@peterhkemp
Former private pilot, retired auto electrician, lawyer, solar install mngr Pro Ukraine & EU, HR, INRE/POLS. Scathing: anti-RE/Teals/CC, War Criminal Putin, Vatniks, LNP, Murdoch Sewerage, Maga/DT, Gas Industry, John Howard. Have PowerWall~15kW solar.
Yes, the VC body counts were always a work of fiction, exaggerations all the way up the hierachy. And also claims of how they'd retaken VC held areas...
Robert Mason 'Chickenhawk' - "But somebody forgot to tell Charlie we'd taken it, what was that dumb fuck doing? He was back there, shooting at us"
Trump "we're crushing the enemy in an overwhelming display of technical skill and military force"
Deja vu the Saigon Follies - the press conferences where the US military told reporters they were always winning in Vietnam, in reality always believing their own propaganda.
Great read and no paywall.
"Horizontal escalation" -Iran is expanding the war into political dimensions that alters the US calculus. Air power alone does not win as seen in Vietnam, US there never lost a battle but lost the war, horizontal escalation-Tet-demonstrated to US public they could not win
Prediction: If oil stays above $100/bbl for more than a month EV sales will markedly increase here.
But boots on the ground is being considered, that will surely fix all the problems, like it did in Vietnam. 🤪
Things look grim in the markets right now, but at least the U.S. economy wasn’t already being propped up by a massive speculative AI bubble that is highly sensitive to rising energy costs.
Markets are *very* unhappy about developments in Iran.
"Trump seems to believe that he, like his fantasy America, exists on a different plane, utterly untouchable by the swirl of global events. The devastating consequences of his actions are not just someone else’s fault. They are someone else’s problem, too.
That illusion cannot survive...."
Leavitt refuses to rule out the draft.
Boots on the ground will be imo the gravest mistake. USA by itself cannot win an asymmetrical war against Iran with 90 milllion people, it'll make Vietnam look like a picnic.
www.tag24.com/news/politic...
With Bernardi I guess anything is possible. Like his crazed Parliamentary inquiry where his starting point was an allegation Halal certifiers funded terrorism.
Like Hanson he's as thick as two short planks with crazy malevolence and belligerence. He's like Babet in many ways
bsky.app/profile/pete...
There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
"Even among men lacking all distinction he [Major Hegseth] inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was."
Hat tip Joseph Heller.
Kind of half expecting anti-RE fanatic Corey Bernardi, (now emboldened with a ON mojo) to try to make a linkage between bestiality and batteries? Maybe even PV panel output decline in time and SSM? 😂😂
My prediction this crazy Iran war of Trump's will drive up EV sales, house batteries and PV systems
"Who controls the past controls the future" George Orwell.
Fox News shows old footage of Trump without a cap at the ceremony of incoming deceased soldiers from the Gulf.
This was not an honest mistake, this was Fox deliberately trying to erase the history of Trump disrespectfully wearing a cap.
I'm having trouble dealing with my angry feelings of late.
Being powerless to do anything about the shtfckry happening in our world today is very damaging to the psyche.
Western governments are out of control and not listening to the people.
The Fourth Reich marches on.
Yep, it's a winner but it's a question of standardisation and developing new rules, all a bit confusing atm.
*Correction grid batteries with PV have eaten coals lunch...
Yep, I think with increasing world LNG prices our Oz electricity will be a bit dearer but not as bad 2022 when the Ukraine war started because atm, grid batteries have eaten coal's lunch and are well into eating gas' dinner. And the PV panels and a battery at home is the antidote.
Here's the result of Bernardi's Parliamentary enquiry into Halal certification, his attempt to smear Muslims again with a linkage to alleged terrorism was a dismal failure, it only demonstrated his hatred of Muslims, unsurprisingly.
newmatilda.com/2015/12/03/c...
Declaring "Mission Accomplished" - that always works out well for US Presidents
These people are fucking dimwits and they embarrass us as a species.
Excellent by @emmashortis.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
Zali Steggall tears into racist political group Advance for platforming ‘far right, white supremacist’ views
“What’s more frightening is a former PM Tony Abbott openly supporting & being at that conference in support…& current Liberal senators.”🔥 #auspol
Australia with the SMH, nothing much changes in 150 years, 'Yellow Peril' is their ongoing inherently racist punditry despite China being our biggest trading partner now, they haven't seriously invaded anyone for millennia. (Vietnam 1979 was a stupid punitive expedition that failed dismally)
David Pope cartoon.
David Pope.
"The U.S. is being run by
gung-ho nutters like Trump and Hegseth."…….
Former NATO commander and British General Sir Richard Shirreff delivers a stark warning for Britain to avoid being dragged into America's illegal war on Iran.
-Analyst News
The US government has no interest or conception of a world order that does anything other than bend to their whims. That's it. That's the logic. Can we stop being shocked by this and just get on with opposing it?
Delusions of grandeur, a bit like when Caligula asserted he had a metamorphosis into a god.
