A good 1/4th of the 774 and 688i skippers in the fleet are unable to stand up right now https://twitter.com/MsMelChen/status/1317967398515990529

F-35s eyballing all those ASW/MPA contacts on their scopes like

Bones out of Guam loaded with LRASMs thunderin in like

Every SWO in 7th fleet with ERAMs in the cells when the F-35s get surface tracks

Sonar operators waiting for the telltale sounds of those diesel boats creeping in on AIP finding out what a CAPTOR is

https://twitter.com/fashDopplar/status/1319081543306932224

Chinese radar operators when the MALD-Js and Growlers show up

When the Strategic Rocket Forces roll out their Ding Dongs and find out the only thing those "UFOs" were meant to anally probe was their kill chain

SEALs on the beach with laser designators when two B-2s shit 108 or so LJDAMs out at once

ADCAPs when they cut the wire

Ranger Javelin teams when they see not a single red LST has made it halfway across the strait

PLAN LCAC boatswain when he looks up and sees that GBU-44/B comin right for his nose

Eagle drivers when the PLAAF tries to seize local air superiority through sheer mass of airframes

Pierre Sprey as the J-10s start eating shit

Xi when he realizes that yes, the burgers actually will fire war shots and holy shit how many they will fire

The one Collins-class in the AO.

USS Ohio's skipper just HOPING the Reds pop off at Guam and Okinawa and give him a reason

The Philippines.

Japan.

Russia.

Hugh White when the first US weapon release is confirmed.

Hugh White two hours afterwards, as US weapon releases continue.

Merkel.

Twitter, as the bantz escalate and their Chinese investors really start screaming.

B-52 crews as night approaches.

[slaps empennage]

"YOU CAN FIT SO MANY QUICKSTRIKES IN THIS BABY"

The luckiest Raptor driver in the world when he's turning for home Winchester but gets vectored onto a an IRST contact and rolls up to see a J-20 through the NVGs

And finally:

My face when I demonstrate that you can write perfectly amusing masturbatory fanfiction about implausible near-future events, keep it concise and multimedia with a twitter thread, and do it for free - all without jerking off over politics.

Unlike Jeffery Lewis.