Tis but a scratch.

His face looks pre-punched, which must be useful for him.

He thinks China is a US ally?

This serves as a useful reminder to cancel your Post subscription.

The big media won't cover any of this.

Did the hat have "Suckers & Losers" on it?

A CCP decision to use large-scale lethal force against Taiwan is conditions-based, not capabilities- or -opportunity based. For Xi Jinping, Taiwan remains a crisis he seeks to avoid, not an opportunity he wants to seize.

Unlike Iran, China will have multidomain means to attack preemptively and control escalation. 7/7

In a future US-China crisis, Beijing may not assume that US force deployments are signaling or pressure for diplomacy. The capabilities that the US has demonstrated in recent military actions underscores that the target of US violence cannot surrender first-mover advantage. 6/7

A key lesson that China could learn is the need to plan and organize for preemptive attacks on US force concentrations, key logistics and command nodes, and cyber, space, and nuclear deterrence operations. Iran has repeated Saddam Hussein’s failure to disrupts US force preparation. 5/7

I suspect that a special focus of Chinese observation of Epic Fury will be US weapons, tactics, and techniques to degrade air defenses or to target leadership using cyber or space surveillance, as also demonstrated in the capture of Venezuela’s Maduro. 4/7

Since US forces are not expending large numbers of long-range antiship munitions it won’t assume that US intervention in Taiwan blockade or invasion scenario has been affected. But it will watch this closely, especially US missile defense shortages. 3/7

It will no doubt monitor US munitions shortages, but since it’s not looking for an opportunity to invade Taiwan, it will continue its own military preparations including building very deep magazines for key munitions, and more dependable senior PLA commanders. 2/7

China probably hopes that the US again becomes bogged down in a long conflict with Iran, but its strategic plans are usually not based on hope. 1/7

Great work by NPR, true investigative journalism. They did the work.

It's not NPR's fault that this expose is also crazymaking by reminding us that Biden+Merrick Garland wasted four years, and that countless others covered this up for decades.

This is even stupider than it seems...

bsky.app/profile/ayoo...

Huh, weird.

And yet, Democrats will find ways to lose.

And the drydock is in Alabama, so five layers of batshit 25th Amendment fuel.

This is four levels of dementia, pick your flavor. Starting with him thinking the governor of Louisiana has dick all to do with the deployment of a US navy vessel just because that is where a drydock is located.

They retreated to their artic fastness, aka Garnaut Global, to reassure INDOPACOM that a PRC invasion of Taiwan will absolutely happen next year.

GENERAL SIR RICHARD SHIRREFF: US is no longer our ally but a predator It may have sounded like a joke when in 2019 Trump raised the prospect of acquiring Greenland from the Kingdom of Denmark. But seven years on and the rubber has hit the road.

Former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander of Nato in Europe, General Sir Richard Shirreff (& author of the novel ‚War with Russia’) in an op-ed in the 🇬🇧Mail yesterday:
“My message to European leaders is this: America is no longer our ally but a predator and a bully. Stick together and prepare for war.“

I want muh Mega thymus!!!

I'm free from the need to have opinions on latest developments, so I'd just note that the US op to seize Maduro and declare our sole interest is oil reinforces exactly how Beijing views to US. A reckless declining power breaking laws and norms to maintain primacy.

Fear and confusion in Nigerian village hit in US strike, as locals say no history of ISIS in area | CNN A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility, the villagers of Jabo in northwest Nigeria are in a state of shock and c...

A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility, the villagers of Jabo in northwest Nigeria are in a state of shock and confusion.

Chinese trials presume guilt and the task of the accused is to plead for leniency. Xu was carefully explaining that the order wasn't valid because it lacked the signatures of the CMC chair Deng or 1st Vice Chair, Zhao Ziyang. The Party was split by the crisis and paralyzed.

There's a lot of key context missing from this. Xu reportedly had a daughter among the protesters. His boss, Beijing MR commander Zhou Yibing was fired right after 3 June. Faction leaders of 38th army opposed army intervention. All were vindicated by 1992 14th party congress. 1/2

It's a cool flu, H3N2 Subclade K, and this season's flu shot apparently doesn't do well against.

"Some people actually can see what is going to happen before it all goes off the rails. It’s comforting to know that in this, one is not alone."

Exactly. I've probably watched TBS 20 times for this reason. Hits harder now.

Xi Jinping: "same, bro. Same."