George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽Sen. Kelly is correct. You cannot win a war when you can't articulate its clear objectives.
Senator Mark Kelly (@SenMarkKelly)
We had this conversation in a public hearing a week ago and you said it would take “years” to replenish some of these stockpiles. That’s not classified, it’s a quote from you. This war is coming at a serious cost and you and the president still haven’t explained to the American people what the goal is.
ewhac@georgetakei To amend Orwell: "The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. The object of war is war."
lemgandiMake the Oligarchs Richer?
🇪🇺 Paul Schoonhoven 🍋🍉@lemgandi exactly mega spending to force the gouvernement to spend many years replacing it.
And weakening the US for many years to come. This has direct consequences already with counties in the Gulf regio. But others will follow.
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Sibrosan@georgetakei Isn't it clear? Drawing attention away from the #Epstein files
Three plus or minus five@georgetakei
But by the same logic, you also can't LOSE.
Thus we become schoedinger's cat, forever both dead and alive-but-wishing-we-were-out-of-this-damned-box.
@ThreeSigma Well said.
Richard R Lee
Dror Bedrack@georgetakei The objective was pretty clear: get Iran to stop developing nuclear weapons and funding terror, either by regime change, or by inflicting enough damage. They just failed miserably, and dont want to admit it.
@DrorBedrack @georgetakei we should have just went in there, guns blazing. Dropped a few bunker busters on the enrichment centrifuges, maybe a few more on the storage facilities. See them try to make it after the full might of the US government rains hellfire into them.
Wait, we did do that. It was like 10 months ago. I just remembered trump declaring them “utterly obliterated”. It nothing to do with nukes.
Wait, we did do that. It was like 10 months ago. I just remembered trump declaring them “utterly obliterated”. It nothing to do with nukes.
jmht@georgetakei This is Trump's war. All he has to do is SAY he "won" and his troops will fall all over themselves to convince us he got the very best deal. Just like last time. Objective and rationality be damned.
But ... there is Bibi .. and he has his own agenda. And there's those pesky Epstein files we've not been talking about since the action started.
Felis_Catus_Domesticusbut hasn't everything MAGA just been this all along?
Ham on WryNo objective; no remedy
2qx 🔻Is drawing down stockpiles a clear objective in itself, for our advisories?
What would be the objective of the drawdown?
Bodling@2qx @georgetakei That objective would be to create a "need" to buy replacement arms, thereby enriching the arms companies whose leaders want their share of the pie.
ohir@georgetakei
> when you can't articulate its clear objectives
IMO Objectives are clear and can be articulated:
1. Cover for the Nataniahu's genocide and spare him cases 1000, 2000, 4000 (a life sentence in practice)
2. Stop the fertilizers and LNG supply to Europe to get them to the table with Putin on Putin's terms
3. side objective was to get a toll for the pass to the Agent Orange's Quatar account. And only this one objective hadn't been met.
StarravenThe goal was to to roll over Iran like Russia was going to roll over Ukraine.
tasket@starraven @georgetakei Not even close. The goal is to keep the strait un-passable for as long as it takes to 1) rake in massive extra profits, 2) force Europe into a corner, since they are heavily dependent on imports.
Europe will have to choose between taking up Trump's demand to go to the straight and take the oil it needs (return to Imperialism), un-sanction Russia, or endure massive inflation and the "regime change" that comes with it.
That's the goal now. Wasn't when this started because Trump can't look farther ahead than his next diaper change.
@starraven @georgetakei Trump's close advisors like Stephen Miller are running the show. The fact that Trump is becoming (and appears) senile is serving as a convenient cover, IMO.
The Trump regime still has control over Venezuelan exports as well. This is about taking control over global fossil fuel supply and using it as a weapon while they still can, before renewables take over.
And, the administration of waiting for my next Big Mac has only accelerated the switch to renewables.
@starraven Its brinkmanship even if it fails. Trumpists expect to be able to inflict enough economic pain before the energy transition reaches a critical point. Its their last chance to be able to use fossil fuels as a weapon, and they are taking it.
Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈@georgetakei in Hegseth's defence, he was actually just saying "yes" - he was just slurring heavily because it was after lunch
@georgetakei Not sure what the point of replacing the Patriots is. They cost $4 million each, and can be neutralized with a $20k drone. Iran has shown that Patriots are functionally obsolete.
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@Hi, George. Me again. Hegseth is clueless as to what he & trump have done, which is to waste war on Iran, which was not threatening us. trump tore up Obama's peace deal with Iran cuz trump hates Obama as a black man, a much better President who was respected & still so today. I know it's bad of me, but I wish trump & Hegseth could both have life ending anything so we can get back to saving the country from their crappy plans.
Noel KellyNot that he can't, he won't, because technically insider trading is still illegal.