US Strikes Iran Part 2.

[Caribbean Hen]

How? It’s outside. The hat says USA, not MAGA or something else political.

He is a civilian and it is a sign of respect to remove your hat, indoors or outdoors, just like one should do for the national anthem.

The fvck your feelings crowd that gets their panties in a bunch over someone kneeling during the national anthem is rushing to defend trump for a similar breech of etiquette.

The hypocrisy and the "we'll defend anything and everything trump does" approach is noted.

He’s the commander and chief

he’s not there as a civilian

[Caribbean Hen]

Rubio

Gov. Andy Beshear
Gov. Wes Moore
Gov. Josh Shapiro
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

Someone who knows how to lead an executive branch.

Josh Shapiro would have been a hell of a better choice than tiny Tim Walz, but Klambela was intimidated by Shapiro because he could actually answer a question

[UNI88]

He is a civilian and it is a sign of respect to remove your hat, indoors or outdoors, just like one should do for the national anthem.

The fvck your feelings crowd that gets their panties in a bunch over someone kneeling during the national anthem is rushing to defend trump for a similar breech of etiquette.

The hypocrisy and the "we'll defend anything and everything trump does" approach is noted.

He’s the commander and chief

he’s not there as a civilian

Article II, Section 2 states: “The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States.” It does not state that the President is a member of the military,

He is a civilian commander-in-chief. Active duty members of the military are not eligible to run for POTUS.

Regardless, don't military members remove their hats during the playing of national anthem, “Taps,” or while honoring the fallen, unless in formation?

Keep reaching for excuses, you're just proving the "we'll defend anything and everything trump does" requirement for membership in the MAQA yahoo qult.

[GannonFan]

He’s the commander and chief

he’s not there as a civilian

Article II, Section 2 states: “The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States.” It does not state that the President is a member of the military,

He is a civilian commander-in-chief. Active duty members of the military are not eligible to run for POTUS.

Regardless, don't military members remove their hats during the playing of national anthem, “Taps,” or while honoring the fallen, unless in formation?

Keep reaching for excuses, you're just proving the "we'll defend anything and everything trump does" requirement for membership in the MAQA yahoo qult.

Military members salute, especially if in uniform, for taps or the anthem. Trump's not military and should've removed the hat, hence the disrespect. There's a reason why Fox decided to show old footage, even they realized Trump broke protocol by keeping the baseball cap on.

[Caribbean Hen]

He’s the commander and chief

he’s not there as a civilian

Article II, Section 2 states: “The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States.” It does not state that the President is a member of the military,

He is a civilian commander-in-chief. Active duty members of the military are not eligible to run for POTUS.

Regardless, don't military members remove their hats during the playing of national anthem, “Taps,” or while honoring the fallen, unless in formation?

Keep reaching for excuses, you're just proving the "we'll defend anything and everything trump does" requirement for membership in the MAQA yahoo qult.

So I’ve got you down for being all worked up about a Trump salute while wearing a cap but said nothing about Biden checking his watch while the fallen were being honored ….

[BDKJMU]

2020 when oil hit $29 a barrel during Covid, Schumer blocked Trump from filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which would have been a huge benefit to the American taxpayers, because Schumer thought it would benefit the oil industry.

Then when Biden was in office Schumer supported it being opened on 2 occasions, once March 2022 after Russian invaded Ukraine and once fall 2022 to lower prices before the midterms (imagine that). That left the SPR way low.

Now he wants Trump to release more, which would have to be replaced at a might higher prices than the $29 he blocked. Fooking hypocrite.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/schume ... hem-opened

Now there doesn’t appear to be the need. Oil tankers are transiting through the Strait of Hormuz again.

[UNI88]

Article II, Section 2 states: “The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States.” It does not state that the President is a member of the military,

He is a civilian commander-in-chief. Active duty members of the military are not eligible to run for POTUS.

Regardless, don't military members remove their hats during the playing of national anthem, “Taps,” or while honoring the fallen, unless in formation?

Keep reaching for excuses, you're just proving the "we'll defend anything and everything trump does" requirement for membership in the MAQA yahoo qult.

