That Iranian Navy ship we torpedoed had no ammunition on board because that was a requirement to participate in the MILAN 2026 exercise (organized by the Indian Navy).
The US Navy knew this because IT ALSO PARTICIPATED IN THE EXERCISE. What a national embarrassment.
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Hungary seized two Ukrainian cash transport vehicles with $40M, 35M euros and 9kg of gold, detaining seven Oshchadbank staff. FM Sybiha calls it "state terrorism and racketeering." GPS puts the vehicles in central Budapest near a security agency.
"So how does Washington move partners it cannot honestly reassure? By manufacturing public pressure. A leak that frames Kurdish engagement as already underway creates expectations among regional audiences, among Iranian intelligence, and critically, within Kurdish political communities themselves."
This story contains scenes worthy of Kafka.
Yeah
If Caroline Elkins’ book, Legacy of Violence, means anything, it’s that the practice of systemic, unspeakable violence comes draped in the language of Enlightenment values, which must be forced on the savages to make them human, like us. They will eventually appreciate our efforts at civilising them
A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.
Update: American Marines were among the security personnel who opened fire on protesters by the US Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan on Sunday, where 10 people were killed.
I have a pit in my stomach thinking through the many ways in which this goes very, very wrong.
Thousands of Kurdish volunteers have launched a ground invasion with CIA-supplied arms in Western Iran, according to a US official.
I feel sorry for them.
Trump is using Putin’s meatgrinder tactics.
This will go down well in Baghdad, Damascus, and Ankara
BREAKING: CIA is 'working to arm Kurdish forces' in Iran, per CNN
this skeet is dedicated to the Brave Mujahideen Fighters of Afghanistan
Congrats on sinking a ship built in 1938 with a nuclear powered submarine
silly line chart meme showing progress toward democratic socialism as a function of charts posted
for real it works like this 😭
It was well outside the Maritime Exclusion Zone that the UK created at the start of the conflict...it posed no threat
bro free speech means wagering on nuclear war by 2026 bro
It is giving General Belgrano vibes
"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the U.S. used a submarine-launched torpedo to sink an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean — the first time an American submarine has been used to fire a torpedo against an enemy ship in combat since World War II."
If he wasn't a coward, he would have changed his name from Vince to Shamwow
As Clausewitz wrote, the decisive factor in war is which military leader can bench press the most.
This is a real video from October 2025 of U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee—who is also a Christian Zionist that believes Israel plays a key role in fulfilling Biblical end times prophecy—playing bass to 'Sweet Home Yerushalayim' (to the tune of 'Sweet Home Alabama')
Three days into a war of choice with no public support, the billions are adding up quickly: "Pentagon may seek around $50 billion supplemental budget for Middle East operations." $50 billion!
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Bro is the first motherfucker to shoot down a single F-15 in action. And he shoots down three.
There may be an asterisk to this achievement.
I mean, they used the anarcho-syndicalist Kurds in Syria when they needed a ground army…
The question I have is why the Iranian Kurds wouldn’t look at the experience of Rojava and uh doubt the value of US patronage
Nixon during the Yom Kippur War
well this is a terrible fucking idea unless the plan is a massive failed state destabilizing the entire region www.axios.com/2026/03/02/t...
"A New York Times analysis shows the stunning velocity at which the fortunes of the 1 percent have increased across the country since President Trump first took office in 2017. The richest Americans saw their net worth soar 120 percent." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...
That seems pretty suboptimal
Finally reading Empire of Rubber-fascinating and not surprising that Firestone pulled in corporate archives from the University of Akron in 2005 over a lawsuit alleging labor rights violations-plus ca change for capitalists
