https://xcancel.com/Defence_Index/status/2011280167608701398
Signs of possible U.S. B-2 activity emerging. Eyes on Iran, the next 24 hours may matter. 👀
🚨🇺🇸 UNUSUAL U.S. AIR FORCE ACTIVITY RAISES QUESTIONS
Eight KC-135 Stratotankers have landed in Hawaii, a transit hub previously used ahead of June’s Middle East operations involving Iranian nuclear sites.
Now, two KC-135Rs have departed Hawaii and are heading west, drawing fresh attention to U.S. military movements.
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I’m losing my fucking mind the way that these people are always doing this shit for no fucking reason. Let me guess, Iran has oil or poppies or ties to China or whatever. Oh, what’s that? If the money were spent on renewables you’d get a return 30% faster but then we’d have less need for military? We need a pretext for military intervention because George Bush Senior thought it was neat if we privatized the military? THIS SHIT FUCKING SUCKS. I’M SO FUCKING SICK OF IT.
When I play chess on the chess website and someone is from Iran I tell them “sorry about America” and sometimes they reply “it’s okay, it’s your shitty leaders” or “I don’t hate Americans themselves” but it’s like you SHOULD hate Americans too because Americans are the boots on the ground and the ones who fire the fucking missiles because they’re bored and don’t really want to work at McDonald’s. They justify killing innocents because you’re bored as a means of getting out of poverty which even that is statistically dubious but nobody’s ever going to listen to the minutia of things that the floating head behind a desk didn’t say because the American already said the line and all that’s left for them to do is have TV static between their fucking ears until you’re finished talking and then be confused because they already said the bazinga fucking line FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU FOREVER! FREE PALESTINE
Agreed.
Thing is America’s economy is cooked. It’s AI grifts, crypto scams, and gambling all the way down. The only actual wing of the economy is the military industrial complex and washing the dollar through other countries via warfare and asset seizure.
We’re fully into the newest Lebensraum era of the US where, as the generals kept saying to Hitler, ‘the war will pay for itself’.
The only problem for the US is that it usually doesn’t as the targets get harder and the ROI of plundering countries gets thinner. I mean, look at Trump’s meeting with the oil execs for an early example; they don’t even want to invest $100bn for oil extraction in Venezuela because they don’t think the US can keep control of it long-term.
What is so unfathomable is how there are thousands of these nameless ghouls working in the in the bowels of government who have so much energy and drive to fuck up the world. A lot of them are literally sacrificing their lives and devoting all their worldly energies to it.
This is supposedly part of the Sentry Aloha exercise that has planned for some time.
Flying units include the 154th Wing (WG) (F-22, KC-135) and Airborne Tactical Advantage Company (MK-58) from Hawai‘i, 115th Fighter Wing (FW) (F-35A) and 128th Air Refueling Wing (ARW) (KC-135) from Wisconsin, 159th FW (F-15C) from Louisiana, 155th ARW (KC-135) from Nebraska, 153rd Airlift Wing (C-130H) from Wyoming, 3rd WG (E-3) from Alaska, 552nd Air Control Wing (E-3) from Oklahoma, with support personnel from multiple units, states and Australia. The aircraft will take part in simulated combat exercises with the 199th and 19th Fighter Squadrons’ Hickam-based ‘Hawaiian Raptors.’
Good point, but we should also remember that war “games” can just as easily pivot directly into actual war. They are not harmless exercises.
Sure, but posts like OOP are just fear mongering. We have enough to be afraid of without grasping at straws.
The slight silver lining is that if the US goes to all out, boot on the ground war against Iran, they’ll lose, quite badly too, and it’ll probably be the end for Israel.
The goal isnt to rule Iran, it’s to kneecap it before it becomes a danger. Just like Libya and Syria, if they can start a civil war or just royally fuck the economy until its irrelevant to geopolitical events (eg. blocking Hormuz).
Maybe there’s some stretch goals for controlling the oil, but even denying the oil to someone else is a good start. Most importantly, none of this necessitiates a ground invasion.
Good point. However, given the outcome of the last few American military operations in the region, I’m frankly very skeptical of their chances of even achieving that.
If I remember the articles I’ve read about the US war games simulating a war against Iran correctly, the American fleet got wiped out in short order and with minimal damage dealt to Iran. And that was years ago, Iran has gotten stronger since, while the US has stagnated if not weakened.
As for causing a civil war, the current attempt at a color revolution has already failed, adding an other failure to the CIA’s recent streak of failed covert operations. So I wouldn’t bet on any successes on that front either.
I think what we’ve seen since the Iraq and Afghanistan debacles is a pivot towards a “de-development” strategy. The goal is simply to just collapse, sew chaos, and generally destroy the state capacity of enemy nation states as much as possible, with no pretense of trying to transition the government to a friendly regime. One reason to do that is that you don’t need an occupation, with the corresponding risk of high casualties and the risk that the whole endeavor be perceived as a failure.
We see a complete version of this strategy being employed against Iran: air strikes, special forces operations, clandestine operations, cyber warfare, and economic warfare. It’s incredibly devastating to the whole society, there’s very little risk of casualties, and there’s very little risk of it being perceived as a “failure” on the political stage (even when the regime doesn’t collapse).
