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doing this without attaching it to a war powers vote is political malpractice

my “I have no reports of mines in the Strait of Hormuz but Iran must remove them immediately” tshirt has people asking a lot of questions answered by the tshirt

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Super cool and chill that we decided to revive Napoleon III’s foreign policy. Let me check Wikipedia real quick to see how that turned out for him…

As a very smart person looking at this map for the first time, it appears that all the U.S. needs to do to put China in an unwinnable position after subduing Iran is to occupy a country called “Afghanistan”… wait, hold on, someone is handing me a note

The people who hated “regime change” and “nation-building” are REALLY gonna hate “regime collapse” along the world’s most important energy artery.

Morally repugnant jobs often pay well! The compensation package does not constitute an excuse.

Blackwater, famous for providing diplomatic security.

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Really looking forward to hearing about these “special assignments” during Senator Mullin’s confirmation hearing!

No way he is totally lying about that too, right?

This is a real problem because taco night Carl will react to any level of "can we take this kind of seriously" akin to running this shit like the House of Lords while anyone who made the mistake of getting somewhat invested must continuously ratchet down their level of interest

Trying desperately to explain to DoD staff that carpet bombing in WW2 was due to technological limitations and inability to reliably strike valuable targets, not to juice the kill count

Only option I see that makes any operational sense would be to take Qeshm Island, since that denies a lot of mini-sub / FAC options for remnants of the Iranian Navy and allows you more SHORAD options without slugging it out with Artesh and Basij. Still a ton of risk for questionable gain.

This is the first military conflict I can think of where none of the major belligerents have a coherent theory of victory.

So far the administration’s theory of victory seems to be one of those CK3 runs where you keep running assassination plots on your rivals until you get a successor you like or get so many malus penalties that the Pope excommunicates you

ICYMI... a COVER REVEAL!

Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course? The human subconscious is such an interesting thing. No matter how much you think you’ve got it figured out, it’ll always spit out the most random stuff. Take me, for example. After coming home from a...

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Quote from Washington Times editorial board "[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

Psychology says people who constantly apologize for things that aren't their fault aren't being polite. They grew up in an environment where someone else's bad mood was always their responsibility to ... That reflexive 'sorry' you can't stop saying was never about politeness — it was a survival strategy you learned before you had the language to name what was happening in your home.

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As a historian, I'd just like to remind the politicians who follow me that it is not, in fact, 2003 anymore and the current GOP war in the Middle East is not, in fact, even remotely popular.

So if you're a weathervane who just tries to do what's already popular, full-throated opposition is it!

Feds asked New Mexico to halt Jeffrey Epstein Zorro Ranch sex trafficking probe, records show Former AG says feds halted New Mexico’s Epstein inquiry without sharing promised evidence as state reopens Zorro Ranch investigation.

In 2019, federal prosecutors asked NM officials to stop investigating the Epstein ranch, claiming they would share info with local authorities. Local investigators handed all their evidence to the feds, who shared...nothing. www.abqjournal.com/news/feds-as...

I don’t even really think this is fair. Iraq was heavily debated publicly, and there was a plan. It was a stupid and delusional plan based on unrealistic assumptions, but it was known publicly and voted on by Congress.

There was no public debate or Congressional authorization in this instance.

As someone who has been in a lot of tanks next to a lot of rivers in various parts of the world, it’s surprisingly difficult to drive into one.

Democrats have had one continuous congressional leadership clique since 2017! It’s crazy! Despite all the political disaster and failure there’s never been a serious effort to put a different group of people in charge, and if you complain about it, they treat you as an obvious crank for noticing.

Excellent points! I think in addition people forget that fitted armor is incredibly expensive, and there’s a broad Anglophone bias against rooting for the team that wins because they’re rich.

This, and the vast majority of pop media (including TTRPGs) wildly underestimates how effective armor is. A 17th century suit of platemail could make you effectively unkillable, as Sir Arthur Haselrig can attest.

Yeah, the problem is definitely DC and nothing to do with the conduct of the NY Democratic Party in Albany for the past two decades. Now I’m gonna take a big sip of water and read this Wikipedia article about some guy named Andrew Cuomo…

I am exhausted of the game where we pretend these two men are not differentiable from the rest of the party. They’re the two most prominent federal Democrats and they’re almost uniquely bad in the party, and come from a state where the Democratic Party is almost uniquely compromised

Black Celebration, White Agitation What a truly bizarre Black History Month.

I wrote about this incident at length. Enjoy 😊!

But the World Tension score is high! Are you telling me that HOI 4 isn’t real life?