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'Multiple waves' of unauthorized drones recently spotted over strategic US Air Force base

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https://abcnews.com/International/multiple-waves-unauthorized-drones-spotted-strategic-us-air/story?id=131245527
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Qanaesin Mar 20, 2026 +2660
Hmm in a war time situation we’re seeing drones near bases… shocked I am not
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Defendyouranswer Mar 20, 2026 +395
We've been seeing them for years. 
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Easy_Employment_1595 Mar 20, 2026 +25
Thank you!! And yes, in multiple waves. At basically every “sensitive” installation in the US. All of them. Incidents at sea w the US Navy being swarmed by “drones”. Pantex, which houses nukes. The 2014 “drone” flap in CO/NE that lasted a month and has zero answers. New Jersey recently. Every military base in England, just randomly as we were transferring nukes last yr. Sweden/Norway/Lithuania/Germany a few wks ago. Funny to see us using the C-RAM in Iran for shahed drones, year we’ve never taken down any of these other “drones”. 😊
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spoonycoot Mar 20, 2026 +114
In multiple waves?
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[deleted] Mar 20, 2026 +243
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atomicskiracer Mar 20, 2026 +321
Fortunately when Trump takes office he’s going to tell us exactly what they are right away. Then he’ll release the full Epstein files in the first week.
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Made_Human_Music Mar 20, 2026 +166
And those gas and grocery prices are going way down after Biden personally raised them all
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AndrewCoja Mar 20, 2026 +95
The grocery store just paid me to take a bunch of eggs.
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PorTroyal_Smith Mar 20, 2026 +49
You are not going to believe the d******* i just got on medications!
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Ok_Condition5837 Mar 20, 2026 +38
If it's anything less than 1,500% then you're getting ripped off.
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Majestic-Assholes Mar 20, 2026 +24
Every time I buy a bottle of Tylenol our lord and savior Donald 'Jesus Christ 2.0' Trump personally hands me a check for $80,000
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FriendlyEngineer Mar 20, 2026 +14
I don’t know about yall, but I’m getting absolutely buried in tariff refund checks.
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jvd0928 Mar 20, 2026 +4
Wharton business school needs to defend its required math standards for graduation. I wonder what poppa trump paid for little bone spurs degree?
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atomicskiracer Mar 20, 2026 +27
At least the peace prize president won’t lead us into any new wars ♥️ ☮️
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lusirfer702 Mar 20, 2026 +7
And his taxes and the best healthcare plan
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Mikeavelli Mar 20, 2026 +37
Hell, I still remember the great clown invasion of 2016.
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agent_mick Mar 20, 2026 +6
I still can't believe that was actually a thing
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Mikeavelli Mar 20, 2026 +6
The main guess is that it was a viral marketing campaign for IT 2017, and they quietly stopped when the police started looking into it.
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BattleGandalf Mar 20, 2026 +3
And people beat them up
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joethahobo Mar 20, 2026 +2
Yep. I saw one back then. Good times
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RollFancyThumb Mar 20, 2026 +2
One even got into the white house.
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BattleGandalf Mar 20, 2026 +2
That was 10 years ago? *turns into dust*
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weakObserver Mar 20, 2026 +42
Im in nj. They never left. News just left it alone. Drones BIG ONES every night .
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DFWPunk Mar 20, 2026 +22
They stopped talking about it when the military admitted they were theirs.
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U-F-OHNO Mar 20, 2026 +3
I remember so much crazy news about this. Are they military drones or something else? It was so alarming when the prior administration didn’t seem too concerned but then the area footage people were gathering looked nuts.
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Forward-Surprise1192 Mar 20, 2026 +2
No way really? So those drones are still flying around does anyone know where they are from?
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Still-Cabinet9154 Mar 20, 2026 +20
I remember people who’ve never looked at the night sky before taking pictures of planes, helicopters, and consumer drones and panicking because social media told them to. It was a modern version of the Seattle window pitting epidemic.
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[deleted] Mar 20, 2026 +10
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withateethuh Mar 20, 2026 +10
The former governor of my state mistook orions f****** belt for drones
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Mikeavelli Mar 20, 2026 +7
The cat collar?!
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Still-Cabinet9154 Mar 20, 2026 +3
Maybe they’re just incredibly slow drones that appear every night during the winter months in nearly the same spot at the same time. It’s a good reconnaissance strategy. Maybe they’re part of the Iranian mothership that NJ congressman Jeff Van Drew said was launching the drones.
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WeakTransportation37 Mar 20, 2026 +2
There were even people here in San Diego who were going out and looking up and reporting v-22 osprey as the “giant drones”. We have 7 major military bases. it’s perfect weather, and the sky is beautiful day and night. There’s zero excuse for that.
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boyuber Mar 20, 2026 +2
And that was Iran! (According to shitbag turncoat Jeff Van Drew, who later walked it back for to no evidence)
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Defendyouranswer Mar 20, 2026 +11
Have you been living under a rock
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ollielite Mar 20, 2026 +2
I believe
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Baron_of_Foss Mar 20, 2026 +39
Crazy to think people have luled themselves into thinking having a strategic air base in the US mainland shut down due to drones is no big deal. What is preventing whoever is operating these drones from bombing the base?
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Mustang-22 Mar 20, 2026 +5
At present, the operator is the only thing preventing that.
