USAF moving assets out of Mideast; Pentagon Pizza Index showing above average traffic for a Saturday night
Posted by NotBradPitt9@reddit | PrepperIntel | View on Reddit | 152 comments
Interesting developments. Seems like we are at some sort of pivotal stage where the conflict is either being wound down or being restarted. Only time will tell!
avid-shrug@reddit
You’d think they’d build their own in house pizzeria at this point
AntiSonOfBitchamajig@reddit
Yeah... i honestly think the whole pizza thing is busted from too many people knowing about it now.
Next they might actually talk about the "gay bars indicator"
cyanescens_burn@reddit
I read somewhere that the pentagon is now very aware of the Pizza index, and intentionally manipulates it.
redjellonian@reddit
The average person could figure out how to do it. Take 200 of them and put them in a room and you have the pentagon.
hera-fawcett@reddit
sounds like wallstreetbets to me 🤡
redjellonian@reddit
I said average person not average regard
hera-fawcett@reddit
babe if ur finna try to bring back the slur 'retard', just say it.
otherwise u sound regarded 💀💀💀
redjellonian@reddit
I see you've never been to Wallstreetbets.
hera-fawcett@reddit
ur right 🫥
i got a lil bro who's all up in it and im just always ????
L0rdInquisit0r@reddit
it was taken under new managment a few months back so it is already under control.
ShivaSkunk777@reddit
Is that the one that tells you the RNC is in town?
_John_Dillinger@reddit
the grindr thing is actually a disinformation campaign. i'm the last one to defend those kiddy fiddlers, but i know first hand that it's a fabrication. i can walk you through why if you wish.
ShivaSkunk777@reddit
It’s a disinformation campaign? Sure, elaborate
_John_Dillinger@reddit
alright, so the simplified philosophy behind microservices architecture is to optimize availability on demand to accomplish two goals: service level agreements (in the case of grindr that's both with the paying users and with advertisers) and secondly to minimize cloud spend by spinning servers up and winding them down as needed. much of that architecture revolves around monitoring network conditions and utilization.
the commonly told version is that the RNC rocks up to cleveland or wherever and brings grindr down with the sheer weight of their closeted homosexuality. even if that were the case, grindr would automatically spin up more capacity within two minutes. according to the architect of their security apparatus, what's actually happening is they are targeted by persistent reflected ddos attacks on their provisioning servers to coincide with the event. those provisioning servers are localized, so for those on the outside looking in it appears: a reporter is curious about the rumor and/or horny for some tummy sticks/clam jam and fires up grindr. grindr is down, and said reporter gossips about their findings on tiktok or whatever.
it's just some hacktivists with a good grasp of PR. my guess would be aubrey cottle, since it hasn't happened since he got locked up.
jms21y@reddit
i want to believe that the RNC pulls into town and crashes grindr with their closeted homosexuality, but i also love a good technical explanation. thank you.
having that myth dispelled anyway isn't so bad; they're still closeted homosexuals and pedophiles.....i don't need to believe an urban myth in order to remain convinced of that.
LeahBrahms@reddit
Keep tapping the Stripper Index too.
8Deer-JaguarClaw@reddit
r/stripperIntel
ReblWithoutApplause@reddit
This is actually decent for recession indicators
angrytetchy@reddit
Strippers are also the best intel for deployment news. Bunch of fresh faces teens getting shipped off are gonna blow that pay on strippers.
daviddjg0033@reddit
a tale as ood as time.
Own-Swan2646@reddit
Jon us at r/stripperintel, we are trying to look at this from that angle. Still just getting it going.
ReblWithoutApplause@reddit
Is it just basically you posting..? You a bot or..
Own-Swan2646@reddit
No .. I wish I was. Just seem to be the only on posting after week one.
badk11Z@reddit
Or how about you just see how many cars are in the freaking parking lot. All of these “index’s” are stupid. The public can literally count the amount of cars in the parking lot. There are unobstructed views of the parking lots on all sides of the pentagon.
zzaaaaap@reddit
That would mean people need to leave their house and count hundreds of cars every hour, then compare the data. Also, lots of people at the Pentagon take public transit
badk11Z@reddit
No it wouldn’t. It would require one person at a specific time of day to count the cars. It’d take 30 minutes, max.
