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| Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Gbadebo19(m): 6:54pm On Feb 27 |
The USS Gerald R. Ford is not parked near Iran. It is parked off Israel. And nobody is asking the only question that matters: why. The $13.3 billion crown jewel of the US Navy, the largest warship ever constructed, just positioned itself off Haifa. Not in the Arabian Sea where the Lincoln sits 850 kilometers from Iranian shores loaded for offensive operations. Not in the Gulf where strike range is optimal. Off Israel. Defending Israel. This is not redundancy. This is architecture. Two carriers. Two missions. Two entirely different strategic functions. The Lincoln is the sword, positioned to launch strike packages into Iranian airspace within hours of an order. The Ford is the shield, its Aegis missile defense systems creating an umbrella over Israeli population centers against the retaliation that follows the first Tomahawk. America just split its carrier doctrine into offense and defense simultaneously. That has not happened since the Pacific theater in 1945. But the positioning reveals something deeper than tactics. When Iran retaliates, and every wargame says Iran retaliates, its missiles and drones fly toward Israel. They will fly through the same airspace where a US carrier strike group is now stationed. Every Iranian missile aimed at Tel Aviv or Haifa must traverse the Ford’s defensive envelope. Shooting at Israel means shooting at, around, and through an American carrier group. Iran cannot retaliate against Israel without engaging American naval assets. The Ford’s position makes that physically impossible. The carrier is not defending Israel as a favor. It is positioned so that any Iranian response to American strikes automatically becomes an attack on American forces, triggering the full unrestrained weight of US military response without a single additional political decision required. This is escalation insurance written in steel and seawater. If the campaign goes longer than planned, if munitions run thin in 7 to 10 days, if allies hesitate, the Ford’s position ensures that Iranian retaliation does the political work Washington cannot do alone: it transforms a limited American strike into an act of self-defense that no ally can refuse to support. You do not park a $13.3 billion carrier where the enemy’s return fire will hit it unless you want the enemy’s return fire to hit it. The Ford is not there to prevent escalation. The Ford is there to guarantee that if escalation comes, it comes on terms that make American restraint politically impossible and allied participation politically unavoidable. |
| Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 6:55pm On Feb 27 |
⚡Russian icebreakers help Finnish ships trapped in ice. Russian icebreakers are helping several cargo vessels stuck in the ice in the Gulf of Finland and in Finland’s territorial waters, the Finnish transport infrastructure agency said. The agency said that Finnish vessels "are getting assistance within the framework of international cooperation with Russian icebreakers," in accordance with routine practices of winter navigation. Also, if requested, a Russian icebreaker may help a cargo ship in Finland’s territorial waters.
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| Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 6:57pm On Feb 27 |
⚡Several Istanbul–Tehran flights were cancelled tonight amid growing fears of a possible U.S. strike on Iran.
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| Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 6:58pm On Feb 27 |
⚡An ex-American embassy employee has been sentenced to life in prison for raping minors in Burkina Faso.
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| Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Sulele04(m): 7:07pm On Feb 27 |
LordAdam16:Why is it a mistake exactly can't they build one now ? Aren't they enriching Uranium again ? |
| Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 7:11pm On Feb 27 |
Sulele04: I just tire. Enriching uranium for over 25 years, yet unable to build even one bomb. |
| Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Mikasaobi: 7:28pm On Feb 27 |
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/life-death-yemen-f-16-pilots-sambush/ Along with multiple B-2 Spirit bombers and other aircraft, they were part of a complex mission to strike Houthi ballistic missile production facilities in Yemen on March 27, 2025. The B-2s dropped their bombs, the F-16s peeled away from their targets, hoping to soon be “feet wet” over the Red Sea. But suddenly, they were targets. Spotting a flash from the ground below, Parks and Blea realized they were in the crosshairs of an incoming surface-to-air missile, the hunter now becoming the hunted. The Air Force granted Air & Space Forces Magazine interviews with Parks and Blea to discuss their harrowing mission, for which each earned a Silver Star This is called SAMbush. You switch off your radar, let the jets in, switch it on and fire. Iran is not Yemen.
