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More F-16s Arrive in Middle East as AFCENT Fighter Footprint Grows to 6 Squadrons
Air and Space Forces Magazine ^ | 24 October 2023 | Chris Gordon

Posted on 10/24/2023 10:15:11 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!

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To: Alas Babylon!

Damn if this scenario doesn’t look like Gog and Magog.

5.56mm


21 posted on 10/24/2023 11:37:08 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go)
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To: Alas Babylon!

No I don’t think we should step aside but I have little confidence in our leader’s ability to get it right. Dem and Rep. Maybe Dutch, but I have doubts in his advisers. So Ike. Yes Ike could have gotten it right.


22 posted on 10/24/2023 11:37:43 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: MeganC

Lots of support for merely a goodwill tour.


23 posted on 10/24/2023 11:46:38 AM PDT by bgill
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To: NavyShoe

“I bet this really pisses off Mr. Z.”

Just think how the Zeepers are feeling now.
Their Saint Z has been wiped off the front page of every paper and magazine in existence. The visits to the web sites featuring their favorite Ukie war porn are way down.
Everyone is talking about the new cool kid in school.


24 posted on 10/24/2023 11:56:50 AM PDT by oldvirginian ("Had I known what the North had in store for us, I would have continued fighting." Gen R E Lee )
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To: M Kehoe

Yes

The timing is about right


25 posted on 10/24/2023 12:45:52 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: gloryblaze

Since I assume we would seek and establish air superiority, where are the A-10s that would be used to decimate attempts at piercing Israel’s borders?


26 posted on 10/24/2023 12:47:02 PM PDT by desertsolitaire (w)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Military Industrial complex is very happy.


27 posted on 10/24/2023 12:47:32 PM PDT by entropy12 (Career politicians like Desantis build wealth. Trump sacrificed his wealth to serve people. GO TRUMP)
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To: desertsolitaire
... where are the A-10s that would be used to decimate attempts at piercing Israel’s borders?

That's above my pay grade, but I believe they are on board. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5iPvXwS5L4

28 posted on 10/24/2023 12:54:52 PM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: M Kehoe; Roman_War_Criminal

Agreed.

I wrote this on some other threads yesterday and will include more verses from a friendly reminder that are certainly applicable:

The Bible is the only explanation for “Israel”.

It accurately predicted, over 2000 years ago, the rebirth of a nation against all odds. It also predicted that its neighbors would be full of hate and that Israel would be a thorn that consumed them.

If you know anything about history and geopolitics the year 1948 should never have happened. It remains one of the most unlikely events in human history, but it happened just as it was foretold.

Israel remains the biggest thorn in the Middle East just as it says and no man, president, diplomat, or prime minister will change the design of God.

Israel’s enemies will come against her and God will smite them before his son returns just as it says.

It’s all right there in the Word and while none of us know the date or time it will happen, the final stage is being set before our eyes.

Read Ezekiel 38 and 39 and ask yourself what is the one thing that might unite the divisions of Islam and civil wars that burn throughout the region? What is the one thing that might sow so much discord in Western nations that they refuse to do what is right?

I would submit that it is the thorn.

Also - hat tip to Roman_War_Criminal (pinged)

Check out Jeremiah 49:34-39 (Prophecy against Elam)
Psalm 83
And everybody’s favorite.... Isaiah 17:1


29 posted on 10/24/2023 1:31:26 PM PDT by volunbeer (We are living 2nd Thessalonians)
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To: volunbeer

Isn’t it funny that it is called a thorn, and Ezekiel mentions the pruning hook—pulling the very jaws of Gog to make war on Irael.

EZ 38:8 “In future years you will invade a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and now all of them live in safety.”

There is no other country that this can refer too, and it is even named Israel.


30 posted on 10/24/2023 1:58:27 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Does the meddling by the evil Biden team indicate that Israel’s progression will be dampened by the USA?

Reminds me of the Israeli-Arab war where the Israeli’s sunk a US spy ship. The attacks are doomed to continue unless Israel wipes Hamas and other assorted enemies off the map.


31 posted on 10/24/2023 2:04:57 PM PDT by ABStrauss (I miss Rush! )
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To: Alas Babylon!

I looked at the wife the other day and remarked that you don’t have to be an expert bible scholar to see the remarkable events unfolding throughout the world and it is always about Israel.

The alliances most believe necessary grow stronger and Israel has few friends and those (including us) grow weaker by the year.

There is only one cause that unites the Muslim world and we are seeing it every day. The Abraham Accords, peace with Egypt, rise of tribalistic fundamentalism in Libya, the Mad Mullahs in Iran, war in Yemen, Shia vs Sunni, and the horrible civil war in Syria....... the thorn shatters peace and erases hatred in the blink of an eye.


32 posted on 10/24/2023 2:24:19 PM PDT by volunbeer (We are living 2nd Thessalonians)
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To: Vermont Lt

After they spend 3 decades in the ME and Afghanistan that a very strange thing to say about the A-10

They are tailor made for this sort of fight. Nothing changes a Haji to a slowly dissipating cloud of pink mist better.


33 posted on 10/24/2023 2:54:36 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: desertsolitaire

US A-10 attack planes arrive in Middle East in bid to deter wider war

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2023/10/13/us-a-10-attack-planes-arrive-in-middle-east-in-bid-to-deter-wider-war/


34 posted on 10/24/2023 2:57:50 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Are they there to prevent Israel from responding to the initial attack?


35 posted on 10/24/2023 3:27:23 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: MNJohnnie

I literally meant the flight over. It’s not exactly a spacious cockpit.


36 posted on 10/24/2023 5:11:06 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: Vermont Lt

Oh got it. That is a very long way to go at 348 miles per hour


37 posted on 10/24/2023 5:16:27 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: M Kehoe

All we need now is the Abomination that Causes Desolation.


38 posted on 10/24/2023 6:26:03 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: xkaydet65

agree
this administration continually does opposite of what is right and good


39 posted on 10/25/2023 2:55:08 AM PDT by SisterK (it's controlled demolition)
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To: xkaydet65

I just located “Down to a sunless sea” That’s a good read.


40 posted on 10/25/2023 6:38:00 AM PDT by calljack (Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
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