I agree. This is likely 100% fake news. I seem to recall from several mega threads back that the consensus here was that there was no evidence the Iranians had mined the strait.

US intelligence reports/people familiar with=

I hope this is true obviously

Where are these claims coming from? Do you have a source?

I’m always morbidly curious what horrific string of idiotic phrases was fed into the burn the Amazon algorithm to create such slop. (Though never enough to investigate lol)

Can you link a source for this?

I was quite skinny as a teenager, now I have the physique of a dwarf from Lord of the rings. I think the grass is always greener on the other side lol

Was allegedly involved in search and rescue mission for the crew of the plane shot down earlier today

No need to apologize for that one. I think I speak for many when I say I appreciate the amount of detail in your posts.

So I’m guessing you are either in the north east or parts of the Midwest based on what you wrote. There are three things I’d point out with that being said. Firstly, there are some areas where there are genuinely valuable trees on forest service land, as they allow logging at a minorly limited rate. This is especially true out west. Secondly, evonomies of scale. Much of the lumber industry is set up to clearcut even aged plantations at scale, and as a result it can be hard to find sawmills to buy small and diverse loads of logs from clearing smaller private parcels. Thirdly, there is an increasing demand for wood based biofuel, mainly for export to Europe or japan. This industry is only established in the southeast and Pacific Northwest thus far, but the companies involved in that do seem to be attempting to expand (drax, a British company was denied permits to build two large biofuel pellet plants in California).

Tldr, your observations of the timber industry are accurate but I think there are specific intelligent profiteers behind this type of move

Unlimited blue on blue fire onthe Yankee terrorists

Was initially quite confused by the highlights. The highlighted tailfin is from the 493 fighter squadron (it even says 493 FS) whereas the debris appears to be formerly of the 494 fighter squadron. Not sure why that image was included

Is there any chance the wing loong have could be Iranian - a friendly fire incident or is this confirmed Saudi or UAE? Saudi or UAE seems more likely tbh

how do you do fellow kids

It is really obnoxious that they don’t link the source in the article or even say what site it is on.

It seems like the levels of institutional anti-chinese racism are just going up and up in If I was in his position I’d probably take an opportunity for a job outside the us as well.

Slightly cryptic in an entertaining way but I know what he’s saying. 5/10 rating

God I hate the USA

Work of modern art

Congrats.