So I’ve got you down for being all worked up about a Trump salute while wearing a cap but said nothing about Biden checking his watch while the fallen were being honored ….

So I’ve got you down for being all worked up about Biden checking his watch but defending/deflecting for a Trump salute while wearing a cap while the fallen were being honored ….

[kalm]

So I’ve got you down for being all worked up about a Trump salute while wearing a cap but said nothing about Biden checking his watch while the fallen were being honored ….

So I’ve got you down for being all worked up about Biden checking his watch but defending/deflecting for a Trump salute while wearing a cap while the fallen were being honored ….

BTW, Fox has apologized for using older image.

[Caribbean Hen]

So I’ve got you down for being all worked up about a Trump salute while wearing a cap but said nothing about Biden checking his watch while the fallen were being honored ….

So I’ve got you down for being all worked up about Biden checking his watch but defending/deflecting for a Trump salute while wearing a cap while the fallen were being honored ….

Good

[kalm]

So I’ve got you down for being all worked up about Biden checking his watch but defending/deflecting for a Trump salute while wearing a cap while the fallen were being honored ….

Good

[UNI88]

2020 when oil hit $29 a barrel during Covid, Schumer blocked Trump from filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which would have been a huge benefit to the American taxpayers, because Schumer thought it would benefit the oil industry.

Then when Biden was in office Schumer supported it being opened on 2 occasions, once March 2022 after Russian invaded Ukraine and once fall 2022 to lower prices before the midterms (imagine that). That left the SPR way low.

Now he wants Trump to release more, which would have to be replaced at a might higher prices than the $29 he blocked. Fooking hypocrite.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/schume ... hem-opened

Now there doesn’t appear to be the need. Oil tankers are transiting through the Strait of Hormuz again.

Are they?

Trump’s ‘free flow of energy’ vow fails to restart shipping in strait of Hormuz

Only two vessels not linked to Iran or Russia have made the “chicken run” through the strait of Hormuz since Donald Trump said he would “ensure the free flow of energy to the world”, according to maritime records.

One of those that braved the journey since the US president’s announcement of emergency measures on Friday went “dark” by switching off its transponder and a second signalled it was Chinese owned and crewed.
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On Friday, Trump announced a $20bn (£14.85bn) reinsurance scheme to revive shipping through the strait, which he said would come into effect immediately. He followed up by saying that shipowners should “show some guts” by sailing through the war zone.
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Only eight other vessels are believed to have entered or exited the Gulf through the strait over the weekend and they all appear to have links to Iran or Russia.

[BDKJMU]

2020 when oil hit $29 a barrel during Covid, Schumer blocked Trump from filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which would have been a huge benefit to the American taxpayers, because Schumer thought it would benefit the oil industry.

Then when Biden was in office Schumer supported it being opened on 2 occasions, once March 2022 after Russian invaded Ukraine and once fall 2022 to lower prices before the midterms (imagine that). That left the SPR way low.

Now he wants Trump to release more, which would have to be replaced at a might higher prices than the $29 he blocked. Fooking hypocrite.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/schume ... hem-opened

Now there doesn’t appear to be the need. Oil tankers are transiting through the Strait of Hormuz again.

Are they?

Trump’s ‘free flow of energy’ vow fails to restart shipping in strait of Hormuz

Only two vessels not linked to Iran or Russia have made the “chicken run” through the strait of Hormuz since Donald Trump said he would “ensure the free flow of energy to the world”, according to maritime records.

One of those that braved the journey since the US president’s announcement of emergency measures on Friday went “dark” by switching off its transponder and a second signalled it was Chinese owned and crewed.
...
On Friday, Trump announced a $20bn (£14.85bn) reinsurance scheme to revive shipping through the strait, which he said would come into effect immediately. He followed up by saying that shipowners should “show some guts” by sailing through the war zone.
...
Only eight other vessels are believed to have entered or exited the Gulf through the strait over the weekend and they all appear to have links to Iran or Russia.

Oil didn‘t drop from $118 to $86 because nothing is moving.

[UNI88]

Are they?

