Break up Italy!
Seriously tho it's past time to bring back Piedmont, the Papal States, and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/711...
Navy Extends USS Nimitz Service Life to 2027, in Line with Carrier John F. Kennedy’s Delivery — USNI News
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1/What is happening at the Pentagon? Wall Street recruiters promise positions that "gain access to fund-raising channels that include royal families and foreign sovereign contacts". This is not military contracting but rebuilding the state around neo-royalism.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...
ooh "center of gravity" on CBS Saturday Morning... *drink*
It's okay because it's St. Patrick's Day (observed)
The latest White House thinking on the Strait of Hormuz.
*sobs*
“Except for Kansas. That state is a collection of savage lunatics.”
Btw this movie is mesmerizing.
Also joel edgerton has to play US Grant at some point yes?
So train dreams is basically owen lars and jyn erso hooking up? Never thought of them as a good match…
Hey, there's a new @paranoiacs.bsky.social record out and it's some really good music for the discerning listener: www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/03/icym...
yeah that's interesting.
honestly it's a great time for Pakistan to pick a fight with Afghanistan
There's obviously been tons of ink spilled on this but I think China has to sustain a long campaign in order to take Taiwan and I don't really see them wanting to do that.
Also... for about four years the Sino-Japanese War and Anglo-German War were different conflicts. With big implications for one another but no formal connection.
Would North Korea count? I think it probably would.
Yes.
oh wow
Worth thinking about; the world's foremost economic power sat out the first two and a half years of World War I, and the first two and a quarter years of World War II.
yeah and i think you could have India-Pakistan without *necessarily* embroiling any of US-Russia-China.
Curious: What else would have to happen to make you call THIS the beginning of World War III?
Not a rhetorical question. I think for me China would have to make a move on Taiwan or *possibly* North Korea on South Korea.
Well this will address any concerns about global oil supplies…
U.S. Military Attacks Iran’s Oil Export Hub, Trump Says www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
yeah you're probably right
keep thinking that if basic intelligence community best practices had been employed on October 6 2023 none of this would have played out in this way.
Last visit to Portland Lloyd Center Mall before its demolished this year. Mostly dead, but in a good Portland way an assortment of funky shops operating
