The Heathen Historian

The new NSS is written as a transactional document by a white supremacist, authoritarian-adjacent, business focused administration. It's unlike any strategic document I have ever read.

Yeah I saw that too. I thought the last page didn't print but nope it was three small paragraphs about Africa and then nothing.

"Ending the perception, and preventing the reality, of NATO as a perpetually expanding alliance"

This does two things: spews Russian propaganda about NATO being aggressively expansive into Russian spheres and 2) essentially blocks Ukraine's inclusion into NATO

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National Security Strategy note: You cannot say you have "considerable or unrivaled soft power" when you spent your first year destroying the institutions that led American soft power, like USAID.

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National Security Strategy note: You cannot say you "stand for the sovereign rights of nations" and then tell Ukraine it has to give up large swaths of its land to Russia.

The NSS is like it was written the night before it was due and quickly emailed to the professor

Anything an account with a little hammer and sickle on it posts is absolutely rage bait. And bullshit.

This is just historically incorrect and also stupid

Our 2025 National Security Strategy boils down to "things will be better with less Brown people here is how we will make that happen"

Yup Stephen Miller and the Heritage Foundation wrote every single word of this new National Security Strategy. It's a white supremacist roadmap to "re-Westernization."

Gonna take the new National Security Strategy and see how much of it is straight lifts from the Heritage Foundation and Projection 2025. Cuz I'll bet it's a lot.

Finally. Gonna read this and give my thoughts later.
I'm sure it will read like a business plan or 8th grade term paper.

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Ranger School graduate Tom Cotton thinks two guys trying to flip a boat to survive after getting hit by a missile is "staying in the fight."

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Me when the first due engine and medic pull up to the Pentagon food court

To all my friends across the world, please PLEASE do not come to the United States to watch the World Cup. You will not be safe here.

We have a few blackbirds who feed at our backyard bird feeder and they always come in pairs. We joke that it's Odin keeping his eye on us.

During GWOT we called this Pred Porn, for the Predator drones and their live feed Hellfire strikes. Now streaming to you with war crimes.

As I think you should. I'm glad our allies are looking to their own defense since we have proven ourselves less than amenable.

Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.

I can only assume this was a targeted assassination attempt and that Zelenskyy is lucky to be alive. I can also assume we all know who did this.

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The entire European security community has decided we aren't reliable anymore so thinking they're gonna buy anything from us is just silly. We have no self-awareness.

When you spend your entire first year telling NATO and our European allies to go fuck themselves, supporting Russia against Ukraine, and say we won't support them if attacked, maybe you don't get to be big mad you're left out of the spending spree.

If you think anyone wants a 70's style station wagon you are an idiot

I mean I watch her show for the cooking. Like I read Playboy for the articles.

Nigella is an absolute goddess I will not stand for this abuse

Weekly staff meeting lesson learned:

There is the right way, the wrong way, and the SOF way.

What I learned while I was a conservative: they think what they had as a kid, no matter how shitty, was the best there ever will be and think everyone should have it. It's their choice, not anyone else's.

Barack Obama was President in 2016, and Hegseth worked at Fox News. So it depends on who is the Commander in Chief, apparently.

It’s easy to forget that evangelical Christians think that Catholics don’t count, but you can see little indications of it from the outside