Sudden Deployment of Dozens of U.S. Air Force Tankers Raises Questions

The oblasts were under Ukrainian sovreignity.
No. De facto they were not under Ukrainian sovereignity. Russia just recognised this fact. Ukraine should have recognise the fact, too.
That's how international courts will rule.
No. Ukraine will recognise independence of them and of all other republics who'll wish to leave Ukraine and join Russia.

Russia invaded a sovreign nation. You don't want to live under Ukrainian law, move to Russia.
First of all, borders are closed. Second - this is exactly what they did - they left Ukraine and took their land, their houses and property with them. Third - every human being have right and even duty to fight against tyranny, discrimination, abuse and genocide. Fourth - if they don't want to live under Russian law, they should move to Canada.
 
Six B-2 Bombers have left the states headed for Guam. Next fly over Fordom Iran to drop two MOAB penetrators.

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Or, what is also possible, Iranian (or "Iranian") Air Defense will shoot them down. Or Iranian "auxiliary cruiser" will attack them on Guam.
 
No. De facto they were not under Ukrainian sovereignity. Russia just recognised this fact. Ukraine should have recognise the fact, too.
No. Ukraine will recognise independence of them and of all other republics who'll wish to leave Ukraine and join Russia.
First of all, borders are closed. Second - this is exactly what they did - they left Ukraine and took their land, their houses and property with them. Third - every human being have right and even duty to fight against tyranny, discrimination, abuse and genocide. Fourth - if they don't want to live under Russian law, they should move to Canada.

Yes, they were.
 
Don't give a shit.

No. Looking how stupidly Trump raising the stakes, it's more likely that the USA will lose Alaska and California before this conflict is finished.

You are a goofus. The four oblasts gone and Crimea rendered useless as a naval base for Russia.

You can't even beat a third rate nation. Poland would eat you alive.
 

Trump announces air strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran​

From CNN’s Alejandra Jaramillo
President Donald Trump announced Saturday that the US has completed a “very successful attack” on nuclear sites in Iran including Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan.

The president said all planes are now outside of Iran air space.

“We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. All planes are now outside of Iran air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow. All planes are safely on their way home. Congratulations to our great American Warriors. There is not another military in the World that could have done this. NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE!Thank you for your attention to this matter,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

 
No one should be surprised. Israel has been attacking Iran air defenses for a week to prepare for these strikes. There will be more.
 

Trump announces air strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran​

From CNN’s Alejandra Jaramillo
President Donald Trump announced Saturday that the US has completed a “very successful attack” on nuclear sites in Iran including Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan.

The president said all planes are now outside of Iran air space.

“We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. All planes are now outside of Iran air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow. All planes are safely on their way home. Congratulations to our great American Warriors. There is not another military in the World that could have done this. NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE!Thank you for your attention to this matter,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

Fine. If Trump (or whoever holds his autopen) decided to escalate - there will be an escalation. The USA can't effectively finish and prevent Iranian nuclear program without boots on the ground. And if (very big IF) Iran is on his own - they'll make a bomb and burst it in NY (or other large American city). If Iran is not on his own - America just dragged itself in another proxy attriction war on Middle East.
 
Or, what is also possible, Iranian (or "Iranian") Air Defense will shoot them down. Or Iranian "auxiliary cruiser" will attack them on Guam.
Not happening, B-2s could do the same thing to your first strike missiles. Perhaps you should reconsider your bellicose stand on nuclear war with the USA and NATO. The B-2s could roam at will over Russia attacking targets of opportunity after destroying your missiles in their silos.
 
Not happening, B-2s could do the same thing to your first strike missiles.

In fact, I would argue that they can do a much better job.

"First Strike Missiles" are actually not all that effective against most hardened military targets. They are either too inaccurate (ballistic missiles), or simply can not carry enough ordinance to be used against anything other than soft targets (cruise missiles).

That is why when going after hardened targets, the weapon of choice is still aircraft. They can carry significantly more ordinance, and can place it on target much more accurately than any missile.