Trump’s ‘free flow of energy’ vow fails to restart shipping in strait of Hormuz

Oil didn‘t drop from $118 to $86 because nothing is moving.

And that's the only reason the price could have dropped? It might not be that markets reacted to news that the conflict might not completely halt exports?

MAQA yahoos sure like to jump to premature conclusions and then get their panties all bunched up if anyone else does it.

[UNI88]

Zelensky says Ukraine will help US to counter Iranian drones

During its war with Russia, Ukraine has developed highly ​effective means of downing the Iranian-designed Shahed kamikaze drone, which Moscow has ​been using for much of the four-year war.

"We received a ⁠request from the United States for specific support in protection against 'Shaheds' in ​the Middle East region," Zelenskiy wrote in English on the X social media ​platform.

"I gave instructions to provide the necessary means and ensure the presence of Ukrainian specialists who can guarantee the required security."

The U.S. had requested assistance in protecting its bases and ​soldiers in certain countries in the region, according to a source familiar ​with the matter, who said Zelenskiy had instructed his military to do so.

How dumb is Whiskeyleaks not to have realized and pursued this months ago?

[UNI88]

[kalm]

Disgusting.

US responsible for deadly missile strike on Iran school, preliminary inquiry says

Strike that killed at least 175 people, most of them children, reportedly due to targeting mistake by US military planners

A preliminary US military investigation has reportedly determined that Washington was responsible for a deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school in February that killed scores of children.

According to the New York Times, quoting unnamed US officials and others familiar with the initial findings, the investigation has concluded that the strike on 28 February on the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school building was the result of a targeting mistake by the US military planners.

Iranian officials had put put death toll from the attack as at least 175 people, the majority of them children, in one of the worst and most shocking American strikes producing civilian fatalities in recent memory.

The findings appear to confirm assertions by Tehran, which had produced video footage of the US missile strike and fragments of US-made missile parts, despite Donald Trump’s efforts to suggest Iran had hit the building.

According to the report, the inquiry – which has yet to be completed – has found that officers at US Central Command created the target coordinates for the strike using obsolete data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency.

While independent analysis of the strike had pointed strongly to US culpability, the Trump administration has continued with a policy of evasion around the attack that hit the school in the town of Minab close to buildings used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) naval forces.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/ ... SApp_Other

[Skjellyfetti]

Sea drones target oil tankers in the Middle East as conflict risks widen

LONDON, March 11 (Reuters) - Naval drones have been used in at least two attacks on oil ​tankers in the Gulf region since war erupted between the U.S., Israel and Iran, according to maritime authorities and analysts, demonstrating ‌a dangerous new threat in the key shipping lane.
The emergence of the use of explosive-laden unmanned surface vessels, which Ukraine has used with great effect in its war with Russia, comes as Iran threatens to block oil shipments from transiting the key Strait of Hormuz, the chokepoint for one-fifth of the world's oil.

The first sea-based ​drone attack was on March 1 when a crude oil tanker, the MKD VYOM, was hit about 44 nautical miles off ​Oman, killing one crew member, Britain’s maritime agency said. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency said ⁠in a public advisory that an unmanned surface vessel struck the Marshall Islands-flagged tanker just above the waterline, triggering an explosion and fire ​in the engine room.
Days later, a small vessel struck the Bahamas-flagged crude oil tanker Sonangol Namibe while anchored near Iraq’s Khor al Zubair port, according ​to U.S. representative company Sonangol Marine Services. The company said its 23 crew members were safe, and did not comment on what kind of vessel struck the vessel, citing an ongoing investigation.

Footage of the attack posted online shows a small speedboat-shaped object racing toward the side of the ship before slamming into it, ​triggering an explosion that sent plumes of thick smoke into the air. The vessel in the video appears to be a naval drone ​that exploded on impact, according to two UK-based maritime specialists, Sidharth Kaushal, a research fellow at think tank RUSI, and Robert Peters of maritime security ‌firm Ambrey.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-ea ... 026-03-11/

[kalm]

[kalm]

Disgusting.