A lot of people working at bring their lunch to work, so the pizza index is fucking stupid.
At least counting the cars would be a literal indication of more people in the building (especially during a weekend or at night when the lots are usually empty).
zzaaaaap@reddit
The incredibly simple task of being able to monitor acres of parking lots on federal property by a single person. Don’t forget that like half of us use public transportation or ride share
badk11Z@reddit
There are literal public walking/bike paths 360 degrees around the pentagon. If you were on a bike it would take less than 15 minutes. 30 minutes if you were walking.
actusreus82@reddit
All the closeted MAGA military stop going to them when they’re too busy?
BathroomAggressive57@reddit
I went Pentagon in the '90s. When I was a kid they had a cafeteria. They had a McDonald's. They had a Subway. I don't believe in the pizza index really at all.
Hot-Train7201@reddit
They actually do have one I've heard, but the Pentagon's a big place so lots of mouths to feed.
GammaMonkey@reddit
Yeah but it’s a Sbarros in the food court.
RetroTechBro@reddit
Does the Pentagon not have a full blown food court?
In terms of military expenditures, having a government ran food court that isn't reporting numbers or activity publicly would be a relatively small one.
ProlapseMishap@reddit
The Pentagon food court is where Hegeseth sent all of the IG JAGs after we decided war criming and being used on your own citizens is cool now.
MirabilisLiber@reddit
There's a McDonald's in the Pentagon
Hot-Train7201@reddit
It does--I think it's called 'Ground Zero' or something like that as a joke about the Pentagon being one of the first places that is getting nuked in a world war.
LeanUntilBlue@reddit
The White House was ordering a lot of pizza years ago. Maybe the Pentagon can check with them on where to order from.
BasedPontiff@reddit
Exactly. If this actually meant anything it would not be publicly visible. They can have whatever restaurants they want in the building.
joshuaxls@reddit
Right? “Hey let’s reveal to a bunch of Redditors AND all our enemies our next moves by ordering a ton of pizza to get delivered.”
SpaceMonkey_321@reddit
Trust me, it will start off ok and then the food will taste like shit within 6 months becos the contract is awarded to an insider 'fren of a fren' who isn't in the f&b industry but some ex fed hack who needs a soft landing after retirement. Don't ask me how I know.
cyanescens_burn@reddit
Man. Remember when we had that one president that conserved public lands, built loads of infrastructure, and went after corrupt individuals (starting back during his time cleaning up NYPD)?
Now they just claim to care about how regular people are doing, but only focus on the stock market and removing regulations for businesses (destroying environmental and worker protections in the process).
Any-Monk-9395@reddit
Do you really want a government agent making your pizzas??
UrbanSolace13@reddit
The Pentagon actually has a shit ton of restaurants inside. The Pizza Index might not be the greatest predictor..
MeanBart@reddit
Does this have anything to do with direct hit on Airforce base in Oklahoma(i think it was)? Housing was smashed
grummanae@reddit
P8 Posiedon wings are centered on Whidbey and Jax this could be a rotation thats normal or to reposition to meet future needs
Keep in mind current speculation is Cuba is on the radar of possible targets
With the Ford set to leave the gulf and transit the Atlantic and Nimitz in the south Atlantic there would be 2 CSG's available now tactically this is stupid beyond words you've got the nimitz group thats just tired and the ship is as old as dirt and at the end of her service life, you've got the Ford and yes the ship still has new carrier smell, those ships are not designed to be out at sea for a year straight, I have no doubt the capability but the Ford was designed when the Navy still ran carriers on a pretty fixed 24 month deployment cycle, most of the systems, and maintenance for the ship itself was designed around that.
The aircraft alone are on that type of scheduled maintenance, older aircraft F14 EA6B would need to be down for close to 3 weeks once a year for a 365 day, seats torn out, and apart and all CAD components replaced, engines removed and aircraft opened up every panel, and on old AHARs aircraft towed to a magnetically quiet part of the airfield called the compass Rose and the compass recalibrated.... kinda hard to do on 1500 ft long steel ship
Im sure superhornets have different steps but the concept would be similar and im guessing around the same cycle
Strategically : no one would expect it ... No one would expect us to be dumb enough to think about it
CBLA1785@reddit
Does anyone really believe the pizza thing is still a viable gauge for anything. By now they have caught on to this internet phenomenon and can throw it off by their own design willingly so as.to not corrupt operations.
