Awesome job alert: @ourworldindata.org are hiring a writer.
I will be intensely jealous of whoever gets this one.
ourworldindata.org/hiring-write...
£80k-£120k a year depending on experience.
The hiring process involves a paid writing residency before any full-time offer.
If the Strait of Hormuz is permanently closed, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Iraq will be completely cut off, left to be absorbed by either Iran or some mix of the Saudis and Iran.
And if you don’t think that’ll cause a big fight or two later….whooo-whee I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
"I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job."
Ernie Pyle
Fascinating to watch the President totally undercut Vance’s public and long-planned embrace of the catholic faith.
Unless Vance quits soon, Trump has, in just 2 tweets, kneecapped everything VP supporters hoped Vance’s new catholic-oriented memoir and public push with the faithful might become
Just trying to get JD Vance to resign.
Today, all good people celebrate the April 9, 1865 surrender of the traitor Lee and his slavery-supporting army at Appomattox to the U.S Army led by General Grant.
That would be epic TV though!
As expected, from his account:
“NATO WASN’T THERE WHEN WE NEEDED THEM, AND THEY WON’T BE THERE IF WE NEED THEM AGAIN. REMEMBER GREENLAND, THAT BIG, POORLY RUN, PIECE OF ICE!!! President DJT”
We should see at least one rough-on-NATO eruption followed by some late-night Iran action.
Brace for heavy tweets, friends!
Will the Houthi get to charge for safe passage too now?
Transiting the Panama Canal—where the costs are usually translated into direct services in a channel full capital-intensive improvements/structures—costs less.
Does this agreement mean every owner of some two-bit, penny-ante maritime choke-point gets to charge for transit?
Do warships now pay a toll to go to and from the Gulf too, now?
Um…what if they charge per passage—so both incoming and outgoing trips catch a toll.
The Acta portion of this ceasefire agreement seems unlikely to align with the Verba.
If nukes get used in Iran, they will be used on Ukraine, the Baltic States, and Finland.
One of the more underestimated pieces of kit we had in WWII and the Korean War were Navy ships modified to serve as electrical generation plants.
if you hit power plants in the gulf, you’d better tag it up with something to deflect blame for the power outages upon the local leaders.
Little pissed off the Iraqi population in the early invasion days than our failure to get the AC back on in a heat wave.
Quoting Shirer is an instant follow!
@edwexler.bsky.social
At some point, Republicans in Congress are going to realize that the pursuit of an impeachment that sticks is wildly popular.
Things would flip so fast it would make your head spin.
What would General Anthony McAuliffe say to this kind of threat, I wonder….
Better to be ready for contingencies than to be taken by surprise and beset by casualties we are unprepared to deal with…again.
If I am Walter Reed or any other military medical command, I’m tracking down every reserve doctor and nurse I can find and hollering for every medical resource I can get right now.
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Exciting to see Artemis II launch. Hoping for a smooth, trouble-free flight…
Deserves more notice tbh
Yes…but the UK mine clearance fleet is probably near parity with the U.S. Fleet.
If an E-3G Sentry AWACS dies in the desert, do the remaining AWACS crews circle up? Do they reminisce as they claim spare parts, sustainment and O&M funds originally dedicated to the lost airframe? Do they weep JP-8?