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tots4scott Mar 20, 2026 +14
Not US CounterIntelligence apparently...
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RGrad4104 Mar 21, 2026 +11
The entire trump administration is Counter\[to\]Intelligence...
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Pixel_Knight Mar 20, 2026 +3
Nor any protections owned by US military.
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slow70 Mar 20, 2026 +13
Just like there was never honest accounting for the “Jersey drones” Keep looking up folk, things are changing.
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Pixel_Knight Mar 20, 2026 +7
And the US can’t keep up. Especially under the current “leadership.”
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zephyrtr Mar 20, 2026 +22
I keep telling everyone: we're not at war, we're at major combat operations! /s
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aGhost0800 Mar 20, 2026 +7
Special military operation against Iran
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zephyrtr Mar 20, 2026 +6
Nobody's seen military operations so special. "Mr President" they keep telling me, "Your operations are the most special since, it's gotta be Lincoln" People are saying it.
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johnnybiggles Mar 20, 2026 +3
We're at major excursions!
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zapthe Mar 20, 2026 +3
Yeah the difference is that the other side isn’t allowed to fight back. Imagine if Iran bombed the US in retaliation for us bombing them? It’s so far away that it doesn’t feel real to people in the US.
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Thick-Hour4054 Mar 20, 2026 +4
They're trying to make the case that this is Iran attempting to attack the US on us soil. I would say it's far more likely that they're flying drones themselves and pretending that it's somebody else
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1CaliCALI Mar 20, 2026 +13
.... false flag attack in the works.
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TheWesternMythos Mar 20, 2026 +300
It's super easy to link this to the Iran war. But there have been multiple cases of similar incidents way before this war started. So why not connection to those instead? We don't know, so let's not assume attribution. Let's say it's something the Trump administration doesn't want us to know about. Everyone assumes it's Iran, media feels little public pressure to investigate further, the administration covers up the truth without having to say anything beyond, "we are looking into it".  All because people refuse to consider the possibility that things in life can happen beyond surface level.  > The analysts said “with high confidence” they expected unauthorized drones to continue to operate in and around Barksdale Air Force Base in the immediate future.  This comment alone make it very curious as to how/why it could be Iran 
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CathedralEngine Mar 20, 2026 +76
Realistically, it's for espionage and either China or Russia.
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EasterZombie Mar 20, 2026 +8
This could be f****** anything. Drones are so much easier and cheaper to build than planes. This could be classified testing of a drone developed by the CIA or DHS all by themselves, some random organization testing out military responses or anything else. Depending on what the “drones” are it could literally just be a guy, I have enough money to afford 10-20 advanced quadcopters and send them to a military base to f*** around if I really wanted to. Most likely these are larger more advanced drones because it said the event lasted 4 hours, and quads don’t stay in the air that long. But if they were larger drones they would probably be positively identified for example “several BZK-005 aircraft” or “unidentified Shahed-style drones” or whatever else.
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TheWesternMythos Mar 20, 2026 +23
> Realistically, it's for espionage and either China or Russia. What you mean is  "Based on my current context"  It's "likely" for espionage  And either China or Russia. Now phrased that way, we can discuss your context to see if your are missing  relevant bits of information/context that could alter your assessment.  For example, how this this compare to the other drone incursions that have been documented over the years? 
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looooookinAtTitties Mar 20, 2026 +14
people in new jersey started reporting military sized drones all over the place. there was no answer from federal government. we verified china was spying with low altitude balloons. biden admin shot down a weather balloon with a $400K missile, and released info proving military new it during trump admin1. china is an iran ally. and owns millions of acres of farm near military bases. china's been caught surveilling, we've witnessed sophisticated surveillance, and now an uptick over bases china has convenient access to. good night.
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TheWesternMythos Mar 20, 2026 +9
> an uptick over bases china has convenient access to. Would love some clarification on this lol
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looooookinAtTitties Mar 20, 2026 +9
china has been surveilling us countryside in various ways for 10 years.
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bangupjobasusual Mar 20, 2026 +5
Iran does not have the capability to fly drones around in the US.
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SwitchedOnNow Mar 20, 2026 +980
Thinking this war stays "over there" is a huge mistake.
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Critical_Opening_526 Mar 20, 2026 +1283
I hate to be the one to point this out. Americans are so open to the idea of war because we only see it from 7pm-8pm on the evening news. Nobody has had to walk through war torn streets to just get food. And with advancements in technology, this is going to happen. It's not a matter of if, but when. The reaction from 9/11 alone should show you how absolutely coddled we are, when I'm watching videos of people in the middle east having dinner while neighborhoods around them are on fire. We're so fucked and nobody sees this coming.
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Pavlovsdong89 Mar 20, 2026 +522
'The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them"
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PaulClarkLoadletter Mar 20, 2026 +106
Never underestimate the confidence of a posturing bully. Sooner or later somebody that isn’t afraid of them that also has the means to lay them out absolutely will.
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beastwarking Mar 20, 2026 +34
People forget that Hitler's actions killed a shit ton of Nazis. Between getting rid of "lesser" Germans (sick, gay, disabled, etc), the various purges of dissidents and rivals, and sending their kids to die off in foreign lands; they basically left themselves to be conquered by whichever of the forces unified against them reached Berlin first.
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WayneKrane Mar 20, 2026 +23
If you were a German male of fighting age, you almost had 50% of dying in WWII. 😳
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Boring-Research410 Mar 20, 2026 +9
Fighting age being what? 15 -50?
