The Iran war under Trump demonstrated a key flaw in Western military thinking: shooting down cheap Iranian drones with multi-million-dollar missiles could deplete air defenses within a week.
This is without even considering a prolonged conflict lasting years...
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Leaving allies in one part of the world vulnerable because you didn't plan *before* you attacked in another part of the world is rank incompetence.
And when a war is "almost over," you don't move missiles from Asia to the Middle East.
The Trump administration is gearing up to kick an estimated six million more people off of food assistance programs — including nearly two million children.
The move would save just $1 billion a year, while Trump spends upwards of $1 billion per *day* on his new forever war.
Priorities.
Do not believe anything until the Kremlin denies it™️
www.cnbc.com/2026/03/10/i...
Four years into Russia's war, hundreds of Transcarpathian refugee families — women, children, Roma, ethnic Hungarians — were left homeless in Hungary with a stroke of a pen. A court ruled it unlawful. The evictions had already happened.
🔎⚡A sprawling Ukrainian corruption scandal spills into Slovakia: a $100M bribery and money-laundering scheme tied to state nuclear giant Energoatom reveals cross-border companies, assets, and financial trails—showing how dirty money quietly crossed borders.
One of the most important things I have written in a while. I hope you read, learn and share. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...
plenty of trump cabinet officials and high level aides are thieves and grifters and con artists and worse, but i think witkoff may be an actual no-shit traitor
The #Liaowang-1, a 30,000-ton Chinese SIGINT vessel commissioned in 2025, is currently operational in the Gulf of #Oman. Its deep neural network algorithms and high-gain antennas enable real-time tracking of ~1,200 aerial targets, providing a critical EM intelligence layer over the theater.
Blumenthal after getting briefed on Iran: "We seem to be on a path toward deploying American troops on the ground in Iran to accomplish any of the potential objectives here. There's also the specter of active Russian aid to Iran putting in danger American lives ... China also may be assisting Iran"
NEW: Israel has concluded in #Iran war
• Regime change not an option
• Protests didn’t mobilize
• Kurdish option is no more
Result: Escalation of strikes as Trump looks for “elegant exit” and wait for next round www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...
Authoritarians will stop at nothing to feel safe. Since they have no concept of public welfare and consider everyone an asset to be used and discarded, they will easily enter into a military conflict without a long-term strategy, regardless of the casualties it causes.
Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:
2008: 0.3%
2024: 19%
@nytimes.com #GildedAge
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
It’s fine for Russia to use drones to freeze out your population — by the way, can you give us your drone defenses? This is the actual US position.
The architect of non linear warfare, hypernormalisation and managed democracy is now on the run, as Putinist revolution eats its own parents
The Double Burden of Incompetence: Individuals with low ability often lack the very expertise required to recognise their own incompetence.
Awareness of Complexity: The more one learns, the more one realises how much they don't know.
I 19 News taler de om, at DK kan blive ramt af en oliekrise som i 1970’erne.
Er blokaden af Hormuzstrædet ikke bare endnu en anledning til at skifte til grøn omstilling?
Ja tak til flere vindmøller på land og på havet. Samt solceller.
#dkpol
Here is the story on the BBC News website.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Right-wing Christian media are celebrating Trump’s war with Iran as a fulfillment of End Times prophecy.
➡️ www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...
I wrote about the Christian Zionism that is quietly fueling the US attack on Iran. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Dobré ráno))) Ve svém novém skvělém textu odpovídám na otázku, kdo je ve skutečnosti hlavou Ruska, Putin nebo Stalin))
www.reflex.cz/clanek/komen...
💥INVESTIGATION: In Viktor Orbán's Hungary, children in care homes are targeted by criminal networks, with pimps effectively embedding themselves within the child-protection system. Those working in the sector say they are powerless to stop the abuse.
Reminder: When Putin speaks, he will often quote statistics. Media will then pick up those statements & publish them, and then people will take that as fact.
Just because Putin said a number, doesn’t mean it’s true.
(People notice this problem with Trump, but still seem to fall for it with Putin)
‼️ Russia: “Putin called on Russian companies to take advantage of the high oil and gas prices.”
Because they wouldn’t have figured that out on their own?
🇷🇺: The Supreme is BRILLIANT!
www.kommersant.ru/doc/8497235
Dear @kajakallas.bsky.social and @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu, can the EC please take tough measures against this member state for seizing money from and blackmailing a European partner country under attack by Russia?
[and, all others, reposting would be great]
Used to wonder what Putin was thinking as he framed global warming beneficial for Russian agriculture. Melting permafrost. Dead boreal forest.
As a state terrorist, he'll be likely to see benefits for Russia from attacking Ukraines water infra making Ukrainian agriculture more vulnerable to drought
Soud dnes dospěl k rozsudku, že Deník Referendum má nárok na omluvu a odškodnění za výrok, kterým nás Babiš označil za „žumpu, která lže stejně jako vždycky lhala“. Je to rozsudek pro ochranu novinářů a svobodných médií v ČR.
Are we allowed to get the rest of the Epstein files now?
Oil disruption benefits Russia, as does less U.S. aid for Ukraine. And Iran distracts from China, argues CFR expert Max Boot for The Washington Post.
"It’s too soon to tell who will win the war between the United States and Iran. But, at this point, my money would be on Russia and China."
Escalation Management 🎉
