It's going to be a test of how much Rand Paul hates him and/or Trump.
Probably not enough do this, but still, it's a nice thought:
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It's going to be a test of how much Rand Paul hates him and/or Trump.
Probably not enough do this, but still, it's a nice thought:
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They put him and Noem in charge of Operation Panty Shield, which is a sop to Corey and lets them make trips to Greenland to yell at the locals.
If Trump didn't hate Ukraine so much, he'd tell Hegseth to give $50 million a year to Ukraine for 20,000 drone interceptors a year.
Once Ukraine finds a way to make tiny jet-powered Octopi or Stings, that changes everything.
When you can send three $2500 Octopus or Sting drones to take out a specimen of the cheapest and slowest $10,000 Shahed, you're still coming out $2500 ahead. If the Shahed costs more, even better!
The thing is that Ukraine has drone interceptors that are hard to jam, at $2500 each are cheaper than even the cheapest Shaheds, and are faster than all but the rare jet-powered (and correspondingly pricey) Shaheds:
dronexl.co/2026/03/04/s...
What's happening is that Team Trump’s using this as a excuse to "temporarily" lift the sanctions on Russian oil shipments to India. And will probably look the other way on shipments to other countries as well.
Trump fears high oil prices at US pumps even more than he fears flag-draped coffins.
- they can credibly threaten the Strait as far as insurers are concerned without a whole lot the US can do to convince the insurers otherwise
- the US has no plan and has no strategic guidance besides grandpa's cottage cheese brain
- bibi does not give a fuuuuuck about oil prices
fwiw since I made a weekend prognostication a couple days ago, the WAR war (Iran credibly chucking shit in volume at MRBM and OWA range as well as SRBM range) is almost still certainly going to wind down over the next 72 hours, but that's separate from the Strait discussion
I can't remember who offered up "orders that are illegal to give but not to follow" point recently, but that's basically it as far as this whole stupid war goes
an illegal war "strategically" does not have direct bearing on whether a specific tactical action violated LOAC
to the extent LOAC grapples with this (which is not a lot), it's basically to say "decisions to go to war are the problem of leaders, if you get an order to do a hostile act and that act comports with LOAC in terms of the specifics, the war as a whole has no bearing on your criminal exposure"
broadly speaking orders that are illegal for a leader to give (because UN Charter/US law/whatever) do not automatically mean those orders are illegal to follow, if they otherwise comport with LOAC/IHL
we didn't attempt to try every single Wehrmacht member at Nuremberg
Drug boat strikes are certainly part of the mental gymnastics here. Since the US is (now) rescuing the survivors of those attacks, people assume they have a duty to rescue survivors of ALL attacks, but that is not so. Very cheesy situation.
the latter of which is unfortunately pertinent thanks to pete so 🙃
I think people are confusing "not rescuing drowning survivors" with "shooting shipwrecked people" which would certainly be a war crime, but that isn't what happened here, so.
That's likely the justification Trump’s people are using for having screwed Ukraine again by "temporarily" lifting sanctions on Russian oil to India.
- it almost certainly wasn't unarmed (but even if it was, doesn't matter)
- a submarine departing the scene not doing any rescue anything after conducting a strike that otherwise comports with LOAC has been explicitly legal since at least 1946, Karl Dönitz thanks one Chester Nimitz
really looking forward to the CCTV feature on the blatantly illegal Taiwanese rebels' criminal missile strike on the peaceful civilian shipping RoRos that were transiting from Quanzhou to the Port of Taipei for 100% legitimate reasons, no need to worry about what was on board, LOAC violation
if you're wondering why people like me care so much about getting the specifics right on this stuff, it's because nefarious actors in places like Moscow and Beijing have absolutely already weaponized this shit in support of their asshole aims
you can say this US-ISR war of aggression fucking sucks ass and is blatantly illegal at a UN Charter level without just inventing nonexistent LOAC out of whole cloth
A "double tap" used to be the IRA's specialty.
Do one "tap", wait at least 30 minutes for all the first responders (firefighters, police, medics, etc.) to arrive, then do the second "tap". The objective is to kill first responders.
The 2001 WTC attacks were a "double tap". This however bad, isn't.
"multiple simultaneous or near simultaneous strikes" are literally the complete opposite of a "'double tap' (we were deliberately aiming to kill first responders so we hit once and then waited 30-45 minutes for the second hit)"
A pale silver lining is the fact that 9% more people voted in the Dem primary in TX23 than voted in the R primary. If that momentum can be maintained, we may be able to forget about Brandon Herrera for a couple of years at least.
The far right keeps trying to claim indie/libertarian types & even Trump voters as "lefties" when they do something wrong:
www.texastribune.org/2025/08/27/m...
Brandon Herrera, who at least one of the "lefty" mass shooters had as a personal hero and was even chatted up by said shooter at a gun rights rally.
Lol. Wasted endorsement.
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Wikipedia:
Upon being asked about Trump's pardon of Capitol attack defendants, Mullins replied: "Well, are we making a big deal about the pardons that Biden put in place? That'd be worse."
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Senator Mullin on January 6th
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Mullin Appointment . . .
... never ever forget #January6th !
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