Author Archive: Stephen Green

LOOK FOR TROUBLE, AND YOU’LL USUALLY FIND MORE THAN YOU WANTED:

From the replies: “Just a hospital nurse. Out running errands. Handsome guy too.”

CHRISTIAN TOTO: All Jimmy Kimmel Does Is Lie (And Cry). “He’s the King of the anti-Trump Resistance. Comedy? Laughs? Merriment? That’s no longer his prime directive, and it hasn’t been for some time.”

CHANGE, RAPID CHANGE: Ukraine And The Gamification Of Combat “The Russo-Ukrainian War continues to accelerate military innovation at a furious rate. The latest innovation isn’t a better drone or newer hardware, but introducing a fundamentally new organizing principle: the gamification of combat.”

More:

It’s easier to get Ukraine’s side, but Russia’s drone program probably moves just as quickly, and has been used to serious effect against Ukraine logistics.

THIS IS AN AGE OF MIRACLE AND WONDER:

DETERRENCE: Contract to Expand B-21 Production Coming by March. “Yet details on what exactly the deal will entail remain scarce and are likely to remain shrouded in classification, if past B-21 contracts are any indication. The Air Force has declined to reveal any metrics for how much production will be expanded, and it is unclear if the long-term goal is to buy extra B-21s beyond the current program of record of 100 aircraft, or simply reach that baseline quantity faster.”

AN IMPORTANT REMINDER: Shooting vs. Fighting: The Reality Is, Bad Guys Have Guns Too…And Always Will. “A conversation regarding the current state of affairs in the United States, particularly in states and cities run by socialist Democrats, led a person I was talking to to respond that he had a gun and knew how to use it. To be fair, my friend, who will remain anonymous, does indeed own firearms. I also believe that he knows full well how to load them and then press the trigger to make them go bang. However, I also know that this same person never has time for training, having myriad excuses whenever the subject is brought up.”

COLD: Pre-Oct. 7 Hamas memo quotes top Islamic Jihad official calling Gazans killed by misfired rockets ‘price of war.’

A memo from before the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, reportedly captured by the IDF in Gaza, quotes a top Palestinian Islamic Jihad military official dismissing Hamas’s concerns that rockets launched by the terror group during a previous round of fighting in Gaza were falling short of Israel and landing inside the Strip, with deadly consequences for Gazans.

“We are in a war; even if a thousand are killed by friendly fire, that’s the price of war,” Akram al-Ajouri is quoted as saying in the document, parts of which were first published by the Kan public broadcaster this morning.

Days after the Hamas onslaught sparked the current war, a misfired Gazan rocket that Israel said was launched by Islamic Jihad landed in Gaza City’s al-Ahli Baptists’ Hospital, killing hundreds, with Hamas and many major news outlets initially placing the blame on Israel.

Hamas doesn’t see friendly fire as the price of war, but as an opportunity for anti-Israeli propaganda.

The Complicit Media generally plays along, too.

FOLLOW THE MONEY BECAUSE, GOOD LORD, IS THERE A LOT OF IT:

The Left takes care of its own. It might be their single biggest secret to winning.

Or is it in second, right behind cheating?

WE KNOW — DO BETTER: NATO leader warns Europe is unable to defend itself without US assistance.

Rutte, who spoke with Trump at the World Economic Forum last week, told European lawmakers in Brussels that they would need to double their expected economic spending on defense if they hoped to defend themselves without the U.S.

“If anyone thinks here … that the European Union or Europe as a whole can defend itself without the U.S., keep on dreaming. You can’t,” Rutte said, according to the Associated Press. “If you really want to go it alone, forget that you can ever get there with 5%. It will be 10%.

Left unsaid: Putin’s Russia is hardly the Soviet Union + Warsaw Pact, yet Europe still can’t manage.

REQUIRED READING:

TURNAROUND: Boeing’s quarterly sales jump 57% as CEO says there’s ‘a lot to be optimistic about.’

The company’s airplane deliveries last year were the highest since 2018, helping drive revenue. Boeing brought in $23.9 billion in the last three months of 2025, a 57% increase over the same period in 2024 and topping analysts’ expectations. Cash flow of $400 million was roughly double what Wall Street was expecting.

CEO Kelly Ortberg told staff that the company is making progress and that there’s “a lot to be optimistic about” in 2026.

“At the same time, with progress comes expectations, and our customers and stakeholders are going to expect more from us this year,” he said.
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Boeing delivered 600 airplanes to customers last year, nearly double the number from 2024 and the most since 2018. Ortberg, who came out of retirement to run the manufacturer in 2024, and other executives have said more production increases are on the horizon in the coming months.

Nice.

CONSTITUENT SERVICES: Boston Police ignored all 57 immigration detainer requests from ICE last year. “ICE says it lodges immigration detainers after officers or agents establish probable cause to believe that a noncitizen is removable under federal immigration law, typically after a court has convicted them of one or more crimes and when the noncitizen poses a public safety or national security threat.”

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Space Force envisions rolling awards for new RG-XX neighborhood watch satellites.

RG-XX is being designed as the successor to the Space Force’s Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) constellation originally comprised of six satellites in geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) some 36,000 kilometers in altitude.

The flexibility of the new acquisitional approach is necessary because, for one, McClain said it’s unclear how many RG-XX satellites the Space Force will need.

“The quantity will be based off of a couple of factors,” he said, “the cost of the individual systems that we get, [but also] available funds and the mission need.”

And while RG-XX sats are expected to be more manueverable than GSSAP birds and will be the first Space Force satellites capable of refueling in orbit, McClain said it is not completely clear whether the RG-XX satellites alone will be all that is needed to replace the venerable GSSAP birds, the first of which launched in 2014.

I’m sure they’ll be impressive, but I’m less sure about the “neighborhood watch” branding that sounds less like “Keeping an eye on Chinese shipyards” and more like “HOA busybody.”