USAF moving assets out of Mideast; Pentagon Pizza Index showing above average traffic for a Saturday night

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.

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ShivaSkunk777@reddit

It’s a disinformation campaign? Sure, elaborate

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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.

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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.

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LeahBrahms@reddit

Keep tapping the Stripper Index too.

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8Deer-JaguarClaw@reddit

r/stripperIntel

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ReblWithoutApplause@reddit

This is actually decent for recession indicators

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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.

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daviddjg0033@reddit

a tale as ood as time.

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Own-Swan2646@reddit

Jon us at r/stripperintel, we are trying to look at this from that angle. Still just getting it going.

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ReblWithoutApplause@reddit

Is it just basically you posting..? You a bot or..

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Own-Swan2646@reddit

No .. I wish I was. Just seem to be the only on posting after week one.

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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.

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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

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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).

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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

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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.

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actusreus82@reddit

All the closeted MAGA military stop going to them when they’re too busy?

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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.

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Hot-Train7201@reddit

They actually do have one I've heard, but the Pentagon's a big place so lots of mouths to feed.

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GammaMonkey@reddit

Yeah but it’s a Sbarros in the food court.

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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.

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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.

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MirabilisLiber@reddit

There's a McDonald's in the Pentagon

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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.

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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.

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BasedPontiff@reddit

Exactly. If this actually meant anything it would not be publicly visible. They can have whatever restaurants they want in the building.

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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.”

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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.

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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).

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Any-Monk-9395@reddit

Do you really want a government agent making your pizzas??

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UrbanSolace13@reddit

The Pentagon actually has a shit ton of restaurants inside. The Pizza Index might not be the greatest predictor..

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MeanBart@reddit

Does this have anything to do with direct hit on Airforce base in Oklahoma(i think it was)? Housing was smashed

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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

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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.

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SilverDarner@reddit

You don't have to track the orders, just the movement of delivery drivers.

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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.

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Psychological_Fun172@reddit

We need a Sub Sandwich Index to compare to the Pizza Index...

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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?

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EatMyShortzZzZzZ@reddit

America is in the unenviable position of being stuck between two options that spell absolute disaster. All self imposed btw.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Enough-Cantaloupe893@reddit

I dunno i feel like the doctor had some role in that story lol

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shaddart@reddit

Truth

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ThaBigClemShady24@reddit

Fascism and empire requires a permanent enemy.

What better to have than the ones you manufacture.

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iveseensomethings82@reddit

Donald Trump will be known for all the times he has dunked on himself.

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Notyourpal-friend@reddit

Israeli imposed. Lots of collaborating by the US, but the ultimate beneficiary is Israel.

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FuzzzyRam@reddit

We let this happen. This is on all of us.

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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.

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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.

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metalreflectslime@reddit

Can you link his thread?

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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.

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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.

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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

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xanxer@reddit

I saw a chinook today just outside of DC

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Acceptable_Guava8069@reddit

Nothings happened in the last two weeks, gotta have something to reel the people back into the head lines

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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.

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Fast-Independence998@reddit

Are we all tired enough yet? I am so tired.

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AirborneGeek@reddit

Le Tired

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angrytetchy@reddit

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Kitchen-Hat-5174@reddit

Wow haven’t seen that in years

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idiotista@reddit

No, I am mad. I dont have the luxury to be tired.

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NotBradPitt9@reddit (OP)

President Netanyahu said we’re winning, so…. are we? Maybe he’s a liar?

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Lisan_Al-NaCL@reddit

The ironic thing is that all those aircraft seem to be going to Rammstein. Lol.

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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

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Salty-Passenger-4801@reddit

Trump said over the weekend the ceasefire stopped the 60 day clock. He has zero intentions of adhering to it.

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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.

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Philosophical-Emu@reddit

You've got Bovino openly stating that protestors are "canon fodder".... Coming soon to a protest near you.

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Nemisis_the_2nd@reddit

He can gun down American civilians in the street

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.

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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.

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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

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IncreasinglyAgitated@reddit

I’m sure he’s going to follow the rules all of a sudden.

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primarilyIndependent@reddit

Moving out assets mean stopping the war right ?

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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.

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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.

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spikedkushiel@reddit

They are gunna nuke em...

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Cristinky420@reddit

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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.

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mumwifealcoholic@reddit

Fuck Thats terrifying.

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Haunting_Lime2296@reddit

Sooner or later

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spikedkushiel@reddit

Yup. Tyrants are like ticks.

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Hot-Train7201@reddit

No, it means moving assets out of Iran's missile reach. It's a preemptive move to protect assets.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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_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.

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CanaryPutrid1334@reddit

They’ve had 4 weeks to reload just like us.

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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.

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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

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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.

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neonxdragon@reddit

Yeah I’m so confused, can some explain why moving assets out of the ME could indicate possible strikes resuming?

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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.

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neonxdragon@reddit

Makes sense. Thanks for explaining

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hysys_whisperer@reddit

The first time around, it was likely the families of accompanied officers being flown out.

Not sure about this time though.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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BathroomAggressive57@reddit

Five thousand.

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swadekillson@reddit

5M is more than all of DoD.

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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.

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devadander23@reddit

Screw the pizza, any more details about the debt offloading / currency survival that comment was about?

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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.

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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)

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Biotic101@reddit

GS predicted the real oil price shock starts mid May.

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MenacingMenacee@reddit

More bombing will definitely stop the conflict!

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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.

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BuckyRainbowCat@reddit

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

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SpaceMonkey_321@reddit

When all you have is a hammer, every problem is a nail.

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brokenringlands@reddit

the SEC Def is hammered

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the_real_Beavis999@reddit

More like taking a sledgehammer to crack a walnut..

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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.

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mumwifealcoholic@reddit

Is this “winning”?

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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.

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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).

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Far_Out_6and_2@reddit

I met the most beautiful girl once and every one called her Freddie just sayin

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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

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Valklingenberger@reddit

Hearing a lot of heavier air traffic heading towards Patrick AFB tonight.

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Far_Out_6and_2@reddit

Is that strategy and does it have meaning

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AnomalyNexus@reddit

They'll be back

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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.

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