Saturday, July 11, 2026

Innumeracy

 Iran is about 636,000 square miles, give or take. I think they can absorb 1000 missiles. And one year of bombardment? Trump used half the nation’s stockpile in a month, diminishing our missile defense against China. A full year of such use would leave us vulnerable around the world, and empty our stores about a month in. Unless we wait a year to replenish; then it might last two months.

And the Strait of Hormuz will still be closed.

Maybe Congress has something to say about this?

Or this:

Look, I get it. I used to work on Apaches. They're cool as hell, and I promise the pilots were just as amped as the crowd.

However, safety regulations are written in blood. There's a reason they weren't supposed to fly over crowds at such a low altitude. At that altitude at that speed, if anything had gone wrong, we wouldn't be seeing people crying about how unfair it is to the pilots. We wouldn't be seeing Kegsbreath saying "we'll fix this." We'd be seeing people demanding answers about why they were flying like that. We'd be seeing crying and angry families on the news demanding justice. And we'd be seeing the Secretary of "War" throwing these pilots under the boss so fucking fast there wouldn't even be skid marks.

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