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The unifying feature of Trump administration foreign and security "policy" is a failure to understand anything at all about strategy, like even at a conceptual level

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Wir alle haben da schon ein Kulturproblem. Einerseits wissen wir alle, dass wir Fehler machen und uns irren ("...ist menschlich" usw). Gleichzeitig ist falsch liegen sozial stigmatisiert.

In der Politik sind die Anreize leider so zu tun als ob man immer alles besser weiss.

Haben bestimmt auch Flüge/Luftraum zur Unterstützung der Luftschläge zugelassen (weiss ich nicht, spekuliere). Mir schien es bisher das Ziel ist es zu eskalieren und indirekt Druck via Helfershelfer auf die USA auszuüben. Dann macht das schon Sinn, oder?

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May I humbly suggest we dial back the hyper-fixation on how long the administration says war will last. No one ever knows because war is unpredictable & adversary gets a vote. Where the administration should be hammered is on the incoherent explanation of why they started the war in the first place.

*North African Swiss enters the chat*

*Nods knowingly*

Diplomatie, aber als Familienunternehmen.

Post See new posts Conversation Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h From US admin official background briefing recording listening to, seriously question if US negotiators understood what Iranians were proposing. One official keeps saying acronym for “IAEA” wrong. They seem astonished Iran would not agree to the US supplying them nuclear fuel Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h They took as suspicious proposals that Iran saw as concessionary. Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h Explains why Oman FM tried to come to DC to explain what US negotiators may not have fully understood Laura Rozen @lrozen Am not saying what Iran proposed would have been enough, I dont know, but it seems US negotiators did not have the expert guidance to understand it correctly

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

‘I live in constant fear’: surge in giant sinkholes threatens Turkey’s farmers Falling groundwater, extreme heat and water-intensive farming are accelerating land collapse, forcing a rethink in agricultural practices

Welcome to the FAFOcene.
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A leaflet headlined "Smaller Hungary!" showing a map of Hungary having ceded territory to surrounding countries. The remaining territory takes the shape but not size of the pre-Treaty of Trianon Kingdom of Hungary, as a deliberate pisstake of people who want to re-expand Hungary's borders to take back the territories it lost then, even though they are mostly occupied by non-Hungarians.

Hence it doesn't really have the scope for these weirdo fringe parties that other countries have; see also the Hungarian Two Tailed Dog Party who are responsible for one of the best shitpost political bits I have seen in my life

Brilliant. This is so good.

Is it still a Nobel Prize, if it is just for a prompt?

"Like every four years the nihilists did not send anyone, insisting that it would be pointless."

The state of the communion is disputed.

Musk also made the cuts in the cruelest way possible: Humanitarians had to stop activities from one day to the next. As if to maximize the suffering. No time to plan for it or to mitigate. Imagine any industry losing 30-40% of their market over night. The whole aid delivery system was damaged.

What Elon Has Done Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has faded from public consciousness in America, despite leaving death and destruction in its wake.

Today, @mckay4senate.bsky.social urges us not to forget what Elon Musk do to USAID, something that is still likely to have the highest body count of the administration’s actions. McKay documents just what Elon has done in detail www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...

all the IR nerds are chanting "P - N - G"

Trump Considers Targeted Strike Against Iran, Followed by Larger Attack

Bored of Peace

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In this age of LLMs, it's trivially easy to get a Phd-level-expert™️ summary of any journal article that will extract the main arguments and findings for you and often even flags up the most relevant connections to the larger literature: just look for the bloody abstract, kid #AcademicLifeHacks

Note that it has taken the US Supreme Court and *not* Congress to assert the proper role of Congress in this matter.

Hey! I know that lake 😁

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.

Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

Ewoks partying. The end.

New moral dilemma just dropped!

There is a runaway trolley heading towards a track where Vought might be at some point. You can pull a lever and redirect it to a track with 2.4 million starving children tied to it.

It‘s a tough one.

Die Aussage des CEOs ist zwei Wochen alt und glaube mich zu erinnern, dass er auch sagte sie suchen "alternative funding sources" für die Entwicklung. Kann mir gut vorstellen, dass das Statement eigentlich genau auf so etwas abzielte ("Europa, gib uns Geld, und ihr kriegt die Impfung trotzdem").

I wonder if this drives thermostatic politics: Voters with the most superficial understanding of politics, making every four years a very narrow on-the-spot decision to change the status quo. Change as in "not that anymore".

Then, the existence of such people is beyond my imagination.

That's why Switzerland should not have signed one with them. They will ban chocolate and cheese any day now. Snow will be made illegal. And they will put a stop to picturesque landscapes and remove all mountain tops.

Bad Bunny dancing is a slap in the face of your 401(k). Got it.