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| Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 7:35pm On Feb 27 |
Sulele04:the task is not just to make a crude nuke like fat boy, which would be very difficult to deliver since they have no strategic bombers and their fighter-bombers are antiquated but to make one portable enough to fit in a ballistic missile and stable enough to survive re-entry and hypersonic speeds perhaps they can put together a crude bomb and conduct a nuclear test to scare off the hegemony the biggest issue with iran's nuclear program is the ambiguity they have the capacity to build a nuke but the mullahs are shockingly incompetent so usrael feel there is a limited window before even the m*****ns bumbled into one or rogue irgc generals get it behind the mullahs back -Lord |
| Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 7:48pm On Feb 27 |
⚡Slovakia and Hungary propose the establishment of an "inspection group" to check and determine the damage to the Druzhba pipeline, due to "differing views" with Ukraine on its condition and whether oil transit can resume.
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| Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 7:51pm On Feb 27 |
⚡Interviewer: The Kremlin is claiming that Ukraine is trying to get a nuclear weapon via Britain and France. Is that the case? Zelensky: I didn’t have proposition… but with pleasure. Interviewer: So we can put that to bed. That’s not happening at all? Zelensky: No. It’s not happening.
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| Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 7:59pm On Feb 27 |
⚡Zelensky: If we withdraw from this territory like you said — for example Kramatorsk, Sloviansk — at this very moment 200,000 people who are there now will be occupied by Russians who say to Russians that these people are ready to be Russian people, and if they don’t, they will kill them or push them to the front or push them to prison. They did the same steps in Luhansk, in Donetsk, in Crimea.
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| Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 8:06pm On Feb 27 |
⚡Zelensky: I’m not playing games with Putin. I’m ready to meet and I’m ready to speak. But not in Russia and not Belarus, because they are allies during this war. Belarus is a passive aggressor. They attacked us from the territory of Belarus.
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| Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 8:11pm On Feb 27 |
WriteerNg:you should read about the iraq-iran war saddam used chemical weapons on iran killing thousands both soldiers and civilians us, europe, and the soviet union supported saddam even though iran could manufacture chemical weapons themselves, it took them years to decide to develop them and it wasn't until near the end of the war that they arguably used them and only as a retaliatory move (so not in a first-use capacity) i use the word arguably because the primary source claiming iran used chemical weapons in the war is the cia the mullahs are very weird i cannot think of any people on the planet, religious or secular, who would refuse to develop chemical weapons when chemical weapons are being used on them i can assure you that there are clerics in iran who would issue fatwas against developing and using nukes even if their entire family is nuked the iranian nuclear program was actually started by the shah it is probable that had the shah not started it, khomeini would not have initiated a nuclear program at best, the mullahs would have signed a deal with an axis power to build nuclear plants and they'd import the enriched uranium to run it khomeini and khameini inherited the nuclear program and at the height of the pressure to give up enrichment from everyone--including russia and china khameini almost folded it was president ahmadinejad that insisted that no one could tell iran not to enrich uranium when it was a very clear unimpeachable right in the NPT the irgc supported ahmadinejad and khameini backed off ahmadinejad and khameini eventually had a falling out and till date khameini has signaled ahmadinejad will not be president again as long as he is alive even the iran-venezuela connection is due to ahmadinejad currently, no iranian general or politico has the chutzpah to tell khameini to rescind his fatwa on nukes only 3 people could--ahmadinejad, soleimaini, and raisi the last two are dead, ahmadinejad will never be president again this is partly why i told okpa that i do not mind khamenei being assassinated even at the height of nuclear cooperation between the quartet--iran, pakistan, north korea, and libya the mullahs were largely kept out of the loop the politicos and generals ran the op -Lord |
| Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 8:22pm On Feb 27 |
⚡Zelensky: I think I’m quite strong — like our people. I always loved Ukraine. I can’t say I love it more. But I respect more — the resilience of our people is unbelievable. |
| Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 8:23pm On Feb 27 |
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| Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 8:23pm On Feb 27 |
⚡Zelensky: Why are elections in Ukraine so important for Russians and Americans — and not important for Ukrainians?
