It would have been really easy for the PAF to Black Hawk Down the SEALs and the fact that they they didn't suggests some heavy firepower stopped them.
23.11.2025 02:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@charltoncussans.bsky.social
PhD in History, fiction published by Sea Lion Press and original non-fiction research published by Historical Research. Lecturer in History and Politics at a Nid-Tier University.
It would have been really easy for the PAF to Black Hawk Down the SEALs and the fact that they they didn't suggests some heavy firepower stopped them.
23.11.2025 02:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0also thereβs no aliens. if weβd captured aliens and their tech we wouldβve just annihilated the soviets, and we wouldβve already colonized the galaxy instead of paying elon to blow up the southeast corner of texas
23.11.2025 01:50 β π 139 π 12 π¬ 6 π 3it is good to debase yourself if it saves others but the idea that you can talk a guy who lacks even the most rudimentary Virtue Gland into doing good things is basically wrong
this is very different than Liz Cheney abandoning power and publicly repenting!
See this rests on Kennedy being sat directly behind Connally and he wasn't.
23.11.2025 02:11 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0That Oliver Stone made a movie lionizing Jim Garrison's ludicrous prosecution of an innocent man (Clay Shaw) is one of the most egregious historical transmogrifications in cinema. Imagine in 20 yrs a Stephen Miller hagiography starring Chalamet, that's the artistic crime level we're talking.
23.11.2025 00:16 β π 116 π 19 π¬ 5 π 2If you want to understand the modern American far-right, you can look to Apartheid and see the that the baaskap faction were seen as moderates by the purist faction who advocated that no black people be allowed in South African at all, not even in the townships, or to work as maids or in the mines.
23.11.2025 02:06 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Itβs crazy to think about the crimes weβre going to learn about after this regime ends.
Weβre already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after itβs over.
Weβre going to need a full accounting of all thatβs been done in violation of the constitution.
Freedom soon will come.
Then we'll come from the shadows.
The Partisan, Leonard Cohen.
NATO was founded by a mixture of Socialists, Christian Democratis and Social Democrats.
22.11.2025 23:57 β π 15 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0It's my favourite theory but it's not true.
Oswald killed JFK.
turns out when racists get mad about "elites" they mean "Jews" not "capital"
22.11.2025 21:30 β π 136 π 14 π¬ 2 π 0Every 2-4 years, a bunch of left-wing populists have the brilliant thought βHey, what if peopleβs resentment of social minorities is actually just sublimated resentment for capitalist elites?β and then we get to spend 2-4 years once again learning that no, itβs very much the reverse
22.11.2025 21:26 β π 498 π 76 π¬ 18 π 9The French Navy could sweep the Russian one from the seas in about a week.
22.11.2025 23:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0There was a cover up, but it was a cover up of all the weird, unethical, immoral and illegal other things that were all happening in Dallas that were, in a freak series of events, totally unrelated to Oswald's malignant little grudge.
22.11.2025 22:57 β π 52 π 5 π¬ 2 π 2Dutch air force personnel have tried to down several drones that were spotted over Volkel air base in the south of the country last night. The ministry of Defence said unspecified weapons were used and the drones disappeared. Some 20 U.S. B61 nuclear free-fall bombs are stored at Volkel air base.
22.11.2025 12:41 β π 297 π 136 π¬ 3 π 11This motte and bailey about being opposed to settlements and then do nothing at all about orgs that promote settlements does not work
21.11.2025 15:31 β π 140 π 11 π¬ 0 π 0If people can't read, I can spell it out for them: I do in fact think French people should be ready to lose their children to defend Lithuania, as Lithuanians are, in fact, prepared to lose their children to defend France
22.11.2025 20:18 β π 122 π 14 π¬ 6 π 0I think France could solo Russia tbh.
22.11.2025 21:32 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 3 π 0Why do you think Ukraine will lose?
22.11.2025 21:06 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0okay this image is weird. when i pasted it in gimp the artifacts became a lot less noticeable. same thing when i move my browser window to a different monitor. but yeah i bumped the exposure on the image to make the editing much more clear
22.11.2025 18:39 β π 171 π 64 π¬ 6 π 31France should stand by its treaty obligations
22.11.2025 20:19 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Also let's be real it's there so they don't have to admit it's ACTUALLY Russians, because these people are frequently in Russia's pocket and use Israel to distract from Russian crimes.
22.11.2025 19:38 β π 46 π 9 π¬ 1 π 0Xβs new βAbout this accountβ tool reveals that dozens of pro-Russian and MAGA accounts with tens of thousands of followers, long posing as American or Russian, are actually created and run from India, Bangladesh, and other South Asian countries.
22.11.2025 13:35 β π 542 π 175 π¬ 22 π 20π― Eternal memory to all victims of Holodomor. A moment of silence.
22.11.2025 14:01 β π 697 π 130 π¬ 15 π 10My favourite fighter has to be the Sea Harrier, but for me nothing beats a fully loaded Tomcat (with the Iranians having the best colour scheme).
22.11.2025 16:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Itβs utterly deranged that he could look at the meeting and credit Donald Trump with skills he doesnβt have instead of crediting the skills Zohran Mamdani actually has.
22.11.2025 15:46 β π 52 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0Providence has a special favour for idiots, children, and the United States of America.
22.11.2025 15:33 β π 11 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Inshallah.
22.11.2025 15:31 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0We are not serious people. No one even asked us to fight for democracy - they asked us to give up a tenth of a percent of our income and we said thatβs too much. We have chosen decline and chosen it with gusto
21.11.2025 17:51 β π 366 π 62 π¬ 9 π 1And the people here are singing bread and roses; bread and roses.
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