Anyone who is currently alive does not count.

Unless I’ve missed the good news he’s not eligible

I’d put a vote in for Lavrentiy Beria, he’s basically “but what if Stalin had also been a serial rapist”

And my axe!

F-16s flew a little over 13,000 sorties during Desert Storm with fewer losses and (importantly) a higher mission success rate. Also Chuck Horner was on record as saying that he kept A-10s away from anywhere the Iraqi Republican Guard was operating as they had access to actually functional air defenses that would have shredded the A-10s.

Basically A-10 pilots bragging about Desert Storm is like someone being sent to go wrestle some toddlers and coming back with a bloodied nose and broken bones and bragging about how tough and resilient they were not to have bled out.

Not to mention it is no longer 1991 and the A-10 is even less useful on a modern battlefield.

Extremely rare.

Not really, A10s have the highest loss rate of any post-Vietnam US aircraft.

That wouldn’t solve anything - Europe doesn’t actually get much oil through Hormuz, the issue is that the closure raises global oil prices regardless of where they come from. This isn’t a situation individual countries can carve out exceptions for themselves from - hence why the worst affected by this will be poor countries that had fuck all to do with Trump’s decision to fuck everyone over. And why America as a whole needs to start sorting its shit out for everyone’s sake and stop just telling the rest of the world to ignore Trump if he’s being a pain like he’s a doddery old relative and not the commander in chief of the most powerful military in the world.

I believe what he was trying to get at is that the shikimate pathway that glyphosate inhibits is also used in the bacteria and fungi that make up the gut microbiome.

Not sure what his overall point was supposed to be (or whether he had one) but that’s the “microbiome is plants” part.

It also specifies “refining capacity” which is really not the same thing as “energy infrastructure” in a region that exports so much crude…

Civilian energy use may be switching to renewables but militaries still run on oil with no viable alternative on the horizon so the currency oil is sold in will remain strategically important for the foreseeable future.

Eh, if you fly it within range of a heat seeker you get what you deserve. Looks like a skill issue tbh.

Nobody is running a carrier through Hormuz and no one aboard would think they might be heading there, that’s not how any of this works. Escort/freedom of navigation work would be done by destroyers or smaller vessels.