It's kinda funny how the "real" situation room is a bunch of curtains up in Mar A Lago and the one in the White House is the kiddie table where they leave JD Vance and Tulsi Gabbard
01.03.2026 03:26 β π 71 π 11 π¬ 1 π 0It's kinda funny how the "real" situation room is a bunch of curtains up in Mar A Lago and the one in the White House is the kiddie table where they leave JD Vance and Tulsi Gabbard
01.03.2026 03:26 β π 71 π 11 π¬ 1 π 0Baron Harkonnen spent years planning every moment of the invasion of Arrakis to guarantee just the right balance of deniability and threat, when he could've just gone for it on a whim because of Twitter memes and prediction market bets.
28.02.2026 20:41 β π 168 π 37 π¬ 1 π 0the honest opinion of basically everyone in the broader US aligned alliance system on this is "I mean of course I wish he hadn't done it, these people are obviously fucking insane so figure it out dems, but come on, you want me to shed tears over the *Iranian* regime??? bffr"
01.03.2026 01:29 β π 283 π 65 π¬ 15 π 7How many times do we think this has happened?
01.03.2026 01:38 β π 21 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0sorry but the cuck chair was destroyed by TLAMs this morning at 0812
01.03.2026 01:20 β π 14 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1Theyβre calling it the cleanest on OPSEC anyone has ever been
28.02.2026 23:06 β π 107 π 6 π¬ 1 π 0Unlike the 12 Day War in which Iran used a certain segment of its missile force to retaliate in distinguishable waves, this is complete chaos. Many missiles across many fronts, potentially with units acting without centralized authority.
01.03.2026 01:25 β π 205 π 44 π¬ 3 π 0Making Tulsi Gabbard into less of a security risk by regime changing all the countries she's on the payroll of
01.03.2026 01:34 β π 43 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0i'm still thinking about how DOGE set up a starlink terminal inside the WH complex and were plugging unsecured commercial devices into every server they could get access to
01.03.2026 01:21 β π 690 π 165 π¬ 4 π 4> @jimlaporta.bsky.social
01.03.2026 00:33 β π 6300 π 1773 π¬ 439 π 142they're not legislators, they're twitch streamers in their 70s
01.03.2026 01:03 β π 75 π 7 π¬ 1 π 0You know, one of these days, I would like to be wrong.
01.03.2026 00:58 β π 792 π 66 π¬ 24 π 3Operation Midnight Hammer was on June 22nd.
28.02.2026 23:36 β π 66 π 19 π¬ 0 π 0crazy how different of a world it is than the one I grew up in, like, the β03 Blue Dogs are so gone, now weβre primarily mad at someone like Newsom for nodding with the justification before condemning the action and the only elected guy fully behind it is the one with literal brain damage
01.03.2026 00:53 β π 240 π 24 π¬ 3 π 2I feel like "You. Do. Not. Get. A. Mulligan." needs to be stressed because it simultaneously raises the risk floor but also the risk ceiling for the PRC. Once you're willing to upend a status quo that isn't even that bad for you, you're going to be willing to go very far in pursuit of victory
01.03.2026 00:54 β π 25 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1Not CENTCOM using two previously undisclosed Tomahawk mods in their opening strikes. A TLAM with new RAM coating (supposedly) and forward-swept wings TLAM (regular Tomahawks don't have forward-swept wings).
01.03.2026 00:41 β π 116 π 10 π¬ 4 π 2Yea this is my fear, lots of people looking askance at Cuba, but choosing to actually use force against Greenland or Canada is probably the βbridge too farβ.
01.03.2026 00:44 β π 32 π 3 π¬ 4 π 1The problem is that yes, coercive force to reunify is incredibly irrational but if they make that choice, the decisions that follow can be fully rational from their perspective while also being incredibly escalatory
01.03.2026 00:42 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I mean the elephant in the room here is that blockades are very explicitly an act of war and the PRC would be delusional if they thought the ROC wouldn't respond kinetically and much of the world would not respond politically
01.03.2026 00:42 β π 18 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0people tell you video games don't teach you anything but I recognized that flag on the left because of Empire Divided lmfao
01.03.2026 00:34 β π 33 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0If it was me Iβd shoot the rough beast slouching towards Bethlehem. Simply not interested in seeing where that goes.
28.12.2024 17:39 β π 347 π 54 π¬ 13 π 3the level of people currently scrambling to blame democrats for trump's attack on iran is off the fucking charts
28.02.2026 21:07 β π 501 π 79 π¬ 26 π 9
it sucks actually that right now there are just two going concerns in foreign policy, "america is the Great Satan and everything we do is Wrong" vs "america is King Rapist fuck you"
π΄ππ΄ππ΄π
you want to here an unpopular take? the iranian regime sucks. the venezuelan regime sucks. THE TRUMP REGIME SUCKS. as liberals we need to dig out heads out of the paper bag and remember what our principles really are
28.02.2026 21:11 β π 453 π 67 π¬ 15 π 1I'm not sure that purging the entire Chinese military leadership is necessarily the best preparation for an invasion of Taiwan
01.03.2026 00:03 β π 256 π 31 π¬ 7 π 2Also, between the USA's schizophrenic government, Russia bogged down in Ukraine as Assad and Khameni get merced, and China purging its military there are no reliable great power allies so unless you're on real good terms with France, YOLO.
28.02.2026 21:32 β π 421 π 56 π¬ 14 π 6This is basically my view at this point
28.02.2026 22:12 β π 1158 π 187 π¬ 21 π 4