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The influencers leaping to Dubai’s defence [FREE TO READ] As missiles streak across the region, unfazed residents insist they ‘know who protects us’

‘British expats, he claimed, were refusing to fill out evacuation forms provided by the British government “just in case it somehow turns into a tax form instead”.’

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This is what weak and insecure people think confidence looks like: buffoonish bluster and swagger, like a 12-year-old bully. It doesn‘t inspire trust or security. It inspires grave concern for the lives of the people serving our nation whose fate is in the hands of these overcompensating oafs.

To be fair they called it “Epic Fury”, not “Meticulously Planned Logistical Operation”.

Not the sunrise, but the Russian LNG tanker which was hit by suspected USVs (maritime surface drones) earlier this morning. Reporting only slowly coming out. Photos taken from another merchant vessel.

Crew reported rescued by Maltese forces

big, strong admirals, with tears in their eyes, they come to me and say, “mister president, what in the fuck are you talking about?”

No one believes this, not even the people saying this.

All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.

The phrase “every conservative influencer in the business” tells you everything you need to know.

The entire modern conservative movement descends from snake oil salesmen and prosperity gospel revival tent preachers.

It’s nothing more than a con, and that’s all it will ever be.

fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this

Trump’s Case for War With Iran Faces Growing Scrutiny U.S. intelligence showed threats from Iran loomed, as they had for years. But they were not imminent.

U.S. officials and lawmakers with access to classified information say the Trump administration’s assertions about threats from Iran are incomplete, unsubstantiated, or flat-out wrong.

Donald Trump struggles to explain why he launched another Middle Eastern war [FREE TO READ] Reason for conflict that has already killed hundreds of Iranians and six US soldiers remains unclear

“Who could take that kind of commander-in-chief seriously?”

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South Korea faced an incredible amount of Chinese backlash to have THAAD deployed in the country, so much so that it banned K-Pop.

Imagine being Robert Gates and seeing the THAADs you fought tooth and nail to deploy in Korea be removed for no reason.

The contrast between the US SecDef belittling European allies and the French president outlining a forward-deterrent scheme for Europe today is quite something.

Narrator: There was no plan

“Wait, repress internally and pretty soon we’ll get bored, just go away and leave you still in power.”

The man is a cretin.

I just learned that Ayatollah Khamenei and Ayatollah Khomenei are not the same person. Here's my plan for regime change in Iran....(1/23)

That's one way to find out that the US and Israel might have had slightly different war aims post-Khamenei, I guess.

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Many Israeli attacks in Tehran today were more symbolic than strategic. These included strikes on the IRIB Headquarters and antennas, the regime's Public Security Police, Morality Police, and many Basij centres. These units were primarily engaged in population suppression rather than military roles.

There’s something morally grotesque about reporting the words of a genocidal war criminal as if they were uttered from a genuine place of authority rather than from atop a pile of Ukrainian corpses.

Trump’s 2016 criticism of the Iraq war was the US didn’t do enough war crimes. He argued that the US should’ve stolen oil and killed insurgents’ innocent family members.

That’s what some prominent media figures presented to the public as isolationist, anti-intervention, anti-war, “Donald the Dove.”

Ms. Wilkins, the daughter of a financial specialist in the aerospace industry (her mother) and a global consumer products executive for Gillette (her father), had lived in London and Switzerland, and for a time attended elementary school at Collège du Léman in Geneva. She is originally from the Boston suburb of Weymouth, but likes to emphasize her time living in Arkansas. "There are just some things the limousine liberal will never understand from the coasts," she recently wrote.

Kash Patel’s girlfriend is exactly the sort of country singer you’d think she’d be. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

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Decline of the false flagged transits in the Baltic

This is consistent with what one hears from serious analysts all around. The US negotiating team, led by two New York real estate developers with a reputation for incompetence at that and no serious diplomats or nuclear experts, were a bunch of ignorant pikers incapable of engaging in serious talks.

Belgian MoD statement on the tanker seizure.

Her being stateless / false flagged is given as the legal justification, UNCLOS article 110 specifically mentioned.

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Fuck even Oman has been hit now, despite being the mediator over the past few weeks.

There is a British military facility at Duqm - I wonder if it was an intended target.

Maybe...just stay with me here...the IRGC is just as brutal, corrupt and incompetent as its regional proxies?

Is there any other institution apart from the IRGC whose myth of invincibility proves so resilient even as it is defeated by its core enemies over and over again?

Something baffling about the confidence with which many declare that the IRGC will survive in its current form even as its leadership is killed one after the other, it faces total defeat by the US and Israel while the economy and infrastructure it relies on collapse completely