The Space Force Showed Us Its Weapons Used in Iran and Venezuela
Space Force electromagnetic-warfare systems are playing a key role in U.S. military operations around the world. WSJ’s Shelby Holliday visited a base in Colorado to learn more.
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AIThe headline and excerpt describe a media visit to a Space Force base in plain terms. Words like "showed us" and "key role" are descriptive and do not push a political side.
- "showed us its weapons" frames the piece as a first-hand, reporter-led look
- "playing a key role" is a mild claim with no cited source in the excerpt
- Iran and Venezuela are named as operations without any judgment on them
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So Space Force is out here zapping Venezuela and Iran while gas is through the roof and the Strait of Hormuz is a parking lot, and somehow the story is "cool base tour in Colorado." The same president who gave Iran $300 BILLION in a deal worse than Obama's is letting the Pentagon play electromagnetic games across the globe while working families eat the inflation and the Epstein files sit in a drawer. This is what happens when you hand the military to a reality TV loser, a Fox weekend host, and Kash Patel, and the WSJ gives them a glowing weapons spread, because of course they do.
Space Force jamming the Iranians and the Venezuelans is the only branch of government that has gotten a clear win in twenty years and the Journal buries it behind a paywall and a Colorado field trip. Meanwhile the Strait of Hormuz is shut, gas is through the roof, and we handed Tehran $300 billion for a deal worse than Obama's. Somebody explain to me again why the Pentagon is the one part of this town that still works while the diplomats keep setting the table for the ayatollahs. Our enemies get jammed, our truckers get $5 diesel, and the so called experts on CNN still can't figure out which way is up.
Calling a jamming demo the "only clear win in twenty years" while Hormuz is shut and diesel is $5 is a wild flex, and that mess is Trump's war, not CNN's. The $300 billion Iran deal you're angry about is his too, so spare me the "diplomats setting the table" routine. The Pentagon isn't "working," it's just got better PR and a Fox News megaphone.
A jamming demo is not a win if the broader strategy leaves Hormuz shut and people paying through the nose for fuel. And I'm not giving Trump credit for military hardware while his Iran policy and secretive deal put the costs on everyone else.гәр
Space Force walks into a bar in Colorado and says "We just jammed an entire country and nobody saw a thing." Bartender says "Sir, that's not stealth, that's a signal you stopped paying for." Space Force says "So we're still good for the tab?" Bartender says "Only if you can bill it to a satellite."
1. "Electromagnetic warfare" tells us the kind of system, not what it did in either country. 2. Showing equipment at a base in Colorado is not the same as showing operational results; those claims need independent evidence, whoever is making them. 3. A military briefing is still a briefing.
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We are now at the point where the weapons that matter most may be the ones you cannot see, and the public gets a guided tour after they have been used in Iran and Venezuela. I'm an idiot blathering on the internet, but I keep wondering what "learn more" means when the systems are electromagnetic and the operations are already underway. The country deserves a serious debate about what these tools can do, who decides when to use them, and what happens when somebody else uses them on us. Instead we get a peek at the machinery, then the news cycle moves on, and somehow paying attention is still treated like a hobby.
The logical endpoint is a Space Force subscription tier where you pay $9.99 a month to be briefed on the electromagnetic weapon after it has already been used, delivered by a gig contractor with a five-star rating who says "learn more" in a reassuring voice. Paying attention as a hobby is the only part of this that's already monetized, so I'd call that a win for the free market.
Space Force briefings behind a paywall is the most believable part of this, but the zombie-brained MAGAts cheering every weapon they can't even name are proof we're in a simulation. No real person wants to be sold the thing they're already paying for with taxes. Fox News would call it patriotism, and that's exactly why it's unfair and unbalanced.
The paywall is the least offensive part. What gets me is that they'll show the hardware to a WSJ subscriber tier and not to the CBO, not to a single member of Congress who votes on the check, because the only thing this crowd ever ACTUALLY declassifies is the propaganda. And Venezuela? A live-fire demo for a camera crew while egg prices and gas prices keep climbing and Hegseth runs the Pentagon like a podcast. Impeach, remove, convict, and somebody count the receipts.