I wouldn’t call training F-15 pilots and ground crew a priceless service. Saudi Arabia has been operating them since the 1980’s when they actually were the world’s premier air superiority fighter. F15’s are still undefeated in air-to-air combat, but only because they haven’t gone up against an F22. Saudi pilots have been training out of Luke Airforce Base in Arizona for most of my life.
Not many countries operate the F15 due to its cost compared to the F16, which is roughly the same level of tech on a smaller, less expensive, less capable single engine airframe.
We’ve got a LONG list of countries, including many Islamic countries, that operate the F16.
No, like the actual information on flying and fighting.
Its important to know what they (foreign pilots) know. Also important that there is only one place in the world to get that kind of training. The most elite of the elite.
Kinda like you can’t just go any old place and become a SEAL or other types of special operations guy. Theres only one place in the world for that, and its a very secure location.
Check out the list of operators linked above. We’ve been spilling those beans for a really long time.
Even if they go Ayatollah on us like Iran did, we can just stop sending them spare parts and leave them with a nearly inoperable fleet of F14’s whose only function is to serve as a plot device in modern American fighter jet movies like Top Gun 2.
You guys are missing the point. This isn’t about arms sales or classified methods. It’s about bringing them, here.
Yeah, I’m not sure why this type of training must be conducted on US soil. There are how many thousands of miles of desert over there for them to fly over?
Learned something new. Also dumb. Look how training this guy turned out…
And he was just a civilian.
This really isn’t hard to predict. Cue scorpion and frog pic. There are certainly going to be enough scorpions among their ranks that it wouldn’t at all be hard to get one here through these training programs.
If they want to kill each other halfway around the world, so be it. But why give them the keys to the house?
There are good arguments against importing lots of Muslims due to the inherent adversarial political aspects of the religion, but this deal is not anything unusual at all. Check out the list of F-16 operators I posted above. We’ve had pilots from Islamic countries training inside our borders on our fighter jets for a really long time.
You can still disagree and suggest that Trump should have throttled the deal in his first term, and every other deal with Islamic countries operating American weapons systems, but you can’t say that this is anything unusual.
What’s unusual is that Donald Trump won a second term. People on social media are still hunting clicks with sensational stories meant to give the reader the idea that Trump is a fascist dictator, or otherwise doing something completely unprecedented and without any legal justification whatsoever.
I should clarify that when I say them, I am not referring to the secularized “Muhammad in name only”, nor the everyday, sit on the sidelines Muslim who will gladly praise Allah with their families in the confines of their homes when one of their brothers kills an infidel. As you said though, a case could be made. I am specifically referring to intentionally bringing their willing combatants within easy striking distance of our children.
Maybe it’s the generational gap between us, or maybe it’s because I now have kids and am much more hypersensitive to possible affronts to their safety, but just because it is “not unusual” does not make it a good idea. I absolutely would have had him nix any deal that involved possible Islamist operation of American weapons systems on American soil.
Given the highly “specific” timing of this deal, I think there has to be some relevance to Qatar’s role in the nascent Middle East peace deal.
Not a big fan either, but the rule of 80/20 still holds. Take the good with the bad; and imo the good so far still much higher than 80%, and I’ll take it.
Can you explain the conclusion you draw from the Tik Tok video?
Speaking of “scholars”, I finished reading Antifa: The Antifascist Handbook by Mark Bray yesterday after watching a clip of Jimmy Kimmel being the paid stooge he’s become to tell us all that Antifa isn’t really real.
Bray names dozens of European and N. American Antifa organizations and individuals in this book, along with stating that he was donating book proceeds to Antifa organizations. He fled the country for Spain after Trump correctly declared Antifa to be an international terrorist group.
Bray’s “people’s history” of Antifa was very much like other “people’s history” authors like Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, and Heather Cox Richardson, who all share a love of selective historical storytelling and mental gymnastics to cast socialist revolutionaries and antifa agitators as history’s good guys while bizarrely classifying American Republicans as fascists. Mental slop sure does sell well, with a huge audience of woke know-nothings ready to eat it all up.
Bray’s book did not persuade me to become an antifascist, but it did persuade me that they are, in fact, an international terrorist organization. It was a brazen call to violence based on the unsupported idea that Donald Trump is a fascist and so are his supporters. Bray explicitly states this in his silly little book.
He also gave me the impression that he’s never gotten his ass beat while he gleefully described antifa committing assaults on people who they label “fascists”.
If you have a half hour to spare, this Mike Benz speech is worth spending it on. This guy is really, really bright and explains online censorship better than anyone I’ve ever come across.
Jon Bolton has been indicted for sharing classified information on his AOL email account and being hacked by an Iranian, among other equally reckless things. He’s right up there with Dick Cheney in his shameless war hawking over the decades, both total swamp creatures.
In local news, Maine’s masculine Mandani, Graham Platner, had his Reddit posts revealed by CNN. He called himself a communist, participated in the Socialist Rifle Association subreddit, suggested armed uprisings against “the fascists”, and is now pretending that he isn’t actually like that at all after campaigning with Bernie Sanders and using similar rhetoric as Mamdani, AOC, and the rest of the squad.
It is a bizarre situation where he needs to keep saying socialist things because that’s his entire brand and what his supporters like, but you still can’t win a statewide election in Maine as an open communist who yearns for a violent revolution.
I’m guessing our governor leaked this information, as it was revealed shortly after Janet Mills declared her senate candidacy against Platner in the Democratic primary, with both aiming to unseat Susan Collins. She’s a socialist too, or at least she signed an awful lot of radical progressive policies into law, but she is smart enough to keep a lid on that. I think she’s more of a grifter than an ideologue, along with being way too old to be a freshman senator at 79.
Well that was clumsy of the Trump social media team, putting footage from other cities into a post about Chicago. They could have just gone to Englewood or Washington Park at night with a cellphone.
Fun fact: I was robbed at gunpoint in Hegewisch in 1998.
Steve Robinson is the best journalist in Maine and I was really stoked to see him get on the Shaun Ryan show, along with making people aware of how corrupt this state is. He’s also a fan of yours truly and has reposted some of my local writing.
Our governor’s older brother was involved in a pretty sketchy property transfer, too.
