Khashoggi's Ghost

US envoys Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner cancel scheduled Israel trip for Tuesday The trip to Israel was originally scheduled for tomorrow. A picture of Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff.

And Jared and Witkoff have canceled a visit to Israel, which had been scheduled for tomorrow.

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There Is A Donroe Doctrine We Have Seen It In Venezuela And It Will Be His Litmus Test In Iran

Just sent out this post. Having started much of the discussion about the US having no strategic aims in Iran, I think now that this is missing something. Trump personally has a very consistent and openly stated goal. There is a Donroe Doctrine he wants to impose. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

You don't need a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows

It’s as if 400 people were simply euthanized by the passive voice. Doubleplusgood.

Trump is both senile and insane, and he also sings from Moscow songbook.

This is why I find it interesting that, in the week after this person (the 7th US service member killed in Trump's illegal war), DOD never managed to evacuate them to Ramstein to treat injuries suffered on March 1.

Our leaders don't care about the lives lost or our reputation ruined, but we must. We have to care or we'll lose our humanity.

They hoped if they ignored it long enough everyone would forget. Finally they resorted to hanging it at 4 in the morning in a place where almost no one will see it.

Bunch of pathetic, traitorous bootlickers, every damn one of them.

Ukraine: What Comes Next? Preventing Russia’s Non-Defeat

Please do not turn a blind eye to the decisive war, and let's prevent a russian non defeat.
That's the purpose of my 166th long read on my international relations and strategy blog.
Ukraine: What's come next.
I am drawing here some concrete scenarios.
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The war in Iran highlights a glaring double standard.

Ukraine has suffered under Russian missiles and shaheds for years, denied sufficient air defense and missiles to strike Russia.

The West is clearly capable of decisive action.

It is time to arm Ukraine properly

Farage has always fairly heavily overplayed his personal ties to Trump, but this one must kinda sting, given he's likely to take a domestic political hit trying to stay in with his position on Iran.

Yet again it will be shown that humans change behavior not because of the greater good but out of necessity in crisis.

Wars of incidental liberation. Or not. (Part 3) American power has always been the defense of human freedom — not this limp dick bloodlust and adulation of the behavior of our enemies

There will always be more enemies until we build a world where freedom is more than fighting them off

Freedom is changing the system so the enemy’s theory of victory fails — not in embracing the enemy’s rules of war & conducting ourselves as the bringers of death

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Be sure to watch the 60 Minutes segment. It's infuriating.

Is this bad

Explosion at US embassy in Oslo may have been terrorism, Norway police say Police say they are investigating other motives after the blast caused minor damage to the embassy building.

Here we go

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Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.

Presidentialism - & especially the post-WWII imperial presidency created by both parties - was a grave mistake

“I didn’t vote for THIS,” say the manosphere podcasters who simply had no way of knowing that Trump would lie about being a populist to get into office and then govern like a autocratic lunatic once in power, other than the fact that he did it for 4 entire years before that.

A destroyed residential building in Kramatorsk. On the fence in front of it, someone has written: “russian peace plan”.

Ukraine wants to end this war and restore a just and lasting peace. But russia does not want this war to stop.

All you silly libs worrying about the economy crashing under Trump lol #MAGA

No doubt.

I wonder how much of Jared Kushner's "negotiating" involves trading national security secrets for beneficial financial arrangements ...

somewhere inside the Pentagon:

Top Trump officials rush to purchase nuclear war-proof bunkers after Iran attack: report Since President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attack on Iran last week, at least two top Trump administration officials have raced to purchase their own survival shelters designed to withstand an apoca...

A dude in Texas who makes bomb shelters for nuclear war has seen his business skyrocket this week.

Recent clients include 2 Trump admin members, and the rest were almost all “Christian, conservative CEOs,” which included “several of the wealthiest men on the planet."
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The Trump administration’s legal theory (such as it is) for waging this conflict without congressional authorization likely relies on the notion that these hostilities don’t amount to “war in the constitutional sense.”

lol

They are murdering civilians on the high seas.

They are murdering civilians in 🇮🇷.

They are murdering civilians in concentration camps.

They are murdering civilians on the streets of 🇺🇸 cities.

These are not problems that can be fixed with new laws or more court orders.

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Psycho Mehdi Hassan, a washed-up writer at Zetero (whatever that is) who couldn’t even hold down a job at low-ratings MSDNC, says that Your Favorite President did a bad movie performance in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. He doesn’t have a clue! The director came to me, with…

The Melania Film's "record breaking theatrical run?" What records did it break?

Anyway, real let them eat cake vibes here.