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Seven B-2 bombers deployed to Diego Garcia. Numerous C-17 flights into Diego Garcia. Ten KC-135 tankers to Diego Garcia. An Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine in the Indian Ocean.
X ^ | 3/25/25 | Scott Ritter

Posted on 03/25/2025 8:11:52 PM PDT by hardspunned

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To: hardspunned

Maybe time to break out my old 45 (record, not handgun) of this song:

Bomb Iran - Vince Vance & the Valiants

https://youtu.be/zBGPw_LBiRA?si=KIuuA8_TgMAwTXpA


41 posted on 03/25/2025 10:25:08 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: SaveFerris

Evil religion with a false prophet psycho who said he was going to marry the the virgin Mary in the muslim afterlife.


42 posted on 03/25/2025 10:27:25 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: SaveFerris

My phone does that stuff, too. I have to bang on the word three times for the correct o’matic to believe me.


43 posted on 03/25/2025 10:33:19 PM PDT by madison10 (God chose President Trump, but Satan chose the judges. This kind come out only by prayer and fasting)
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To: hardspunned
Seven B-2 bombers deployed to Diego Garcia. Numerous C-17 flights into Diego Garcia. Ten KC-135 tankers to Diego Garcia. An Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine in the Indian Ocean.

That is a serious amount of military capacity to project power. A few weeks ago, the US sent ultra bunker buster deep penetrating bombs to Israel.

When you look at everything, there is some serious military might about to be unleashed. It is hard to say whether the target is going to be Iran, the Huthis rebels, or Hamas in Gaza. Whoever is going to be on the receiving end, it looks like Israel will be a partner.

About the only thing lacking are a couple of carrier task groups.

44 posted on 03/25/2025 10:37:02 PM PDT by Robert357
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To: hardspunned

Yes indeed...

Planes loaded with three types of bunker busters and the platforms to deliver them secretly have been put in place...

Just as I ludricously mentioned the other night and several times during 2010...


45 posted on 03/25/2025 10:42:36 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: SoConPubbie

His affinity lays to the east from Ukraine


46 posted on 03/25/2025 10:52:54 PM PDT by exinnj
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To: hardspunned

It’s not a matter of “reducing” but eliminating Iran’s nuclear capabilities.


47 posted on 03/25/2025 10:56:18 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: hardspunned

loose lips.


48 posted on 03/25/2025 10:58:27 PM PDT by right way right (“May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: SaveFerris

Thanks; all that remains clearest was that we had that mullah who blew himself up just short of death locked up in Guantanamo. It’s such a mess over there I wish they’d take it out on each other but that would do the world a favor. I watched recent analysis from smart people who served in the Middle East and you need a scorecard to sort it out for the current week alone.

For example, those WTC-bombing Pakis and Egyptians may well be aligned with some other country following their flavor of Islam now due to the never-ending political turmoil and factions gaining dominance over the other. Yemen itself is still doing Civil War between three groups, their citizens in true poverty while they all sit on billions worth of natural resources that would rival UAE if they got their act together.

Who would benefit most from such a situation. Could it be...

Yes, definitely Satan.


49 posted on 03/25/2025 11:06:22 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (space lord mother plucker)
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To: SaveFerris

Huh. Lit from the inside in green just like Minas Morgul.

https://images.app.goo.gl/mj6mVhJuHVoYdgtA6


50 posted on 03/26/2025 1:34:51 AM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: madison10

LOL


51 posted on 03/26/2025 1:47:51 AM 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: doc maverick

[Evil religion]

And coming up with nuclear weapons - and then there’s Pakistan


52 posted on 03/26/2025 1:48:50 AM 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: Robert357

[About the only thing lacking are a couple of carrier task groups.]

DOD actually confirmed THREE carriers on their way (last week)


53 posted on 03/26/2025 1:50:12 AM 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: hardspunned
"An Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine in the Indian Ocean."

That's not a difficult guess - there is always one in or around the Indian Ocean. 24-7.

54 posted on 03/26/2025 2:57:29 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: SaveFerris

[About the only thing lacking are a couple of carrier task groups.]

