Hard disagree.
02.03.2026 02:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hard disagree.
02.03.2026 02:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I think ISIS was a pretty good example of ungoverned spaces having bad side effects.
02.03.2026 02:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Yeah. Yeah...
02.03.2026 02:33 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I would rather be lucky than good and goddamn it I wish servicemembers didn't stand outside to record things.
02.03.2026 02:31 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My understanding of the targeting was that it was clownishly incompetent.
02.03.2026 02:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Look, IR theory seems pretty stupid if you view the world through the eyes of a goldfish swimming around a castle in a fishbowl...
02.03.2026 02:28 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Iran weβve known for 50 years is literally blowback!
02.03.2026 02:24 β π 21 π 2 π¬ 2 π 0The funniest thing was the intercepts of them arguing over who gets the nicest places on the first day of the invasion.
02.03.2026 02:21 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0
How many casualties do you think would have been a fair estimate for this point in an air campaign and ballistic missile counter-attack?
I'm absolutely devastated about the Kuwait strikes too.
Yeah but Zelensky lives and Russia threw salvos of Kalliber missiles into the wrong targets.
02.03.2026 02:24 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Also, two days into an air war with a country that is flying our military assistance prior to 1979 and using Russian toasters for IADS isn't the right time frame to take a measurement of how we are doing.
02.03.2026 02:20 β π 62 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0It's not like Iran is conveniently located adjacent to two pretty good examples of everything not being fine after killing bad people.
02.03.2026 02:18 β π 222 π 24 π¬ 5 π 0
And I'm not making a value judgement - the anemic and hugely counterproductive response from the Iranian regime is a symptom of having multiple layers of their chain of command taken out.
It's just that off-ramps are going to work poorly here.
Gray longboi cargo shorts with a built-in belt on the rack at Kohlβs
Weβre at war in the Middle East and thereβs cargo shorts with a 12β inseam and a built in belt on the shelf at Kohlβs, 2007 is so fucking back.
01.03.2026 23:51 β π 356 π 59 π¬ 12 π 25
Yes this was a good one.
It's just that asking them to negotiate is like wondering why the person who got knocked unconscious never says the safe word...
Also, nothing like stunting on the Russia's inability to do this in '22.
02.03.2026 02:04 β π 52 π 2 π¬ 3 π 0The other part is that you put those trying to reconstitute a government at the horns of a dilemma where their ability to assemble power structures is opposed to any outreach to the other belligerents.
02.03.2026 02:01 β π 73 π 2 π¬ 3 π 0The thing about kicking off an operation with a decapitation strike is that you preclude any ability to negotiate and off-ramp. Coercion theory is out the window when you create a leadership vacuum in one of the parties.
02.03.2026 02:00 β π 294 π 34 π¬ 7 π 5It's kind of amazing that Iran is doing the heavy lifting when if comes to coalition building for us.
01.03.2026 23:23 β π 65 π 4 π¬ 4 π 1It's interesting that this is being done by drones.
01.03.2026 14:30 β π 36 π 0 π¬ 5 π 0Right?
01.03.2026 13:55 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is hardly the primary issue, but I guess Khamenei isn't going to respond to my Twitter DMs asking if he liked anime.
01.03.2026 04:51 β π 2285 π 116 π¬ 58 π 3(Whispers) thereβs a difference between orders that are illegal to follow and orders that are illegal to give, and this may have been the second but it probably wasnβt the first
01.03.2026 02:57 β π 132 π 16 π¬ 3 π 0They could. There might also be some who realize their lives have become untenable.
01.03.2026 00:52 β π 12 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0"I'm in Mike D'Andrea's DMs"
01.03.2026 00:51 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Itβs ok to have a moral take in the moment without becoming a pundit.
01.03.2026 00:50 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I think itβs worth trying to figure out whatβs happening and explaining things that are happening now is ok.
βHeres what this is really aboutβ and βwhat does this mean for Taiwanβ thoughβ¦
I think itβs ok to take a break from the βhereβs what this all really meansβ takes.
We donβt even know whatβs happening.