SilverDarner@reddit
You don't have to track the orders, just the movement of delivery drivers.
Nemisis_the_2nd@reddit
On the one hand, its something they know about and can manipulate. On the other, they still have a lot of mouths to feed and those people cant all cram into a busy food hall that isnt prepared ahead of time.
Psychological_Fun172@reddit
We need a Sub Sandwich Index to compare to the Pizza Index...
Accomplished_Rip_362@reddit
Why would the assets be leaving? That makes no sense. Is it because they don't have adequate anti drone defenses in place to defend them while parked?
EatMyShortzZzZzZ@reddit
America is in the unenviable position of being stuck between two options that spell absolute disaster. All self imposed btw.
OneTwoThreePooAndPee@reddit
Yeah... Basically the only option for the US to get out of this with minimum damage to world order would be to really truly go hat-in-hand to NATO and beg for a coalition to re-open and aggressively hold the straight with minimal invasion on the Iranian shores to set up anti-drone systems etc.
Trump is gonna try to do this own his own, or just try to fully invade/do some kind of second Israeli-lead covert regime change operation.
Tony_Freaks@reddit
America is Frankenstein in the way we make all of our problems. We destabilize almost every country in the middle east then we complain how we get terrorism. We destabilize almost every country in South America and then complain about immigration.
weJtiddeR@reddit
But thats the point. They want the immigration, notice how even "racist" Trump back peddled and never did any meaningful numbers of deportations. They want more and cheaper slaves, and Americans are kind of tired of it. So they must import them. Greg Abbot could stop it over night if he wanted, but he's Zio donors have explicitly told him they will pull their millions of dollars of funding if he pushes the issue.
Conscious-War5920@reddit
I was just talking about south america and the United fruit company last night and how that caused 30 years of destabilizing in guatemala and nearby regions. People blame immigration, but dont like to acknowledge the cause of it.
Enough-Cantaloupe893@reddit
I dunno i feel like the doctor had some role in that story lol
shaddart@reddit
Truth
ThaBigClemShady24@reddit
Fascism and empire requires a permanent enemy.
What better to have than the ones you manufacture.
iveseensomethings82@reddit
Donald Trump will be known for all the times he has dunked on himself.
Notyourpal-friend@reddit
Israeli imposed. Lots of collaborating by the US, but the ultimate beneficiary is Israel.
FuzzzyRam@reddit
We let this happen. This is on all of us.
AntiSonOfBitchamajig@reddit
So, I have to give some credit to u/NotBradPitt9 .... months ago they tried posting what ended up being accurate intel on the start of the Iran, but we all dismissed it.
OneTwoThreePooAndPee@reddit
But do you think he's actually secretly Brad Pitt? I mean, assuming it's a double switcheroo is exactly what Brad Pitt would WANT us to pick.
metalreflectslime@reddit
Can you link his thread?
AntiSonOfBitchamajig@reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/PrepperIntel/comments/1rgmqp5/israeli_fighter_jets_flying_over_iraq_towards
I want to say, we ALL thought it was BS sourcing lol.
drjenavieve@reddit
I started looking at Twitter posters feed. He had some stuff that might seem crazy (aliens) but a lot of his other posts were accurate with information before the events. Not always. But he possibly has a source in the government.
AntiSonOfBitchamajig@reddit
Weird... it was stuck in a filter? but it had comments and everything? https://www.reddit.com/r/PrepperIntel/comments/1rgmqp5/israeli_fighter_jets_flying_over_iraq_towards
xanxer@reddit
I saw a chinook today just outside of DC
NotTooShahby@reddit
Okay but “export our debt” is just misinformation. The petro dollar system didn’t make the US a reserve currency (it already was before it was made), oil is a smaller part of our GDP than 1974, and the petro dollar is more of a way to build a Saudi-US knot for a military and economic alliance. If the petro dollar ended today, we would lose about 1-2% of our reserves worldwide.