DOD actually confirmed THREE carriers on their way (last week)

The DoD appears to be advertising, IMHO. There is very little doubt that Iran will be the target. Trump warned them. The Houthis aren’t sophisticated enough for that kind of firepower. We know about the resources that have been moved by articles like the above. What we don’t know is what is being moved or already there that they haven’t advertised. Like where is the Florida and the Georgia (converted Ohio class). What space force assets have been moved?


55 posted on 03/26/2025 3:47:49 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: MikelTackNailer

My dad always thought that the Twin Towers basement bombing was a test run to see whether it could be brought down using that method. He was also highly concerned that there were a plethora of individuals, males, Middle-Eastern or possibly Iranian or Saudi, that were making use of LeTourneau University’s flight training programs via student visa.

They spoke little, if so in their own language between themselves (Farsi, Arabic, and even in some instances Chinese, and other languages of the Middle East like Urdu), but understood English like a programmed computer. Math is a universal language.

The university deemed the training as a conduit whereby pilots from other countries trained in our university flight schools to better understand American aviation as it pertains to commercial aircraft. But what again he really spoke to was the fact that he could tell many of them were rank and file military fighter pilots.

They didn’t try hiding it as far as their attire, which were either cheaply-made flight suits that bore insignia of a Middle Eastern airline or squadron, name /rank and country patches.

And students that went to the university and were training as pilots, who also attended our church (U.S. men and women) I know were approaching my dad and other elders and men in the church with what they were seeing.

I could go on for an hour about all the other things that my dad was hearing and seeing, and I’m using my phone to post this. I know the appropriate entities of national and international security and aerospace and the FAA were notified by many individuals.

So when I woke up that fateful morning just before the second plane hit the Twin Towers, having been in a vehicular smash up with an uninsured teenage dipwad the afternoon before, I figure my dad didn’t wake me because I was kinda banged up and needed to just rest.

I remember his response to the second plane hit and explosion—
“We’re under attack.”

Later I recall how flight schools all over the daggum country were telling the news how alarming or curious it was that some of the foreign pilots or nationals they were training only desired studies in how to pre-flight, instrumentation, VFR and not IFR but IFR is of course required, basically just how to take off and fly but nothing about vector approach, landing, all the particulars.

Red flags it was termed.

Dad was pretty convinced that 9-11 wouldn’t end that day and it was just the beginning of a much more complex series of domestic attacks.

I hate to run but I’ve got coffee to brew, one of my cats went full-on bobcat on my arm just before my alarm went off, and I’ve got to get a rescue 🛟 kitty to the vet by 8:30 for its checkup. I’m recovering from an orthopedic injury. I’ve got to go drag my spouse out of bed by the lower lip and pour coffee in it.

Great day in the morning Wednesday!


56 posted on 03/26/2025 3:55:10 AM PDT by Patriot777 ("When you see these things begin to happen, look up, for your redemption draweth nigh.")
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To: Pete Dovgan

(The DoD appears to be advertising, IMHO. There is very little doubt that Iran will be the target.)

Yeah I think 🤔 so too

A couple of SSGNs would be of high value against multiple targets.

Even Flight III 688s have VLS cells.

It comes off as serious concern about whatever Iran is up to right now.

🤷🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️


57 posted on 03/26/2025 3:58:50 AM 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: Psalm 73

” there is always one in or around the Indian Ocean. “

Being followed by a Russian attack sub


58 posted on 03/26/2025 4:04:58 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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To: SaveFerris

I had a history professor at the University of Cincinnati a very long time ago tell of the most terrifying sight he’d ever seen. He was in Dayton during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The entire wing of B-52s was up and circling Dayton, being refueled and flying around and around Dayton so as not to be caught on the ground by Soviet missiles.


59 posted on 03/26/2025 4:10:41 AM PDT by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months s)
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To: nwrep

Don’t sell Ritter short. Here’s his solution.

“Iran doesn’t want nuclear weapons.

Therefore Iran doesn’t need nuclear infrastructure capable of producing nuclear weapons.

Russia has agreed to provide Iran with nuclear power plants and nuclear fuel.

The smart move here is for Iran to trade its uranium enrichment capability for the lifting of all sanctions.

And for those who say the bomb would protect Iran, remember:

Iran doesn’t want a nuclear bomb.”


60 posted on 03/26/2025 4:13:12 AM PDT by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months s)
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