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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · 2d ago

Take whatever figure you might have heard about for the cost of the Iran War...
And then add 3.2 Trillion dollars to it.

That's a lot of opportunity loss there.

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · 2d ago

Trump's War will starve the poor.
https://www.livescience.com/health/iran-war-could-push-global-food-insecurity-to-record-levels-leaving-363-million-people-hungry

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · 2d ago

I have to wonder whether selling $23B in arms without oversight had more to do with expanding a DoD slush fund, than it has to do with any kind of "emergency" that rules out getting proper authorization.

There are, in fact, valid reasons not to provide these people with any more money.

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · 2d ago

Ukrainian experts shocked at how wasteful the air defense of Gulf countries are. (Not surprising...)

https://archive.ph/xJDmh

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · 2d ago

True words by Anton Gerashchenko

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · 2d ago

Bundestag, Katharina Dröge to Merz: "The Taurus is important right now. You promised it to the people of Ukraine when you were in the opposition. Act now, while you are in government."
h/t: BohuslavskaKate
#freethetaurus

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · 2d ago

Russian state propaganda is ready to sell the Cubans out.
...yup.

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · 2d ago

I warned that this would happen...

Trump's DHS has started aggressively deporting Venezuelans.
Venezuelan news sources are reporting large flights of Venezuelans arriving from Miami, with the corrupt, brutal government of Venezuela being an active partner in the deportations.
Miami Herald is writing on this, and about the widespread fear of deportation in the local community, as apparently entire families are being seized and deported, without even a chance to prepare.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/andres-oppenheimer/article315028236.html

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · 2d ago

Meanwhile, in Venezuela...
Inflation skyrocketed to 600% as a direct result of the US invasion.
Trump is starving Venezuelans and risking more waves of refugees, while the Venezuelan currency plummets.

https://batimes.com.ar/news/latin-america/venezuelas-600-inflation-undercuts-trumps-boasts-of-revival.phtml

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · 2d ago

It's actually going to be very interesting to see how things play out over the next few months, when the Republicans repeatedly don't get the things that Trump waaahmbulances about.

No extra $$ for an undeclared war. No SAVE Act. Campaigning for Orban... and losing badly. EU funds Ukraine anyway. Russia keeps getting owned, badly.

Looking forward to seeing what impeachable / criminal offenses they commit, as a result of all this fail on the horizon. Trump White House needs some frog marches.

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · 2d ago

Steve Witkoff, who reportedly pushed Trump to help launch the war on Iran, must've felt like a complete tool after being told by Russia that they would stop helping Iranians kill Americans, in exchange for cutting intel support to Ukraine.

Witkoff either works for the Russians, or clearly must know by now that the Russians completely played his incompetent ass. There is no choice #3 here.
https://www.politico.eu/article/putin-offers-stop-intel-iran-condition-us-cuts-off-ukraine/

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · 6d ago

Labinsk, Krasnodor Krai region, Russia.

The fire has been spreading since a nighttime attack, threatening the whole oil depot.

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · 6d ago

A Russian post on how Telegram will stop working in Russia in the near future, according to the Duma. According to Oleg Matveychev, deputy chairman for information policy, the messenger is an “illegal” who works but doesn't pay taxes or comply with the laws. Therefore, it must be “deported”.

The bit at the bottom? Buy a subscription to a VPN, if you don't want to be left with one big button for "Solovyov TV" on the screens of all phones and PC.

Russians know propaganda when they see it.

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · 6d ago

Russian milblogger Swodka is suggesting the need for a comprehensive peace treaty, as a method to get Ukraine to accept giving up territory.

This smacks of the increasing desperation of Russian milbloggers, as they see a need to find a "win" for Putin that Russians can stomach, rather than let the war keep playing out in a way they find increasingly unsuccessful. Many do not see a military path to victory, and hope that they can win through diplomacy what they are unable to win on the field.

