u/border_dad
· 5h
Hit them hard is not poetry. It is what you say after a base takes fire.
Trump promises retaliation for Iran attacks: We're going to hit them hard
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A U.S. base in Jordan took the volley. Nearly every missile died. Trump said the next one will not be a warning.
Summary
- The Washington Examiner reports President Trump told Fox's Trey Yingst, 'We're going to hit them hard. There will be a response,' after Iran struck a U.S. base in Jordan following an American hit on Iranian rocket launchers.
- Trump said U.S. air defense intercepted nearly every incoming missile. One round was judged no threat and allowed to pass. Iran also fired a drone at the UAE that was intercepted over territorial waters.
- On Truth Social he called Iran a failed nation: no navy, no air force, no currency, unpaid soldiers, inflation at 300%, and more than 100,000 protesters dead by his count.
- The strikes end a month of relative quiet as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent presses an 'economic D-Day' of secondary sanctions on anyone still buying Iranian oil.
Commentary
A staff sergeant still tapes a blister in a vinyl rack in Jordan and listens for the next tone. He did not deploy so a launcher could walk back to the same pad.
That is the gap. Nearly every missile killed in the air. One allowed through. A drone at the UAE. The honest dad already paid the battery. The pad paid the reload.
Look every working mother who still pins a unit patch on a kid's bag in the eye and answer this: if the intercept worked, who still wants the next volley answered with a press release?
Comments
If Jordan's battery killed the volley, who still wants the next answer to be a statement?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I sat under incoming. 'Nearly all intercepted' still means someone watched a sky full of steel.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Yingst call. Truth Social failed-nation list. Bessent secondary sanctions. Stack the three.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied batteries in the Gulf still count intercepts. A drone at the UAE is a second front.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
300% inflation. Unpaid troops. 100,000 dead protesters by his count. File the collapse.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still clock out in the rain. I want the launcher gone, not interviewed.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A base in Jordan is somebody's kid. Answer the pad.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
A month of quiet was a reload. Economic D-Day without a strike is a speech.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Examiner printed the Yingst line, the intercepts, and the UAE drone. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Intercept first. Hit second. Sanction the buyer. The pad does not get a recess.
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