More limited versions of this are applied to other countries, notably Cuba, North Korea and Venezuela. We see the results of it completely collapsing a state in Libya. We see examples of other countries doing it; I think the best example being Israel and Lebanon.
Nah, if US and Iran bludgeon each other, there’s a chance Israel is left free to do what it wants with the rest of the region.
The saving grace is that Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan have a defense treaty - so maybe even with Iran out of the picture - these guys can mount a good fight against Israel.
And without US patronage, Egypt could possibly flip.
there’s a chance Israel is left free to do what it wants with the rest of the region.
Iran has made it clear that it would destroy Israel if the US attacks
I disagree. Israel is infinitely more dependent on the US than any of the nations and groups fighting Israel have ever been dependent on Iran.
While, sure, Ansar Allah, Hezbollah and Hamas probably do get some gears from Iran, they also make their own themselves, and have in fact mastered the art of making weapons out of anything they can get, a capability that Israel is simply incapable of matching as without US deliveries they simply don’t get weapons at all.
Not to mention all the other aspects of Israel are fully or almost fully dependent on US support. Not least of which is their entire economy.
Even if the US and Iran wipes each other’s army, it’s Israel who’ll lose in the long run. Because Iran or not, without the American lifeline, Israel collapses, it’s that simple.
Turkey is in NATO, and was quite happy to advance NATO’s agenda in Syria whilst barking like a dog at “Israel” despite trading with them via Egypt.
Saudi Arabia opposes “Israel” out of its strategic ambitions to oppose the UAE. It took Hamas launching Al Aqsa Flood to delay normalisation. Not to mention being under the thumb of American capital.
Pakistan has been battling Afghanistan and India on its borders, and has Balochi militants to contend with before it can provide much to a “Post-Iranian” axis against the Zionist entity.
I can’t rule it out, but I don’t know how dedicated these states are to defeating Israel compared to Iran, nor if their weapons are much more suited to the task.
hilarious how these things can’t be done in complete secret to most of the world anymore
Yeah, we often say stuff like “wow my cyberpunk dystopia has none of the cool parts of a cyberpunk dystopia”, but if you are creative, and you think about it long enough, there are definitely some cool parts.
It’s just hard to enjoy them what with us basically being in a shooting war with a fascist state while everyone tries their hardest to pretend we aren’t.
I sense something in the air. Something much much bigger than the BLM protests. If we had not already crossed the line before, I think the back to back shootings of Good and the couple in Oregon will make for what historians will trace the roots of the second American Civil War.
in a cyberpunk story the trans girls in the long socks would be able to down those planes from a coffee shop or public library.
Downs a pint of RC-spiked energy drink, puts on VR headset I’m logging on! Let’s see, jumping out of the clearnet, purging my digital fingerprints… done.
Zooming to the Kuala Lumpur node… here we go. OK, now changing my avatar to be that of a FinanceWeb Spider-Crawler.
Bouncing to Mexico City, 3rd Level Shadowhub. Attempting to find traces of transactions by USAF pilots in Tijuana.
This one looks juicy… hmmm, yep, got him. He bought convenience store dick pills with his credit card. Currently operating a BX-2 over the Pacific.
Hijacking the man-machine interface… Oooh yeah, handling it. Sliding into the BX-2’s gestalt field. I AM the bomber.
Doing a 180. We’re going to Virginia, friends!
I wish China made this game
Be the China you dream of
friends
no no it has to be “choombas” or “chummers” or something else, otherwise it’s not authentically Cyberpunk
so that means all the other words i typed were acceptable, right?
how about “AirBuds”? “Phyle-Membos”? “ClannerZ”?
“ClannerZ”
now were cooking
Do the pilots temporarily increase their IQ before air strikes with dick pills?
They sacrifice their dicks to boner rot for the US empire. Sadge.
these are cyberpunk dick pills that turn your grey matter into erectile tissue
…Johnny Arson, we have a mission for you.
maybe she can… but probably only one and then she’d be toast
they kill one white lady and now we’re in a shooting war
these fascists have killed so many fucking people wtfYes but we all knew for the majority of America to get the memo it was going to require a pretty white girl dying. That is just the sad reality we live in.
That’s gross
Yes America is a vile country. Also I didn’t say that is when it actually started which we could nitpick all the way back to landing on Plymouth Rock.
I mean technically it goes back to the development of caste and proto-capitalism in western europe. Check out Black Marxism its a dense read, but so worth it.
that’s what pisses me off about all this anger. Sure, yes it is justified to be angry about ICE openly killing people, but how many non-whites have they killed so far and barely a mum from anyone over it? One white and now it’s gone too far.
My thoughts exactly. Even some of the crackers on here are like “shits really hit the fan now, white people its time to get buy a gun” racist ass reactionary motherfuckers y’all are still not getting it. 😒
We’re starting to have braincells grown in labs used as processors for computers. Ukraine is coated in internet cables used in the control of tiny killer drones. The government knows so much about you that it practically knows nothing about you because it cannot handle all the data. A message on a website by someone pretending to be a company can kill the stock value of said company - for a day, until someone somewhere types in an extra zero on the right account.
