Barely Moderating:
It’s fine - given the recent (see emphasis) news on how Republicans are asking for $200B in funding for past, current and future expenses, and the ongoing human life cost are cover all three time periods, this is appropriate.
As was spelled out after the split, this thread is for discussion is for current events and new/ongoing consequences.
Monty
March 24, 2026, 8:48am
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Iran has devised a way to extend its missile range.
After Iran doubled the range of its ballistic missiles from 2,000 to 4,000 kilometers overnight, Ran Kochav tells The Post recent launches may have exposed a clandestine program.
Iran’s launch of a ballistic missile over a distance of around 4,000 km., shattering the 2,000 km. range that much of the world hoped it would stay under, likely involved a two-stage satellite-like launch process, former IDF air defense chief Brig.-Gen. Ran Kochav told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.
Kochav said that the launch had “doubled the demonstrated capability overnight” of what Iran could do when it targeted the joint UK-US base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.
Echoing IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir ’s statement on Saturday night that the additional distance probably stemmed from a launch vehicle that used multiple stages, Kochav noted that Iran has been working on such two-stage launch technologies for years to try to launch satellites into space.
Both Israel and the US have warned that Iranian satellite tests could turn out to have dual-use elements, leading to intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), both conventional and nuclear. While the Islamic Republic has long denied this possibility, Saturday’s launch has likely exposed a clandestine program it has operated for years for precisely such purposes.
hajario
March 25, 2026, 12:41am
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A few thousand more troops. This time Army Airborne
WASHINGTON, March 24 (Reuters) - The Pentagon is expected to send thousands of soldiers from the U. Army's elite 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East, two people familiar with the matter told Reu...
Babale
March 25, 2026, 1:10am
1056
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that Trump bloviating about how he’s already won and Iran has already surrendered will continue to happen every few weeks when Trump wants to shock the market, but the war is nowhere near over.
Monty
March 26, 2026, 3:51am
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Trump claims there’s already been a regime change in Iran.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump said, “We’re in negotiations right now” over Iran, but would not provide details.
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday described what has happened in Iran since the start of the war as a “regime change.”
“We have, really, a regime change,” the president said. “You know, this is a change in the regime, because the leaders are all very different than the ones we started off with that created all these problems.”
I don’t think that’s the definition of regime change.
Eric1
March 26, 2026, 8:23am
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Thanks for posting that. I must say it was rather informative. It was some courtesy to me as I’m trying to be tactful to respect our thread.
wolfpup
March 26, 2026, 8:34am
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We have, really, a regime change,” the president said. “You know, this is a change in the regime
The eloquence of the Orange One is positively poetic!
“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
Monty
March 27, 2026, 6:23am
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Apparently the regime in Iran have found a scary quote to keep people in line. I’d rate it at 8.8. (The bolding is mine.)
Images online show banners quoting Hitler in Persian as Tehran continues arrests and executions of those accused of aiding Israel.
Images circulating on social media appear to show posters bearing Adolf Hitler’s image and a quote attributed to him displayed in several Iranian cities, as the Islamic Republic intensifies its wartime crackdown on alleged foreign spies and internal collaborators.
The posters, shared in posts claiming they were photographed in cities such as Babolsar and Kermanshah, carried a message aimed atIranians accused of siding with foreign enemies.
“The worst human beings are those who cooperated with me in the occupation of their country by a foreigner,” the Persian-language poster said in a quote attributed to Hitler . It continued, “Anyone who is happy about the occupation of his country is like someone who is happy about the violation of his mother.”
I remember when the American military condemned certain groups for operating out of hotels and other civilian areas, criticizing them for putting non-combatants in danger. I guess we can remove that from the books now.
Iranian air strikes have forced American soldiers to evacuate several bases in the Middle East.
Troops are now working from nearby hotels and office spaces, which could endanger both themselves and civilians.
Iran has struck 104 American and regional bases , according to a rough analysis of geolocated strikes by Fabian Hinz, an open-source analyst.
American satellite firms have delayed the release of imagery by at least 14 days, making it hard to assess the damage.
But The New York Times reported that many of the 13 American bases across Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates had become close to uninhabitable as a result of persistent strikes.