Want to hit a runway or aircraft in the open, battlefield logistical depots and things like that, missiles are actually pretty damned good. They can be fired from a significant distance away, and even a "near miss" on targets like that can cause significant damage. Especially against something like a fuel or ordinance depot, where the sympathetic detonations can actually cause a hell of a lot more damage than the ordinance delivered itself can do.

However, to launch an attack on a hardened target, you have to replace that with human eyes overhead able to actually deliver either the significantly more powerful explosives, or able to guide in the ordinance with pin point targeting.

I still remember the first time I arrived at Ali Al Salem Air base in Kuwait. For those that do not know, that is the main air base of the Kuwait Air Force, and was occupied by Iraq in 1990. And one of their proudest features was a series of defensive bunkers for their fighters that had been built by France just a few years before.

And after Iraq occupied the base, they started to use those bunkers to protect their own fighters. Not that it did any good, the US systematically took them all out with bunker buster ordinance delivered by fighters.

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The bunkers are still used, but now as maintenance facilities. But I remember looking in awe the first time I landed there, and seeing row after row of bunkers, each with a single bomb strike destroying it.
 
Not happening, B-2s could do the same thing to your first strike missiles. Perhaps you should reconsider your bellicose stand on nuclear war with the USA and NATO. The B-2s could roam at will over Russia attacking targets of opportunity after destroying your missiles in their silos.
And now it's your wishful thinking. They won't do it because, at least, we'll destroy them on the airfields by our first strike.
 
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Sudden Deployment of Dozens of U.S. Air Force Tankers Raises Questions

16 Jun 2025 ~~ By Stefano D'Urso

Around 30 KC-135 and KC-46 tankers departed the U.S. headed to Europe, but their final destination is unknown.

In the night between June 15 and 16, 2025, multiple U.S. Air Force KC-135 and KC-46 aerial refueling aircraft departed their bases in the United States headed to Europe. The sudden and unusual movement was quickly noticed on flight tracking websites, when about 30 tankers were first spotted headed towards the Atlantic Ocean and later arriving in Europe.

Most of these aircraft landed this morning at Ramstein Air Base in Germany and at Morón Air Base and NAS Rota in Spain, while two landed at Aviano Air Base in Italy and at least one landed at Prestwick International Airport in the UK. At the time of writing, some tankers are in flight over the Balkans, headed south, possibly towards Souda Bay in Greece or Incirlik in Turkey.
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The reason of this mass deployment is unclear, however what can be said for sure is that these are repositioning flights and the tankers are not “dragging” fighter jets. If that was the case, the tankers would be flying at lower altitudes and would also be make the usual stops on the U.S. East Coast and at Lajes air base, in the Azores.




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At the present time, USAF has B-52's, B-1's & B-2 bombers stationed in the UK , Spain Diego Garcia.
Israel already has accepted 4 KC-46 tankers and has seven KC-135 tankers and seven KC-130 style tankers.
it’s time for some aircraft rest and maintenance. There is a reason the US has around 600 tankers of varying types.
The B-52 and B-2 bombers are capable of carrying the bombs capable of penetrating the mountains hiding the iranian nuclear facilities.

Some people did something.
 
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Not happening, B-2s could do the same thing to your first strike missiles. Perhaps you should reconsider your bellicose stand on nuclear war with the USA and NATO. The B-2s could roam at will over Russia attacking targets of opportunity after destroying your missiles in their silos.
Trump just proved that Russia if defenseless, if it comes to that
 
And now it's your wishful thinking. They won't do it because, at least, we'll destroy them on the airfields by our first strike.
Two Nuts in a Nutcracker, Doing the "Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairies"

You're as war-mongering as Litwin. Both of you are influenced by propaganda from Soros's New World Order. Conflict between advanced nations is his goal, so anyone who pushes hostility about Russia and China, or anti-American paranoia from those two powers, is launching us into a new Dark Ages, in which all three countries will be mobbed by Third World savages.
 
You were close Doc. Back in FDR's day you would have had to deal with Hoover's FBI. The mission might have been derailed by a hundred of unelected Biden sycophants but there is a new sheriff in town and the lying bastards in the media no longer have insider information to use against the administration.
 
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