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JollyGreenLittleGuy Mar 20, 2026 +9
12-60 by the end
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ph0on Mar 20, 2026 +48
"Suffering isn't real to them. War isn't real. It's just a three-letter word for other people that they see in the digital newsfeeds. Just a stream of uncomfortable images they skip past. A whole business of weapons and arms and ships and hierarchies they don't even notice, all to shield these fools from the true agony of what it means to be human." -Morningstar by Pierce Brown This particular quote floored me, despite it being a Sci-Fi novel that takes place 700 years from now. It resonates hard.
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musashisamurai Mar 20, 2026 +136
Don't have to go back to 9/11. Look at Covid. People freaked out globally over the idea we had to wear masks or scarves, and cut back on travel. You think those same people would have been fine with a chocolate ration in WW2 or a draft or turning off lights
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Specialist-Elk-2624 Mar 20, 2026 +38
> or turning off lights lol they got butthurt about LED lightbulbs
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WilGrieve Mar 20, 2026 +8
A simpler time and an extremely good analogy for conservatism. Opposing fluorescent lightbulbs because they were more efficient.
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runr7 Mar 20, 2026 +192
I’m so glad you mentioned this. I’ve wanted to scream it. The maga “patriots” are coddled and oblivious to what it’s like to those across the ocean. It’s all just news and war movies to them. The first drone that goes over their head will be the closest to reality check they’ve had their entire lives. And to think so many people have to live in that daily.
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strega_bella312 Mar 20, 2026 +30
Living in NY, the reaction of middle America republicans to 9/11 has always really irked me. They have no idea what that time was like for us living in this city. I've been yelled at online by people who've never left Idaho, Facebook page plastered with NeVeR FoRgEt tributes, for not being patriotic enough. And then they turn around and shit on NY for being a blue state/city every chance they get. They have no clue how shit scared we were, for a long time. They watched it on TV just like everything else.
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Money_Do_2 Mar 20, 2026 +7
Yup, the 'patriot' party openly despises all of our economic and cultural centers.
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EddieVanzetti Mar 20, 2026 +62
They're in a death cult. Until their own children are drafted and maimed by the war machines, many of them will never admit they're in a cult, how stupid they are, or that they've made their lives and everyone else's worse.
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Heisenberglund Mar 20, 2026 +25
They probably will still support it, because it’s not them personally being called to war. It’s just the “cost of doing business” for the maga fucks.
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EthanielRain Mar 20, 2026 +23
Millions have lost family already (COVID, anti-vaxx)and still support it I always remember that mom who was interviewed after her young daughter died of measles or smthg..."Yeah but the vaccine would have been worse"
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SnarkFucker Mar 20, 2026 +6
Part of the frightening thing is, in death cults the death is by design. I've talked to many that think it's an honor to be in the end times and their childern are playing an important part. They just don't realize it's going to be a long, griding, and painful destruction of functional society, not just Jesus showing up in a cloud and rapturing them. They won't be convinced otherwise until they're in the dirt themselves.
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One-Cut7386 Mar 20, 2026 +4
I doubt the vast majority of them care that much about their children. It’ll hit once it impacts them personally.
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WayneKrane Mar 20, 2026 +3
They won’t care even then. I have maga family with kids in the military and they are FOR this war.
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loveitoreatit Mar 20, 2026 +16
Almost anyone who has trained in fighting tries as hard as possible to avoid getting in a fight. The more you know, the more you understand how fragile we are. People that talk a big game, it makes it so obvious they don't know anything.
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Forward-Surprise1192 Mar 20, 2026 +3
I wish that anyone who supports the war had to fight in it but that won’t happen.
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nithrean Mar 20, 2026 +58
I am not sure that we are completely lost, but the rules of war are changing and it is very likely it will come to the States before too long.
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Future-Excuse6167 Mar 20, 2026 +49
And that's the only way it will can change. The only reasons countries sign things like the Geneva Convention is to protect THEIR OWN troops and their own people.  The United States has denied geneva rights to "enemy combatants" because it always assumed it would have absolute supremacy in its violence.  But like Israel has no right to complain when Iran uses cluster munitions because Israel also uses cluster munitions and both have refused to sign a ban on cluster munitions, Americans can't complain when US soldiers are being tortured because we are a torturing nation. If you care about war crimes, the very best thing you can do to prevent them is to do everything you can to punish your country's own war criminals. 
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Forward-Surprise1192 Mar 20, 2026 +5
They think we’re safe because of the big ass ocean on both sides but that’s only protecting from an invasion. Reality is small attacks can work much better and probably the only reason it hasn’t happened is because that would escalate things to having soldiers in Iran itself. As it is now what Iran is doing is enough to hurt American people without reaching out so far
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Future-Excuse6167 Mar 20, 2026 +3
Yeah, Iran knows from experience how public motivation for war works. They're not out to drag the US into a permanent land war in Iran. 
