Author Archive: Ed Driscoll

March 6, 2026

FLASHBACK FRIDAY: That Time Talarico Demanded An Abortion Clinic in Every Federal Office.

We can question Talarico’s approach to Christianity, but no one can question his commitment to abortion. Late yesterday, a letter Talarico wrote in 2022 emerged on the subject of abortion. In this letter on official legislative letterhead, Talarico urged Joe Biden to open abortion clinics in federal offices and on federal land so as to frustrate abortion restrictions passed by the state legislature Talarico served.

Bear in mind that Texas passed abortion restrictions through its elected representatives in the state legislature, which is the ultimate expression of “public will” in representative democracy. The letter came shortly after the leak of the Dobbs decision that reversed Roe and sent the issue of abortion back to the states for the express purpose of allowing the “public will” to be served legislatively. And yet Talarico considered the ending of a 49-year judicial fiat (yes, that’s intentional) and the enabling of legislatures to be the real “subversion of the public will.”

Talarico then urged Biden to make the federal government into Abortions R Us in Texas, not just limited to federal funding of abortions, but to putting abortionists on the federal payroll for legal immunity. Also, Talarico envisioned a new era of putting an abortionist in every federal complex and national park:

On behalf of my constituents, I urge you and your administration to consider taking the following executive actions to protect the right to an abortion:

  • Leasing federal property to abortion clinics on federal lands or in fedeeral offices
  • Prohibiting states from imposing restrictions on abortion medication through the Food and Drug Administration
  • Hiring abortion providers as federal employees to provide immunity from state lawsuits

The General Services Administration manages more than 800 federally owned or leased buildings in Texas alone. Just repurposing a small fraction of those spaces can provide critical life-saving care to people across my state.

Bear in mind that Talarico and his fellow Democrats have been arguing for months that the federal government does not have jurisdiction to enforce existing federal immigration law in sanctuary cities and states. However, Talarico apparently thinks that the federal government has jurisdiction to abort babies, along with the executive authority to just make abortion providers into federal employees to protect them from state enforcement of abortion restrictions. I wonder whether Talarico has considered that position vis a vis attempts by Democrats in states like Minnesota and California to prosecute ICE agents.

Look, the man is simply doing all that he can for – checks notes – his “neighbors with a uterus:”

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on Mar 6th, 2026

NOT SATIRE: Come learn how Biden spent your tax dollars “to make the maps more gay.”

Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL): Can you tell me, what is ‘queering’ the map?

State undersecretary Rodgers: So, I think we were trying to make the maps more gay.

Mast: Literally? How do you make a map more gay?

Rodgers: Since the age of cartography we had to do good maps, but maybe they weren’t gay enough. I know also – I took critical theory in college – I think sometimes people use queer as a verb. I do understand that the maps … were of Czechia and Slovakia so maybe those countries asked for it. I doubt it, but I don’t mind.

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Sorry, but this is NOT SATIRE. There is a real project called “Queering the Map” where gay people drop little pins to tell their stories. The Biden State Department funded said project.

It’s great to see Biden administration staffers queering the maps, making roads less racist, stealing women’s clothes from luggage carousels, and handing the Taliban two billion dollars worth of military equipment while bugging out of Afghanistan. The grownups were back in charge during those blissful four years, and those were all activities that grownups would do.

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Mar 6th, 2026

THE NEWS WE KEPT TO OURSELVES:

Even CNN admits that when it comes to what they broadcast out of Iran, they’re propaganda:

Fondacaro’s tweet wouldn’t embed, but the CNN tweet he quotes concludes, “CNN is operating in Iran only with government permission.”

“Operating only with government permission” — what could possibly go wrong?

Classical reference in headline: CNN Admits Honest Reporting Was Impossible, So Why Go To Baghdad?

Americans debated President Bush’s Iraq policies for months, and one of the key questions was the nature of Saddam’s regime – was the dictator pragmatic enough to genuinely cooperate with U.N. inspectors, or was his regime so thoroughly evil that it could not be reformed, disarmed or contained? It turns out news organizations reporting from Baghdad had lots of information about the true nature of Saddam’s regime, but concealed it from viewers.

