Mark Sugrue 🇪🇺

(Sorry)

I did NATO see this coming

So, in the middle of an oil supply crisis, Trump decided to bomb oil production infrastructure?

I keep coming back to this passage from Sun-Tzu’s Art of War:

“Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.”

Pete Hegseth Questions What Girls Were Doing In School To Begin With WASHINGTON—Saying critics of the missile strike that killed at least 175 civilians were dodging a fundamental question, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday demanded to know what girls were doing ...

“In all this talk about who was responsible and how this happened, are we just going to ignore the fact that girls were allowed to learn?” said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth

UK signs ‘rebooted’ defence agreement to protect Irish waters Most transatlantic cables go through or close to Ireland, making its waters particularly vulnerable to attack

Neutral no more - Ireland signs defence agreement with the UK. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

it just feels so horrible we feel powerless we've tried fighting, we've tried surrendering we've tried ignoring we've tried building israel doesn't let you exist that's it, our choice is fast death or faster death

From a friend in Beirut this morning, who in the last few days has seen several Israel missile strikes within walking distance of their home.

I simply refuse to believe this isn’t a Chris Morris sketch:

Money well spent

[Staring in Minneapolis] 👀

But seriously, how fucking dumb do you have to be to run a dark money influence op on a professional influence op researcher and her influence op former reporter boyfriend? Just insane dummies. Vote Kat and she'll out this shit in Congress constantly.

Russian war blogger complains Ukrainian FPVs can hit targets 100km behind the lines using tech Russian drone units can't copy.

Most pension funds too I imagine

Same week as this...

Official reason is because Ukraines nightly drone attacks use the mobile phone network to navigate.

Let's be clear: you would not be pulling THAADs from South Korea and moving a Marine Expeditionary Unit from Japan to the Gulf two weeks after launching a war on Iran if you had properly anticipated the fallout it would be likely to cause.

@edzitron.com

Hegseth: "This country is conditioned to previous leaders -- whether it's George W Bush, or Barack Obama, or Joe Biden -- who had these expansive, nebulous mission sets that kept changing all the time ... we're taking the opposite approach."

How it started ... How it's going

Turns out Ukraine might have better weapons than the US knows how to make in any case.

Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:

2008: 0.3%

2024: 19%

@nytimes.com #GildedAge
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

Surely this is just rumour?

www.ft.com/content/8236... US intervention in oil futures would be ‘biblical disaster’, CME warns

An image showing a tanker dropped off on one side of a landmass at the start of a trolley problem leading to two pickup points, circumventing the closed strait of hormuz

Could this be a solution?

congratulations to FIFA on their incredible choice of recipient for the first FIFA peace prize

Every hospital in England has been urged to disobey an NHS directive to use software operated by controversial US analytics software company Palantir
www.bmj.com/content/392/...

"Meanwhile, it seems that the hit ratios of drones getting through UAE air defence have been increasing...meaning that the region is becoming increasingly exhausted both mentally, economically, and not least militarily if Iran keeps sending in drone swarms."
x.com/AndreasSteno...

Iran is winning

Missile by missile, the US is blowing its own hegemony apart.

Apart from the sovereignty issue, that's about 22% of annual US production of Tomahawks flying past there.

This isn't a sustainable campaign.

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