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · 6d ago

Russian milblogger Swodki shares a story from Russian soldier German Sadulaev, warning that Ukraine is advancing in a way that could lead to "large-scale breakthroughs", by using overwhelming drone force and increased drone depth to isolate and bite off chunks of previously occupied territory.

This was where things were always leading, with one side controlling the drone space, and the other trapped in holes and basements.

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · 6d ago

Defund the US military industrial complex.
Boycott Israeli arms.
Defund the Russian military industrial complex too.

Buy Ukrainian drones today!

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · 6d ago

Looks like Japan is in talks to purchase Ukrainian drones.
They were going to purchase from Israel, but turns out that they're too unpopular...
It would be nice to see S. Korea follow suit.
https://militarnyi.com/en/news/japan-considering-possibility-of-purchasing-ukrainian-drones/

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · 6d ago

Israel backtracks on previous "operational limitations" preventing mutual air defense deals with Ukraine... now apparently desperate for interceptor drones. (Sounds like they are running out of the expensive stuff.)
Numbers are currently limited... Charge them up the wazoo, license them to produce their own for a percentage of the drones being sent to Ukraine... Or tell them to get in line behind the Arab states.
https://militarnyi.com/en/news/israel-turns-to-ukraine-on-intercepting-iranian-drones-after-refusing-cooperation-in-2022/

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · 6d ago

Simple solution if Iran War too controversial to report on:
Talk more about #epstein victims and of Trump having sex with children.
Cover the documents in detail.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/15/fcc-chair-broadcasters-license-iran-war

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · Mar 15, 2026

Tony Allen's drumming was so nicely tight.
V. snappy.

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · Mar 15, 2026

So many drones flying towards Moscow,
so much "emergency services specialists" at the site of the wreckage...
oh, but nothing is getting hit.

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · Mar 15, 2026

Another day, another 4 1/2 cents closer to victory or whatever.
It'll get significantly worse, as Barents Crude just spiked at 103.14, because nobody believes Trump will get us out of this mess anytime soon.

All that talk of his that dropped prices under $90 was ultimately just talk.

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · Mar 15, 2026

A Iraqi militant FPV drone flies over the entirety of the Victory Base complex in Baghdad.

Nice military base you got there. Would be a shame if anything were to happen to it...

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · Mar 14, 2026

This hurts quite a bit, actually... and the idea they could act with impunity against ships right next to the Kerch Bridge is a rather nice turn of events.

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · Mar 14, 2026

I've seen so many complaints from Russians about how the government fscked their internet connectivity. Nobody real likes it, everyone expects it'll get worse. A comic showed everyone angrily yelling at their bricks instead of phones.

Meanwhile, people are paying for their internet, and not getting anything in return. Billions are being lost, simply due to business operating at the speed of pen & paper.

Lots of Russians would be pretty happy if Putin died, but their internet came back.

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · Mar 14, 2026

The WP could at least let us know that this Trump guy is a multiple felon, or, ideally, that a court found he committed rape.

It makes no sense to lump sex criminals together, if you're unwilling to call them sex criminals.

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · Mar 14, 2026

Reza P. can talk about how Trump screwed over his plans to return to Iran, by murdering young schoolgirls and uniting Iran against Americans again.

Zelensky can talk about how he's been on Trump's shit list ever since he refused to make up criminal nonsense about the Biden family.

But as far as a plan on what can be done about such indignities... who knows?!

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · Mar 14, 2026

Russian milblogger says that Ukraine has 100km range FPV drones that Russia CANNOT copy.
This likely means those drone carriers that use Starlink. Also likely means that a certain part of the line REALLY can't combat / jam these drones, currently... which they'd normally deal with with EW.
So, they're completely vulnerable to these attacks, at the moment.
Probably need EW solutions that work vs. different parts of the radio spectrum, implemented discretely. Cat & mouse stuff.
h/t: WarTranslated

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · Mar 14, 2026

During Iraq, I organized a community for US soldiers, contractors, NGOs... and so, for a few years, my friends list had a body count.

I don't want to wish death on any American soldier, but the fact remains that we, as a country, need to internalize some serious lessons about the nature of war, of reasonable limits to US power projection, and how diplomacy SAVES LIVES / $$$.