US responsible for deadly missile strike on Iran school, preliminary inquiry says

Strike that killed at least 175 people, most of them children, reportedly due to targeting mistake by US military planners

A preliminary US military investigation has reportedly determined that Washington was responsible for a deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school in February that killed scores of children.

According to the New York Times, quoting unnamed US officials and others familiar with the initial findings, the investigation has concluded that the strike on 28 February on the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school building was the result of a targeting mistake by the US military planners.

Iranian officials had put put death toll from the attack as at least 175 people, the majority of them children, in one of the worst and most shocking American strikes producing civilian fatalities in recent memory.

The findings appear to confirm assertions by Tehran, which had produced video footage of the US missile strike and fragments of US-made missile parts, despite Donald Trump’s efforts to suggest Iran had hit the building.

According to the report, the inquiry – which has yet to be completed – has found that officers at US Central Command created the target coordinates for the strike using obsolete data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency.

While independent analysis of the strike had pointed strongly to US culpability, the Trump administration has continued with a policy of evasion around the attack that hit the school in the town of Minab close to buildings used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) naval forces.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/ ... SApp_Other

How long before they acquire/use submersible drones? UKR has deployed them.

[BDKJMU]

Notice how we haven‘t seen this new leader of Iran, only his cardboard cutout?
-In hiding, too afraid to show himself?
-Already killed?

[BDKJMU]

Disgusting.

US responsible for deadly missile strike on Iran school, preliminary inquiry says

Strike that killed at least 175 people, most of them children, reportedly due to targeting mistake by US military planners

A preliminary US military investigation has reportedly determined that Washington was responsible for a deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school in February that killed scores of children.

According to the New York Times, quoting unnamed US officials and others familiar with the initial findings, the investigation has concluded that the strike on 28 February on the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school building was the result of a targeting mistake by the US military planners.

Iranian officials had put put death toll from the attack as at least 175 people, the majority of them children, in one of the worst and most shocking American strikes producing civilian fatalities in recent memory.

The findings appear to confirm assertions by Tehran, which had produced video footage of the US missile strike and fragments of US-made missile parts, despite Donald Trump’s efforts to suggest Iran had hit the building.

According to the report, the inquiry – which has yet to be completed – has found that officers at US Central Command created the target coordinates for the strike using obsolete data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency.

While independent analysis of the strike had pointed strongly to US culpability, the Trump administration has continued with a policy of evasion around the attack that hit the school in the town of Minab close to buildings used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) naval forces.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/ ... SApp_Other

What is disgusting is that the Iranians put a school where military facilities used to be, or put military facilities by a school.

[UNI88]

Disgusting.

US responsible for deadly missile strike on Iran school, preliminary inquiry says



https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/ ... SApp_Other

What is disgusting is that the Iranians put a school where military facilities used to be, or put military facilities by a school.

They're both disgusting.

[kalm]

Disgusting.

US responsible for deadly missile strike on Iran school, preliminary inquiry says



https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/ ... SApp_Other

What is disgusting is that the Iranians put a school where military facilities used to be, or put military facilities by a school.

How dare they! It’s not as if we allow schools on military bases!

[UNI88]

Notice how we haven‘t seen this new leader of Iran, only his cardboard cutout?
-In hiding, too afraid to show himself?
-Already killed?

Kind of like having your father pay a doctor to diagnose you with bone spurs so you can avoid the draft?

Or how Pee Wee German, Lil' marco, Kos-play kristi, Whiskeyleaks and Pamnesia bondi are hiding on military bases because they're too afraid to live among the people they're supposed to be serving.

[GannonFan]

The fact that we didn't have a good plan on how to keep the shipping lanes open in the Straits of Hormuz, despite having two whole aircraft carrier battle groups in the area, as well as all the other command bases we have throughout the countries in the Persian Gulf, is shaping up to be a colossal blunder. This was all foreseeable for any conflict in that area and the types of technologies we're talking about have been also known for quote some time. Iran isn't doing anything surprising here, we apparently just didn't seem to have a plan in place other than bomb a bunch of stuff. However many days we are into this conflict and it doesn't seem to be particularly well thought out, which is a trademark of Trump's policies on most things.