Carlos Williams

Suboptimal

Ah, good, this will help disabuse people of the Star Wars theory of states, which assumes countries function similarly to how in Star Wars every part of a planet is the same and something happening on one part of the planet is always evident from wherever you are on that planet.

$3.7 Billion: Estimated Cost of Epic Fury’s First 100 Hours Operation Epic Fury costs nearly $900 million per day, driven by the large expenditure of munitions. Because most of this is not in the budget, the Pentagon will soon need to ask for more money.

In the first 100 hours of Operation Epic Fury, United States expended over 2,000 munitions of various types against Iran. But how much does this cost?

More from the CSIS Defense and Security Department: https://www.csis.org/analysis/37-billion-estimated-cost-epic-furys-first-100-hours

A Nintendo lawsuit I fully support 100%!!!! ✊ ✊ ✊

TRADERS WARN $100 OIL IS IMMINENT IF IRAN WAR KEEPS RAGING - BBG

“.. one thing the US economy doesn’t need right now is a war of choice shutting down a major trade route, blowing up oil markets, and driving up the cost of energy for Americans, just as the labor market seizes up.

And yet, here we are.”

@dkthomp.bsky.social
www.derekthompson.org/p/the-econom...

$2 Billion a day. $83.33 million per hour. $1.39 million per minute. $23,148 per second. If this last until September 1st it will have cost $360 billion.

Iranian ballistic missile impact on Prince Sultan Air Base from earlier this week.

Video shows ship traffic moving through the Strait of Hormuz over the past 24 hours.
#AureFreePress #News #straitofhormuz #BreakingNews

Kuwait Cuts Oil Production as Storage Fills Up The cuts signal a broader storage crisis that poses new risks to the global market.

Exclusive: Kuwait is cutting oil production after running out of storage room, signaling a broader crisis that poses new risks to the global market.

I can't get over this, from @jonathankarl.bsky.social. Trump is working the phones to journalists, talking about his war as a "performance."

Live Cattle off the highs... still happy I have my @thefreshmarket $4.99/lb 80/20 ground beef and $9.99 bone-in ribeye.

$3.99/lb brisket flats at @WinnDixie too!

By the way... are we going to get egg discounts at the breakfast places??? IHOP Denny’s

But we sunk 30 ships and their drone carrier???? How can this possibly be???

Live Updates: U.S. Employers Cut Jobs in Weaker Than Expected Report

We have rising unemployment, high gas prices and a war in the Middle East. It’s 2008 all over again. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

If you want to know why we stood up an office specifically to deal with CIVCAS (disbanded). Why we study the laws of war. Why we restrict ROE. Why we keep JAGs close in the targeting process. Why some of us who had to make hard decisions can still sleep at night. It was all there to prevent THIS.

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

My goodness who didn’t see this happening.

⛔ JMIC DATA SAYS COMPLETE HALT OF SHIPPING TRAFFIC AT STRAIT OF HORMUZ

New satellite images from several key military bases in the Arabian Peninsula suggest that Iran is seeking to degrade air defenses by destroying US-made radars that detect incoming missiles and drones. https://cnn.it/4b99F0Y

Gas station sign in $3.15 for regular and $4.39 for diesel

chat are we cooked

"It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."

— Donald Rumsfeld on the Iraq War (7 Feb 2003).

YIKES- big dose of price cycling- alerts coming

I was wondering where CENTCOM was getting their “terminate conflict by September” guesstimate

Man who didn’t see this coming.

States with the biggest rise in #gasprices compared to a week ago
Louisiana ⬆️39.7c/gal
Georgia ⬆️37.5c/gal
Iowa ⬆️35.6c/gal
Indiana ⬆️35.2c/gal
West Virginia ⬆️35.0c/gal
Oklahoma ⬆️34.8c/gal
North Dakota ⬆️34.2c/gal
Ohio ⬆️34.1c/gal
South Dakota ⬆️32.6c/gal
Illinois ⬆️31.1c/gal

The First 36 Hours of War Consumed Over 3,000 U.S.-Israeli Munitions Replenishing stockpiles depends on vulnerable critical mineral chains.

folks do you like war/logistics nerdery? because i have some war/logistics nerdery for you

foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/05/i...

No, it’s worse.

It’s a war without a political objective.

Plenty of wars have opened without a clear plan to reconcile desired ends with available means, we may be the first country to go to war without even a basic concept of victory.

War for the memes. War for the vibes. War for the Warriors.

Iranian warship hit by US torpedo did not carry ammunition, say Indian sources The ship was reported to be taking part in naval exercises hosted by New Delhi and was 'defenceless'

Iranian warship hit by US torpedo did not carry ammunition, say Indian sources