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Posted on 05/30/2026 6:02:56 AM PDT by AAABEST
An Iranian missile strike injured several Americans at a Kuwaiti air base, according to a report Saturday, the latest escalation that could further complicate efforts to end the U.S.-Iran war. Falling debris from an intercepted Iranian ballistic missile struck Ali Al Salem Air Base, causing minor injuries to several Americans and seriously damaging two MQ-9 Reaper strike drones, Bloomberg reported.
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This must be the same falling debris that smashed up, at least, 16 of our bases.
If anyone believe this, please FReepmail me. I have some bridges for sale... super cheap.
Opinions are like aholes.....
Iran launched a ballistic missile at a US military base in Kuwait late Wednesday in retaliation for the American military knocking out Iranian drones in the Strait of Hormuz.
The Iranian missile was intercepted by Kuwaiti forces, according to US Central Command (CENTCOM), which added that the US operation to take out Iranian drones had also been successful.
Lets all get together and sing Kumbaya
It’s a good thing we took out all of Iran’s missiles and now have a peace deal in place. I expect this to continue up to November, and then get worse.
Discovering that your enemy can fire back has always been a painful lesson for some.
Yup. The longer we're hemmed-up there the happier our enemies and detractors are.
What's amazing to me is nobody noticing that Russia, China etc. are using proxies in Ukraine and the Mideast to - purposefully IMO - to bleed our military funding, gear support dry.
Good thing Trump’s Folly defanged Iran. Maybe now we can get around to that peace agreement.
How many Reapers does that make in all that have been raptured now?
Hmmm, how reliable is Stars and Stripes? I think I’ll run with it—
The traffic lights have gone from flashing red to a flashing green. Then to a steady green, followed by a flashing yellow to flashing red again, then to another flashing green; but in Trump’s eyes they’ve never been a steady red. A steady green seems inevitable now. They will breathe the air we have blown them and rightly so.
“Falling debris”
Can include the warhead or submunitions of the wa warhead. If the interceptor hits the missile body and knocks the warhead section free it still falls to earth and goes boom it’s just then random where it lands a low altitude intercept means that ellipse of landing is likely inside what it was aimed at.
We saw this in the first Iraq war where patriots hit scuds in the fuel tanks or body behind the warhead section and it split the missile into fragments with the warhead still very much active on the way down. Iran has been sending cluster munitions missiles for some time now hitting the main body after it lets go of some or all of its submunitions means some will still land live.
Quit F-ing around.
Take out Iran’s infrastructure
Bridges,
Power plants,
Etc.etc.etc.
Simply because Iran can reliably strike expensive American drones and an expensive spy aircraft on bases 100 miles or so from Iran is no indication that Iran will be able to reliably strike your large American city and its close-in affluent suburbs in your lifetime. /s
US consumers are paying about $30/more per barrel and the US uses about 17 million barrels a day.
That’s $510 million/day, the cost of several brand-new tankers filled with oil.
Congress could authorize Trump to use $1 billion to buy tankers stranded in the Gulf, fill them with crude, and have US Navy sailors run them through the Strait (or send them through by remote control or autopilot). A helicopter could be on each tanker in transit in case the crew needs to come off.
The tanker insurance market isn’t functioning for the Gulf. Bypass it!
Congress could authorize Trump to have another 60 days if:
1. any US vessel is attacked while passing through the international waters of the Persian Gulf or the waters of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the UAE or Oman,
2. an Iranian vessel, missile or torpedo enters the waters or airspace claimed by Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the UAE or Oman within four miles of a US vessel,
3. an Iranian vessel fails to promptly and harmlessly sail to Iranian coastal waters when signaled by US military flare.
The US tankers are unlikely to be attacked. Does anybody here think Iranian thugs want Trump to have another 60 days to whack them?
There is a way to drop oil and gas prices fast.
“to bleed our military funding, gear support dry”
The USA is spending about $1 trillion/year on the military.
Surely it can buy enough drones and missiles.
One trillion dollars is enough to buy one million $1,000,000 items.
And those items should cost far less.
This year Ukraine aims to produce seven million military drones.
A few drones in the sky can often do the work of a pair of boots on the ground and the man that wears them.
Iran fires ballistic missile at US base and there is no reponse? Trump looking more and more like Carter every day.
“Quit F-ing around.
Take out Iran’s infrastructure
Bridges,
Power plants,
Etc.etc.etc.”
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Please vacate it as if your life depended on doing so.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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There probably is a way to generally explode a warhead before it hits the ground.
The US military needs to get hot on the trail of doing so.
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