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sprcow Mar 20, 2026 +27
I mean, I know you're talking about the more visible kinds of violence, but one could argue that the immense harm inflicted by the Trump administration is absolutely an act of war against the united states, inflicted with the help of foreign powers through psyops, media manipulation, asset acquisition, and bribery. Most people suffering from it probably aren't thinking "this is what happens because we lost a global power struggle", but they're paying the price nonetheless. :\
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Grandmas_Fat_Choad Mar 20, 2026 +40
Pretty sure a ton of people are being subjected to the 24/7 news cycle. My dentist office out of all places keeps Fox News on and won’t change it. My old employer had Fox News on all the TVs in the cafeteria. We have the news crammed down our throats. I just think it’s part of the brainwashing that makes people think these things are ok.
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Adultery Mar 20, 2026 +22
My old workplace was super fucked. One of the owners changed one of their meeting rooms into his own personal studio so he could be a talking head on OAN and other fake networks. He said they’d give him a heads-up on what he was going to be an “expert” on, he’d do 5 minutes of “research”, and then go on television to talk out of his ass. F****** loser.
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TangoZulu Mar 20, 2026 +51
Fox News is NOT news. It’s propaganda that doesn’t show what is really happening. 
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John_Q_Deist Mar 20, 2026 +11
All 24/7 broadcast news is propaganda.
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LeatherDude Mar 20, 2026 +3
Not too long ago I would have disagreed with you, but it sure as hell is now.
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nerdshowandtell Mar 20, 2026 +32
I'd walk out and never go back to that dentist office.
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chef-nom-nom Mar 20, 2026 +7
> My dentist office out of all places keeps Fox News on and won’t change it. Oh great, as if visits to the dentist weren't painful enough! A local grocery store here does the same in their cafe. Why can't these places take a hint from the smart ones that leave it set to HGTV 24/7?
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SadBurrito84 Mar 20, 2026 +5
Create a PIN number and block all news channels in settings.
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Grandmas_Fat_Choad Mar 20, 2026 +5
I now have an ir module for my iPhone so I can change channels on all TVs. I should set up the pin though. The dentist receptionist is a total b**** so I’d love to see her panicking while trying to fix it.
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chef-nom-nom Mar 20, 2026 +2
Please do and report back!
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reformedmikey Mar 20, 2026 +7
I’ve been saying this for a while now, we have never had a modern war in our nation. The last time we had a war here in the United States, and on our soil, we were digging trenches and charging at each other in a line, and that was 160 years ago. We haven’t had to rebuild entire cities after years of bombing runs, we haven’t had to hide in underground bunkers while troops battle above us, we have literally zero understanding of the atrocities of war beyond pictures and video played to us while we watch the news. Even then we get a heavily censored version while we praise our own troops for their bravery. War will hit American soil, and when it does anyone who is for it will have the rudest awakening. War is hell, and your average American has no idea what hell is like.
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MouldyPingu Mar 20, 2026 +5
Hideo Kojima saw this coming
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BugAlternative6827 Mar 20, 2026 +12
The issue with that is that it won't impact the rural morons. They'll cheer as "blue" cities get decimated. Shit, our own government is attacking cities
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Ferelwing Mar 20, 2026 +1
The vast majority of places that host legitimate military targets in your country are rural locations. Some are in high population zones but most are not. Military bases and installations tend to be far away from the big city centers. So those who want to stop military action will start with those. Civilian structures that are effected are power structures and cell phone towers and airports/shipping. Again since you want to stop military response you would hit those places first. Rural areas would be the main targets. They would also want to hit government targets as well so government buildings would also be legitimate targets. It wouldn't just hit "blue" cities, in fact the vast majority of the destruction would be rural zones.
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A_Refill_of_Mr_Pibb Mar 20, 2026 +6
Yup, we’re not accustomed to the idea of seeing sudden evacuations having to take place during Monday Night Football
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Ferelwing Mar 20, 2026 +4
Honestly, after seeing the many documentaries from natural disasters where people in your country decide *not* to evacuate or seek cover, even when warnings are issued, I get the feeling being warned that bombs are coming from drones will illicit the same reaction. They will ignore it because it can't be "real" or it absolutely won't hurt them (in their heads).
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NorthernerWuwu Mar 20, 2026 +2
Oh, someone will get them properly riled up! They'll attack some brown people and start shooting anything that looks like it might be a drone for a while I imagine. Maybe a bit of looting too, Americans in crises do seem to like to do some looting.
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kN0T-SURE Mar 20, 2026 +9
I don’t want to appear to be condoning violence or suffering of my fellow Americans, but I think some of us need some reality slapping them in the face. That’s the only silver lining I’m clinging to in this complete clusterfuck - that this could be the cold water that snaps some of us out of it. Honestly it will probably just make us more fascist, authoritarian, and militaristic, though.
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bareback_cowboy Mar 20, 2026 +3
I was literally saying this yesterday to coworkers. Oceans are no longer the protection they once were. Nazi's were able to land spies in the US. Imagine what they could have done with drones and bioweapons. Imagine what they could have built with off-the-shelf components available in any major US city today. Our adversaries aren't stupid and all it takes is someone with the will to trade their life for victory for someone to make 9/11 look quaint. 
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NotaContributi0n Mar 20, 2026 +19
This drones over military bases thing has been going on for YEARS
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universalhat Mar 20, 2026 +188
but that isn't fair, we didn't say they could bomb us, WE'RE bombing THEM. it's easy to miss, but obvious if you look at the way every strike against US military assets is reported.  like a big unexpected f****** tragedy, and not one of the two things a military does.
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RaskyBukowski Mar 20, 2026 +25
Agreed. They can't attack our country. Totally unfair.