I just wish this nonsense would end. It was a conspiracy because it was secret, only recently in 2016 did a FOIA request reveal the intentions of creating the petro dollar and it’s basically nothing significant or at least not as significant as people are claiming. The US cares about energy price stability more back then than now.
Complete-Paint529@reddit
Indeed. The term "petrodollar" has long since lost meaning. Note that since the term was created, the US has shifted from being the largest petroleum importer to the largest petroleum exporter.
Oil fluctuations have next to zero impact on the tendency of central banks to hold on to dollars/treasuries. They've been gradually shifting away from USD for years.
hobojoe5012@reddit
The war is not over folks.....the people we have in charge dont know what the fuck they are doing. A bunch of fucking TV personalities running the most powerful military in human history. Donkies leading lions.
Acceptable_Guava8069@reddit
Nothings happened in the last two weeks, gotta have something to reel the people back into the head lines
captainrustic@reddit
Dudes. Yall need to calm down on some of this stuff. That pizza place isn’t “right next to the pentagon”. That is a regular neighborhood next to a mall.
Fast-Independence998@reddit
Are we all tired enough yet? I am so tired.
AirborneGeek@reddit
Le Tired
angrytetchy@reddit
Kitchen-Hat-5174@reddit
Wow haven’t seen that in years
idiotista@reddit
No, I am mad. I dont have the luxury to be tired.
NotBradPitt9@reddit (OP)
President Netanyahu said we’re winning, so…. are we? Maybe he’s a liar?
Lisan_Al-NaCL@reddit
The ironic thing is that all those aircraft seem to be going to Rammstein. Lol.
New_Stats@reddit
This is all completely expected
The war powers granted to the president allow for 60 days of aggression without Congressional authorization. Those 60 days are up. The war powers also allows for a 30 day withdrawal
Salty-Passenger-4801@reddit
Trump said over the weekend the ceasefire stopped the 60 day clock. He has zero intentions of adhering to it.
FuzzzyRam@reddit
He can say whatever he wants, he's an autocrat with Republican support for everything he's doing. He can gun down American civilians in the street, but veteran support through Medicaid, SNAP, and VA staffing, rape kids, destroy the economy, ramp up the debt - and not lose more than a few points of Republican support.
Philosophical-Emu@reddit
You've got Bovino openly stating that protestors are "canon fodder".... Coming soon to a protest near you.
Nemisis_the_2nd@reddit
He might not have directly shot anyone on 5th avenue, but that statement was depressingly prophetic. He might not have pulled the trigger but the blood of more than one person is on his hands.
cyanescens_burn@reddit
And I’ve seen several of his inner circle repeat the same talking point. Marching orders have been delivered. The alt-right subs and accounts will be parroting it quickly.
New_Stats@reddit
He said 18 million things this weekend about the 60 days and it was all conflicting bullshit
What's surprising is that he actually acknowledges the law at all. And he damn well might attack Iran again but I think they want out and this gives them an out
Now he's threatening Cuba
IncreasinglyAgitated@reddit
I’m sure he’s going to follow the rules all of a sudden.
primarilyIndependent@reddit
Moving out assets mean stopping the war right ?
NotBradPitt9@reddit (OP)
It’s an inflection point. Could mean:
1) On one hand it could mean they’re pulling valuable assets because negotiations on the backend were successful.
2) On the other hand it could mean they’re pulling valuable assets because they dropped off what they needed to already and they’re still in the “applying pressure” stage of negotiations. ie: trying to get Iran to agree to demands.
3) It could also mean they’re withdrawing key assets before resuming strikes.
At this point, only time will tell. They don’t have 60,000+ troops in the region for nothing, but at the same time that’s only enough for (maybe) taking over a few of the islands with the main oil infrastructure.
SpaceballsTheCritic@reddit
This, we can’t track jeeps and missile launchers, they dropped their cargo and are going out of theater for safety or for the next run.
This has nothing to do with abandonment of this nonsense.
spikedkushiel@reddit
They are gunna nuke em...
Cristinky420@reddit
spikedkushiel@reddit
Yup news reported Hegseth fired everyone and is consolidating power. Daddy has already said it in the open and they bombed a school of children already. They are already destroying the world economy, and they can't take over hormuz without massive losses and the public will be up in arms.
