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For example, if we measured the economic loss of shutting down the Middle East, as well as the amount of money we are currently spending to maintain the AirPower we have in the region, you’d find that the cost is far far higher than “We HiT 200 TaRgEtS”

They want to impress you what they did so you don't ask what they achieved with all of that, and at what cost.

Kristi Noem's gonna step off of her jet at the only airport in South Dakota and be met with a dog holding a shotgun

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Idea: we kick Hungary out of EU and out of NATO, and we let Ukraine and Hungary work out it out among themselves.

The winner gets to join the EU and NATO.

So, until summer-fall 2026?

a small Happening, to whet the appetite

I’m watching the Q&A live on YouTube she does not appear to know!

Fuck it, let's kick Hungary out of the EU And NATO, and then let's see how tough he really is.

We know he's brave enough to hide behind Europe's and NATO's back and to talk tough against a country fighting Russia.

But what if Ukraine can threaten him back?

Presumably right around now it is dawning on Noem that she probably won't get a pardon at the end of the administration and so is going to be entirely unshielded from prosecution by the next.

Russia: Multipolar order ... but not like that!

China: Asian century ... but not like that!

For all the talk of an Asian century, China and other Asian powers never prepared for scenarios where the US would flip from the primary security guarantor in the Middle East they relied on to the primary source of instability that would undermine their energy supply chains

Probably in Trump 1.

This time he got the kind of vile incompetents who are perfectly suited to survive long in his government, and also his brain is complete mush, so numbers had to get real real bad for him to finally throw someone under the bus.

Heh

from the point of view that the best we can hope for is deep incompetence mixed with malice, this is good. Mullin has even more of the first than Noem did.

The blockade on Qatar helped strengthen its economy, paving the way to stronger regional integration | Brookings In key ways, the blockade bolstered Qatar’s economy. This can be a positive development for regional integration. Stronger individual states will strengthen the region as a whole.

I think the UAE ends up dipping into state funds to keep the cost of imported food down, costing a shit ton of money, and probably certain fancier stuff is allowed to rise sharply. But consider, for instance, how quick adaptation to the Qatar blockade was - www.brookings.edu/articles/the...

Secretary Kristi Noem @Sec_Noem Thank you @POTUS Trump for appointing me as the Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas. @SecRubio and @SecWar are incredible leaders and I look forward to working with them closely to dismantle cartels that have poured drugs into our nation and killed our children and grandchildren. The Western Hemisphere is absolutely critical for U.S. security. In this new role, I will be able to build on the partnerships and national security expertise, I forged over the last 13 months as Secretary of Homeland Security. We have made historic accomplishments at the Department of Homeland Security to make America safe again: we delivered the MOST secure border in American history, 3 million illegal aliens have left the U.S., we have located 145,000 children, FEMA delivered disaster relief at a 100% faster rate, we ushered in the golden age of travel, saved the American taxpayer $13 billion and revitalized the U.S. Coast Guard.

oh my goodness she seems to think Special Envoy for the Shield is a real job

damnit I hoped they were going to make the chief concubine position permanent

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What Crassus doing?

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Local coverage of the incident:

Italian Justice Minister Nordio's débâcle of a campaign for a "Yes" vote in the referendum on Meloni's justice reform continues as he uses Guardia di Finanza helicopter to travel to Potenza & it seriously damages a football pitch landing in the city. The pitch is used by several local youth teams.

when someone asks why collective security pacts exist:

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Taking another look at this, a sense I've had for a while is that there is an odd disconnect between how impact of airpower is discussed by American scholars as an abstract policy process and European scholars whose parents and grandparents experienced the impact of airpower as social catastrophe

Too late, my startup Deez.Io is already building this

All of the big protests over Israel stopped as soon as Trump got in office and never started again even after he bombed Iran twice in cooperation with them.

This is plainly visible to anyone with fucking eyes but you'll still get yelled at for saying it.

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"I gather that everyone here is 100% certain Graham Platner is a Nazi antisemite."

Well,

We are all on the front line of the hybrid war