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if mar-a-lago ate shaheds and the entire cabinet died alongside a bunch of civilians i would PROBABLY have complex feelings about the entire situation but i would not be well-inclined towards iran

Using "Persia" here is crazy work

US Counterintelligence doesn't exist right now.

D/FBI's girlfriend has a PSD, though.

MaL - the site of an egregious CI crime - is swarmed with hostile SI, imagery, and HI of every kind and our LE just lets it happen.

Witikoff / Kushner / Gabbard / Lutnick?

Principals don't care in any way.

This is a symptom of the U.S. military’s erroneous conception of strategy as scale. If it’s happening at a large scale, it must be strategic.

It’s difficult. It takes a lot of folks and resources. It requires high level commanders.

But it’s not strategic.

GribblesGoBag @GribblesGoBag Follow .•• Smascbyjeffchastair Remember who we are fighting for! 10:42 AM • Feb 28, 2026 • 2,893 Views

it’s probably fine that this meme is one of the top posts on every military Reddit sub right now

You can even make a case for "Iranian state collapse and civil war is better than a nuclear Iran murdering tens of thousands in the streets at home and backing Russia's genocidal war in Ukraine" but you actually have to fucking make the case and plan for that outcome.

And they ain't doing either.

Well, as military strategists Clausewitz and Jomini would both say, “damn, whatever’s in those Epstein files must be REALLY bad”

The “well regime change is good, actually” from people who can’t tell me what happens after the regime is changed or even what was happening before the regimes was changed really isn’t doing it for me

It does not mama the mia, I tell you what

Another funny story, several years back we had a Masters student write a thesis about NASA's relationship with Texas and Aggie, and they described the working philosophy as "you shoot the Aggie into space, but you have the Longhorn do the math. And don't switch those roles." -OS

War is not a morality play.

The relevant question isn’t: Are the targets bad people who have done bad things?

The relevant question is: Will going to war make things better, achieving something that’s worth the death and suffering it causes?

Like at the very bare minimum of humanity to you want people who care and feel the weight of what they do, you want Abraham Lincoln struggling with his view of God and the decisions he makes as President, and the weight of all of it, and it just feels like it’s playing with toys and it’s perverse

It’s been terrifying to have almost every year in the past 20 years be a lesson in how many people with power make decisions about who lives and dies with little thought or care or even a clear idea as to why they’re doing anything, and it’s terrifying that it seems to be getting worse

portia the cat laying on my workbench soldering mat, looking up at something, wide-eyed

curiosity

Simple. You Find Secrets on Beijing, you blackmail Xis Caravan Master for being a cannibal, and spend some prestige and boom. Someone gets stabbed in the toilet. Problem solved.

Hoi4 makes naval invasions way too easy given how sealion is doable without a guide

The first round of Xi’s purges in 2013 was quite normal (in the military) - toward the rougher end but not unprecedented. This one (2023 on) is really extreme and destructive

Lies! Hearts of Iron 4 is a perfectly accurate IR simulator!

APNewsAlert: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian Revolutionary Guard says 'a severe, decisive and regret-inducing punishment' coming over Khamenei's killing.

The problem with Dem messaging (and hear I mean “a couple of Dems”) that “I don’t object to what Trump did but how he did it” is 1) most Americans object to what he did and 2) it invites the question “so why didn’t Dems do it?”

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

The fact that Hezbollah operates in South America is one of the most made-up sounding true geopolitical facts

We’re going to end up in some stupid Tom Clancy scenario where it turned out Hezbollah had drone swarms in the Caribbean that it‘ll launch at Mar A Lago

Here’s the leftover picanha - @smokedaddy.bsky.social cooked a few when he was here over the summer and then froze them for us. they held up shockingly nicely after being defrosted:

it's got to piss you off at least a little. all that work!

You're an Iranian intel officer. You've spent months perfecting a PDF that invisibly executes a keylogger on a low-level but highly cleared asset's private machine, which they're not supposed to be using for government work. Pete Hegseth adds you to a chat with the joint chiefs called BRUNCH BITCHES

JESUS CHRIST

A lot of people really haven’t updated their priors on the overall makeup of the Dem party. Gone are the rurals and Dixiecrats.

It's the Venezuela playbook: They don't actually want regime change. They just want a slightly more cooperative posture from the current regime.

Who the heck are we even trying to change the regime *to?*

Feel like a lot of BlueSky doesn't realize how evil Khamenei was.