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Future-Excuse6167 Mar 20, 2026 +9
This is a total outrage! Any military attack on military bases using military means to attack military equipment and personnel in retalation to carpet bombing cities must be considered an UNPROVOKED ACT OF TERRORISM! /s
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keskeskes1066 Mar 20, 2026 +4
They don't realize we hold all the cards? /s
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ThePlanner Mar 20, 2026 +75
*There’s no way Iran could sneak one of their big Cold War-era bombers into American airspace undetected.* *What’s that? Drones you say? But those are still airplanes and need a runway to take off.* *The size of a dinner plate? With first person view? They can fly over 300 kph and carry a pound of plastic explosives?* *Surely they can be jammed.* *Fibre-optic wires make them immune to jamming? And they can fly 50 kilometres?* *Oh… Oh no…*
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Osiris32 Mar 20, 2026 +33
You got a couple things wrong. Some of them carry a lot more than one pound of explosives, and some of them can go a lot further than 50 km.
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Count_de_Ville Mar 20, 2026 +14
Generalities used for their conversational writing style and pacing, bro. Couldn’t be done any other way.
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PokeYrMomStanley Mar 20, 2026 +13
But it was an opportunity for them to be pedantic and no one else had yet.
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Eudaimonics Mar 20, 2026 +7
Underwater drones also exist and would be much harder to detect too.
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TonginTozz Mar 20, 2026 +11
Fiberoptic wires, lotta money in that shit
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Grope_The_Pope Mar 20, 2026 +6
It's really c****,  less costly than copper. 
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borkus Mar 20, 2026 +7
Barksdale AFB is roughly 600 miles from the Mexican border at Matamoros. It could be the cartels, Venezuelans, or Iranians (operating with cartel approval). Drones could fly low over the Gulf and approach from the east over land near Houston. As the home of a strategic bomber wing, it would be a potential military target. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barksdale\_Air\_Force\_Base](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barksdale_Air_Force_Base) Lackland AFB is closer to the border but is largely used for training. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lackland\_Air\_Force\_Base](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lackland_Air_Force_Base) FWIW, this is similar to the tactics Ukraine has used against Russia - sending drones to attack grounded aircraft. [https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/22/europe/ukraine-attacks-russian-air-bases-intl](https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/22/europe/ukraine-attacks-russian-air-bases-intl)
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Bagellord Mar 20, 2026 +6
Would cartels really assist a foreign state/group with launching an actual attack on the US though? Because if they did, then the US really would have a good excuse to just hit them with drone strikes and special forces raids. The cartels are tough, but they like money and power. It's hard to hold onto those things if the US military decides to go after you
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Traditional-Roll2709 Mar 20, 2026 +12
The US military and its brainrotted diaper wearing pedophile "commander in chief" have already been threatening military action against the cartels recently, so if they see it as inevitable regardless, no telling how they react
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1CaliCALI Mar 20, 2026 +11
Also.... false flag attack most likely gonna happen
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hedoeswhathewants Mar 20, 2026 +8
False flag or not, people need to remember who's to blame for starting this pointless war
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gibbojab Mar 20, 2026 +2
Honestly that is what they are counting on because it will create false patriotism just like after 9/11
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DogsAreOurFriends Mar 20, 2026 +208
IIRC Ukraine smuggled in truckloads of drones and knocked out a big portion of Russia’s nuclear capable bombers. But that could never happen here. /s
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stewsters Mar 20, 2026 +61
Yeah, honestly.  We like to pile up very expensive air assets in these bases, and we would be very vulnerable to that.   I hope all those stories of drones near air force bases last year were them doing drills and testing anti drone weapons.
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Th3_Admiral_ Mar 20, 2026 +29
Not to mention the fact that major American military installations around the world are all pretty much public knowledge. Everyone knows where the B-2s and B-52s and RC-135s and other important aircraft are based. You can literally just look it up on Wikipedia. 
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Low_Witness5061 Mar 20, 2026 +20
That’s bad before you consider just incompetent this particular administration is. After 4 years of watching Iranian designed drones hitting Ukraine in the thousands each month, they were unprepared when they declared war on Iran and had hundreds of drones fired at them. As a point of reference for just how braindead the current administration is, they have had to deal with far less drones than Ukraine does on average but have already used roughly 800 patriots since the war with Iran began. Ukraine has only been supplied approximately 600 in four years of fighting Russia. So the bottom line is that because trump has small man energy and couldn’t accept help from a nation he decided was inferior (after Putin assured him Russia was better no doubt) America has been using 4 million dollar interceptors to try and shoot down 10 thousand dollar drones. If they can’t learn when somebody actively tries to teach them, I wouldn’t expect them to be prepared for something creative like the operation Ukraine pulled off in Russia.
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Th3_Admiral_ Mar 20, 2026 +4
> America has been using 4 million dollar interceptors to try and shoot down 10 thousand dollar drones  Unfortunately this is kinda how our military has always run and why our debt is so ridiculous. From the drone strikes in Afghanistan to carpet-bombing empty jungle in Vietnam, we love spending millions of dollars to inflict thousands of dollars of damage. I remember seeing this gopro footage of a patrol somewhere in Afghanistan that was ambushed by a "sniper". I put it in quotes because the shooter was landing rounds 10+ yards away from them at the closest. The patrol emptied virtually every round of ammunition they had into this hillside without ever even knowing for sure where the shooter was. I'm talking thousands of rounds of ammo for the SAW, every grenade launcher round they were carrying, and most of the M4 magazines everyone had. The sniper fired at most 6 shots in the entire 15 minute video. In the end the patrol had to pull back because they were low on ammo and couldn't get any air support to help them. I feel like this short video was the perfect summary of how we fight wars, and the reason why we aren't really winning any of them. 
