#OTD in 1944. Very small bridgeheads, nothing is yet decided. Situation Map of 2400 6 June 1944. #WW2 #HISTORY

Putin's endgame in Ukraine is exactly the same as it was when the invasion started. He still demands a demilitarized puppet state to serve his empire. We cannot accept a reality where imperial aggression is rewarded. Russia deserves nothing but a humiliating defeat

On this 82nd anniversary of D-Day we remember all the service women involved and I raise a 🍸 to New Zealand-born Māori heroine Nancy Wake SOE (‘White Mouse’) who returned to France in April 1944 to help organise the Resistance before D-Day. Ka maumahara tonu tātou ki a rātou.

This is hysterical.

War is not a meme war. Messaging and symbolism are important in warfare. The messaging is bad, but even if it wasn’t how does trolling the Iranians like this contribute to ultimate strategic victory. Meanwhile Iranian messaging has strengthened their hand and built sympathy amongst Americans.

“Americans, for so long the perceived more-or-less good guys, have become the fount of economic crisis, military menaces and planned disorder such as Russia or Iran would be quite incapable of generating.” Max Hastings

I woke up, turned on the news, and my internal monologue became Private Joseph Bucklin from “Gettysburg.”

Link: www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/i...

Yep.

Is there a grumpy version on this gif this morning?

Star Wars: air power alone can do regime change…oh wait a second. 🤔

This is Tetiana, On April 16, she was killed in a russian missile strike on Kyiv 💔🕯 She was a videographer, baked Easter cakes to order, and dedicated herself to saving stray cats.

Oh another war crime threat.

As an American I can definitely say yes! The average American doesn’t realize how much our perception in the world has changed. There are days where life is unusually normal which helps give off this impression.

Exactly! What's up with that? Is Putin holding something over Trump?

Back to threatening war crimes on a Sunday.

Irrational, ill-informed comments as the Pope touches down in Cameroon with a message of peace. And no, this is not a “just war.”

Doubting Thomas gets a bad rap. He volunteered to die with Jesus before the resurrection — and then we reduced him to the guy who couldn't believe. Thomas showed up before he had faith. That’s the whole point. He refused to fake belief. Are the rest of us still pretending?

Actually this makes total sense. Not logically, morally, or diplomatically. It’s just become the new normal in the United States. WH breaks (fill in the blank), consequences arrive, WH does a bad fix or complains, and more consequences. It’s more of a spiral than cycle lately.

“Iran will emerge from this the war in a significantly stronger position than it was six weeks ago.” Potentially even as a “genuine global power”

Something that is being missed: Iran gets a vote on when and how hostilities end.

It is truly remarkable that after the Vietnam War, after the Afghanistan War, after a catalogue of US military failures in the post 1945 world, people claiming to be serious analysts are saying because the US dropped alot of bombs it won this war. It did not.

It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.

Next conquest? So the U.S. military has become a force for conquest. This also tells us the United States will be in another war soon.

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We’ll see.

If those holds long enough for peace talks to make progress then we can collectively breath a sigh of relief. I’m personally not there yet. Let’s see it hold first.

Contingent on the Straits of Hormuz reopening and he’s double crossed Iran on peace talks before. My take: actions speak louder than words. So we’ll see.

Regardless of whether it’s all talk, when the leader of our country expresses plainly genocidal intent, everyone has to do something. For citizens of all political stripes, it means rejecting this madness. For Congress, it means taking action to rein him in. Now.

I just want to emphasize, if indeed war crimes are committed by the United States military then everyone from the decision makers to those who pull the trigger for each individual crime must face justice. Those in power must refuse such illegal orders even if it costs them their jobs.

Attacking a civilization is a war crime. If this threat is carried out then everyone involved in the attacks will be complicit and should be held to account.

Reminiscing about my time living in DC. If you've lived in DC or spent time there, especially in the Cap Hill area, let's look at some of the places you could be killed for being in range of the blast radius of a Mk 84 2000lb bomb dropped by the USAF or Israeli Air Force on a legitimate target

Showing the kids the Artemis feed during dinner and discussing what it means and how it works is just so special.

Let me make it clear: There is no scenario where war crimes are justified. I understand errant bombs and munitions because of the nature of war. Where the line is crossed is when targeting intentionally and knowingly strikes at civilians to hurt them. Also: punishment bombing never works.

Great news about the rescue of our airman.

Air power alone will not reopen the straits. For the IRGC, they are fighting for their existence and now know they are winning through economic warfare. A ground operation would need to go deep to reopen the straits and there are not enough troops to do that.

The Holy Pokrovsky Men's Monastery (300+ years old) in the city center of Kharkiv, Ukraine, is burning after being targeted by russia.

Unacceptable. I get you can’t talk operational details but the American people need to hear something.

Bridges and universities depending on if they are being used for military purposes could be legitimate military targets (ie: rocket research labs and air interdiction ops). But ground troops are needed to exploit interdiction missions and I haven’t seen an explanation for the universities.

This should be investigated by the ICC.

Now that at least one U.S. air crew member is alive on the ground in Iran, it's worth revisiting Pete Hegseth's commitment to "no quarter, no mercy for our enemies." This is the scenario he was warned about.

To be blunt, the coverage level is due to the fact that American POWs on television would be a big game changer for American citizens consuming the war. They are so detached from even the military that combat losses no longer resonate. Oil prices do. POWs on TV definitely will.

mtsunews.com/war-in-iran-... I had a great experience talking with the students at Middle Tennessee State last week. And yeah I took Douhet to the woodshed in my opening statement.

Air intelligence is way harder than most people understand. For example, the 14 October 1943 strike on Schweinfurt was initially believed to be a success before the Americans learned that despite the strike photos showing the ball bearing plant was hit, the machines were still intact.

If this double tap strike is true then everyone involved in this attack has committed a war crime. They are also all now exposed to criminal charges at home and abroad. We’ve be inching this way with the boat strikes and normalizing it.

Bombing bridges can serve a military purpose in ground operations and can be used in a strategic bombing campaign to limit manufacturing production such as the Transportation Plan in World War II. However, this bridge does not appear to serve in military or production services from the looks of it.

Bombing residential buildings to kill “moderate” politicians trying to broker a deal. Absolute madness. Either Trump is lying about wanting a deal, or Netanyahu wants to kill anyone who might help it happen. Or both. Again: Bibi hated the Iran Deal because it worked.

Anyone and let me emphasize ANYONE who commits a war crime is not only crossing a significant moral line (which won’t stop some people unfortunately), but also exposes themselves criminally at home and abroad. “Just following orders” was not a valid defense in World War II.

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