Travis

@someforeignfield.bsky.social

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USAID, refugee resettlement, and humanitarian assistance veteran. Missile and tank weirdo, posts stuff about missiles, the Middle East, and why it matters at https://substack.com/@someforeignfield

JFC, they can't even discriminate right. Sikhs are among the most peaceful and kind folks on the planet.
Sign in the destroyed building: Travel to exotic places, meet interesting people, and kill them
Aftermath of the Iran missle strike: from what i'm hearing we're getting projected impact data but the missiles are changing trajectory multiple times in flight so the projected impact warnings are no good. Targeting data is obviously getting fed to Iran from China or Russia because where they are impacting/what they are targeting is insanely precise
Al Jazeera: BREAKING: US CENTCOM says a service member was killed in northern Iraq during a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian drone. This comes after two US soldiers were killed and one went missing in Jordan.
top row "BREAKING NEWS The plane carrying the US delegation..." paired with image of excited man bottom row "... took off from Ankara" paired with image of disappointed man
Post on r/politics. Article title "half of democrats say israel committed genocide" Top comment: "just half?" Reply to that: "have you seen who runs the party? They've been strongly in bed with AIPAC for decades"
Herr Stamper blasting away with am M-60 machine gun
To address this new reality, the Israeli defense establishment must create a missile corps within the Israel Defense Forces. Right now, to strike Iran, we use U.S. aircraft, U.S.-made munitions and U.S. refueling aircraft. We pass through the airspace of other countries and coordinate with the U.S. We rely on American radars and satellites. Militarily, we are overly dependent on other nations. Establishing a missile corps and using only Israeli-made missiles would resolve several security issues. It should possess at least 20,000 ballistic and cruise missiles, 30,000 unmanned aerial vehicles and drones, and 24,000 rockets.
JD Vance likes to threaten Israel by pointing out how much of our weapons come from the US, but he completely ignores history. This dependency was manufactured by Washington. What does he want us to do, buy our jets from China? Or maybe he wants Israel to build its own? Let's remind him that back in the 1980s, Israel was developing the Lavi, a fighter jet that would easily be one of the best in the world today. It was the US that pressured and forced Israel to cancel the project because American defense contractors didn't want the competition. You can't force us to shut down our independent fighter jet program to protect US corporate profits, and then turn around and complain that we rely on US jets. If Israel has to fully decouple and build its own platforms again, we can. But don't pretend this dependency wasn't your choice.
New Zionist crybully thing is insisting you can’t do anything vaguely around precious dates or Shabbat. This is the fifth time I’ve seen this line. “And they released their plan on a Friday!!” ok what? This is 4 days after Oct 7, that’s a whole ass other week
Trump told Iranians that “help is on the way.” Then he bombed Iran (making their lives worse), made a deal with a regime that massacred thousands, cut funding for rights and internet freedom groups, and deported asylum seekers. In my @MSNOWNews piece, I ask whether the US supports the Iranian people at all.
SCOOP: A regional country blocked Israel from using its airspace during this week’s airstrikes against Iran. While Israel expected the same cooperation seen in past clashes, one source tells me the sudden shutdown sends a "clear diplomatic message" of shifting regional dynamics
Samantha Power to WBUR: "...I wish I would have been able to travel into Gaza and not just to the checkpoints where humanitarian assistance and so forth was getting blocked. And I think it's really hurt US decision-making not to be able to actually be in Gaza to see what those living conditions were like for Palestinians."
This is just bleak as hell, man. The end of the idea of development and international assistance. Was it completely altruistic in the first place? No! But the main non altruistic instinct was putting giant USA letters on the grain to feed starving people.
A post where the poster says they don't think the US has the ability to compel Israel to stop bombing Iran or to withdraw from Lebanon
Photo of an IRIAF F-4 fighter reportedly form the time of 39-day war. The Phantom is armed with an Iranian Qased bomb (copy of GBU-15(V)/B) and a 370 gal EFT. The bomb was reportedly used against Kurdish groups in Iraq. Source: t.me/Parvazdaroj/30…
Azerbaijan is sweating after CNN dumped tea about Israeli commandos/military using their territory to stage attacks on Iran.
a man very slowly imitating masturbation in front of another (increasingly uncomfortable) man
Prime Minister Menachem Begin in 1982 to Joe Biden: “Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.” Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu should say the same to President Trump.
Pelosi kente cloth kneel
Korean KAI KF-21 semi-5th gen fighter jet.
Shenyang J-35 stealth fighter jet