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Low_Witness5061 Mar 20, 2026 +7
Agreed. Obviously this is a generalisation and there are likely a million different things that could be done better, but I feel like the vast military superiority America has held over its enemies for the last 50 years has impaired the military’s judgement when it comes to cost effectiveness. Compare it to Ukraine who have been forced to constantly innovate and it’s night and day. They now have interceptor drones that have flipped the equation. Now they are using a mix of systems but when it comes to drones they are increasingly able to use thousand dollar drone to shoot down 10 thousand dollar drones. The frustrating thing is that Ukraine offered to share the tech and experience but we’re arrogantly rebuffed. Imagine if America actually accepted the help offered, or better yet got involved months ago, and actually built up a stockpile of cost effective interceptor drones. Hundreds of millions could have been saved and those missiles could have been saved for threats drones couldn’t intercept, like cruise missiles. Anyway, that’s enough ranting. Obviously I’m not an expert on any of this but it just feels so frustrating to watch what clearly looks like sheer arrogance from the outside. Ignoring 4 years or readily offered data like that is kind of astounding honestly.
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Dear_Smoke6964 Mar 20, 2026 +5
Approximately 12 ton of coke is smuggled into the us every month,  one ton of done components and explosives could do a lot of damage. 
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Eudaimonics Mar 20, 2026 +6
I mean chances are any attack on the US would be limited even in their best case scenario. But that’s not the point. Even one attack on American soil will be enough to shift public opinion to support escalation.
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DogsAreOurFriends Mar 20, 2026 +2
“Chances are” Famous last words.
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BelliYelliCheese Mar 20, 2026 +397
This is what happens when you start a war, I’m sure the US’ planes and missiles are considered “unauthorized” over Iranian airspace as well, kind of a silly headline
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catchy_phrase76 Mar 20, 2026 +79
This isn't new and has been reported on for years, it's just grabbing headlines due to the state of the world now.
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NotaContributi0n Mar 20, 2026 +19
Nah this is old news
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outerproduct Mar 20, 2026 +7
It doesn't really matter if there is a war or not, at least in the US, all airspace above military bases are restricted airspace every day. In wartime, it's just plain dumb.
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Stereo-soundS Mar 20, 2026 +93
False flag operation incoming.
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Broken_By_Default Mar 20, 2026 +34
Then the real clamp down comes on elections. Suddenly the republicans get 100% of the votes, like Putin gets in Russia.
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Stereo-soundS Mar 20, 2026 +13
Whoa whoa whoa, he only gets 90%.
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Arctic_Chilean Mar 20, 2026 +10
I thought the same tbh
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kkdawg79 Mar 20, 2026 +10
I was just thinking that. This appears to be setting the stage for what is being feared the most.
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Arctic_Chilean Mar 20, 2026 +10
It'd give them the causus belli to go all in on Iran.   Also makes complete sense as to why all counter-terrorism divisions have been gutted, and why Kent was being sidelined and ultimately resigned. Maybe he knew what was up and could not in good conscience proceed.   And remember, the US military now has a clone of the Iranian Shaheed drone in the form of the LUCAS UAV.  This could be setting up America's next Pearl Harbour and give Hegseth the bodies he needs to carry our his insane apocalyptic prophesy.    Then again, Russia or Israel could also easily carry out such an attack just to pull the US even deeper into the conflict, plus Iran has all the justification it needs to strike strategic US targets. Too many parties with overlapping interests which makes a False Flag event soooo much more likely to succeed. 
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ImpartialAntagonist Mar 20, 2026 +4
Eventually someone is going to lob a nuke. American politicians have been wanting to drink the blood of Iranians for decades for both geopolitical and religious reasons. The religious motivations were more publicly subdued in the past but now most of the top brass have delusions of bringing about Armageddon. The project of spreading white Christianity was always entwined with the more levelheaded aims of total economic dominance; and now the real crazies have taken over with nobody to be the voice of reason. They’ll do just about anything to make their vision come true up to and including murdering tens of thousands of American citizens.
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Oregon-Pilot Mar 20, 2026 +4
God it hurts to imagine the alternate timeline in which Kamala won and things are just normal. Ughhh.
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Th3_Admiral_ Mar 20, 2026 +54
The drones were over the base for four hours per day for seven days and they were never able to stop them or catch the people responsible. We are so screwed if it ever comes to open war on our shores.
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Northern_Grouse Mar 20, 2026 +11
The only person a domestic attack benefits is Trump. He’s desperate for a reason to implement the Insurrection act. Iran, Venezuela, El Salvador, Cuba, they all stand to gain victory over Trump by doing nothing but protecting themselves and their communities domestically.
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DelphiTsar Mar 20, 2026 +13
Trump has an absurdly low approval rating. If it's not a false flag itself, it's letting someone attack us without trying to stop it.
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AlphaBetacle Mar 20, 2026 +38
You all should read the article. This is real. It looks like it’s not hobbyists. Some organization or foreign power just probed a base in Louisiana with drones.
