Jeff Meiser

That’s what’s up

US bureau of statistics next year:

Love this thread

Radioactive wasp nest discovered at old US nuclear weapons site The nest with 10 times more radiation than permitted was found at a facility that once produced parts for US nuclear weapons.

😳

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Senate confirms Jan. 6 denier Joseph Kent to head counterterrorism center Kent’s nomination was approved despite objections from Democrats, who said his embrace of conspiracy theories and past associations with extremists were disqualifying.

It is what it is

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

No self-respecting Americanist would assign this book except to demolish it

Trump lawsuit against Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward dismissed The judge in the case said Trump failed to “plausibly” show that he and Woodward intended to be co-authors of an audiobook, or that Trump had any copyright interest in his responses.

Trump lawsuit against Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward dismissed

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So gross.

Through Trial and Error, Iran Found Gaps in Israel’s Storied Air Defenses The proportion of missiles that slipped through doubled during the 12-day war, data show, as Tehran found vulnerabilities through trial and error.

“In the first half of the conflict, 8% of Iran’s missiles slipped through Israel’s defenses. By the second half of the war, 16% got past Israel’s interceptors”

“on June 22, two days before the end of the war… 10 out of 27 missiles hit Israel”

www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Two Ships Desperately Tried to Fight Off Houthi Attacks. Help Never Arrived. The commercial ships tried to fight off the attacks, the group’s most complex and violent yet, for more than 48 hours.

Curious.
“No U.S. or allied warship was around to help.”

www.wsj.com/world/middle...

😕

So “four alternative concepts” are articulated as force levels and what those force levels can do without really saying much about the logic behind these different “concepts” or how the goals or methods are different.
I’d rather get alternative strategies that foreground the goals and causal logic.

Yemen Houthis sink second Red Sea cargo ship in a week At least three of the 25 people on board the Eternity C were killed after it was attacked by the Iran-backed group.

I feel like deterrence has not been restored
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Plot twist, he endorsed the fucking deal! 😮

Yeah so far he seems to be giving an honest account of how he saw things as they happened. As he notes in an amusing passage he is not one for much introspection and that shows at times

Nothing to see here, just Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. USMC (RET.) quoting the Counting Crows

Describing a meeting with Trump:
“we had the usual preface of general-bashing that always began these sessions…”

According to Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. USMC (RET.) the US-Taliban agreement signed in 2020 was a real shit deal, an “enormous strategic mistake” even

Drago Bludvist Drago Bludvist is the main antagonist of DreamWorks Animation's How to Train Your Dragon franchise, which is based on Cressida Cowell's children's fantasy novel series of the same name. He is a cruel,...

Haha. Him too.

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Drago Bludvist is a right wing populist, just realizing that

Mowing the grass has been so successful at keeping Israel safe US wants to get a piece of that too

Yeah I’m assuming this is Iran’s to-do list

Thanks for this, it’s a much needed correction

Wait a minute… are you telling me that hiring more STEM people is not the national security silver bullet?

We need people—probably immigrants or foreign nationals—who can speak foreign languages?

A real shit sandwich for these troopers

Israel Is Putting More Women on the Front Line to Help Fix Its Manpower Problem Female soldiers are entering the battlefield in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria in ways many previously thought impossible.

www.wsj.com/world/middle...

I do find it interesting that Strauss was anti-dialectical anti-synthesis and instead thought there are healthy tensions that cannot be resolved. I probably agree

Confuses me that Strauss was anti-enlightenment but pro-liberal democracy

Listened to the Jonah podcast episode on Strauss and still don’t know what it means to be “Straussian”