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  • Yep that’s a whole other element that isn’t talked about enough:

    Trump and Hegseth executed what I can only describe as a ‘Stalin-esque’ purge of officers, prior to this all starting.

    Now they weren’t literally executed or sent to gulags, but they’re not part of the military anymore.

    … this cripples your military’s ability to do stuff that you, beforehand, probably would have just taken for granted as things that it can do. The kind of stuff that you normally don’t notice, because you only notice it when it isn’t being done correctly.

    Fucking idiots.


  • Yeah they…

    ‘We’ lost a THAAD radar array on I think literally day one.

    Costs like a billion dollars, or two billion, or something, fucking cost plus accounting, I don’t know!

    (If you say an M1A2 Abrams costs approximately $20 million, well then thats 50 to 100 Abrams… or, roughly 1 to 2 entire Combined Arms Battalions)

    Thats the thing that tells ‘our’ missle defense/interceptor missles ‘oi bruv you got incoming’, where to go, when to fire, which THAAD interceptor launching platform in what location should fire at which incoming.

    Kind of an insanely huge deal.

    The ‘Golden Dome’ got its eyes and brain obliterated, on day one.

    So… ‘our’ entire missle defense strategy at that point was 'oh fuck, scramble together everything that can /maybe/ hit some of the shit THAAD is designed to hit, and also go to South Korea and dismantle their THAAD system so we can repair the one Iran blew up.

    Trying to analogize this… Imagine its the Battle of Britain, and Germany manages to throw V1s at every single radar site in the UK, and wholly destroy them, on day one.

    Its roughly that bad.