Thursday night on CNN’s NewsNight, and in an op-ed, “The News We Kept to Ourselves,” in Friday’s New York Times, the executive in charge of CNN’s worldwide news-gathering operations, Eason Jordan, revealed Saddam’s thugs harassed his staff, imprisoned Iraqi citizens who worked for CNN, and hatched a plot to murder his reporters working in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq.

“The secret police terrorized Iraqis working for international press services,” he disclosed. “Some vanished, never to be heard from again. Others disappeared and then surfaced later with whispered tales of being hauled off and tortured in unimaginable ways.”

“I came to know several Iraqi officials well enough that they confided in me that Saddam Hussein was a maniac who had to be removed,” Jordan wrote. He felt CNN could not reveal any of their information without putting lives at risk: “An aide to Uday [Hussein, Saddam’s son] once told me why he had no front teeth: henchmen had ripped them out with pliars and told him never to wear dentures, so he would always remember the price to be paid for upsetting the boss. Again, we could not broadcast anything these men said to us.”

“I felt awful having these stories bottled up inside me. Now that Saddam Hussein’s regime is gone, I suspect we will hear many, many more gut-wrenching tales from Iraqis about the decades of torment,” Jordan concluded. “At last, these stories can be told freely.”

—The Media Research Center, April 11, 2003.

Posted at 8:35 am by Ed Driscoll on Mar 6th, 2026

HOW IT STARTED: For the 2nd year in a row, Iran is sailing its biggest warship around the world to show off its growing navy.

Iran’s biggest warship and one of its frigates are sailing across the Pacific in a first-of-its-kind journey likely meant to show off Tehran’s growing naval force to friends and foes alike.

The two ships appear to be the frigate IRIS Dena and the forward base ship IRINS Makran. They were spotted by the French and Australian navies in early January as they sailed through the South Pacific. The ships have been granted permission to dock in Rio de Janeiro, reportedly arriving on January 23.

—Business Insider, January 27th, 2023.

How It’s Going: U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegeseth stated that a US Navy submarine sank the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena (75) off the coast of Sri Lanka.

Submarine periscope footage released by the Department of War showed a Mk 48 torpedo striking beneath the stern of IRIS Dena, raising the vessel off the water. Sri Lanka’s Deputy Foreign Minister Arun Hemachandra said 80 Iranian sailors have died.

The Iranian vessel was returning from an international fleet review and MILAN exercise organized by the Indian Navy in the Bay of Bengal till February 25. The vessel sank 20 nautical miles south of Galle in Sri Lanka according to the Sri Lanka Navy.

As for the Makran:

Posted at 8:22 am by Ed Driscoll on Mar 6th, 2026

WORST REMAKE OF SOME LIKE IT HOT, EVER:

In accordance with the prophecy:

Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll on Mar 6th, 2026

FORTUNATELY, WE STILL HAVE THE B-3 BOMBER IN RESERVE IN CASE ALBANIA ATTACKS:

Classical reference in headline:

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll on Mar 6th, 2026

March 5, 2026

HAPPY DEATH OF STALIN DAY FOR ALL WHO CELEBRATE! On this date in 1953, Joseph Stalin died, and the following day, the New York Times published this creepy bit of necrophilia for his obituary: Stalin Rose From Czarist Oppression to Transform Russia Into Mighty Socialist State.

In 2017, Armando Iannucci captured a far more subtle and nuanced take on the last days of the Soviet tyrant and the resulting scramble for control by his apparatchiks: The Red Reign of Error: The Death of Stalin Arrives on Netflix.

Posted at 9:45 pm by Ed Driscoll on Mar 5th, 2026

HOWARD DEAN IN 2005: “I will use whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy.”

Get cracking Howard — the calls are definitely coming from inside the house: The Complete (And Growing) List of Things the Left Simultaneously Believes.

I am a science teacher. In science, I teach my students that a hypothesis that contradicts itself is invalid.

So I made a list.

THE COMPLETE (AND GROWING) LIST OF THINGS THE LEFT SIMULTANEOUSLY BELIEVES

Buckle up. This one is going to take a minute.

1. “My body, my choice”… but you MUST get a vaccine or lose your job, your ability to travel, and your right to eat inside a restaurant. Both things. At the same time.

