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Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

It's cool how when you don't have a strategy, anything you do is strategic!

Helping Israel destroy the military of a Chinese ally: Grand Strategy, Much Pivot, Very Clausewitz.

Helping Ukraine destroy the military of a Chinese ally: Big Distraction, Waste of Munitions, Elbridge Colby Sadness.

White Poppy against a blue background

'Poppy' c.1852 by Anna Atkins, UK pioneer in botany and photography whose photographs created by the cyanotype process were the first ever to be published #womensart #WomensHistoryMonth

Siin on ajakirjanduse kommentaarid lappama läinud. Sattusin seda juppi kuulma. Ta ütles tglt pigem, et tal on õigus (mõni) riik käsu korras kasvõi ära hävitada, aga mitte sellele presidendi korraldusega tariife kehtestada.
Kuigi jah, riigi hävitamine on tal käpas tõesti

The President of Kazakhstan, sitting in the rebranded Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace during the first formal meeting of Trump's Board of Peace, calls for Trump to win a Donald J. Trump Peace Prize administered by his own Board of Peace.

Print of a tree between two hills against a golden sunset

'Sunset #SycamoreGap' etching by contemporary Northumberland based UK printmaker Rebecca Vincent #WomensArt

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

Too right!

Signal chats are for Sec Def to show off to his brother by bragging about the highly classified details of ongoing US military operations, not for the mums at the local school to warn one another when a heavily armed convoy of masked thugs might be arriving to terrify their children.

It's so exhausting to to be constantly told by American leaders that the defining policy of the 80 odd years during which the US became the most wealthy and powerful country in the history of the world was a grossly unfair failure for them.

Kinda funny that Trump thinks "asylum" means other countries send people from insane asylums, and a) this is real life, not a ham-handed Idiocracy-type satire, b) he has surely been corrected several times but is incapable of updating his priors, & c) most media politely agree not to mention it.

Sweden announces deployment of anti-personnel weapon to Greenland

That is what puzzles me the most. One would think that this is their chance of a lifetime. But obviously not

The US is collapsing into fascism and going to war with Europe and the opposition party is like “I’m here to talk about the important thing: how your average grocery bill has risen by two dollars over the last year, which I also have no plan or ability to fix”

DECLARATION In proceeding this day to the signature of the Convention respecting the cession of the Danish West-Indian Islands to the United States of America, the undersigned Secretary of State of the United States of America, duly authorized by his Government, has the honor to declare that the Government of the United States of America will not object to the Danish Government extending their political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland. ROBERT LANSING New YorK, August 4, 1916. [Page 701]

Just for the record, and it’s insane that the mad king made me look this up, there is documentation of the US giving up all claim to Greenland to Denmark when we bought the Virgin Islands from them in 1916.

history.state.gov/historicaldo...

Trade wars are about causing and enduring pain.

The US can do the former, but the public has absolutely no appetite for the latter over an issue as clearly invented as Greenland.

This is the kind of stunt you can try at 58% Presidential approval and on an issue the public supports. This ain't it.

Any time you try to use tariffs as a weapon of coersion you're hoping that the other country's exporters are influential enough, and sufficiently exposed, to win a fight which pretty much the rest of their country.

As the UK discovered during Brexit talks, even German automakers have some limits.

Is the Department of Justice now the Department of Just Trump?

The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.

spot how many of these risks are due to/powered by the tech industry

source: www.weforum.org/publications...

I was telling one of my kids that it was physically impossible for an ad to play between songs on any of the records I own, and they asked "and you only have to pay for it once?" and you could see how strange that seemed. You cannot overstate how many basic rules of media consumption have changed.

"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."

if they are in mortal danger from some ice in winter in January, imagine how easily these cringing little wieners would fold in any actual conflict

February 2026: United States Atlantic Fleet invades Greenland claiming the island was trying to run them over.

If America wants to control the world that's fine as long as everyone on Earth is able to vote for who gets to be President of the United States

Random question.
Imagine that Venezuelan troops now decide to carry out an attack agaist the US in some manner, and the US invokes NATO article 5. How would NATO allies respond?

The funniest thing about the public debt of Finland that has reached quite an alarming level is that Norway could just pay it off and earn it back in a year or so.

I think it’s time for us to proceed with the plan to invade Norway, immediately surrender and become a Norwegian province

Sellist täielikku rasvast loobumist peaks arutama arstiga. Arvestades, et rasvata ei omasta organism piisavalt kaltsiumi ja et vitamiinid on ka enamasti rasvlahustuvad, võib täiesti rasvavaba dieet lõppeda osteoporoosi või muu tõsise hädaga

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