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  "description": "The whacking of an AWACS and what it means",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-29T15:08:14.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Shelley",
    "NGAS is a render",
    "E-7 Wedgetail was cancelled",
    "The Tyranny of Geography",
    "White media can no longer cover up",
    "Iran is the subject of history",
    "depreciated the US military is",
    "toilets leaking",
    "Nacis",
    "ran is delivering a strategic defeat",
    "How America's Military Has Fallen Apart",
    "Rocket Wars",
    "Tyranny of Geography",
    "Amir Ali Hajizadeh told them",
    "Mission Impossible: Retirement Home",
    "the end"
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  "textContent": "OK, not OK\n\n'America' is a good military like Cristiano Ronaldo is a good footballer. They _was_ , but their careers are over in Saudi Arabia. And whereas Ronaldo is still in good shape (but a bad person), America is in _terrible_ shape (and bad people). Vital links in their kill chain (refuelers and control planes) are decades old and being put out of their misery by Iran.\n\n## Ozymandias\n\nJust look at the shattered ‘pedestal’ of the 50-year-old E-3 AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) and let me read Shelley over its grave situation,\n\n> And on the pedestal, these words appear:\n> My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;\n> Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!\"\n> Nothing beside remains. Round the decay\n> Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare\n> The lone and level sands stretch far away.\n\nPeople really do not understand how old and crustified the US military is. This is not your grandfather's US Army, or more precisely _it is,_ without many updates since. They're still relying on primordial technology like the E-3 and KC-135 _that have no modern replacements._ Every new weapon these corruption engineers have come up with (like littoral combat ships or the F-35) have either failed or flailed in the field.\n\nPeople talk about how Iran is a ‘second-tier military’ but they ain't Iraq and this ain't Desert Storm. This is Desert Shitstorm and Iran is not just a peer military to 'America's', they are demonstrably _superior_. Just look at the scoreboard, which isn't school massacres but military targets. Behold, then, 'American' airframes burning in the sun while Iran's rockets are safe underground. The White Empire stood astride the Middle East like Colossus, but now they lie there in a wreck, colossal morons.\n\nWhat I want you to understand is that the US military is _never_ coming back from this. There are no modern replacements for these refuelers and control systems. The NGAS is a render and the E-7 Wedgetail was cancelled. They simply don't make ‘em like they used to anymore. As the meme template goes, _“My father is a builder. We were in [Prince Sultan Air Base] I asked him what it would cost to build [an E-3 Sentry] today. I will never forget his answer… ‘We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.’”_\n\nTaking these planes to a war of choice was like taking Grandpa's ‘65 Mustang to a demolition derby and getting your nose out of joint. The White press keeps saying these planes are worth millions or billions which is missing the point. _They cannot make these planes anymore_ , these assets are effectively _priceless._\n\n## Killing The Kill Chain\n\nIran has found the kill switch on the kill chain which is that _every rich man's house has a servants entrance_. America never built underground or even hardened shelters for its fighters, so they have to be served by ancient refuelers, which are about as limber as an ancestral butler. America also lost their ground-radars in the first week, so they have to get surveillance from airborne units, which still have to park somewhere.\n\nAs the US itself said in a 2024 report called, somewhat hilariously, The Tyranny of Geography,\n\n> Moreover, the thousands of short-range missiles that Iran possesses are a factor here. There is no strategic depth. An F-35 is very hard to hit in the air. On the ground it is nothing more than a very expensive and vulnerable chunk of metal sitting in the sun. The refueling and rearming facilities on these bases are also vulnerable, and they cannot be moved. These bases are all defended by Patriot and other defensive systems. Unfortunately, at such close range to Iran, the ability of the attacker to mass fires and overwhelm the defense is very real.\n\nThey should have made this report a 15-second ad and run it on Fox because it's obviously news to Donald Trump. He can see it now anyways, because this is precisely what happened.\n\nBefore and after of the AWACS whacking\n\nClockwise, what the plane looks like now (1, 2) what it's supposed to look like (3), and what anybody with satellite oversight could see before (4).\n\nIf you're asking ‘are these images real?’ _The Wall Street Infernal_ has confirmed the ‘damage’. This is just damage like that Monty Python knight had just a flesh wound.