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So was Squid Lake playing on holoscreens across the galaxy during Order 66?

How Iran views this war, according to historian of the regime @gbrew24.bsky.social www.vox.com/politics/482...

These guys are actually the inbred Crusaders looting the treasures of Constantinople in 1204.

Shared Google doc with editor of the Atlantic.

BREAKING: Leaked Pentagon documents reveal highly classified CENTCOM war plans

The virgin European "yes, you actually need a bunch of nerds on staff to plan out marching routes and develop contingencies" vs. the chad American "my nephew and my colleague from my railroad lawyer days are more than enough staff for a corps."

Fate of the world relies on Trump and Bibi being able to swallow one single L

Wondering who may betray him, Trump scans the room for a shoe that fits.

Complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir - Wikipedia

Just realized the complaint letter to Ea-Nasir is on loan to a museum in Abu Dhabi right now. 😬

The Far Side cartoon from 12/6/1987 depicting a ship full of revelers heedlessly sailing through a body of water with mines bobbing in it, a warship in the background, and a small raft with a couple guys and a gun in the bow. Caption: Through a gross navigational error, the Love Boat steams into the Strait of Hormuz.

today's news dredging up this 1987 Far Side cartoon from my childhood memory

americans would be terrified if we knew what a "litre" was

Spanish tankers traveling through the Strait of Hormuz

Peace of Augsburg (1555)

today at the World Metaphors Classic the leader of the USA didn't bother to find out the details of the situation his team was in and blindly assumed they would win a matchup they ended up losing, jeopardizing their long-term standing for no good reason

Everyone, there is no need to panic about mines.

The Navy has kept four mine countermeasure vessels in the Persian Gulf for the past 35 years.

WAIT...what is that?

The minesweepers just arrived in the US to be decommissioned, but we have 3 Littoral Combat Ships (LCSs) that took their place.

The problem for everyone else is that turning Iran into Yemen doesn’t secure the Strait of Hormuz.

“We can’t possibly escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz, let alone gain dominance over it!” - the most powerful naval force in history of the world which is convinced it is the linchpin of all future conflicts and Guardian of the Pacific

"We have given a platoon of Kurds a Walmart metal detector, a gently used snorkel off Facebook Marketplace, and a pair of bolt cutters"

Like when Napoleon sent Poles to put down the Haitian Revolution, and the Poles switched sides.

a cartoon of aquaman riding a pair of fish on a leash . Alt: a cartoon of aquaman riding a pair of fish on a leash

The Kurds coming to the rescue.

If anyone can lose a carrier it’s these guys.

the tankers yearn for the mines

Hell yeah! Yet another thing I learned from Godzilla Minus One.

And European. I remember seeing multiple nations’ minesweepers at Kiel Week a decade or so ago. But the Americans think that minesweeping is woke.

Can we give up Lindsey Graham to the IRGC as part of our concession?

CENTCOM, 2026:

Not having a plan to demine Hormuz is a ‘no winter clothes to invade Russia’ level planning error

This isn't funny. My CENTCOM gets very anxious when he has to do something besides hit empty patches of desert with TLAMs.

China is certainly taking notes of US naval risk tolerance.

(Guardian) — Iran has spurned two messages from Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, seeking a ceasefire as its leaders sense it is not losing the war and the US president is at the minimum feeling the political pressure.

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