Russell the Love Muscle 💪

“What Guam Defense System doing?”

I said yesterday that torpedo strike would keep Beijing up and this should keep INDOPACOM wide awake (it already does, now just more evidence)

Metagaz?

More like Outtagaz!

😄😎

So, there’s this thing called the Total Munitions Requirement and it doesn’t give a fuck if you can bench press 315.

I’m getting a hot dog tomorrow at lunch. It’s been a week, man.

Deep cut.

How I arrived on Bluesky

And the Moon and Mercury have *not* been helpful.

There’s truly little sadder than all these people posting pictures/clips of them trying on their old uniforms with captions like “I got one more deployment left in me” or “in case Washington calls” for clout.

It’s over. Let it go. You’re the only one who gives a shit about your 2005 deployment.

*They're!

There are a lot of losers that hit their ceilings in the foreign service and civil service long ago who are now on their way to comfortable ambassadorships and choice jobs because they proved themselves to be willing lapdogs for these assholes.

And bear in mind, just as with the RIFs, this is not a small cabal of politicals alone. There not that capable and omnipotent. There's a huge group of willing career collaborators who are going far above and beyond what's appropriate for career civil servants and foreign service officers.

They absolutely cannot fathom that people just want to serve their fucking country as nonpartisan civil servants because they themselves are completely incapable of doing so. It’s inconceivable to them. There is no service ethos. To them, everything is only a means in service to the pursuit of power

They’re Hiring at U.S.A.I.D. Just Not Anyone Who Worked There.

I wish everyone involved with this a very hypovolemic shock.

Hell yes.

This guy has been replaying the 2011 WHCA dinner in his head on a nonstop loop every day for 15 years and finally thinks this time he gets to be the conquering hero.

Netanyahu to the U.S. Congress, 2002: "If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region."

His grandfather was an accomplished architect and his mother a restaurateur who is his oyster farm’s only customer but sure if a white man has a job suddenly he’s working class.

I’m calling this ‘Star Trek: 90210’

mf thinks he’s eisenhower

a reminder that Graham Platner is the grandson of the designer of the "Windows on the World" restaurant at the WTC, has considerable family money, and his main business is selling oysters to his mom's two restaurants. These people are fucking marks.

The path to a post-American world is punctuated by cycles where US air and naval power secure overwhelming short term tactical victories that the US no longer has the wider capacity to turn into anything other than long term strategic chaos.

But the longue duree won't help the IRGC much now

It’s cool how if you hear someone say “seed oils” you never have to listen to another word they ever say

Pretty obvious FMK though.

a man in a blue shirt is holding a piece of paper and says shamwow ALT: a man in a blue shirt is holding a piece of paper and says shamwow

Sham-… sham-what, now?

Me, an affable himbo, “Chalabi… Pahlavi… Chalabi… Pahl- OH! That’s what they mean by ‘history doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes!!’”

Jonny Sins?

Damn bro, how you get that periwinkle twinkle in your eyes like that?

Sure. A million monkeys with a million typewriters can produce occasional reasoned and nuanced thinkers, too. I’d argue the military’s come at far greater cost of resources than other institutions and cause far more damage when wrong because they’re given undeservedly privileged voice in society.

Oh that’s a good one.

Glad to know it's not just tech that teaches specialists that they are just generalists who haven't gotten around to fixing the rest of the world yet.