Good plan, thereโs no way that the US would ever betray Kurds who fought on their behalf, or that Turkey would be upset by and seek to frustrate any US-backed Kurdish forces, or that an invasion from Iraq would trigger Iranian nationalist opposition. None of those things have ever happened.
ICE under Trump 2.0 built an unprecedented media operation - deploying videographers to raids, pumping out edgy social posts, swiping pop music for hype videos - and the main metric for evaluating its impact shows that Americans now hate ICE more than ever
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๐ด๐ฑ๐งThe Israeli military has ordered all residents in southern Lebanon to move north of the Litani River.
This is area consists of dozens of villages close to the border.
The Lebanese government said the army has cleared it from Hezbollah military presence in recent months.
A minor league hockey team had a wiener dog race. Zero thoughts, just vibes and absolute chaos. A thing of beauty
A man checks the wreckage after an Israeli air strike in the southern Beirut suburb of Haret Hreik, on March 2, 2026.
๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐ฑ๐ง Israeli strikes on Lebanon have killed at least 31 people, authorities said, following rocket fire from Tehran-backed militant group Hezbollah after the killing of Iran's supreme leader.
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This is weeks after a white nationalist threw a bomb (that luckily did not detonate) straight at a crowd of aboriginals that included babies
No, Shabana Mahmood, people seeing failing state support and crumbing infrastructure don't have either legitimate concerns or a legitimate grievance against immigrants, refugees or asylum seekers.
They have a legitimate grievance against governments.
If you're wondering why Starmer first refused US access to UK bases then granted it, I suspect the answer is the same in both cases: US plan is flaky as hell. Shd we join illegal strikes on a country capable of retaliating, with someone this clueless about what next?
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Ohhhhhhhh pivot to WEST Asia, it all makes sense now
"Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first." www.reuters.com/world/us/pen...
KUWAIT ARMY - ูุง โข ุงูุฌูุด ุงููููุชู @KuwaitArmyGHQ O ... O Translated from Arabic Show original โข Statement No. 7 The spokesperson for the Ministry of Defense stated that several U.S. military aircraft crashed this morning, confirming the complete safety of their crews. He explained that the relevant authorities immediately initiated search and rescue procedures, whereby the crews were evacuated and transferred to the hospital to check on their health status and provide the necessary medical care, noting that their condition is stable. The official spokesperson added that direct coordination was conducted with the friendly U.S. forces regarding the circumstances of the incident, and joint technical measures were taken. He affirmed that the concerned authorities are following up on the investigations to determine the causes of the incident, calling for information to be obtained from its official sources.
โSeveralโ US aircraft crashed this morning in Kuwait, according to Kuwait, AP and Reuters.
Given rumors about an attack on Embassy Kuwait, I feel obligated to mention that in earlier research we found that casualties among diplomats were viewed as seriously as casualties among soldiers
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The Terror scared me so bad that I couldnโt bare to read it in broad daylight. really great book
as an undergrad, I had an IR course that spent a full class discussing how JCPOA was one of the greatest diplomatic achievements of the modern era
could a dying empire do THIS
Petraeus really feels like the inflection point for the death of shame in American elite circles. If you just keep talking as though nothing happened even as all the sordid, lightly treasonous details keep pouring out you get to keep your seat at the table.
Spanish PM Pedro Sรกnchez: โToday more than ever, it is essential to remember that one can be against a hateful regime as is the case with the Iranian regimeโฆand at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.โ
I think the last time the USA created regime change solely through bombing was in Cambodia, when a massive carpet bombing campaign so destabilized the country that the Khmer Rouge came to power and wiped out the Royal governmentโthe American ally. Genocide followed.
Guess he really wants to hit 67% disproval
Belgian army seizes oil tanker from Russian shadow fleet
With alt text. Iโveโฆnever seen a court talk like this before?
if people are using classified information to place bets, then theoretically others can analyze betting behavior to find signals that reveal classified information.
It's exhausting living through an entire verse of "We Didn't Start the Fire" every day.
obama bombed libya without congressional approval also
don't any of you amoral cheerleaders have memories at least
Just amazing the number of people who canโt seem to simultaneously keep two thoughts in their head at the same time:
(1) the Iranian theocratic regime is bad and would not be missed
(2) there is a real problem in a world where the President of the US can attack random countries on a whim.
The Soviets killed Afghanistanโs Hafizullah Amin in 1979. Thatโs the last one I can think of.
The US helped facilitate/greenlit a few assassinations in the 60s: Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963, Rafael Trujillo in 1961, Lumumba the same year (though he was no longer PM).
the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also
Functioning democracies place anti-corruption regulation and enforcement as a high priority.
Not enforcing against corruption allows malign opportunists to garner outsized wealth and influence that helps steer policy and choose leaders. Corruption exacerbates democratic decline.
