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The courts told him to send the 101st Airborne to Little Rock? I know he wasn't great but none of the recent Democratic Presidents would have had the courage to do that.

He handled Suez pretty well, I would say.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

from Eisenhower's April 1953 "Chance For Peace" speech

Gaza, south Lebanon, the West Bank, southwest Syria, this is the model that Israel wants across MENA: weak, permanently unstable, incapable of infrastructural reconstruction or administrative cohesion.

The Iraq war was a world historical atrocity, a despicable crime, and a massive waste of human life and productive capacity, but this prediction was just wrong. I like Hunter Thompson too but he whiffed here.

Israeli media reporting that the US and Israel have divided up the Iran attack thus: the US is targeting infrastructure, Israel is focussed on taking out Iran's leadership

It should go without saying that the aim here is to collapse Iran - a country of ninety million people - into ungovernable chaos and Mad Max-style warlord catastrophe, much as they have every other country from Libya to Afghanistan that they could not buy off.

"the principal source of instability and terror throughout the Middle East, has one of the world's worst human rights records"

Can we think of any other regimes that could objectively be described this way but never would be?

Genuine question: What is the benefit of the Israel alliance to the US at this point?

It's just like Iraq. There won't be official opposition because the Democratic leadership supports the war.

Trump says he wants regime change but also to prevent nuclear development. So a new regime clearly won't be allowed to pursue its own foreign policy.

This is what everyone who plays the cat also thinks.

They're going to lose their jobs either way, right?

I mean they did drop the 2.

Why does bro think he's on the team?

Nigeria and Kenya lead Africa’s push for electric vans assembled from Chinese EV kits E-mobility companies in Africa are beginning local assembly of electric vans and taxis using Chinese-made kits and innovative financing to spread use of electric public transport across the continent.

“This feat is a clear signal that electric mobility in Nigeria is practical, scalable and ready for adoption,” Falaye said.

It is simple economics....

"EV charging costs average about $3 for up to 200 kilometers (123 miles), compared with more than $15 in petrol costs for similar distances."

It doesn't actually name a single country that's definitively worse off.

They Did Deals With Trump to Get Lower Tariffs. Now They Are Stuck.

This is a funny article. All these countries that did deals with Trump look stupid! Except for Japan and South Korea whose tariffs weren't overturned... and except for all the countries who haven't ratified the agreements.
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Last weekend.
This weekend.

@washingtonpost.com
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Jeff Landry is mentioned because he is Trump's "Special Envoy to Greenland".

If you read the article the Mercy is in drydock but the Comfort is afloat, as the picture also shows.

It would have been nice if the Obama CIA had the foresight to put some Trump stuff in there but alas.

As a human being who knows who Andrew Yang is, I feel blessed that I can ignore anything he ever says.

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, by Umberto Boccioni, 1913, (cast 1931 or 1934), 📸 by Wang Zhao

This has been the position of both parties all along: Clinton banned judicial review of detention decisions, established "expedited removal" processes, and expanded administrative warrants considerably. The difference is Trump's admin is stupid enough to explicitly say they don't get due process.

I do think there’s a certain type of Democrat that realizes it’s possible we are dealing with a perfect storm where almost any Democrat will win, and are terrified we might nominate radical candidates who will actually engage in needed change instead of status quo corporate centrist bullshit.

It's not obvious to me what the per capita housing stock trend should be. It would depend on family size etc. Definitely doesn't make sense for it to increase indefinitely.

I'm confused by the X axis label "birth year". Does the 1995 data point show wage and retirement data from ~2024 since that's when the median person in the age cohort was born?