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Energy, geopolitics, geoeconomics, trade, seapower, for Foreign Policy. There's a little kicking. https://foreignpolicy.com/
Cato was right, though, in the end.
17.10.2025 17:27 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Alan, are you seriously proposing--or confessing--to mayonnaise on a fucking tortilla? if the ICC doesn't do the job, i will.
17.10.2025 17:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0There were literally schisms deeper, and more devastating, after Chalcedon and Nicea -- but mayonnaise on anything is where I draw the line. 'Exterminate the Brutes.'
17.10.2025 17:20 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0UNSUBSCRIBE
17.10.2025 16:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0While the eating of mayonnaise under any circumstances is a sin, Alan is right that mustard can pay the indulgences. But: The question is, Coleman's? Dijon? Honey Dijon? That stone-ground? Pls don't say Thomy; only Swiss squeeze mustard. Say Guldens and I will shoot. Not those US yellow packets.
17.10.2025 16:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Russia is facing huge fiscal challenges to finance the war in Ukraine
β’ Rise in military and social (to support social stability) expenses has fuelled widening of fiscal deficit
β’ Liquid reserves of sovereign wealth fund are dropping fast and external borrowing is not an option
that seems harsh. The point was, beyond the lies, they were also poorly phrased. But appreciate your enthusiasm!
13.10.2025 15:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Beyond the insane lies about paid protesters, the crime here is the illiteracy on display. 'To beg the question' does not mean to ask the question; it is a rhetorical fallacy that presupposes the answer. It does beg the question, though.
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I know I am old. But, I can't help but think about what Jim Bouton wrote in 'Ball Four' about both domed stadiums and breasts. If you've seen one, you've seen them both.
12.10.2025 18:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I have some thoughts about WWII, and U.S. involvement, and the Pacific theater, and the Soviet role.
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Dear Mr. President, I want you to know
Those are not windmills, nor covered in snow
They are wind turbines, which turn quite differently
And make good things glow.
Please stop calling them windmills, we beg you on knees.
I would posit, as an arts and letters man myself, that studying the classics or most anything written down is better preparation than worship of billionaires and code. Polybius is rewarding; Herodotus is gossipy; Procopius is downright awesome.
08.10.2025 10:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Kings are sometimes beheaded. Charles I was.
We were in the National Gallery this weekend, and the first thing my boy said was, that horse is misshapen. And the second thing was, wow, that was right before he died.
You're either Maturin, or you're one of the people Maturin hates enough to kill. In the books. To be clear.
07.10.2025 22:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We are three years away from a Michael Lewis book.
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Republican Congressman offers bold statement defending the government shutdown.
07.10.2025 14:42 β π 491 π 88 π¬ 21 π 14or, have you fielded a call where one of your reporters was detained by terrorists.
07.10.2025 14:59 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I guess re-discovering the basics of Neolithic trade counts as a win?
07.10.2025 14:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The reason I couldn't even see if we had spoken is bc I got locked out. That's either an IT fail or super ominous. Time will tell!
06.10.2025 13:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
i can't remember if we spoke for this one or not but you know happens with great minds....
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I guess the tacit no-attacks-on Ukrainian gas facilities observed by Russia in the past is now a thing of the past. That energy back-and-forth is getting more intense.
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'I asked the Chinese, why didn't you do this, and they said very simply, James K. Polk. It might have been Milliard Fillmore. Not van Buren, for sure. Either way, it was staggeringly irrelevant to the matters at hand, and for that, i nodded thoughtfully.'
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I laugh but this was from 7 years ago. Trump used taxpayer money to bail out farmers for bad ideas then, and will do it again next week.
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This is such a refreshing corrective to that Quantico trainwreck.
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I mean, this book was great but it was mostly about Chernobyl in the very first days of the war. But also worth reading.
www.amazon.com/Chernobyl-Ro...
This is a really revealing look at just how awful things got at Zaporizhzhia NPP, and at Rosatom's complicity in the violent takeover of Europe's largest nuclear power station.
www.greenpeace.org/ukraine/en/n...
