MONITOR MILITARY

“The United States military executes the most remarkable search and rescue operation of all time”

“Iranian terrorist leaders who were living high on the American hog”

“Alex Jones is out like completely fireballing Trump now and says that Americans should hang their flags upside down, which is the universal symbol of distress. I'm like, Alex Jones? Gay frog, Alex Jones? ... This is not Alex Jones talking to the deep state. This is Alex Jones talking to MAGA base. It's a seismic shift and it continues on.”

“Trump said the Iranians were closing in on him, but the US forces found him first. They picked him up, flew him out of Iran. Trump says he's safe and sound, though we don't know exactly where he is or the extent of his injuries. Still a lot of details we don't know.”

“The governor of Russia's northwestern Leningrad region said Ukrainian drones caused a fuel leak at the Baltic Sea port of Primorsk, the latest in a series of attacks that have slowed shipments of oil out of one of Russia's largest export hubs. Separately authorities in the Nizhny Novgorod region to the east of Moscow reported Ukrainian drone strikes caused a massive fire at one of Russia's largest oil refineries.”

“President Trump threatens Iran with destruction”

“Buckingham Palace has so far indicated that that can't and won't happen while criminal investigations into his brother Andrew's links to Epstein are underway. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's arrest in February was for alleged misconduct in public office from his days as a trade envoy.”

“He said starting Tuesday, the US will bomb power plants and bridges if Iran doesn't open the Strait of Hormuz. The president has issued a series of contradictory statements on the Strait, saying that it would open naturally when the war ends, or that European countries should open the Strait themselves.”

“Ukraine is stepping up attacks against Russia's energy infrastructure to prevent the Kremlin from benefiting from higher oil prices. This is NPR News in Washington.”

“This is all embarrassing and juvenile. And it's people trying to act like they're puffed up and tough when what we really see from the administration in this war is the absence of a plan, the absence of a clear rationale, no effort to get allies on board, and thus deep unpopularity of this war with the American public.”

“JD Vance is running for president in 2028 And I don't think he fired Buckley just because Tucker's saying shit about Donald Trump. I think he fired Buckley because he recognizes that when he wants to run for president, Tucker is one of those people who could be a potential candidate in a primary against JD Vance. And that makes JD Vance extremely no bueno.”

“Cash Patel is increasingly seen inside the FBI and the administration as somebody with a drinking problem. He is not going to win this fight because he has over a dozen sources who said, He drinking. This isn't good. Cash Patel's security detail needs to get the jaws of life to pry open his hotel room door so they can get him because he won't respond otherwise.”

“Reopening of the Straits will be slow because it may have been mined. Also, the logistics of getting all the ships that are trapped in out and the ones that are out in will be slow. Repair, there's been a lot of damage to infrastructure. We don't know how bad.”

“But it turned out that there are places where even the president doesn't get to go when the military doesn't want him to... What's the word I'm looking for? Leak shit from the most classified possible operation they could be conducting. Or have him in the room acting like a crazy motherfucker. Those are why they kept him out of the room.”

“Who is the dissident? The dissident is the person who says, I'm not moving. You're in the way of me living my normal life, right? You're going to have to move. I'm not moving out of the way. The pre-political are all of these sort of conditions of life that we take to be sort of normal. Like, you want to be, it's not political to want to be a good neighbor, to see somebody's rights being violated and acting on it.”

“So now, we have Energy Secretary Chris Wright, one of the many people who likes to go on a Sunday show and really fuck things up, saying that gas may stay above $3 into 2027 Great stuff. Love it. The Arap war has driven up prices as we were told. None of this is a surprise in any which way, and Wright is just trying to defend it.”

“The Writers Guild issued a statement that the contract protects health care gains, reached in 2023. The current contract expires June 30th. The swift resolution of negotiations comes in stark contrast to the last round when Hollywood writers went on strike for months.”

“the Trump administration expels relatives of Iranian terrorist leaders”

“They were not going to let even the president of the United States mess it up because there was a real belief that he would do something to either order them to do something stupid or leak it. And either one of those scenarios would have resulted in that that F-15 backseater either being dead or being an Iranian hostage. And they realized that it should tell you a lot that the people who actually are on the pointy end of the stick with our military do not trust their commander in chief.”

“the most remarkable search and rescue operation of all time”

“This Easter, only about a dozen priests were praying inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where it's believed Jesus died and was resurrected. The Latin Patriarch's office shared this video. Last week, he was barred from entering by Israeli police citing safety restrictions. After wide criticism, a small number are back in, but no crowds.”

“US and Israeli forces today rescued a US. Air Force officer nearly two days after his plane was shot down in a mountainous region of Iran. President Trump celebrated the news and also issued a new threat. Trump said the rescued officer sustained injuries, but quote, he will be just fine.”