Saturday, April 4, 2026

King Donald's War, Part 3. The Bunker.

April 1, 2026

The British are hosting talks on opening the Straits of Hormuz.

The intellectual toddler King Donny is threatening to take the US out of NATO, which he cannot legally do.

Things are going to get very bad.

The illegitimate demented octogenarian would be king will address the nation tonight.

April 2, 2026

King Donald, his popularity sinking like a rock and facing the inevitability that Congress is not going to vote to fund an additional $200B for his losing vanity project war against Iran, came on to television last night to try to explain and get support for it.

I didn't watch it. I've been to nursing homes and, while I'm ashamed to say it, they make me uncomfortable.

It was the usual pile of shit. The war will be over soon, we're going to bomb Iran into submission, they've been at war with us for 47 years, other people should do the hard job of fixing the Straits of Hormuz that we broke.

We haven't been at war for 47 years, nobody is going to take on the ground fighting opening the Straits would require, the war won't be over soon. We didn't for Bibi.

It won't be over this time next year, but Americans, by that time, will be fighting and dying on the ground.

Oh well, Cuba will be easier, right?

Cont:

Pete Hegseth took to social media today to post "Bomb them back to the stone age".

Pete is a Princeton graduate, so this is yet another example of my totally losing any sense of respect for Ivy League schools. Do they not teach history at Princeton?

That phrase arose with Curtis B. LeMay and is what he proposed to do to North Vietnam. LeMay fist used the phrase in 1965, and by the end of the war, we were using B-52s on targets in North Vietnam.

We lost the war.

At this point, I feel that somebody should see if Classic Comics has published a series on the Vietnam War. If they did, we ought to send a case of them to the Department of Defense.

April 3, 2026

A forty nation video conference was held on opening the Straits of Hormuz following the end of King Donny's War. The U.S. did not attend.

It's really clear at this point that there are major cracks in the U.S. defense establishment and a large number of officers are on the verge of an open break with Secretary of Defense Hegseth. We might be edging up on a Curragh Mutiny.

A look at some interesting connections.

cont:

A U.S. F-15E was shot down. The fate of the crew is unknown, but gunfire has been heard in the area where the two man crew may have gone down.

And so it begins. As the air campaign continues, more and more of this will happen.

And now this:

White House Seeks $1.5 Trillion for Defense in New Budget Request

The huge proposed increase would be partly offset by steep cuts to domestic programs, some of which the Trump administration describes as wasteful.

This is insane.

April 4, 2026

One crewman was recovered, another is alive but on the ground in Iran. An A-10 was shot down.

And, like the claims made by Herman Goering at the time of the Battle of Britain, Trump's claim of air invulnerability prove to be stupid.

No surprise there, however.

More leaked information reveals that J. D. Vance, to his credit, was adamantly opposed to the war.

The new budget being sought by the Administration seeks $1.5T for the Defense. This has reached the absolutely insane level. It's probably dead in the water, and should be, but frankly it's time to take the military way down in size and vest most of its resources of all types in the reserves.

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