Eleven nuclear-powered, $17 billion dollar [FN1] targets [FN2], sailing under U.S. colors, await target practice. [FN3] About 4,500 personnel are onboard each of those vessel. In Ukraine, use of drones has exposed the weakness of big, expensive machines. We should know. 1/13

“Charlie Wilson’s War” [FN4] depicts “Operation Cyclone, a program to organize and support the Afghan mujahideen” against the Soviet Union. We trained people to use relatively cheap surface-to-air missiles to bring down a lot of Soviet aircraft. Ah, yes. History. 2/13

Some of the people we trained to take down Soviet choppers & fixed-wing aircraft did the 9/11 attacks. Now, we are killing people in Iran. Iran builds drones and sells them to Russia. So Iran has intel from building & selling drones for the past few years. 3/13

In the news today: Iran fired a missile at a joint US-UK base in the Indian Ocean. Wtf? Yes, that was Diego Garcia, a few thousand miles out there. Iran’s shot was “off,” but that’s practice. A few years ago, China developed a thousand-missile system to attack really big ships. 4/13

Like U.S. aircraft carriers, although a few other countries have aircraft carriers or more ancient battleships. And here’s the real cherry on top. Russia got full access to U.S. military computer systems as soon as trump was sworn in. [FN5] 5/13

Emails from Schumer & Jeffers beg for a few more dollars to fight the GOP in November’s mid-terms. I hate to tell them, but there probably won’t be any mid-terms. trump’s attacks on Iran are invalid under the Constitution & international law, much of which we wrote. 6/13

trump launched those attacks to divert attention from the Epstein files. Imagine how much panic he feels at the thought of his boy as speaker of the house losing that seat. And I’ve wondered why national leadership of the Democratic Party has been so gutless about trump. 7/13

The GOP, like Crabby Appleton, is rotten to the core. I’ve said that there are no “pee” tapes on trump. As has been intimated in files Bondi reluctantly has released, trump was at least present when body disposals of little girls were begun. Epstein reported to Putin, but... 8/13

so did the “rich and powerful” who were invited to Santa Fe or Little St James or Epstein’s place in Manhattan or his place in Palm Beach. Those people control computer systems that in turn control a lot & when ordered to do so,. can exert pressure on Ds & remaining Rs. 9/13

The biggest threat to U.S. national security occupies the Oval Office. When ordered, he’ll let Iran sink a few aircraft carriers, manned by “suckers” & “losers.” This weekend are No Kings rallies. Peaceful resistance can bring an American spring. Any longer might be too late. 10/13

Footnotes:
FN1. World markets are being weaned from their reliance upon the U.S. dollar as the currency on which the World’s economies function. Specifically: China is dealing on the World oil market in Yuan, at Iran’s insistence. 11/13

FN2. Van Allen, “Meet the US Navy’s $13 billion aircraft carrier,” CNET, 12/10/19.
FN3. I try to footnote my blog so that people can see the sources for statements. Algorithms have an odd quality: things are disappeared. I’ll list online sources when I can. 12/13

FN4. Tom Hanks flick with Julia Roberts and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. (2007)
FN5. The January20, 2025, consisted only of updates to what they had during trump’s first term of office. 13/13