They want names and data to at the very least publicly shame and bring fear to people who voted "against" the government.

This is somewhat of an exaggeration... the US has plenty of cargo planes that can land on a carrier and enough local airfields nearby for a quick stop to refuel ...
But this requires a thoroughly set up plan for logistics and that's where the higher ups don't see the need (nor for making a plan of action in this war in the first place, they just raced out the door shooting wildly)...

The problem lies in the complete bubble the higher ups are living in, hegseth has access to unlimited food and drink and is the exact type to waive complaints away by uttering a statement in the vein of "let them eat cake". Most of the other staff left over by now at the Pentagon are bootlickers and yes men who live in the same bubble of awesomeness, too afraid to fall out of it. Same with trump, surrounded by yes men afraid of telling him otherwise, because anyone who does will be punished, so trump is fully enveloped in the same bubble of awesome and thinks everything he says or thinks up is the best tasting shit ever...

It's kinda weird how the US is becoming a caricature, not of itself but of China where no one dares to take responsibility when things end disastrous and to save face of all involved a full on positive lie is spread to cover up the disaster. Heck the US is racing towards a Social Credit system with intense data gathering on every citizen like China has been building.

Meanwhile China is becoming a modern variant of a path the USA has been nudged away from: renewable energy based, leaders in AI and robotics and automated factories, Electric Vehicles as main mode of transportation, rapidly reducing pollution (anyone remember the pictures of smog clouds in Beijing of the 90s and 00s? Hasn't happened in a while there, but the US will get that phenomenon in the near future).

And then there is the enormous military growth, from hypermodern systems to upcoming airfighters that keep up with the USs latest offerings, who will buy expensive American weaponry that will be locked down with DRM if the Chinese build and upgrade faster?

Back on topic ... it all started with the utter disregard for the situation of the Iranian government, they would NEVER just surrender because trump said so nor because of a few bombs, if the folks in power in Iran ever dropped their weapons a very angry mob would lynch AND quarter all of them alive, so they can't just step aside, this all next to hegseth just plain underestimating the iranian abilities on home turf because he lives inside that awesomeness bubble.

Can one reject what is already agreed upon?

Consider this ... next elections the opposition of Trump wants to put out commercials and videos of how trump's policies hurt America...

But the FCC has them all pulled in name of Trump because they "mislead the American public" ... so only pro trump commercials everywhere...

I barely hear a very soft voice echoing away into silence:

".... the military is prohibited to operate on US soil in acts of enforcing law against its citizens ..."

trump just about is king in all but name:
He stands above the law.
Holds his court with his chosen sycophants.
Writes edicts and decrees for those below him to live by.
Hands out pardons only to those who please him.
Takes "gifts" and makes them his personal property.
Claims his status to be divine and scolds religious leaders.
Demands to have a ballroom, and most likely wants another palace after that.
Erects monuments and renames buildings in his name.
Is normalizing that he does not have to leave his position.

So, yeah, when will he just claim the title of King to get it solidified?

Well this sounds a bit familiar...

Next step is adding a scoring system with penalties for certain behavior and it will be quite similar to the social system that is rolling out in China...

Do it .... and lose 85% of the overseas bases, including spy-, radar- and sonar stations...

I smell a taco, again...

King Trump does not understand the concept of paying debts, always equates it to being stolen from.

So ofcourse he will try to weasel himself out of paying debts, that he'll tank the US credibility on the financial markets will be declared someone else's fault.

It's a weird sensation to stick to this as someone so far away, but I feel plain proud of all the Ukrainian forces that made this happen so successfully.

Isn't it weird that it almost feels like Iran has a better functioning democratic system than the US does?

Apparently trump has difficulty figuring out that if a fighter has a crew of 2 and one is rescued there must be one left over somewhere...

The whole thing is not spilled top secret info and the Iranians would have been searching as soon as they figured out it was a 2 seated F15 that was shot down.
It kind of reads like "we're missing a pilot but unless there is hubbub about it we plan on doing nothing" and now their hand got forced.

Remember how low trump thinks of wounded soldiers...

Trump could now argue he, as sitting president, was threatened in his functioning by the new president elect, and it was an official act to block the transfer of power as long as the sitting president has concerns about the validity of the votes. (Ofcourse he always has those concerns)

And now with the coming elections he will claim the same and as a bonus he officially and in the open has the republicans refuse to certify a losing vote because that also threatens his position and impedes his functioning.

If the lower courts now claim his acts were not official he will just appeal that back to the Supreme Court, thereby still delaying any closure of the case well after the elections.

In other words Komrade Krasnov is investing and bolstering the Russian economy, without any return offer, all on firm request of great leader putin.

He needs Russia to win...

Because Putin demands it of him to force it that way.

He's not lying ... crime IS on the rise in DC...

His crime, his cronies crimes, his family's crimes, all rising sharply...

From crypto scams with rugpulling, to grifting people into buying Trump labeled goods, to insider trading and willfull stockmarket manipulation, from breaking the rule of law to punishing political opponents, to taking bribes and giving bribes so not to be accused, from lying about proven data to forcibly adjusting them to his will. And the crime list is growing almost daily...

Each accusation is an admission of guilt.

At the top should be "1991-2001 Ukraine must give Russia it's nuclear missiles or they can no longer be friends, if they do give them, Russia will recognize Ukraine as an independent state and soverignty over its borders"

1991 - 2001 Ukraine gives russia all of its nuclear arsenal.

2014 - Russia invades Ukraine anyway, attempts to "anonymize" its soldiers, when caught declares them on holiday and not under its juristiction, meanwhile proclaims captured territories and population as Russian.

2022 - Russia starts a full scale invasion of Ukraine, declaring Ukraine as a country never existed, it's always been part of Russia. Starts abducting and brainwashing children, replaces original populace in captured areas with Russians, and expedites new Russian passports for the rest.

Somewhere in there there might still be reasoning towards a red line, but I lost track of it :-D

Other than epstein himself, who else is named 38.000 times in the documents? And why would someone be named 38000 times in crime related documents?

Now that the newly released parts of the epstein files are getting worse and worse, why do people think someone named 38000 times so far in those files to be still suitable as a president?

It's the now age old Trump-Tariff faux-paradox ...

Country A has a package to ship to the US ...

The US tells Country A: 'aha tariffs need to be paid"...

Country A says "okay, tell the recipient to pay the tariffs and give us the ok when they did so we can deliver it past your border".

The US gets angry: "no no someone else pays tariffs not us! How dare you put the tariffs on us! Others are supposed to pay!"

Country A mumbles "ok, be that way", returns the package to sender, sender might refund but keeps shipping costs... and the US customer loses out twice.

Cancelation fees (and steep ones at that) on digital goods/"services" ... shows how far things sunk towards the lower hells.