2. “Believe all women”… unless the woman is Tara Reade, Juanita Broaddrick, or Paula Jones. Those women apparently came with an asterisk nobody mentioned.

3. “Tax the rich”… said by a woman worth $120 million (Pelosi), a man worth $9 million (Schumer), and a senator who owns three houses (Bernie) — all while their stock portfolios grow on insider access the rest of us will never have.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 9:25 pm by Ed Driscoll on Mar 5th, 2026

HMMMM: Trump’s Axing Of Evil Ends Both Neocon And Mad MAGA Ideology.

There is no pretending that in the contest of ideas in the Trump universe, the Mark Levins and the Lindsey Grahams have not won, and the Tucker Carlsons and Marjorie Taylor Greenes have not lost. The “Let Reagan Be Reagan” routine, the notion that the president’s “evil advisers” are always conning him into betraying his true principles, won’t go far when it comes to Trump. Nobody believes Donald Trump is not his own man and can be bamboozled by those he has hired. Trump never stops being Trump.

A Carlson podcast several months ago, garnering 1 million views on YouTube, is entitled “It’s Time to Decide: America First or Lindsey Graham’s Psychosexual Death Cult.” In it, Carlson claimed that Graham has been talking about “killing Americans on behalf of another country, a foreign power,” meaning Israel. It’s actually nothing new for Carlson, to whom Graham has been a bane for years. According to Carlson, Graham’s positions on national security are explained by his lack of a wife and children, the cause of an absence of concern for the future.

This weekend, Carlson called Trump’s attack on Iran “absolutely disgusting and evil” and claimed that, as regards MAGA, it will “shuffle the deck in a profound way.” It is hard not to see Trump returning that fire, even though his vice president, J.D. Vance, is Carlson’s close friend, a fact that may have led to Trump putting the Ohioan on the ticket in 2024.

Will the MAGA movement crack up, parts of it turning against the two-time president for betraying their isolationism? It’s difficult to see it happening over their leader vanquishing the preeminent terrorist enabler in the world, a regime that has murdered thousands of Americans, in what is, as Trump called it, “a noble mission.” Losers lie, and Carlson’s attacks on a hawk like Graham consist of dubiously contending that he takes pleasure in bloodshed because he advocates sticking the U.S. military on fanatical killers. More likely his and like voices will soon become less relevant – especially if Trump targets him for ridicule as a kook, even if the insults are subtler than his lambasting of “Marjorie Traitor Greene.”

It is said that Donald Trump is obsessed with securing his place in history, and that it has influenced some of his decisions for the worse. But giving the 92 million people of Iran a chance at liberation is likely to push far aside President Trump’s moral shortcomings and erratic style. As regrettable as they may be, they will be of as much pertinence in the eyes of history as George Washington’s wooden teeth.

Not least of which: We Have Now Redeemed Ourselves As a Nation From Desert One. “The failure of Operation Eagle Claw was almost certainly one of the key reasons Jimmy Carter lost the 1980 election. The hostages were released on the same day that President Ronald Reagan was inaugurated; the Iranians obviously realized that there was a new sheriff in town, and that Reagan wasn’t going to play patty-cake. The hostages had been held by the vicious savages in Iran for 444 days. When Ronald Reagan took office, American families all over the nation were able, finally, to take down all those yellow ribbons.”

The Simpsons we’re joking with the “History’s greatest monster” riff about Carter, but in retrospect, not by all that much, though:

Posted at 8:50 pm by Ed Driscoll on Mar 5th, 2026

FLASHBACK: Iran’s “Keys to Heaven.”

 

 

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on Mar 5th, 2026

ON IRAN, DR. CORNEL WEST SAYS ‘BROTHER TRUMP IS A GANGSTER,’ CNN’S PHILLIP STAYS SILENT:

WEST: It’s just so sad because you see, Brother Trump, he is a gangster, and the gangster has a mentality that views himself as never accountable, never vincible, never answerable and therefore never responsible. So there’s a sense in which we don’t  shouldn’t focus just on him, he’s got enablers, he’s got supporters. And it’s a sign, I’m just thinking we’re going to put brother Jesse in the grave next few days — Jesse Jackson. And you know, Martin and Jesse talked about just how spiritually sick and morally decrepit and politically corrupt the country has become.

