Sharon

They’re calling it the most wrong anyone has ever been

It feels like we're getting to a place even worse than what the Black Mirror folks used to conjure up.

I think a lot of this has to do with strategic culture

Post-9/11 the USG was reeling from one of the largest terror attacks in history, was led by career FP people, and injected a lot of money for a Long War

Now the Trump regime is flitting from one thing to another with no strategic thought

2s5s steepening, 5s10s stable, 10s30s flattening is bond market speak for "short-term pain, probably won't get out of hand, the Fed will do its job but this won't get crazy".

Problem is it's all conditional pricing, just like crude.

[rocking, whispering]: this can't be real this can't be real this can't be real this can't be real this can't be real this can't be real this can't be real this can't be real this can't be real this can't be real

You're missing the point arkadaşlarım. What Israel dislikes about Türkiye isn't whether it likes Israel, it's Türkiye's existence as a state capable of exerting its own sovereignty.

This was clear from the jump, but the Venezuela invasion going as smoothly as it did, from a pure operational perspective, is going to prove catastrophic in the long run.

Oh man we are HAVING A NEWS DAY I see

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"Luke Akehurst MP erasure" is also a good way to describe the next general election.

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

Yeah, fundamentally: the UK government largely refusing uses of its resources for offence and focussed on protecting the lives of allies and UK citizens from retaliatory attacks is the only practical position, had the government not done it, she'd be arguing for it.

it's like they're incapable of handing the Greens/Lib Dems/Labour a W

What I do find fascinating about the right's current position is that it is vital we get more deeply involved when it is:

A) very unpopular to become further involved.
B) unclear what the plan is for our involvement.
C) clear they know this, but just sort of want to glide past it.

"Labour came into government to do breakfast clubs, not to invade Iran. I came into office to invade Iran."

so if you are TACO you have to deal with the absence -- on either side -- of any de-escalation measures and the President continuously saying he won't accept anything except the overthrow of the regime

Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said.

Exclusive: Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces in the Middle East, the first indication that another major U.S. adversary is participating — even indirectly — in the war.

Alberta rn:

lmao i think i can speak Japanese a bit more than the PM

日本語上手ですね～👏👏👏

i feel like this will just be the default wave of the future primarily because by 2028, the international order is going to be in the shitter and the left is the only one that reconstruct

hegseth wants to fight a religious war in iran, rubio wants to reverse domino theory latin america, and trump will do whatever makes him feel strong

we will be pursuing the great strategy of "bombing to win" as depicted by the front cover and title and nothing else of the book "bombing to win"

>unconditional surrender
>we get to pick the next SL
>mfw

so like, how exactly is the US supposed to achieve this

Im not long enough on oil

The only force projection capability Iran *needs* to maintain is putting a drone or missile into an oil storage facility or tanker once or twice a day. That's what keeps the war's end state in their favor, every hit against Israel or US bases is lagniappe.

more and more people are saying that radical social democracy with RAND corporation characteristics is the wave of the future

🔴 Ukraine is slamming Hungarian PM Viktor Orban for "state banditism" after his government took seven Ukrainian bank employees hostage to extort political concessions.

y'all ever wonder what itd be like if adam curtis were a 27 year old bronze age pervert fan