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furrysalesman69 Mar 20, 2026 +20
Gee, I wonder who led us to this situation.
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Harabeck Mar 20, 2026 +2
The article says that, but what is the evidence backing that up? We've had multiple drone flaps before where both civilians and [military](https://www.metabunk.org/threads/wright-patterson-drone-documents-and-video-lots-of-planes.14327/) have report normal planes in their usual flight paths as drones.
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MisanthOptics Mar 20, 2026 +29
They’re UAPs. Not little green guys. Just unidentified. It’s why we have this acronym. I’m not sure why there’s so much fear about using it
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Valliac0 Mar 20, 2026 +5
Can't wait to see what happens this week on "As the Market Closes"
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wheelfoot Mar 20, 2026 +6
So the US military's answer to drones overhead is "everybody hide"?
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Embarrassed_Cat2697 Mar 20, 2026 +5
I live near an Air Force base and Im more concerned about the big, heavy cargo planes flying low overhead. That hasn’t happened regularly since the last gulf war.
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No-Tomatillo-7566 Mar 20, 2026 +24
They voted for chaos, they got chaos. It's good for the domestic big oil companies tho, so enjoy the ride -- or walk if you can't afford to drive.
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Riker_Omega_Three Mar 20, 2026 +25
If Iran had their combat drones, which are 12 feet long by 8 feet wide, in the states, they wouldn't just be flying them over bases So there are 2 possible options 1) These are just Iranian sympathizers or agents flying commercial drones over US Bases...which to me doesn't make sense because it's not going to create the kind of fear they would want or 2) This is a false flag so that politicians can go to congress and say "see, we told you we needed the money we said we did"
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phoneacct696969 Mar 20, 2026 +13
We shot our own drone out of the sky but we’re not shooting this one? Ya, okay…
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Riker_Omega_Three Mar 20, 2026 +11
Exactly Congress was just asked for 200 billion dollars and then drones magically show up? not a coincidence
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Mental-Position-4533 Mar 20, 2026 +4
It's 3, they are not commercial which is in every single national article on the subject meaning you can't or didn't read a single word 
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KickGumAndChewAss Mar 20, 2026 +8
Did we ever learn anything about the drones my airports back at the end of 2024/beginning of 25?
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Osirus1156 Mar 20, 2026 +7
I mean with the weakening of our military, cybersecurity, and infrastructure thanks to years of Republican obstruction and Trump I wouldn’t be surprised if China was taking hits against us while we are weak too. I mean I would if I was them. They’re gonna absolutely make a move on Taiwan and then the American experiment will have finally ended in a failure. 
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akila219 Mar 20, 2026 +9
FBI doing a false flag ops, stay vigilant out there!
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anonchurner Mar 20, 2026 +18
If Iran had this capability (and I wouldn’t be too surprised), then presumably they would have used it by now….
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TommyDaComic Mar 20, 2026 +13
Not necessarily… It may not be time for them yet to fully show their hand in this sort of thing. As the conventional stock piles of weapons, on both sides, in the Middle East began to be depleted, this is likely to look a lot more like gorilla (*Edit: guerrilla*) warfare there. If they do have “sleeper cells“ and this comes to our shores in any scale, the push to impeach Trump will become enormous. The Iranians have much more experience in this sort of thing than we do. Take a look at how well Ukraine has done, compared to the so much larger force of the Putin…
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EdibleWerewolf Mar 20, 2026 +13
Not to be an ass, but *guerilla warfare
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TommyDaComic Mar 20, 2026 +3
Thanks…. Part of this was ‘voice to text’ on my phone and I did not proofread that. Plus: I hate ***Spill Cheek***, as it does not flag such things…
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EdibleWerewolf Mar 20, 2026 +2
Spill Cheek does sounds like "spell check" with an New Zealand accent, so at least it's trying to keep things fun
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chatte__lunatique Mar 20, 2026 +2
"Stay on the path, boss, there's guerillas in the woods." "Gorillas are native to equatorial Africa. Not here, no way."
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BigBoyYuyuh Mar 20, 2026 +7
> push to impeach Trump HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That’s a good joke. Tell it again. Republicans will weaponize any attack to take absolute full control and cement their dictatorship.
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TommyDaComic Mar 20, 2026 +3
As my username might suggest…. 😉 I remain hopeful, a third, and completely successful, impeachment is in his future.
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Battlejesus Mar 20, 2026 +2
>gorilla warfare I'll have you know i graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals and have been involved in numerous raids on Al Qaeda
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cheapestrick Mar 20, 2026 +2
>"the push to impeach Trump will become enormous" Uh, I wouldn't count on that. In all actuality the push will be to take a more serious war footing with Iran, with NATO now involved, and much bigger payloads being delivered into Iran's territory. It's one thing to send drones and missiles to American bases in the ME - but Iran knows as well as anyone, hitting US Soil is opening the cage to a monster much, much more powerful than anywhere else in the world, who will take off the gloves. Trump is the worst - but you're living in a fantasy world where you think somehow, something forces the GOP controlled Congress to remove him. If anything, half of the GOP would f****** celebrate they now get to turn Iran into burning wasteland.
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Mental-Position-4533 Mar 20, 2026 +2
They'll also wait until we send all of our defenses over there to strike here.
