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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Sunday, August 5, 1945. Enola Gay and Necessary Evil.

The 20th Air Force dropped 720,000 leaflets over twelve Japanese cities.  Conventional bombing raids continued.

Gen. LeMay officially confirmed the atomic mission for the next day.

Paul Tibbets named the lead plane in the Hiroshima bombing mission the Enola Gay, after his mother.  This was done over the objection of the planes normal designated pilot, Robert Lewis, who wanted to name the plane  "The Pearl Harbor," "The Avenger," or "The USS Indianapolis".  Lewis also wasn't happy about being moved to the co-pilot's seat for the mission.

Lewis would return to civilian life after the war, and died in 1983 at age 65.

The B-29 that would take photos on the mission would be named Necessary Evil.  It featured, as many plans did, a buxom woman, albeit one clothed in a bikini, as nose art.

The Chinese 13th Army captured the town of Tanchuk. The Chinese 58th Division took Hsinning (Changchun).

Paul Ferdonet, the "Radio Traitor" of Stuttgart, was executed in France.

His pro Nazi broadcast had actually dwindled after 1942.

Oddly enough, today would have been Loni Anderson' birthday.  She passed away yesterday.

Last edition:

Saturday, August 4, 1945. Tibbets briefs his crew.

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Thursday, August 2, 1945. Potsdam concludes.

The heaviest air raid on Japan of World War Two occured in which 800 B-29s dropped 6,000+ tons of incendiary bombs on various Japanese cities, resulting in 80,000 deaths.

Paul Tibbets reported to Gen. Curtis B. LeMay on the upcoming nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.

The Potsdam Conference concluded.  The Allies agreed to limit GErman industrial growth and to ratify the territorial changes already imposed by the Soviets.  Henry Morgenthau's plan to make Germany an agrarian society was partially, but only partially endorsed.

Morgenthau was an agrarian at heart. So much so, in fact, that air travel caused him distress due to his viewing of so many roads and cities as an airplane passenger.

The Soviets agreed to enter the war against Japan.

The survivors of the USS Indianapolis were found by air.

King George VI received President Truman aboard the HMS Renown.

Norma Jeane Dougherty, aka Marilyn Monroe, signed a Contract with Bluebook Modeling Agency.

Last edition:

Wednesday, August 1, 1945. Laval brought to trial for what many in France had thought or done.

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