the US has already ruled out escorts
i think i am still betting iran will retain the capacity to hit tankers with drones well into the future
like, could this be done? sure. it will just require near constant bombardment basically forever. it does not take much to deny access to the strait
i mean, its one thing to bomb nuclear facilities out of commission. its another to continually keep anyone in a country of 92 million from producing shaheds
As someone who hates mark Dubowitz deeply, his crashout tonight on Twitter is giving me life
FDD is currently experiencing the definition of dog catching the car and not knowing what to do with it— it begged and begged and begged and begged and begged for a war with Iran, in their case explicitly for Israel, and now some of its most senior fellows are freaking out at the repercussions.
i don't get it. you can lift at the gym. being a softhanded scribe is like the pinnacle of civilized life, tens of thousands of generations of your ancestors would have murdered to be a softhanded scribe
ahhh
orange man literally hitler
asia and europe are going to get it worse.
yeah but everyone else is along for the ride
it is also not 80% explosives by volume
i want to draft white papers for 85k a year that nobody reads. this is my real calling
hire me pls, ive had enough of consulting
they just blew up a tug in the strait. you think a tanker is going to try to run the blockade?
literally my mentions for the past few days
Asking the median voter to “sacrifice” for more expensive car juice?
Iran was on the path to becoming a mostly liberal democracy after Khamenei died of natural causes and Republicans wouldn't have it.
Go back in time and tell someone in 1975 that a regional war would happen again and Egypt would be the most irrelevant country on the planet
ahhhhh
george soros, what are you doing my guy
if i was a billionaire, i would give like 50 million dollars to this think tank
we need a left-liberal FP brain trust that isn't the Blob or Quincy
israel is targeting (potentially with the US?) civilian infrastructure. they’re assassinating opposition leaders and ex government officials. people who are objectively not military targets. the goal of all this appears to be to collapse the iranian state
they are literally blowing up schools
"A U.S. diplomat who was in the embassy when McGurk arrived found his steady advance astonishing. “Brett only meets people who speak English. … There are like four people in the government who speak English. And somehow he’s now the person who should decide the fate of Iraq? How did this happen?”"
yeah, i think he really is going to invade cuba in the next few months