Alan Allport

The Admiralty had a solid case for regarding the Belgrano as an immediate and compelling danger to their own ships which is why however tragic it was never really a serious point of military ethics. What happened this week? Give me a break.

The context of the two *conflicts* is similar (limited war, up to this point regionally confined, no formal declaration).

My point.

Indeed. But the circumstances, though controversial, were much more compelling for the RN. That’s my point. On the Belgrano standard this action looks very dubious.

And the WWII precedent is in many ways wildly unconvincing because of the totally different context of the two conflicts. The Belgrano affair is much more relevant.

Actually “pick on someone your own size” is NOT irrelevant to jus in bello.”, although it wouldn’t be phrased in that way.

The ‘does this argument smell’ test is to imagine how the US would respond if the situation had been reversed.

The laws of war rely on traditional customs and practices as well as statute and there are big questions here about necessity and proportionality.

A merwoman holding a comb and a mirror, riding a big fish. This is the colophon from this book: https://www.e-rara.ch/zuz/content/zoom/8532285

Entering the weekend like this angry-fish riding, mirrow and comb holding, slightly smiling merwoman in 1530 on a printer's mark from the Zurich-based Augustin Frieß... #bookhistory

Wearing a tricorn and breeches I hope

Pitched a magazine that requires a physical query letter, so I wrote a letter and printed it and put it in the mailbox like some kind of historical reenactor.

they knew they could get away with it because they practiced all those times on the “narco-terrorist” boats, where they also killed the survivors, and nobody sent them to The Hague about it so they are running completely unchecked right now with full use of the arsenal. I do not know how this ends

“Biden economy”

Just be yourself. I promise you he’ll want to be swallowed up by a black hole whatever you do.

We know from private statements that Hitler had a good deal of contempt for ordinary Germans that deepened as his empire’s situation worsened. But I don’t think he would have ever dared flaunt such feelings so openly.

I guess I get his lack of concern for the wellbeing of those who don’t support him (I mean it’s abhorrent in the context of American history but you know, 2026 🤷‍♂️). What’s odder is that he openly flaunts how little he cares about his supporters, or indeed America.

One of the things that I think will puzzle future historians is how a man who inspired such fanatical cult-like loyalty also made no secret of the fact of his utter contempt for his fans and his total indifference to what happened to them.

unembarrassed enthusiasm about learning new things is genuinely the best way to live

The Spectator here talking about MY children, who are absolutely FINE human beings, and quite probably about YOUR children too.

Go fuck yourselves you kneejerk rightwing scumbags. How's that for nuance?

If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.

God may have forgiven him but rumor has it the electorate hasn’t

The Barbie we deserve

there are like 50 people in the country who want the UK to get involved in the Iran War, one of them is Kemi Badenoch, one of them is Nigel Farage, and the other 48 are newspaper columnists

Noem is out largely due to massive public activism, especially in MN, Democrats expressing increasing interest in impeachment and investigations, and resulting media coverage.

Keep pushing. These people are not invincible or immune from public opinion.

Finished #Hijack Season 2 which was daft but harmlessly entertaining. But now I can’t stop saying “Sam, ver is John Bailey-Brown” in a bad Cherman accent.

Not sure if you’ve *totally* dispelled the myth there…

Audie Murphy was 5’ 5” and weighed 112 lbs.

Finished #Hijack Season 2 which was daft but harmlessly entertaining. But now I can’t stop saying “Sam, ver is John Bailey-Brown” in a bad Cherman accent.

These statistics literally mean fuck all because they are measuring efficiency, not effectiveness

If you would please consult the graphs

"We're fighting to win the war"

We are a week in and absolutely nobody has any idea what the political aim we're attempting to achieve is. Win what? Literally what are we fighting to achieve at the moment.

I have absolutely no idea atm if we are close to winning because I have no idea what we want