Even if it is a "mistake," it can still be a war crime. A person who acts recklessly in causing disproportionate civilian deaths can be found to have acted “wilfully” and thus responsible for a war crime.
Read "'Mistakes' in War": papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...
If they do drop the 82nd and 101st into Iran then I guess we get to find out how MARKET GARDEN would have gone if everything was much stupider.
Had to doublecheck the date on this
"Over the past decade, the Boring Company has dug only a few miles of operational tunnel. It has never cracked $23 million in reported annual revenue.... Yet, for reasons inexplicable to anyone who doesn’t worship at the altar of high finance, it is valued at $7 billion."
Where are the interviews with military historians about whether Trump’s military actually has capacity to do even half the things he’s promising?
“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility & its stupidity.”
—Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, 1946
if only sadistic thugs like Hegseth & Trump had an iota of Ike’s wisdom & humility.
www.americaamerica.news/p/death-and-...
Maralago delenda est.
but on the substantive issue, the IRIS Dena sinking is actually a great example of why the jus ad bellum/jus in bello distinction matters.
🚨 White House blocks intelligence report warning of rising US homeland terror threat linked to Iran war
I realize it’s the Daily Mail, but it sounds like they really did get their hands on a DHS bulletin that was meant for public release until the WH stopped it. The report is worth reading in full:
"We hosted that Iranian ship. They disarmed for our naval exercise. Then America attacked."
India's ex-FM just exposed the setup.
The UK stays silent when our "allies" pull stunts like this.
CBS obtained video of the DHS killing of an unarmed man in Texas that DHS concealed for nearly a year, which clearly contradicts claims that he violently rammed anyone. He is shot with his brake lights on, car not moving or barely moving. Another DHS crime.
This is such a sick burn if you know you know.
Hegseth asked about Russia helping Iran to target Americans:
"We're not concerned about that... The only ones that need to be worried right now are Iranians that think they're going to live."
A grotesquely indiscriminate threat against the entire Iranian population.
It is no longer my opinion that Triangulation is connected to Trenchant, and I’ll share all I know in next week’s show
I will also say that it’s a bit wild to me that no press freedom organization or professional journalistic association has tried to contact me or even put out a statement here.
I mean Jesus Christ. A little solidarity from institutions would be nice here!
So now both Russia and China are assisting Iran.
WTI climbing like a Tomahawk missile:
I can't get over this, from @jonathankarl.bsky.social. Trump is working the phones to journalists, talking about his war as a "performance."
I TOO WOULD LIKE TO SHOUT THIS OUT.
🎯🎯
Oh no, I can't believe all those slurs forced themselves into that defenseless group chat!
My advice to the Administration: With the U.S. uncomfortably close to a recession -- and already in a jobs recession -- don't do anything rash that could make things worse.
She also said she used to be Charlie Kirk’s lawyer 👀 & that we put him on a “censorship list”.
No, sweetheart. We made a list of top bullshitters in the 2020 election AFTER the election, by looking at who spread what rumors. Your boy was on it. 🤷🏻♀️
Pointing that out isn’t “censorship” it’s speech.
Today in wars are predictable and easy to win.
liberated... from economic growth
I guess I didn’t wake up thinking I needed to know the names of the 279 named triremes ⛵️in the 4th century BCE Athenian navy, but it appears we all do. link.springer.com/article/10.1... I do like that 3.58% had animal names like Λεοντῆ (lion skin) and Λέαινα (lioness). Greek epigraphy is fun! 🪦
This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this.
The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”
Two decades ago, Canada declined to go to war based on lies.
Today, Cabada wasn't even invited to the war — and yet, for some reason, we're participating in the fiction. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
But hey, Vlad and his consiglieri say we’re gonna make $16 trillion with them in Russia
The meme has been marinating all these years, waiting for exactly this