A tiny piece of plastic carries your life’s worth and if you don’t use it then you will never be able to owe someone money for a house. The most powerful men in the world regularly appear on public entertainment systems in order to sell “crypto-coin” a version of money thats even further detached from what gives it value, the only purpose of which seems to be to purchase drugs, illegal pornography, order murders, launder money or to function as a scam. It is in fact expected of the seller of cryptocurrency that they artificially inflate its’ value.
Modern day heists involve replicating other peoples phones in order to access “bit coin wallets”.
Your phone knows your name.
It shares it with all the devices that are in your apartment.Yesteryears devices are gathered in massive heaps in less wealthy countries, where young kids scrap them for precious metals. The more knowledgeable of them will refurbish electronics into Frankensteined devices more powerful than what the average Western consumer has, either because it is not shackled with the same spyware or because computer parts have increased in price while the quality has remained the same, at best.
When the hoi polloi are stuck at home hiding away from dangerous weather - Hurricanes, blizzards, tornadoes or evermore frequent firstorms - they can use their phone to have a less fortunate soul bring them food, snacks or regular groceries. This luxury can be paid for through various loan services.
Your phone knows you gave it a fake name.I could go on, but im becoming cliché. Still, I “love” to think about how cyberpunk the world is.
us basically being in a shooting war with a fascist state while everyone tries their hardest to pretend we aren’t.
mood
The thing is, as TankieTanuki pointed out, they have their transponders on. They are letting it be known on purpose.
This is just ADS-B, which aircraft can turn off at any time by switching off the XPDR. The US is absolutely capable of moving planes in secret (at least relative to the general public, as KC-135s show up on radar). Whenever you see military aircraft show up on a flight tracker, they either don’t care about being seen, or are saber rattling. The Trump USAF loves to show off when it repositions aircraft though, so I imagine the coming forward deployment of a B-2 to Diego Garcia or Al-Udeid will be done with XPDRs on, parking in open air, and a Twitter post to accompany the flight.
bombbombbomb bomblindseygraham
Yea I guess John McCain is already dead.
How’s the pizza index looking?
(What a fucking amerikkkan thing to say, jfc)
It’s been up for quite a number of days now.
Dominos +137%
Pizzato +278%
.
But yesterday
Dominos >+1000%
Pizzato +294%
Maybe the Pentagon got together to game it out yesterday? I remember waiting for the 12 day war a day early because of the Pizza Index.
People are reacting as if the Pizza Index spiked just now. Idk if psy op, or if there is an actual short term spike.
https://xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=pizza+index&since=&until=&min_faves=
My theory is that it has been up for all those days because they keep trying to figure out a way to invade a country they already occupy (Greenland).
“Okay what if we land a bunch of troops like in Normandy?”
We’re allowed to do that, so they wouldn’t react like an invasion and nothing would change
“We quickly construct a bunch of new bases?”
We’re allowed to do that
“Paratroopers?”
We’re allowed to do that
“What about a nuke?”
We’re allowed to do that
“What if we withdraw all of our troops and then put them back?”
That would be quite easy to do, we’ve almost already done it. We only have one base left right now and that’s because -
“We’re allowed to do that. Uhh what if we do a colour revolution?”
There’s only 50.000 people there, we can’t really hire enough to fake a movement
“Fuck. What about naval maneuvers?”
We’re already doing that because we’re allowed to do that
“What if we kidnap their prime minister?”
The author would love for that to happen, so let’s go with that“What about a nuke?”
We’re allowed to do that
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_crash always funny to bring up to a Dane who doesn’t believe they’re a vassal
Dominos >+1000%
lmao we are so cooked
one day we’ll find out the pentagon has invested in giant pizza freezers and industrial microwaves so that they can time delay/head fake the index
strategic pizza reserves
(I guess they would actually be tactical pizza reserves)
Sounds even funnier.
the beast hungers. the blood of the innocent must flow
Military craft use transponders?
its a tactic to broadcast in public shit like this. ‘‘oh look where we are’’ and then turn them off to go ‘‘oh now you dont, guess what we’re doing haha’’. before the venezuela air campaign they spent months flying around them with the transponders on
Sure would be a shame if BRICS have been working on an AAC system set to track flight patterns after transponders go dark using the same AI systems they’d have like two decades of data to perfect the algorithmic learning process on. Kind of like an exhaust vent in the side of your deathstar if you’ve been training military AI on your own fucking military actions and the responses of resistance fighters you’ve intentionally impoverished ahead of time.
That’s an Ace you wouldn’t expose, however. Except maybe in the case of after a fullblown invasion of Iran. If you were BRICS, I mean.
Maybe, there’s lots of weapons that won’t be revealed (let alone their true capabilities) until they are seen in action. However, it doesn’t bode well that short of hypothetical wunderwaffen (up to and including surprise nuclear proliferation from Iran) the US has so far only lost its most advanced materiel through unforced error.
Cross-link to news meta: https://hexbear.net/comment/6830321