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Calm-Refrigerator463 Mar 20, 2026 +2
I feel they would have done something by now could be wrong but hope to be correct 
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nerdshowandtell Mar 20, 2026 +2
They get one shot at making a surprise run.. The smart play is to coordinate something all at once instead of a one off.
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Hirokage Mar 20, 2026 +10
I wonder what it means when an Air Force general admits that they are beyond our ability to capture, see on thermal scans, shoot down, or do anything with them at all. Because that is what they are saying. Which is what the whole drone scene in NJ was. Many drones, some the size of cars (or larger) that they could never capture or shoot down. One would hope our military has the latest equipment to deal with these sorts of threats. Hmm.
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wolfgang784 Mar 20, 2026 +4
I thought the NJ ones as well as the other 2 states with similar issues were all eventually (after state reps all got super pissed on both sides) vaugely half-confirmed by the military to be secret US projects that they weren't allowed to even fully confirm were US projects but definitely implied heavily?
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Hirokage Mar 20, 2026 +3
Yea, they are full of it. Considering an Air Force base had to literally send jets to another base via train cars so they could actually take off and do missions, since they were unable to safely take off at their base due to the drones.
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Saloau Mar 20, 2026 +5
I seem to recall something quite recently about lobster and pianos being purchased by the military just to use up the budget. Sounds like they had their priorities mixed up.
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fancydad Mar 20, 2026 +3
Do they mean “orbs” when they say drones?
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POFusr Mar 20, 2026 +3
Does anyone else pack recreational drugs in their bugout bag?
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Retire_Trade_3007 Mar 20, 2026 +3
Our hubris will be the end of us. Good thing we put the most hubris person in the world as our President
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Complex-Bee-840 Mar 20, 2026 +3
This has been happening all over the world for months.
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BikerMike03RK Mar 20, 2026 +9
"Look, Mummy- there's an aeroplane up in the sky..." -PF
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SPY__vs__SPY Mar 20, 2026 +4
"Goodbye blue sky, goodbye" - PF
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thewaybaseballgo Mar 20, 2026 +11
They did this in El Paso and it ended up being a balloon.
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Psychological-Act-85 Mar 20, 2026 +5
False flag trying to fear monger to gin up support for the stupid, failing war.
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DoughnutImportant875 Mar 20, 2026 +5
Wow! Republiçans were having a hissyfit when Biden didn't blow up an unidentified weather balloon. So what's the excuse now? I guess we can thank Trump:s buddy, Putin? After all, intelligence is indicating that Russia has been delivering satellite images of US military base locations. I have little confidence in this Department of War under the leadership of the incompetent Hegseth. So how safe is everyone feeling? Not very.
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darkpheonix262 Mar 20, 2026 +2
It wouldn't be news worthy if they were authorized
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amaria_athena Mar 20, 2026 +2
Why don’t they just shot them down with those cool lasers they have?!? S/ Apologies if someone else already made the comment. I did not scroll far.
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jjmckissick Mar 20, 2026 +2
Yea well monitoring the airspace and defending the airspace are two very different things. If they are able to get 12 drones close enough what else can they do?
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Ok_Cheetah_6251 Mar 21, 2026 +2
Did they ever find those missing US drones? Just saying.
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Hytsol Mar 21, 2026 +2
I don’t understand how unauthorized drones and fly over a us military airlifted? Isn’t the US military the most technologically advanced force and systems in the world with capabilities that are advanced?
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appendixgallop Mar 20, 2026 +6
We are so fucked. Sounds like the base security has no clue who operated these, nor where they came from and went. What goes around comes around. Don't start wars for religion or greed; victims will eventually rise up and retaliate.
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SUPERSAPE Mar 20, 2026 +10
And as usual, nobody did anything... One US Air Force base plenty of systems and soldiers but... nobody did anything against these dangerous and evil drones flying over them... hahahaha propaganda for morons.
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freedfg Mar 20, 2026 +20
Remember the New Jersey drones and the Iranian offshore warship? I remember. I remember people exposing that they don't know what planes look like.
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FngrsRpicks2 Mar 20, 2026 +7
911 operator: Hello, what is the emergency? Caller: Yeah, there is this bright light outside....I ain't never seen it, its like a big ol bright light, like a rock in the sky.....is it going to hit us? 911 operator: .......what? Caller: yeah, there is something in the sky! Its a big light and it looks like a big ol rock or something, im scared its going to fall out of the sky and hit us. 911 operator: ....are you looking at the moon?
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SouthJerssey35 Mar 20, 2026 +4
Van drew was such a f****** moron...still is.
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molybdenum75 Mar 20, 2026 +3
[Just a reminder: 4 Drone Systems were stolen from the US Army last week](https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/03/12/four-army-drone-systems-stolen-from-kentucky-base/)
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Xdaveyy1775 Mar 20, 2026 +3
Most military bases in the US have literally 0 air defense to protect against internal air threats like drones.
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Stanley1897 Mar 20, 2026 +3
China and other countries use huge waves of thousands of drones to replace fireworks during big events. Watching thousands of drones fly in sync and spell out letters or make pictures in the sky makes me believe a few thousand launched from the roof of a building unseen could easily overwhelm any US base or even buildings in DC. Watching Ukraine fly a single drone onto a base and park it on the top of an airplane in a spot easy to damage or expensive to replace and then explode C4 is a $10,000 solution to a multimillion dollar bomber. This keeps me up at night.
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