Posted on 06/22/2025 5:38:49 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Saturday morning, flight trackers picked up a host of stealthy U.S. B-2 bombers that took off from their Air Force base in Missouri and headed west over the Pacific. It was a ruse.
Hours later, a group of B-2s attacked Iran’s most important nuclear sites from the east, defense officials said, hitting well-defended facilities where giant U.S. bunker busters were thought to have the greatest chance of success. President Trump said U.S. submarines firing cruise missiles joined in the attack, striking other key nuclear facilities.
The move allowed the U.S. to get its bombers over Iran faster and with a lower risk of detection. The timing also helped hide the mission’s aim. In the past few days, President Trump has said he would take up to two weeks to decide whether to attack to give diplomacy a chance to work. There had been no order given to ready a B-2 strike, officials said Saturday morning.
The net effect of the maneuvers and communications was the impression that Iran had more time before the bombs came.
“Decoy indeed,” one of the defense officials said of the westward feint that masked the bombers that carried out the attack. “‘Hiding’’’ them and preserving the element of surprise was critical.”
Trump gave the final order to go ahead Saturday afternoon East Coast time at his private club in New Jersey.
“The goal was to create a situation when everyone wasn’t expecting it,” a senior administration official said of the timing of the president’s order.
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The key was NOT telling any Democrat about it until it was done. Had he told even one, that one would have spread the word to the rest of the enemies domestic and at least one would have “leaked” it to the so-called press and they would have gotten word to the enemies foreign probably all in less than 1/2 an hour.
Very good and clever!!!! I’m not going to thank you as that song will be swirling around my brain all day now..I have to find others to crowd it out....
What else made the strike a success Trump spoke to the Republicans in congress but NO democrcrats he knew they would queer the deal.
VERY TRUE
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Was it really a feint or message to China that it might NOT be a time to jack around with Taiwan.
“do they do ruses with how many pizzas are being ordered near military locations as well?”
Pizza Part in the E-Ring tonight!!
Trump asked Jordan long ago; Jordon said no. I haven't heard anything about the other locations you mentioned.
As far as I'm concerned, the Palestinians can have a state of their own, but they can't have Israel.
Can anyone point to any negotiations where Iran didn't ultimately break the agreement? Negotiations to the Iranians is simply a delay tactic which dangles the carrot of peace in front of those who are gullible enough to try and reach the carrot.
Knee jerk reaction
It’s certainly possible, this was part of it. 😜
*****
You mean like we did before we invaded Normandy??
Brett Baer signed off Fox Friday evening expecting a busy weekend... with a wry smile. I sense he knew.
Or he simply fell for the ruse.
He mentioned this morning that cyber planes preceded the actual B2s...Iranians were firing at planes that did not exist. Clever.
“ Thank God President Trump fired Charles Q. Brown Jr. and replaced him with General Dan Caine as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.”
Amen.
He simply fell for the ruse.
He wouldn’t pass up headline news to make first hand report of something that big.
I was just sent a Pentagon Pizza Report Twitter picture showing the high activity at Papa John’s and Freddy’s Beach Bar, for 7:11 PM last night, from a friend who is not a Republican.
Bizarre to see this and the message from two minutes ago.
don’t you mean
“SLURS one word”?
“That was a tough challenge.”
mostly just not pre-alerting any democrats in Congress ... presumably most of the internal traitors had already been identified and fired or had the fear of God put into them ...
“more than half of the members of congress would have immediately spilled the beans.”
yeah, the democrat half, none of whom were pre-alerted ... and only a couple of trustworthy Republicans were read-in ...
NO LEAKS IS ALMOST BETTER THAN THE ACTUAL BOMBING
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