Four B-2s dropped 160,000 pounds of bunker-busting ordnance on hardened underground facilities in the opening wave.

On March 2, the US sent B-1 Lancers. The B-1 is a supersonic bomber. Faster than the B-2 but not stealth. You send B-1s when air defences have been degraded enough that speed, not invisibility, is sufficient to survive. The B-1s conducted the deepest raids into Iran since 2003.

On March 3, the US sent B-52s. The B-52 is a 70-year-old subsonic aircraft. It is not stealth. It is not fast. It has a radar cross-section the size of a barn. It flies at 650 miles per hour at 50,000 feet and it is visible to every radar system on earth.

You send B-52s when there is nothing left to shoot them down.

That is the sequence. B-2 when defences are lethal. B-1 when defences are degraded. B-52 when defences are gone. The US Air Force just told you, through aircraft selection alone, that Iran’s integrated air defence network no longer exists as a functional system.

The B-52 carries 70,000 pounds of ordnance per sortie. It can launch cruise missiles from standoff range without entering defended airspace at all. The US has 76 of them versus 20 B-2s. Deploying B-52s quadruples the available bomber strike capacity, and each aircraft can deliver more payload per sortie than any other platform in the inventory.

1,700 targets struck. 300 new sites added in the latest wave. $779 million in ordnance expended on the first day alone. Six American service members killed. Eleven aircraft lost. The campaign is intensifying, not tapering.

Here is where this connects to every post I have written today.

The B-52 deployment proves the conventional campaign is succeeding. Iran’s air defences are neutralised. Its underground facilities are being collapsed. Its missile production is being destroyed. Its leadership is being eliminated.

And the Strait of Hormuz is still closed.

Because the B-52 cannot sink a mine. It cannot intercept a Shahed drone launched from a fishing boat. It cannot neutralise an anti-ship missile on a mobile coastal launcher. It cannot stop a proxy in Yemen from firing at a tanker in the Red Sea. The asymmetric threat that closes shipping lanes operates beneath the altitude where strategic bombers are relevant.

The US is winning the war it chose to fight. It is not winning the war the insurance market cares about. The B-52 is the most powerful expression of that gap.

70,000 pounds of ordnance per sortie. And Lloyd’s of London still will not write a policy for a tanker transiting Hormuz.

That is the thesis. In one sentence.

https://t.co/ULBgEzZ3A8

[Don Keith @RealDonKeith]

More of this, please.😂

[Globe Eye News @GlobeEyeNews]

BREAKING:

Israel has assessed that Ayatollah Khamenei was killed, Channel 12 reports.

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

Committed Democrat here.

I’m a hard no.

My vote is Operation Epic Fury. 🇺🇸

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

Secretary Kennedy is special.

Listen to this advice 👇

[Dave Rubin @RubinReport]

Incredible.

[Andrew Oplas @AndyOplas]

@AndyBeshearKY As with every remark by the charlatan Governor of Kentucky since start of his desperate self-promoting campaign to become Kamala’s VP choice & now his search for Big Money Dems to back a ‘28 Presidential run, like clockwork, Andy Beshear lies & dribbles anti-American propaganda.