Sam (ABeardedPanda)

I guess what I'm saying is that if you think the US is the Great Satan and both parties are warmongering imperialists and the concept of law is a web of lies spun by the wealthy and powerful to entrap the proletariat, then why exactly are we arguing about the wording of Democratic press releases?

If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

Bosnia, Kosovo, and Libya were all interventions in ongoing wars with international sanction to do so

Unlike them, and contrary to neoconservative insistence, Iraq was not doing much of anything in 2001-2003 when Bush Leeroy Jenkins’d them, which is starkly different from those three former cases

There are many, many, places where you can criticize American foreign policy for being too militaristic but the fact that they always bring up that time we stopped a genocide instead of the rest of them really does give the game away

Yes, that former statement is correct

the funny thing is I legitimately don't think there was a decision made about this weekend in advance; there was still lots of stuff in motion vs in place by Friday night

I tend to believe the bit that the Israelis having actionable intel on Khameini is what drove the (sudden) timing

Just gonna put it out there that calling Jeffries “AIPAC Shakur” is probably antisemitic but definitely racist, and you should not do it

Gabbard actually has nearly flawless radar for 'what leader is killing the most Muslims in the world right now?' and will always be there to support them. Assad, then Netanyahu, now Trump

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

Baron 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.

the 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"

How many times do we think this has happened?

sorry but the cuck chair was destroyed by TLAMs this morning at 0812

They’re calling it the cleanest on OPSEC anyone has ever been

Unlike 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.

Making Tulsi Gabbard into less of a security risk by regime changing all the countries she's on the payroll of

i'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

> @jimlaporta.bsky.social

they're not legislators, they're twitch streamers in their 70s

You know, one of these days, I would like to be wrong.

Operation Midnight Hammer was on June 22nd.

crazy how different of a world it is than the one I grew up in, like, the ‘03 Blue Dogs are so gone, now we’re 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

I 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

Not 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).

Yea this is my fear, lots of people looking askance at Cuba, but choosing to actually use force against Greenland or Canada is probably the “bridge too far”.

The 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

I 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