\n\nThese guys have to lie, even when they're telling the truth. As I've said, the White media can no longer cover up the collapse of White Empire because Iran is the subject of history now, acting upon them.\n\n## In Appreciation Of Depreciation\n\nPeople really do not appreciate how depreciated the US military is. To rust and dust and gone bust. Some of their vaunted aircraft carriers _are supposed to be retired already_ , they just keep extending their retirement dates because they have no replacements. This moves stuff around on paper, but doesn't make these lumbering beasts any more limber.\n\nTheir newest carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, was almost immediately defeated by Iran and fled the battlefield, beds burning and toilets leaking. They chalk this up to inanimate objects, but everyone can see the writing on the wall, Iran is a new subject of history and 'America' is exiting stage right, pursued by bear market. The Gerald Fart needs over a year of repairs, which in American military-industrial terms might as well be forever. These deindustrialized demons can't rebuild a bridge in Baltimore, let alone an aircraft carrier.\n\nThe Qatar FPS-132 has seen better days\n\n'America' _certainly_ cannot rebuild their ground-based radar in the Gulf, that's all returned to the rare earths whence it came from. For example, Iran has turned the FPS-132s in Qatar into First-Person-Shooter 404. This poor thing has been hit multiple times over, just stop, it's dead already. These radars are _never_ being rebuilt because even if 'America' could (they can't), they would need resources from China (they won't), and permission from Iran (they don't). It is pointless talking about the dollar value of these assets, as the White media does. This is like calculating the dollar value of _Mona Lisa_ after rolling, smoking, and roaching it—Da Vinci is dead, his paint was discontinued lead, and it'll just get lit up again. These radars are _never_ coming back again, and they can't be bought in colonial cash. The only currency in the Strait of Hormuz is yuan, that USD is in the past.\n\nIn the bigotry of low expectations, people say Iran's hits required Russian or Chinese intelligence, but you can find these dumb-assets on Google Maps. US bases are sore spots in the desert, visible from high ground Iran holds without much effort. The real innovation has been the rocket science of Iran hitting radomes with surgical precision. If you look at the whacking of the AWACS, they hit that plane _right_ in the radar and nowhere else. This is liking Ulysses getting the cyclops right in the eye, and then it didn't matter how big he was. Iran blinded the White Empire all across the Gulf and is now blinding Jordan and Saudi. In another month the Empire will be hiding in Romania, which Iran can still reach, so keep running. The Nazis will have to go all the way back to Germany, and finally to the United States that inspired them.\n\nWhile we're mapping World War III onto World War II, Iran is the Red Army in this reboot and the Ramadan War is an Operation Bagration redo. Bagration is when the Nazis went _wee wee wee_ all the way home, which is what these Nacis are doing too. This is different from tactical defeats like Vietnam and Afghanistan when the Empire could still pursue the same strategy elsewhere. Iran is delivering a strategic defeat, which is ‘ _undermining the enemy's ability to wage war’_ forever.\n\nIn this view, which I think is true, Iran isn't waging guerrilla warfare. If anything, the 'Americans' holed up in hotels are the guerrillas in their midst.\n\n## Farewell To Arms\n\nI get Hemingway and Fitzgerald mixed up, but one of them said, _“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”_ That was Fitzgerald, I know, but what Hemingway called _A Farewell To Arms_ is coming to pass. 'Americans' beat on children, gunboats against the new currency, knocked ceaselessly on they ass.\n\nIt is like Augustine's Law #16 (penned by Undersecretary of the Army Norman Augustine in 1984). He joked,\n\n> In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one tactical aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3½ days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.\n\nThat's pretty much what's happening.\n\nThis is a logarithmic scale, which means cost has increased exponentially\n\nThe cost of US aircraft has scaled exponentially while their capacity has decreased. These planes are unreliable in the best of times, and during wartime they have suicidal tendencies. If you look at the current cost and mission capability rates of US warplanes, they're ahead of schedule in this one thing, their ‘rapid, unscheduled disassembly’.