But they weren't over that school of children killed in their name, spin it as American lives saved, and then just like that we all become universally hated more. To promote the Christian nationalist hegemony.
mumwifealcoholic@reddit
Fuck Thats terrifying.
Haunting_Lime2296@reddit
Sooner or later
spikedkushiel@reddit
Yup. Tyrants are like ticks.
Hot-Train7201@reddit
No, it means moving assets out of Iran's missile reach. It's a preemptive move to protect assets.
RetroTechBro@reddit
What does Iran have left?
I'm far from supporting this idiotic war, but between combat losses and combat expenditure I'd expect Iran to more or less be running on empty as far as ballistics and drones.
Cristinky420@reddit
Iran has been preparing for this exact scenario for 47 years. They've had time to dig out their underground storage. They can disrupt the Bab al-Mandab Strait with proxies. And I'm sure they learned a lot strategically. I agree they may not have the firepower to win the war outright but they're gonna put up one helluva fight.
ABoutDeSouffle@reddit
On the other hand, Iran is rife with corruption, and it does not seem their leadership or military brass is promoted based on merit. Mind you, I believe this war was a super idiotic idea, but Iran's abilities have been hyped up way beyond what they actually have.
We read a lot about Chinese/Soviet anti-ship missiles exported to Iran over the last 40y. Where are they? AFAIK, not one was fired.
Their missiles cities seem to be either destroyed or buried. We might find out soon enough, but I doubt they are able to fire a lot of missiles.
They had few hits on high-value targets as far as we know - one was the US-built AN/FPS-132 missile warning radar in Qatar. After that, not much.
Their Russian S-400 anti-air defence batteries got simply destroyed.
All they did achieve was pepper Israel with ballistic missiles and destroy oil/gas infrastructure in the GCC countries.
_JohnGalt_@reddit
China and Russia should (smartly) be getting as much of their cheap long range munitions to Iran on every express train they can. It doesn't take expensive mines to keep the straits closed, or small missile boats. And those small boats are too cheap a target for our expensive bombs to be wasted on.
CanaryPutrid1334@reddit
They’ve had 4 weeks to reload just like us.
HoneyIntrepid6709@reddit
US did just send a significant amt of military weapons and aid. I would think that Israel will continue this war on our dime. They have the reputation and impunity to go after civilian sites with little to no kickback. Donnie can focus on midterms.
primarilyIndependent@reddit
Iran had 88,000 drones stockpile before war and iran used around 14,000 drones Iran have options if they want to escalate and they also have missiles
Hot-Train7201@reddit
Planes are much more survivable in the air than on the ground, and Iran does have a lot of missiles they keep in underground bunkers.
neonxdragon@reddit
Yeah I’m so confused, can some explain why moving assets out of the ME could indicate possible strikes resuming?
Rich_Mac@reddit
These aren't combat aircraft. They are support aircraft.
If hostilities resume and Iran starts flying drones and lobbing missiles at our bases it is better to have these assets far away and in a safe place.
neonxdragon@reddit
Makes sense. Thanks for explaining
hysys_whisperer@reddit
The first time around, it was likely the families of accompanied officers being flown out.
Not sure about this time though.
TheZingerSlinger@reddit
No. In this context it more likely means clearing big targets off of runways at bases that might get hit by Iranian missiles and drones.
Maybe, who knows with these people. They can’t seem to make up their minds. The Israelis seem pretty keen to start bombing again.
Biotic101@reddit
The amphibious assault ship USS Boxer and the dock landing ship USS Comstock still seem to be on their way to the area. Does look escalation more likely than de-escalation.
USS Gerald R. Ford is pulling out but that seems like force rotation with USS George H.W. Bush recently arriving to take its place.
just_a_knowbody@reddit
Hegseth recently announced pulling 5m troops out of Germany. This could be related to that. Lots of cargo traffic in that plane mix.
BathroomAggressive57@reddit
Five thousand.
swadekillson@reddit
5M is more than all of DoD.
hiartt@reddit
When a real king gives you a gift that could well be interpreted as “dickhead, I hope you, specifically, die soon” (after someone explains it to you) you need to do something to feel big and powerful again.
devadander23@reddit
Screw the pizza, any more details about the debt offloading / currency survival that comment was about?