Good for West for attacking what’s become of CNN and his fellow leftists:  CNN Clown to Obama: ‘Go Gangsta Against Your Foes.’

—JammieWearingFool, February 11th, 2010.

The following year, actor Don Cheadle told an interviewer regarding then-President Obama, “I think he inherited an impossible situation. I wish he had not been so much of a consensus-seeker. I just wanted to see a more ‘gangsta’ president.”

In 2014, the Financial Times suggested: Obama needs a gangsta to lay down the law.

And while not specifically gangster and/or gangsta related, this metaphor from former CBS Face the Nation host John Dickerson sounds pretty violent as well: “Go for the Throat! Why if he wants to transform American politics, Obama must declare war on the Republican Party.”

—Dickerson at Slate, one of the remaining media redoubts of the Graham family, the former owners of the WaPo, January 18th, 2013.

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Mar 5th, 2026

NAME THAT PARTY: Jury awards $2M in trial over wrongful death lawsuit against political donor Ed Buck.

A jury awarded $2 million Wednesday in the civil trial of a wrongful death lawsuit against high-profile Southern California political donor Ed Buck.

The brief trial started Monday and resulted in a verdict Wednesday, when a jury of five men and three women unanimously found Buck liable for the drug overdose death of Gemmel Moore in 2017 and awarded his mother damages.

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Moore and Timothy Dean died of methamphetamine overdoses 18 months apart — Moore in July 2017 and Dean in January 2019.

Buck denied the allegations, maintaining that 26-year-old Moore was a long-time drug user and friend, and that they used methamphetamine and other drugs together. Buck claims Moore willingly participated in the actions alleged by his mother.

Evidence in the criminal case showed Buck lured young Black men who were often experiencing homelessness, addiction, and/or poverty to his West Hollywood apartment for sexually charged so-called “party and play” sessions in which he would inject them with methamphetamine and drug them with sedatives, with and without their consent.

After less than a day of deliberations on July 27, 2021 — the four-year anniversary of Moore’s death — the federal jury in downtown Los Angeles found Buck guilty of all nine charged felony counts.

“Unexpectedly,” CTRL+F “Democrat” brings back zero results in yesterday’s NBC-LA story. But even NPR managed to include his party affiliation in their 2021 headline: Democratic Donor Ed Buck Is Convicted In Deaths Of 2 Men He Offered Drugs For Sex.

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Mar 5th, 2026

CHECKING THE POLLS:

Evergreen:

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll on Mar 5th, 2026

REASON TV: Wikipedia is in Trouble (Video).

Further thoughts here:

Posted at 8:35 am by Ed Driscoll on Mar 5th, 2026

DATA REPUBLICAN: The Fall of the NGO-Administrative Complex.

The global order is no fan of Iran. Atlantic writer and former National Endowment for Democracy board member Anne Applebaum has consistently named Iran, alongside Russia and China, as one of the three greatest autocracies threatening the world. Senator Chris Murphy, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a speaker at the Council on Foreign Relations, drew an explicit parallel during the 2022 Mahsa Amini massacres, declaring, “Just as we stood together with the people of Ukraine during their revolution of dignity, the United States must continue standing with the people of Iran.”

One might think that these defenders of democracy would celebrate the removal of the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a brutal fundamentalist religious totalitarian.

Instead, those same voices are now loudly condemning the airstrikes. Murphy’s reaction offered no sympathy for the thousands of Iranians killed by the regime—only outrage at Trump: “In America, we don’t allow one doddering, self-obsessed old man to waste our money on a dangerous, disastrous overseas war.” Similarly, Applebaum has criticized Operation Epic Fury’s supposed lack of strategic coherence, not the target.

What is louder than the condemnations of the establishment now is what they failed to do over the previous four decades. They never deployed the same aggressive democratization strategies toward Iran that they’ve applied across the Middle East and Africa. Instead, successive administrations released billions in frozen Iranian assets, negotiated the infamous Iran nuclear deal, and—as Politico’s 2017 Project Cassandra investigation documented—deliberately limited prosecution of Hezbollah drug trafficking networks operating inside the United States to protect those negotiations.

