Also, is Israel going to stop bombing, too? They are going to have to live with a destabilized, angry, even more hardline Iran next door (albeit with greatly diminished conventional capabilities). There are just a lot of moving parts here, and I don’t think there is a clear answer.
It may be that Iran opens the strait if the bombing stops. That would be the rational thing. But I think there is a domestic component here, too. The new supreme leader is now especially beholden to the IRGC and other hardliners. Will they be OK with that?
Who on the left is saying that? I certainly haven’t seen anyone other than billionaire apologists — a set of people that is shrinking by the day — say that. Basically everybody from the center to far left agrees that we should tax the shit out of billionaires. That is not enough, though.
If I am not mistaken he isn’t the only one (though the vest majority of them come from great wealth — hell, Lance Stroll has a seat because his dad bought a team). There are at least one or two other drivers that came from poor to modest backgrounds. Ocon, for example. But yes, Lewis is the 🐐
Risks like blow black, escalation, creating instability that requires future interventions. This mf’er doesn’t even acknowledge that he is one of the architects of the forever war, and there is zero reflection on that. Seriously, this guy can fuck off into the sun.
What’s disturbing about this is the idea that choosing war is no different morally than any other possible course of action. Also that the risks of each possible course of action can be weighed in the same way, never considering that war carries inherent risks that are much greater than other COAs.
Depends on how high oil prices actually go and for how long. Even folks in the industry are worried about what demand will look like in a couple of months if this does on for even a couple of weeks.
Except this is how you destroy demand. It can get very ugly for American oil companies, too. And even if the lower demand drive is relatively short term, that can actually have an impact on long term demand, too.
Oil prices that get super high tend to destroy demand. Sometimes long term. Not that I would bet on this but at least a few in the industry think that by summer the only demand left will be food and electricity.
Cosmically, there is something very darkly funny about spending an entire decade of American politics obsessed with repudiating the mistakes of the Iraq War, and then immediately doing it again at the first opportunity, but with even less justification, planning, strategy, or foresight.
Don’t worry. This is BS. Leavitt didn’t actually say that or really even intimate that. Just general talk about “boots on the ground” being on the table. This post is wildly misleading. However, “boots on the ground” is bad enough and would be a catastrophe anyway.
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Nah, we are going to have an oil crisis because there is a crisis involving the production and transportation of oil (and LNG, it turns out) in an area of the world where a large percentage of that stuff comes from. The posting about it doesn’t help, but the crisis is definitely real.
It’s too easy to go to war
Every single professional journalist who uses the phrases “Department of War” or “Secretary of War” without scare quotes should be lined up on a public viewing stage and bopped on the head with a giant inflatable hammer that says DUMB DUMB on the handle and makes fart sounds.
But again, caution is feminine coded. The Army is being run by real men these days.
Ya think?
Um… yes. But that won’t happen to us. /s
I seriously think that Dem voters are harder on Dem politicians because they tend to be better informed than GOP voters. I also think that is why they are Dem voters.
I mean, once you get those AIRBORNE WARRIORS on the ground, that’s all you need. Sustainment is woke.
From the AIR, Brandon. We have all of these airborne units — two who DIVISIONS, plus a BDE sized unit *in the same hemisphere.* it’s gonna be great. Just like all of those very smooth, perfectly executed, low risk operations in WWII. Have faith! That’s really all you need. 🤦♂️
Airborne. They are going to do several BDE sized drops. It will go perfectly, because airborne operations are famously always awesome. 🤦♂️
The real problem with what you say is that the alternative to a politically driven policy process (that has completely broken down) is policy that is technocratic and separated from any discussion of values, and that’s bad. Hard for people to sign up for that.
And because policy should be driven by values, policy development is committed to the legislative branch. But any hope of our political process functioning in a way where it can reasonably settle on a shared set of values passed in the 1990s with Newt Gingrich.
The problem with that perfectly reasonable fear is that all of those fields have a political dimension to them. We as a country have a say in how things are run because that is driven by the values we agree on. Policy is our values in action.
So sorry. That sucks. Sincerest condolences. I know how hard that is.
A lot of people confuse "not sporting" with "war crime". They aren't the same.
"War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. Though you follow the trade of the warrior, you do so in the spirit of Washington -- not of Genghis Khan. For Americans, only threat to our way of life justifies resort to conflict." Graduation Exercises at the United States Military Academy, 6/3/47 "Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they adduce. But, in my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war. Although this suggestion is repeatedly made, none has yet explained how war prevents war. Worse than this, no one has been able to explain away the fact that war creates the conditions that beget war." Remarks at Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 10/19/50 [DDE's Pre-Presidential Papers, Principal File, Box
Was browsing the Eisenhower Library site this morning trying to find a quote I remembered.
President Eisenhower, WW2 military hero:
“In my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war… none has yet explained how war prevents war.”
I agree that the frequency of the use of violence by these agencies, but the general attitude of these agents towards violence and its use is the same. The difference is that these federal agents know that they can act with impunity while cops know that they can’t. But the culture is the same.
Just to be clear, this is not in any way a defense of ICE or CBP (who are worse than ICE), but none of this behavior is too far from typical cop behavior. I don’t want people to think this shit is particularly reprehensible. All cops are very similar to this and it needs to change.
