Morning, all,
well, that was awkward.
https://youtu.be/FOT-qKTsVkU?si=FGQWi03VvjmIUhjT
Artemis II crew had nowt good to say to POTUS.
There was plenty to talk about: Desperate Don's War of Choice No.2 (#TWOC2); the missing #EpsteinFiles; cuts to #NASA budgets; Donald Tantrump's anti-#DEI bias*
Naming a lunar crater after the commander's late wife was an empathetic idea; they should've gone further: naming craters after Renée Nicole Good and Alex Pretti. May they #RIP.
Nor does the question posed by the #BBC merit the implications Aunty assigns it:
Why was the F-15E operating so deep inside Iran?
Cos that's where the targets are;
Iran would be stupid to put them on the coast. That the Yanks were after alleged U-235 stockpiles is An Inference Too Far.
Also, Forward Operating Base (FOB) suggests persistence. It was a FARP - a single-mission Fueling And Rearming Point.
#TWoC2 #IranWar #USpol
#GOP #MAGA #TACO #Trump
https://youtu.be/gJ0t7WBITyk?si=Mndsn1B7WF8rWNoS
Of course not! Not silly you, @Robbins !
Even the august Aunty, the venerable Beeb, is indulging in conspiracy-theory grade wild speculation:
https://youtu.be/gJ0t7WBITyk?si=Mndsn1B7WF8rWNoS
But it's ill-informed and specious.
So there were holes in the remains of the destroyed Hercules - that doesn't mean they took Iranian fire; 1000 lb bombs produce a lotta shrapnel and the USAF claims they destroyed their four a/c not with satchel charges but with 40 such bombs dropped by two B-1Bs. 🧵
Philip C James