"No stupid rules of engagement" is how you shoot down three of your own F-15s in one day. Just a shocking display of martial ineptitude.
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"No stupid rules of engagement" is how you shoot down three of your own F-15s in one day. Just a shocking display of martial ineptitude.
It’s like October 2002 all over again. Interesting how Fine’s outrageous comments here are in direct opposition to Hesgeth’s very clear promises of not worrying about “stupid rules of engagement.” bsky.app/profile/atru...
This is a really dark time.
Didn’t really consider the extreme tackiness of the end-times aesthetic we seem to be living through right now.
As @jhmustapha.bsky.social said today, that Davos speech has turned out to be one of the great Rorschach tests of all time; most anything can be back-read or forward-read into it depending on which part you're drawn to.
When people ask me what Carney's Davos speech *means* for Canada's place in the world, my standard reply is something along the lines of "the brilliance of the speech is that it can mean whatever you want it to mean."
I never thought I'd find myself repeatedly missing the days when Chretien was our PM.
what the fu¢k?
When people ask me what Carney's Davos speech *means* for Canada's place in the world, my standard reply is something along the lines of "the brilliance of the speech is that it can mean whatever you want it to mean."
As an aside to everything much more important and terrible that we all need to keep our attention on, I feel like we need a support group for what it's like to be a Canadian IR/Security prof these days
I like Amb. Rae so much better when he is unfettered by having to toe the line of whatever official position he is holding. This dispatch is spot-on.
... for me what's so disappointing is the default of pretending this is abt state repression or nuclear capabilities, when it's just pandering to the US' naked geopolitical ambitions. Not a fan of this development & not a fan of Carney's statement. The Iranian ppl deserve better than all of this.
I think you're both right. Re: Davos Carney can say he’s “not putting the sign back in the window” but rather that he won't condemn this attack bc doing so protects the powerful (the Iranian regime). BUT, in fact, he IS putting the sign back in the window and he IS protecting the powerful- the US...
To quote the yoots: “we’re cooked”
The imperial boomerang boomerang boomerang
I did not intentionally spark a new cohort of Gramsci-stans but I'm not mad about it kwim....
It's so interesting to see what resonates more or less depending on what is going on in the world...
After taking mine through all the different theories of IR last term, I discovered upon reading their term reflection papers that this generation is VERY READY for Gramsci.
I re-watched it and I think he was naming all of the countries on the contiguous American continent (with a few Caribbean islands countries thrown in) from south to north- which is why Canada came at the end 🤌🏼
Tweet from Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun: "Ignorance like this cheapens the horror of the Holocaust. Anne Frank was in Amsterdam legally and abided by Dutch law. She was hauled off to a death camp because of her race and religion. Her story has nothing to do with the illegal immigration, fraud, and lawlessness plaguing Minnesota today. Our brave law enforcement should be commended, not tarred with this historically illiterate and antisemitic comparison."
To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally."
In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.
As a fundamentalist abstainer myself, I would agree that the take is facile!
Framing their argument as harm reduction (essentially) is certainly a move.
Wish me luck....
I think PM Carney has 1) been listening to actual policy experts which is refreshing; 2) knows Canada is exceptionally vulnerable; & 3) understands that Trump is actually a HUGE coward- so this helps to signal that shit is getting real. A war of attrition IS terrifying- even to a guaranteed winner.
Mostly because our window is right next to a line of their goons who are just itching to throw a rock through it. It's not 3D chess. It's just checkers. The speech is a threat to remove it though. I'm not a Carney apologist but I am an IR scholar... and the speech itself is pretty unprecedented.
Mostly because our window is right next to a line of their goons who are just itching to throw a rock through it. It's not 3D chess. It's just checkers. The speech is a threat to remove it though. I'm not a Carney apologist but I am an IR scholar... and the speech itself is pretty unprecedented.
I think PM Carney has 1) been listening to actual policy experts which is refreshing; 2) knows Canada is exceptionally vulnerable; & 3) understands that Trump is actually a HUGE coward- so this helps to signal that shit is getting real. A war of attrition IS terrifying- even to a guaranteed winner.
comic strip about an office worker turned assassin who goes after the man who created him
Killbert
It is no accident that generative Ai tech has been fast-tracked with no regulatory oversight. Bc now we have a version of the Big Lie that is premised on the idea that “nothing we see is real”. How easy it becomes to lie to our faces, when the *actual truth* can be discounted as just another lie.
Some wonder why @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social becoming mayor of NYC means so much for so many of us. It’s a complicated thing… I wish him well. I hope that he can live up to all that is being placed on his shoulders. Rooting for him as “NYC’s First Muslim Mayor” has stakes that are planted very deep.