Traditional-Heat-749@reddit
Trump makes all strategic decisions based on US Domestic economic issues. Gas is expensive af so I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s going try to bomb Iran more to try and end the conflict.
ThaOppanHaimar@reddit
Oh, you think he's gonna send a nuke down there? Would make sense why people would be moved out of the middle east.
Or I was thinking he was moving ships out of there. I guess after thinking more about it, they meant moving things out of the country (so they can be attacked)
Biotic101@reddit
GS predicted the real oil price shock starts mid May.
MenacingMenacee@reddit
More bombing will definitely stop the conflict!
majordashes@reddit
And I’m sure more bombs will open the Strait of Hormuz.
Not.
Opening that strait is the most important card in this whole war. Failing to do so will cause an economic event horizon due to global energy, food, fertilizer, and critical-materials shortages and supply-chain meltdowns.
BuckyRainbowCat@reddit
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
SpaceMonkey_321@reddit
When all you have is a hammer, every problem is a nail.
brokenringlands@reddit
the SEC Def is hammered
the_real_Beavis999@reddit
More like taking a sledgehammer to crack a walnut..
withomps44@reddit
Why would this necessarily signal a withdrawal? A delivery of 6500 tons of munitions and equipment was just delivered. In order to transport fuel, munitions and equipment the jets all have to fly back to the USA to reload.
I I am leaning towards reload/resupply rather than packing up.
mumwifealcoholic@reddit
Is this “winning”?
BugsyMcNug@reddit
So after this shit going on for close to two fuckong months, can we all agree that this is a joke we are not in on, AND kills a bunch of people? No? Okay, I guess the majority of right wing Redditors are sick people not worth saving.
Otherwise-Speed4373@reddit
The pizza index used to call out Freddie's which is a gay bar.
Everything is busy around here lately -- there are SO many school groups. It feels like way more than last year and certainly more than the past few years (schools backed off during covid).
Far_Out_6and_2@reddit
I met the most beautiful girl once and every one called her Freddie just sayin
AnomalyNexus@reddit
I wonder if this is why they shipped a mountain of ammo to Israeli. Hold the fort while the US does a 60 day reset
Valklingenberger@reddit
Hearing a lot of heavier air traffic heading towards Patrick AFB tonight.
Far_Out_6and_2@reddit
Is that strategy and does it have meaning
AnomalyNexus@reddit
They'll be back
NotDinahShore@reddit
How does it make sense that a “mass departure” took place right before the war started? Unless they were getting the transport planes out of theater after they had already dropped off their payloads.
We know that 7-10 days ago there was a huge airlift from the US to Europe and then to the ME. Perhaps these planes are getting out of danger now.
AND The Hormuz Letter, I have found, is untrustworthy. I believe they just make stuff up.
Odii_SLN@reddit
Is orange dipshit trying to give himself another 60 days by pretending he stopped?
Serpentongue@reddit
That was epic fury, this new one is Epstein’s Revenge. Totally different war, so the 60 day timer restarts.
50_61S-----165_97E@reddit
Pete said in the classified signal groupchat that he was going to call it Epic Fury II - Electric Boogaloo
cyanescens_burn@reddit
Ad infinitum…
CAredditBoss@reddit
He already claimed that
angrytetchy@reddit
Probably - gives another solid 6-8 weeks of market manipulation.
Mountain_carrier530@reddit
This is how I find out I'm stop-lossed, isn't it?
HarryBallsanya420@reddit
What positions :)
Existing_Count1544@reddit
One of you was talking finance and the other military.
HarryBallsanya420@reddit
lol I thought he was saying his stock positions are going to bottom out and sell off
Mountain_carrier530@reddit
I'm military. I'm 2 months away from EAOS.
Just-Pea-4968@reddit
Everyone going to go Boom hahahaha what a World!!!!!!
MadCapHorse@reddit
Well it takes a while to get from Iran to Cuba, they must depart.
7o7A1@reddit
Epstein Fury Reloaded
KingMario05@reddit
Aw, shit. Here we go again.
FrVincentVattoli@reddit