And allowing Putin to provide targeting data that caused the loss of the E-3G Sentry AWACS

To understand why the USA is where it is today, all you need to do is see that Trump cannot tolerate even the mildest, insightful criticism from the Pope, but Trump will allow Putin to humiliate him deeply and constantly, while still craving Putin’s approval.

The "unipolar moment" must persist, because so many Americans prefer to turn on one another rather than defend one another, to the point of enlisting foreign authoritarian adversaries in their culture wars against "internal enemies". The rest of the world is a simulacrum. A culture war arena.

The left-wing version of Trumpism trying to take over the Democratic Party needs to be crushed.

What a statesman

Howard Dean was robbed

not to mention 'contemptible'

Had a lot of fun talking in detail about the brutal oligachy of the Thirty that briefly ruled Athens (404-3 BCE) and its spectacular downfall. Sometimes democracy wins

Same skincare regimen. And, from a practical standpoint, same politics.

Is Melania Trump even fluent in Slovenian?

How big a deal is this cyber hack of China?

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A ceasefire with still throttled (no more than 15 ships daily) Hormuz throughput well serves Tehran's strategic interest.

Iran's main leverage is a closed Strait + time, so building another 2 weeks of pressure on the global economy while not being bombed feels ideal from the Iranian perspective.

Marco Rubio can only do so many jobs. My money's on Mel Gibson as Antipope.

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Who will be Trump's Antipope?

JD Vance?

Marco Rubio (among many other jobs)?

Mel Gibson?

The Louvre is filling up fast

Screenshot?

You just know Nasrallah and Soleimani are cooking the shit out of Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld rn.

Politico keeping us informed on developments in Washington during a trade war, a *war* war, and federal agents killing citizens and non-citizens alike.

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Hang it in the Louvre

Tactical brilliance and strategic incompetence is...Israeli.

The MAGA response to Trump's criminally insane posting is to shrug and say that someone should take his phone away. NOT that he should be impeached or removed via 25th Amendment, let alone that they should have voted for Harris.

This is not fake

One issue with airpower is that it tends to produce higher civilian casualties per capita than land warfare. We saw this with UNAMA data on Afghanistan, SOHR and SNHR data on the Russian air campaign in Syria, and the difference in rates between pre- and post-IDF invasion Gaza civilian casualties...

Are we doing Operation Eagle Claw II?

I don't understand the Republican theory that the Islamic Republic of Iran is so irrationally or ideologically extremist that it cannot be negotiated with (i.e. via the JCPOA), but that it will also do a deal to keep the Strait of Hormuz open after being attacked. Schrödinger's mullahs?

After Trump allowed Russia to help Iran destroy an E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft, and sell its previously-sanctioned oil, it is hard to escape the simple but disquieting conclusion that Trump is in league with the Kremlin.