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[daffyduck]

Translation:
URGENT — Cuban dictator Díaz Canel announces on national television that the regime has begun negotiations with the United States.

He admits the beginning of "a sensitive process" for the dictatorship.

If any country should be "annexed" by the US, that's the one.

 

[dem]

Just imagine if Putin. Xi Jinping or Kim Jong Un, all leaders of nuclear armed countries, would hold speeches saying the exact same thing as Trump... We'd all believe they're completely out of their mind and that the whole world is doomed with absolute mad men having the power to blow up the world. But with Trump this has all been normalized somehow ... It's just astonishing. This is really not the way the president of the USA should speak and write ....

Paving the way for further retardation.

Same braindead seals clapping

 

[Ipsi]

 

[Jaybe]

 

[Windle Poons]

RIP to all on board that refuelling tanker however

The circumstances of the incident are under investigation. However, the loss of the aircraft was not due to hostile fire or friendly fire.

Do people believe this? I mean would US Central Command admit if if it had been shot down / hit by a drone? Trump wants to make it seem the US military are untouchable?

 

[Smiggs]

RIP to all on board that refuelling tanker however



Do people believe this? I mean would US Central Command admit if if it had been shot down / hit by a drone? Trump wants to make it seem the US military are untouchable?

I think Iran would try and take credit if they did it. Besides, an in air collision between two friendlies is likely more embarrassing than being shot down.

 

[Windle Poons]

I think Iran would try and take credit if they did it. Besides, an in air collision between two friendlies is likely more embarrassing than being shot down.

Okay, sorry - was it a collision? Did a fighter jet also crash? There's not much about it you see which makes it suspicious (to me)

 

[DeepEnigma]

RIP to all on board that refuelling tanker however



Do people believe this? I mean would US Central Command admit if if it had been shot down / hit by a drone? Trump wants to make out the USA military are untouchable?

After seeing the tail section of the plane, yes.

Looks like they touched.

 

[daffyduck]

I think Iran would try and take credit if they did it. Besides, an in air collision between two friendlies is likely more embarrassing than being shot down.

According to CNN (on air), an Iranian proxy group claimed responsibilty.

But the implication is that the bird that crashed was trying to refuel it's own tank from the one that safely landed with a piece of it's tail missing.

 

[Windle Poons]

After seeing the tail section of the plane, yes.

Looks like they touched.

Geez. I thought it meant a collision with a fighter jet. They are big bastard things it is amazing they both didnt crash.

Sorry for the edits - three things at once going on and not reading properly. My bad.

 

[DeepEnigma]

They let this one fly? Or attempt to take off?

Sorry, the media is really sketchy about this (or I'm just not seeing it)

No, it landed after damage was taken. Meaning it was part of possible collision.

 

[daffyduck]

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[calico]

They let this one fly? Or attempt to take off?

Sorry, the media is really sketchy about this (or I'm just not seeing it)

The tanker in the photo with the tail damage was (most likely) refueling another tanker. They clipped during refueling, damaging the one in the photo (which landed safely) and causing the other tanker (the one being refueled) to crash.

 

[ResilientBanana]

Thankfully no kids in session and security got the guy

there were kids there, I believe it's also a daycare as one of our friends had kids in the building during the event.

 

[Windle Poons]

Yeah, sorry DeepEnigma and calico I wasn't reading properly.

 

[adamsapple]

Looks like various countries are now individually reaching out to Iran for safe passage for their ships.

France and Italy open talks with Iran on securing safe Hormuz passage, FT reports

March 13 () - France and ‌Italy have ‌opened talks with Iran seeking to negotiate a deal ‌to ⁠guarantee safe passage for ⁠their ships through the Strait of Hormuz, ‌the Financial Times reported on...

ca.news.yahoo.com

March 13 (Reuters) - France and ‌Italy have ‌opened talks with Iran seeking to negotiate a deal ‌to ⁠guarantee safe passage for ⁠their ships through the Strait of Hormuz, ‌the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people ‌briefed on the efforts.

 

[calico]

Could be France surrendering to terrorism already (likely), or it could be so when Iran maintains a position of 'no we will attack your civilian vessels if they try to use the strait', France has cause to join the attacks.

 

[Gp1]

But if you have a tanker that can refuel it couldn't you just use that one to refuel what it was going to refuel? Maybe it's fuel types or because then you can have two tankers refueling instead of one.

I've posted an entire article explaining what does the Kc-135rt does.
Over simplificating, their squad is the equivalent of the 160th Night Stalkers for refueling.

Edit. Just in

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Iran went from ayatollah to comatollah

 

[Unknown Soldier]

 

[DeepEnigma]

If anyone bought the CNN article, especially how it was framed, you indeed do deserve to be ridiculed for being a total room temp with a drool cup.

 

[IntentionalPun]

It's one thing to plan for the idea of Iran closing the straight "for decades" it's another thing to expect it out of this most recent attack on them.

"We planned to cripple the world economy during a time where the economy is already kind of fucked" is some real big brained propaganda though.

You have to be a fucking retard to actually believe any Republican.

 

[Vlodril]

Trust the plan.

 

[Mortisfacio]

Is there more context to this clip or is this statement as dumb as it sounds?

 

[DeepEnigma]

Is there more context to this clip or is this statement as dumb as it sounds?

Yeah, stop being typical F*in terrorists, Iran.

Mr. "That was a War Crime" regime.

 

[poppabk]

I'm not sure which is worse - not planning for it, or the plan including to tell ships not to be chicken.