"A U.S. diplomat who was in the embassy when McGurk arrived found his steady advance astonishing. “Brett only meets people who speak English. … There are like four people in the government who speak English. And somehow he’s now the person who should decide the fate of Iraq? How did this happen?”"
you may not care about counterintelligence. or foreign policy. or collective security. but as each of those things goes to shit, the world is going to hell in a handbasket
Three Ironjawz wrekkaz with dark brown under painted armour segments. Others remain a pale bone colour
#hobbystreak Day 2024: some more underpainting on the wrekkaz, should be good to move onto the metallics and then basecoating
Trump: "this is nothing like Iraq"
also Trump:
This is one of those things that is less sexy to talk about but is unequivocally a war crime
So apparently the Iranian frigate was unarmed per requirements of the Milan 2026 naval exercises, and we knew the ship was unarmed and defenseless.
I really cannot understand the decision to fire on her accept as performative sadism.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/iranian...
the cheapest and most abundant and utile political resource for the american ruling class is muslim life. this has been true my entire life. you can never go wrong slaughtering muslims
As someone who routinely mocks permabullish clickbait oil forecasts, I want to be exceptionally clear:
Crude WILL go to $200/bbl, en route higher, unless traffic through the Strait resumes.
Not clickbait, but rather brutal physics and necessary economic incentives.
I remember way back when gas prices had long been in the $1-$2/gallon range. then the Iraq/Afghanistan wars happened and it's been in the $3-$5 range ever since. only a stupid fuck would think you could start another war in the Middle East without the exact same thing happening again
Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic
Trafalgar group winning awards for writing the most leading question possible.
A lot of people think “surely nobody wants to fuck someone they think is subhuman,” and these people need to be taught about the concept of heterosexual men.
there are like 50 people in the country who want the UK to get involved in the Iran War, one of them is Kemi Badenoch, one of them is Nigel Farage, and the other 48 are newspaper columnists
Reminder that the man who discovered the SRY gene said this is not how any of this works
Quite an opening paragraph.
🔴 BREAKING: Ukraine’s Oshchadbank confirms employees missing in Hungary with millions in assets.
Oshchadbank has confirmed the disappearance of its employees in Hungary after authorities detained vehicles carrying approximately $40 million USD, €35 million, and 9 kg of gold.
It was funny to see, I don't even remember which US newspaper it was anymore, but an obit of Ali Khamenei said something to the effect of "he lived a paranoid life in which he believed the US and Israel were out to kill him, which eventually happened"
Three Ironjawz wrekkaz with tabards and belts that have been under painted red. They have chains hooked into their backs and the skin around it is the same red
#hobbystreak Day 2023: the Big Pig is annoying me ATM so briefly went back to the wrekkaz and painted their tabards, belts and some of the skin around where the chains pierce their backs
if there's a technological lesson from this war so far, it's that internet-connected cameras are a huge liability.
Interesting long-form memorandum from an Israeli think tank which predicts that as Israel's one-state (apartheidst) reality further coheres and concretizes, the most likely pathways almost all end with the end of the Jewish state.
the problem with this 'anti gooner' backlash is that its super misguided. gamergate misogynists want skimpy pale white girls with big honkers because they want THEIR ideas of sexy in media to be the ONLY depictions possible
this is why i fucking hate the obsession with gooners and pornbrain or whatever because these people start seeing porn and sex as inherently evil to the point where seeing a woman in a bikini top is considered pornographic. be so for real
This new cycle of violence was all too predictable. For months, Israeli officials had signalled an escalation of their campaign against Hezbollah. Despite a ceasefire that ended a devastating 13-month war in 2024, Israel had continued with its bombing of Lebanon almost every day, saying the group was trying to rebuild its capabilities. Hezbollah, however, had remained quiet, aware that any move would inevitably be met with a powerful retaliation.
Interesting admission by BBC
Previously the IDF has issued only much narrower evacuation orders for urban areas of Lebanon (specific buildings or blocks).
Now, as it did in Gaza, it’s telling people they need to get out of whole neighborhoods of suburban Beirut, as well as the entirety of southern Lebanon south of the Litani.
The Israeli finance minister Smotrich, who is also a deputy defense minister, threatens to turn Beirut into Khan Younis.
Left can't resist being on wrong side of a war Whether it's Jeremy Corbyn or Zack Polanski, their foreign policy stances terrify voters outside core supporters
Well, here’s the thing about being antiwar as an ethical belief: it means you end up opposing most wars. Almost all of them, in fact. This is quite common in people who have consistent beliefs but looks insane to people who have none, or mostly just believe superior people should make the decisions.
WHY WOULD THEY EVEN ALLOW THE MODERATION ACCOUNT TO BE BLOCKED IF IT IS A TOS VIOLATION TO HAVE IT BLOCKED??
Last week, UK lobbying regulator closed investigation into ex Tory MP Ben Howlett
We offered Howlett money to work for a fake Chinese investor. He introduced us to a dozen Labour MPs
Regulator didn't even speak to us. Our system is broken
New, by me: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/we-paid-an...
i think this is the confusion. USian is NOT A PEJORATIVE. its literally like calling a cis person cis. white USians are currently regarded as default americans when the *entire continent* is america. its not an insult??? if you understand the logic behind the term 'cis' you can get 'usian'