The fucked up bit is that the people who NEED to learn these lessons the most are the ones least capable of doing so.

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · Mar 14, 2026

So, not just a BIG backlog of unfired Flamingos - probably a couple hundred already - but also the promise of increased production soon, too. Very fast reentry, with considerable mass impact in addition to the explosive element, hard to shoot down or significantly stop at all...

And these missiles FirePoint are making are half the price of other missiles, with the same capabilities.

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · Mar 14, 2026

The Dow Jones has fallen 3500 points from its high - so far - which means it's a great day to talk about Donald Trump's best friend Jeffrey Epstein again...That dead pedophile who Trump repeatedly praised as a nice guy up until 2015, even though Trump's campaign denied they had any kind of personal connection at all that same year.

First he praised him, then he denied knowing him, then he showed he KNEW what was going on Epstein Island the whole time, while trying to throw others under the bus.

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · Mar 14, 2026

Animation of Ukrainian offensive in February and March 2026 in Zaporozhye.

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · Mar 14, 2026

Trump was warned by Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that Iran could close the Strait of Hormuz in response to war.

Trump - who previously owned four casinos, before driving them into bankruptcy - downplayed the risk, saying that Tehran would likely capitulate before closing the strait—and even if Iran tried, the U.S. military could handle it.

Bad gambler with a habit for doubling down on losing hands.
https://archive.ph/WkwRV

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · Mar 14, 2026

Finally, a war where all parties will get precisely what they've been asking for, in spades.

Those aren't actual soldiers dying, with families, etc. Those are fungible learning chits. Everyone gets to learn new lessons, big time!

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · Mar 14, 2026

Pretty impressive, really.

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · Mar 14, 2026

All hat, no cattle.
(Plenty of bullshit, though.)

Goes well with the oversized clown shoes.

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · Mar 14, 2026

It appears the C-RAM (Counter Rocket Artillary and Mortar) system was attacked and destroyed at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Iraq. This system defended the embassy from drones and rockets.

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · Mar 14, 2026

US strikes on Iran's Kharg Island targeted the kind of places you would target if you wanted to hurt the defenses - and land troops - but spare the juicy, juicy oil terminals, presumably for an unrealistic Venezuela-like looting.

I suspect Iran has always had a plan to counter this... destroying it all, if need be.

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · Mar 14, 2026

French news channel counterposes video of oil facilities on fire in the Persian Gulf with Trump dancing to YMCA at a speech.

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · Mar 14, 2026

Ukraine starts selling "drones as a service"... specifically, drone interceptors, deployed anywhere in the world, piloted remotely by experienced Ukrainian drone operators.
Phones are ringing off the hook.
Expect venture capital & customers to flood in from the Gulf States, places that share a border with Russia, etc.

This is IN ADDITION to an upcoming United24 venture capital / tech demo tour of the US, with stops in the East Coast, Silicon Valley, Austin, etc.

https://archive.ph/DQ0bW

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · Mar 14, 2026

Even within Iranian territory, it would be possible to use the existing cellular comms landscape to guide drones to targets, as Russia did before Ukraine started shutting off their access. It might not be as robust as Starlink, but "good enough" is pretty good, when you have 50KG of explosives to work with.

One of the handicaps of Iranian Shaheds is that they can only target a physical location, not a moving object. Importing Shaheds from Russia could fix this in short order, potentially.

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · Mar 14, 2026

I mean, I GUESS Starlink could create whitelists for all of the Gulf States, though with much bigger disruptions than in Ukraine, as they had some advance notice to register their terminals... though that likely wouldn't protect international waters, etc.

It wouldn't protect anywhere in Iran that the US wants to put their marines, however. You'd have to cut off all the Iranian activists from the outside world, basically... unless perhaps you cut off fast-moving Starlink terminals over Iran.

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · Mar 14, 2026

Did you know that Starlink has at least 30,000 working terminals in Iran... presumably with the ability to import a whole bunch from Russia that they can't use anymore?