In short, those backing the so-called “rules-based liberal international order” actually wanted Ali Khamenei’s regime to remain in place. Actions speak louder than words. For an order that defines itself by the spread of democracy, this is a striking paradox.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 8:22 am by Ed Driscoll on Mar 5th, 2026

TRUMP’S ENDGAME:

The first major decision he faces is whether to insist on formal acceptance of all three objectives before declaring a ceasefire—effectively demanding unconditional surrender. Past patterns and his public messaging suggest he will not. Such an ultimatum risks prolonging the war, alienating allies weary of rising energy costs, and inviting domestic backlash over casualties and economic disruption. Trump has already signaled openness to talks with members of the regime, framing negotiation as proof of American dominance rather than weakness.

If Trump announces a ceasefire while the regime remains intact, he will de facto choose regime preservation. Negotiating with the regime to dismantle its capabilities is therefore not merely a diplomatic step—it is a strategic decision to leave that regime in power. This is the most likely outcome. He will point to degraded missile stocks, crippled naval assets, damaged nuclear infrastructure, and weakened proxies as evidence that his concrete promise to the American public, the West, and Israel has been fulfilled. The aspirational promise to the Iranian people—freedom and dignity—would remain unresolved.

But ending the war without securing a path to regime change raises three critical follow-up questions. Does Trump force Tehran to accept, as the price of a ceasefire, all three core demands—nuclear dismantlement, missile elimination, and an end to proxy financing? Does he try to settle for progress on the nuclear file alone? Or does he repeat his behavior of last June and end the fighting before receiving any concrete commitment from the Iranians at all?

Tehran, of course, will seek a ceasefire without binding conditions. If forced to make a concrete concession up front, it will discuss, as it did in the recent talks in Geneva and Oman, nuclear compromises while resisting negotiations on missiles and proxies.

Trump cannot afford to blink here. The endgame requires a comprehensive settlement, not tactical trades.

If Iran dismantles its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief while retaining its missile arsenal and proxy networks, the regime will simply rebuild. Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and Iran-backed militias in Iraq would soon be flush with cash. Tehran has demonstrated repeatedly that it can regenerate these capabilities even under pressure.

All three demands must therefore remain a single package. Ideally, Trump should make a ceasefire conditional on formal, authoritative, and public acceptance of all three. At a minimum, Trump must make clear that no sanctions relief—on any front—will come until there is verifiable agreement on the full set. Anything less would leave the regime intact while allowing it to regenerate the very capabilities the war was meant to eliminate.

Partial concessions would merely postpone the problem, allowing a battered but surviving regime to regroup and threaten the region again. Trump’s “maximum pressure” strategy loses its edge the moment relief arrives prematurely.

Related:

Posted at 8:22 am by Ed Driscoll on Mar 5th, 2026

MARK JUDGE: ‘VHS Forever’ and the Transformative Power of Tech and Entertainment.

Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy, a professor at Miami University, is the author of a great new book, Videotape, which offers an insightful history of the VCR and the VHS tape, from their invention in Japan to the last-standing Blockbuster store in Bend, Oregon. One of the most interesting chapters, “Viewing Parties and the Party,” recounts the history of the VHS in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the 1970s and ’80s. As VCR players became more affordable and popular in the ’80s, more and more of them were smuggled into Communist countries. Kenworthy describes the “viewing parties” that sprang up in the Eastern Block:

