@glennbeck Better or the same. If that’s the qualifier that means it’s close enough to call it the same. In 22 you all ran around saying the sky was falling and now you say we are in a golden age. It was bad then and it is bad now. Both things can be true
This is a formal request for Susie Wiles and James Blair to stop harassing me with texts and calls.
If there is a factual inaccuracy in what I said, send it to me in writing and I will vigorously correct and apologize for any misstatements. I will note that everything I said is substantiated by other senior officials.
If you want to file a lawsuit and get into discovery of whether it’s provably true that Ballard and Continental had an undue influence on the White House policy process, do it.
I believe we are in an existential moment for the country, and Americans were owed an honest accounting of the past two years so we identify the problems we need to move on from.
@0x_slutdragon@martyrmade I mean neither of us really knows because we aren’t there but I’ve read a low of 8 and a high of 21 ships/day. Those estimates put it at 10-25% of the 85-90 per day pre war
@0x_slutdragon@martyrmade The SOH is still effectively closed. Pipelines that were being built to bypass the SOH were bombed. The Fifth Fleet is now based in Diego Garcia rather than Bahrain. We pulled all of our service members out of Iraq.
@0x_slutdragon@martyrmade Well we have certainly shown that we can’t guarantee security through power projection. So if that was the reason it’s yet another swing and a miss