Did you know that those terminals could be incorporated into Shahed drones, allowing them to guide 30-50KGs of explosives to moving targets by drone operators, operating from basically anywhere with connectivity, in real time?!

This seems like it could potentially be problematic for the US.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/03/02/iran-hackers-use-elon-musk-starlink-to-stay-online/

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · Mar 14, 2026

The obvious places to strike with thousands of Marines in Iran are the most likely to be mined and rigged to blow.
The less obvious places are easily mortared, dronebombed, and surrounded by a small yet utterly overwhelming percentage of a million Iranian soldiers. Any fissile material is easily dispersed ahead of time.

None of them are politically convincing targets for declaring victory and going home, especially if casualties are high.
Not the kind of war any American should want to die for.

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WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT with minimal self-censorship. Brutally kind. Semi-reformed Silicon Valley nerd. 2nd in charge of LiveJournal, when LJ was sorta kinda cool. Fighting for tearing down online walled gardens since '99. Semi-retired semi-professional schmoozer. ❤ˡᶦᵗᵗˡᵉ ᶦⁿᵗᶦᵐᵃᵗᵉ ᵉˣᶜʰᵃⁿᵍᵉˢ Enby.🏳️‍⚧️ (Many other things, too.) They/them. Anti-fascist / Not Unamerican. Fan of well-regulated chaos. Aesthetically promiscuous. Realistically cynical optimist. On Signal. (Ask.)

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · Mar 10, 2026

Russians teaching their kids to lie for their country not playing so well to a different audience...

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · Mar 10, 2026

In response to repeated attacks, and, in some cases, significant damage to facilities, the US has ordered the evacuation of numerous diplomats throughout the Middle East.
Parts of the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia were “unrecoverable” and must be sealed off after a drone attack... the “least-damaged” parts of the embassy may be habitable in a month, while in “more damaged” areas, such as the CIA station on the top floor, will take several months to recover.
https://archive.ph/EAaNd

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · Mar 09, 2026

Trump, who already looks weak because of his inability to have ANY role in Iran deciding who its leader is, now looks even weaker after his administration admitted that Israel went far beyond what they expected by attacking Iranian oil.

The attack will further reduce the global supply of oil, raising prices at the pumps while killing American jobs.
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/08/us-dismayed-israel-iran-fuel-strikes

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WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT with minimal self-censorship. Brutally kind. Semi-reformed Silicon Valley nerd. 2nd in charge of LiveJournal, when LJ was sorta kinda cool. Fighting for tearing down online walled gardens since '99. Semi-retired semi-professional schmoozer. ❤ˡᶦᵗᵗˡᵉ ᶦⁿᵗᶦᵐᵃᵗᵉ ᵉˣᶜʰᵃⁿᵍᵉˢ Enby.🏳️‍⚧️ (Many other things, too.) They/them. Anti-fascist / Not Unamerican. Fan of well-regulated chaos. Aesthetically promiscuous. Realistically cynical optimist. On Signal. (Ask.)

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · Mar 08, 2026

Putin, Elvira Nabiullina, and Russian milbloggers negotiating a "soft landing" for the regime, the economy, and something vaguely like free speech, respectively.

(Some factions may have a softer landing than others.)

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · Mar 05, 2026

Make some room between Renee Good and Alex Pretti for Ruben Martinez,
shot dead in his car by immigration while reportedly navigating around DHS agents who were in the middle of the street.

The agency appears to have covered up the shooting for eight months, and have yet to release video of the shooting.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/cbccf5ec-fb8f-42d0-9ced-a60383e04b03.pdf
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/03/05/texas-dhs-shooting-citizen-killed/

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@KraftTea@mastodon.social · Mar 05, 2026

Putin tried to sweep through Ukraine to position itself where it could topple Moldova, have a friendly Romania with Russian-rigged elections, and possibly expand their border all the way to Serbia... Gets a NATO country 19 miles from St. Petersburg, armed with nuclear weapons. 😂

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