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| Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Lawag3: 8:42pm On Feb 27 |
WriterrNg:Guy calm down you've said way worse. One seeing this your comments for the first time would think you're a decent person. |
| Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Blakjewelry(m): 9:13pm On Feb 27 |
WriteerNg:If Iran can survive the first fews days of the war it will be a different story. The US is still looking for a weak spot to win the war quickly. By now I expect China and Russia to have enough support package ready to deliver if they fail after Iran could prolong the war, then I don't expect any nation to put their hope in them any longer. By now expect China to play the Taiwan card back at the US. Send all alot of air defense and advance missiles, radars and even attack aircraft that Iran didn't ask for sef at least by now they should have pilots that can fly Chinese crafts. |
| Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Holla911(m): 9:15pm On Feb 27 |
LordAdam16:As hilarious as this quote is, e fit be true o 😂 |
| Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Kingsnairaland(m): 9:16pm On Feb 27 |
WriteerNg:Who told you Iran don't have nukes you think every one makes noise when they build it ![]() |
| Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by seunny4lif(m): 9:24pm On Feb 27 |
Macron's foreign policy advisor Emmanuel Bonne gathered journalists and wanted to flex by calling Moscow… to throw some tough words at Putin. But the Kremlin didn't pick up. Four times. |
| Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by FoolishBoy419: 9:37pm On Feb 27 |
WriteerNg:Iran will very much survive it. Even if Iran had zero means of retaliating, airstrikes alone cannot win wars. Iran will face intense bombardment for sure, especially in the first few days before the USA starts getting what she deserves ![]() |
| Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 9:40pm On Feb 27 |
Kingsnairaland: I really hope so. |
| Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by FoolishBoy419: 10:08pm On Feb 27 |
Gbadebo19:Someone still believes ships (abi na umbrellas or envelopes) have enough AD stocks to protect Israel in 2026. 😂. The only restraint we'll witness from USA is non-use of nuclear weapons. Domestic opposition to the war will have little influence in the war until fuel prices start rising and body bags start sailing to the mainland in sufficient numbers. They'll have a full go at it, score some major hits, then the momentum will wane and someone gets disgraced. Write that down. By the way, could you mention the allies that you're counting on to come to the aid of almighty America (as usual)? I hope they're not the ones struggling to assist Ukraine |
| Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Mikasaobi: 10:16pm On Feb 27 |
FoolishBoy419:😆 the USA will definitely get what they deserve.
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| Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 11:34pm On Feb 27 |
iran offers the "we tried everything in negotiations" concession according to the omanis, the stockpile of HEU will not leave iran it will be diluted iran already publicly offered this to sweeten the deal after dilution, iran will convert the diluted uranium to nuclear fuel for reactors this conversion is irreversible iran does not mind as long as it can continue enriching to 20% and rebuild another stockpile under a firmer deal zero enrichment is the red line that'll trigger hostilities the loudmouth just said he'll insist on zero enrichment he knows saying he accepts iran's 20% enrichment redline turns this imminent war into a stillborn the 🤡🤡 are very obviously now in the "start a war to pressure iran" mindset they've gotten as much as they can get from posturing what they got falls far short of what they thought they'd be able to extract the omani foreign minister explicitly said he is concerned that the june scenario will be repeated where israel struck iran to end negotiations that's what is about to happen waiting for the planes to go airborne so the missiles can start flying we are about to find out how many american lives they are willing to sacrifice and and how much economic damage they are willing to sustain to "pressure" iran -Lord |
| Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 12:11am On Feb 28 |
vice admiral fred kacher was removed from his post as the director of the joint staff https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-removes-senior-official-joint-staff-post-sources-say-2026-02-26/ speculation is that he is the sacrificial lamb over the pentagon leak to the press that gen caine opposes the war -Lord |
| Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by ichuka(m): 12:22am On Feb 28 |
I Gbadebo19:Very correct bro, But they won't listen or understand. The middle east is already in the box, just like south America, the next will be Africa |
| Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by FoolishBoy419: 4:27am On Feb 28 |
ichuka:He somehow forgot to put it in quote. You can commend the original author here: https://x.com/shanaka86/status/2027381369014481319?s=20 You love to shit on other people's work but nothing origina ever comes from you |
| Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by FoolishBoy419: 4:40am On Feb 28 |
Mikasaobi:I think this occurered almost twp weeks after the start of the war. And someone here thinks Iran would not be able to fire a single round against USA. |
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