\n\nvia How America's Military Has Fallen Apart, by yours truly\n\nIt's not just that the American military is crashing under its own weight, _they're going the wrong way_. They brought a fighter jet to a rocket fight and are getting eviscerated. Observe that Iran has no fighter jets to speak of, just as Apple never made phones with keyboards. It's a completely different business model. This is the age of Tunnel and Rocket Wars, and 'America's' still geared to fight World War II against enemies that don't exist anymore. Even if they could right their ship tactically, it's gone wrong strategically long ago.\n\nAs that Tyranny of Geography__ report said, _“U.S. bases in the region were originally designed to prevent Soviet encroachment into the oil-rich gulf during the late Cold War... And here is the problem. Today, these aircraft are largely based at locations along the southern coast of the Arabian Gulf—the bases that are an artifact of planning against Russian incursions in the 1970s, and the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns of the early decades of this century. They are close to Iran, which means they have a short trip to the fight … but that is also their great vulnerability. They are so close to Iran that it takes but five minutes or less for missiles launched from Iran to reach their bases.”_ And, as this played out, it took only five days to clear them.\n\nNow 'America', in retreat, is parking its 60-year-old airframes out in the open while Iran has modern missiles in tunnel cities. The White media talks about Iran running out of missiles, but that is just another accufession. They follow Don Tzu's dictum, that _war is the art of self-deception_. In reality, it as the martyr Commander Amir Ali Hajizadeh told them, _“If we start today unveiling a missile city every week, it won't be finished even in two years.”_ They keep killing the messenger, but as one of Khamenei the Elder's favorite authors (Victor Hugo) said, _“The whole current phenomenon is summed up in these few words. An invasion of armies can be resisted; an invasion of ideas cannot be resisted.”_ You can't kill an idea whose time has come. We live in the age of tunnel and rocket wars, and fighter jets with vintage supply lines are just dumb.\n\n## Heroes Vs. Zeroes\n\nWhen 'America' assassinated another great general, Soleimani, Iranian cleric Shahab Moradi said, in a famous response,\n\n> [In the situation] that we take one of theirs now that they've got one of ours — who should we consider to take out in the context of America? Think about it. Are we supposed to take out Spider-Man and SpongeBob? They don't have any heroes. We have a country in front of us with a large population and a large landmass, but it doesn't have any heroes. All of their heroes are cartoon characters — they're all fictional.\n\nNow look at the ‘heroes’ 'America' trotted out in the long build-up to this war. It's really just one. To market their 60-year-old airframes, they had a 60-year-old Tom Cruise reboot _Top Gun: Maverick._ The plot was to _“destroy an unsanctioned uranium enrichment plant in an unnamed foreign country before it becomes operational,”_ sound familiar? Then, still on Cruise control, they marketed the nearly 50-year-old USS Ohio submarine in Mission Impossible: Retirement Home, which included two filmed nap sessions. What are we even doing here? Forget replacing airframes, 'America' can't even replace its _actors_. America hasn't had an original idea since the 1980s, militarily or cinematically, which has become the same made-up universe. But now reality would like a word.\n\n## Are You Still Here? A Conclusion\n\nAn E-3 Sentry compared to a Greek Chimera, ‘a monstrous fire-breathing hybrid creature, composed of different animal parts.’\n\nReturning to _Farewell To Arms_ , it feels like Hemingway was talking about Iran when he said, _“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”_\n\nThe very good and very brave people of Iran have been killed for decades, but they have emerged strong at the broken places. 'America' is not good, gentle, or brave, so fate has taken its time killing them, but now they're going down just as Hemingway described bankruptcy. He said (in _The Sun Also Rises_),\n\n> “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.\n> “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”\n> “What brought it on?”\n> “Friends,” said Mike. “I had a lot of friends. False friends. Then I had creditors, too. Probably had more creditors than anybody in England.”\n\nSo what is the chimera that is 'America' left with in the end? 60-year-old aircraft and 60-year-old salesmen. A bunch of nattering nabobs in NATO, goondas in the Gulf, and asthmatic Saradukar in 'Israel,' getting their asses handed to them by a Hezbollah that was supposed to be dead. A lot of false friends and a bunch of creditors calling in their chits. Mark my words, when the doors of market perception are finally cleansed, it will be as Jim Morrison said, the end. 'America's' manufactured morality is never coming back from Gaza, and their fractured military is never coming back from this war with Iran.",
  "title": "America's Military Is Never Coming Back From This",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-29T15:19:19.531Z"
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