John Dipshit

"And we came within about 30 minutes of having a war." Israel tried to pressure Barack Obama to launch military strikes on Iran, according to former US secretary of state Antony Blinken, who said Israeli leaders warned they would attack themselves if Washington refused. Obama rejected the push for war, arguing the better approach to Iran's nuclear program was "very muscular diplomacy" backed by global sanctions rather than immediate military action. Blinken also revealed the US nearly entered another regional war after the October 7 attacks, when Israeli officials gave false information insisting Hezbollah was about to attack from Lebanon and pushed for a preemptive strike. According to Blinken, Washington came within about 30 minutes of a new conflict before the situation was halted.

Again: if you are a superpower and your crackpot, fascist-led client state has finally bullshat you into fighting its enemies for them, then that is *your* fault. You have owned yourselves.

Traders very much Homer chasing his BBQ pig

Pure cope at this point tbh to try to keep The Money calm

They should get Linda Yaccarino in and free us

Bluesky exec steps down to pursue their passion; joining the IDF and harassing Palestinians

Iran calls the United States the Great Satan, but would the Great Satan turn the day into night, create rivers of fire and poison the rain?

Milhouse as watchman, watching Bart’s factory collapse

President Zelenskyy explaining to the US how hypersonic missiles work

Yeah I can’t watch it, just one of a guy sat there weeping waiting for the operator to finish him

There’s reams and reams of FPV drone snuff footage about anyway, nobody can really deal with them. You either get heroic footage of one guy cheating death by timing his jump right/ getting lucky with a shotgun but there’s hundreds more of people just dying

There’s been more than one story about Ukrainian officers going for military training westwards and being horrified they’re still doing Cold War era tank deployments, so maybe just somebody saying “you’re sending Abrams into the mountains to explode” might actually help? Idk

Honestly kind of pathetic to still do pick me behaviour with a country who you know is going to leave you to it. Plus I presume Ukraine isn’t really in a position to export any countermeasures they’ve developed, or has much insight other than “yeah drones hit out power plants and it was bad”

Fellas, is it gay to have achievable objectives in your military campaigns?

Europe handcuffing itself to the Atlanticism as the US points a shotgun at both their legs really was a master stroke

Thinking back to that weird little kraftwerk stage production Von der Leyen did last year to disconnect from Russian gas today as the Baltic LNG index rises nearly 543%

Hearing the mournful voice of his steed, Kopionkin went out to yo "Keep your distance," he said to these free people. "Can't you see, you goggling fools? The horse has a heart of his own." "We can see all right," another Chevengurian replied with conviction. "We live in a comradely way, but your horse is a bourgeois." Forgetting his respect for the oppressed before him, Kopionkin defended his steed's proletarian honor.

Dvanov realized that this was the party member who had been muttering in front of him during the meeting. "Where are you from?" asked Gopner. "From Communism," the visitor replied. "Heard of such a place?"

Chevengur by Andrei Platanov is an ethereal dreamscape of people grasping with a successful revolution and what it actually means, with characters developing messianic or absurd interpretations. It also contains very Disco Elysium lines

Still amazing to me that after this kicked off Reeves gave a statement about how great she’s doing and she’s lowered energy bills without any sort of foreshadowing of oil potentially hitting $200 a barrel or the natural gas price spike. Before it was risible, now it just seems delusional

Last time he opened his mouth Cyprus got bombed

Here’s how it’s going to go:
> We’ve sent six stout lads
> Iran is evil for returning to the negotiating with the Great Satan in the only language it understands (violence)
> Mr Trump loves me actually
> another tight 5 of his polices that everybody hates but they’ve solved the comms issue

They do say we get our gas from lots of places, but they don’t really say what happens when the price of quadruples and whether it would’ve been prudent to maybe buy some cheap and keep it around for shit like this

Great Britain has only two days of gas stored as Iran war disrupts supplies National Gas insists storage broadly in line with levels for time of year despite disruption for tankers carrying LNG

My country is incapable of learning lessons www.dumptheguardian.com/business/202...

Looks like it, and given the waves that keep launching engaging one is a piss take

“We’re helping the Nazi paedophile empire by spending several million pounds shooting down flying lawnmowers and sending ONE helicopter. We are still a serious country please don’t laugh at us”

Market Garden 2: Electric Boogaloo

George H W Bush, 2006:

In bruges has a scene where Colin Farrell confuses a Canadian for an annoying American and decks him to avenge John Lennon and Vietnam. It’s played for laughs but after being on bluesky a while it feels like reality

Jesus to turn up on the battlefield like Gandalf at Helm’s Deep to rid of us of the YanKKKee heretics

Oil and gas prices are going to spike worse than 2022 and uhh, we didnt do much renewables investment, because it made the line sad and we didn’t mean it