Crammed in small apartment buildings, a dozen or so people split the costs of the VCR rental or paid a small entry fee to the host of the party. News of the parties spread by word of mouth, from teenagers loitering behind the blocks of flats, to neighbors, relatives, or work colleagues. The most popular genres were films featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme or Bruce Lee, the action films of Chuck Norris, Sylvester Stallone, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, but also miniseries such as The Thorn Birds (1983), or Shogun (1980). Since most VHS tapes ran for two hours, and most feature films were 90 minutes, the space left at the end was filled with MTV music videos or even advertisements. Commercials were an unknown genre in the communist economy and, unlike in the West, where the videotape enabled viewers to fast-forward past the ads, in Eastern Europe, they functioned as sheer entertainment, since the products they promoted could not be found on the local market. In the Soviet Union, where the legal penalties against illegal videotapes were harsher than in Romania, people found even more creative ways to dodge the police. Instead of hosting in a private apartment, in Baku, Azerbaijan, grubby taxi minivans of Latvian manufacturing, popularly known as Rafiks, doubled as mobile screening rooms equipped with a VCR and a color TV. They’d tour the city and then show up in neighborhood streets at random times, like an American ice-cream truck, offering Soviet children a motley fare of Tom and Jerry cartoons, B-category action movies, and silly Hollywood comedies crudely dubbed in Russian, but immensely enjoyable anyway.

Kenworthy notes the irony of Nikita Khrushchev telling Richard Nixon in 1959 that he was wrong to boast of Americans having color TVs while the Soviets did not—that the technology responsible for color television was irrelevant. In fact, it was that very technology that, years later, would help bring down the Soviet Union.

As I noted last month in my review of John Kleinheinz’s 2023 book, The Siberia Job:

The Soviet Union began running episodes of the CBS nighttime soap opera Dallas in the early 1980s just to show how eeeeevil those scheming bourgeois Texas capitalist hoarders and wreckers could be. The best-laid plans of mice and Mensheviks backfired when Soviet audiences gazed in awe at the wealth of the Ewings and wanted a little of that for themselves. Even the quotidian details of American life seemed astonishing to them, as Karol Markowicz, now with the New York Post, wrote during her blogging days:

In 1977, the year I was born and the year my father, his mother, his aunt and many other Jews left the Soviet Union (my mother and I left in 1978), the Soviet propaganda machine began circulating a rumor. It went, roughly: life in America is so terrible that the old people eat cat food.

This was…perplexing.

People didn’t quite get it: they have food specifically made for cats in America? What a country!

A lot of things about America remained beyond their comprehension.

The disparity in quality of life previously threw both Soviet peasants and grandees a curve decades earlier, Jonah Goldberg wrote a couple of years ago:

Stalin allowed the film version of the Grapes of Wrath—retitled The Road to Wrath—to be seen in the Soviet Union because it was a searing indictment of the failures of capitalism. Soviet citizens saw it and were like, “Holy crap! The peasants all have cars and pickup trucks in America? Man, we’re poor.” Stalin quickly yanked it from theaters.

No doubt, the videos coming from America, plus photos of pre-Ayatollah Iran are helping to fuel the ongoing revolution there. In 1961, JFK’s FCC chairman Newton Minow infamously told the National Association of Broadcasters:

Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.

You will see a procession of game shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, western bad men, western good men, private eyes, gangsters, more violence, and cartoons.

And endlessly, commercials — many screaming, cajoling, and offending.

I think he meant all of that as being a very bad thing, not comprehending the eventual power of that metaphorical vast wasteland to inspire the defeat of the real thing.

Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll on Mar 5th, 2026

March 4, 2026

FISH CALLED WANDA SUDDENLY DISCOVERS WATER:

See also, David Ellison’s earlier impact on former denizens of CBS News:

Posted at 9:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Mar 4th, 2026

THE ABOLITION OF BRITAIN: How the Royal Navy shrank to its smallest ‘since English Civil War.’

In the mid-1990s, Royal Navy officers at staff college in Shrivenham were asked to map out their predictions for what the service would look like in 30 years. One submariner said the navy would have 30 of the American Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers, the same number of frigates and 20 attack submarines.

More than a decade earlier, the navy had deployed 127 ships for the Falklands conflict, including 43 warships. The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror had sunk the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano, killing 323 sailors onboard.

The submariner, who recently retired, cannot believe the size of the navy now. “Nobody wrote down that you would have six Type 45s [destroyers] that never work, two aircraft carriers we can’t man because we don’t have enough people, and seven frigates, many alongside. Nobody wanted this navy.”

Or the lack thereof, based on the numbers:

America’s Newspaper of Record posits that Iran’s numbers may be shrinking quite rapidly in the coming weeks:

 

Posted at 8:45 pm by Ed Driscoll on Mar 4th, 2026
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