Krasnovian Commando

Oh dear gods.

Anyone got hot takes?

I need my hot takes please and thank you because I have NO IDEA how this one turns out.

Complacency is not an option even if [redacted] happens here folks, that’s all I’m saying.

And that’s something people forget about Vance.

He is a smarmy elite.

He went to Yale for goodness sake and had a best selling memoir boosted by the elite class.

I don’t think they’d show any more spine against him as they do right now.

That’s all. Victory may be assured but I think the cost could actually be higher

I’m not willing to make that assumption.

Time for my hobby horse again: it’s so weird and fucked up that the man exercising the powers of the American presidency has absolutely no knowledge of or attachment to American culture at any level.

While he will likely have less personal control over the party in the “Trump threatens primary” way it doesn’t reduce the risk of him wielding a legally immune unitary executive regardless.

Correct, which to be 100% clear is not a win condition.

There’s a scenario where he gets almost 3 terms of eligibility

Vance running as “last admin’s VP” in ‘28 is a different political moment than “former President since 2027”.

Which allows a veneer or “post Trump normality” with post liberal policy which is a terrifying combination.

This. If he gets multiple years and is able to successfully clean house he’s going to put more competent people in charge because his orbit are some of the “most qualified” people in the admin.

He’s always been a squishy coastal elite.

There’s truly only one thing he’s shared with his base culturally…

Very much so and in some ways worse

I liked ‘Rolling Thunder Against the Rising Sun’ but it’s not exactly about the Philippines.

Historians, friends, community at large, just spoke with a man and his father fought in SWW as a tank commander in the Philippines 🇵🇭 . Any good books about tank battalions / units that fought there? #skystorians #milsky #histbookchat

we’re doing tiny cars and new name for football, folks

My understanding is this isn’t normal behavior, which is subscribe to a couple, share accounts that can be shared, use the one or two that come with Walmart + or Prime and forget one or two you’re subscribed to.

This is why I feel the “Vance is juiceless & him being in charge is a win position for liberal democracy” is a bad take.

His ideological allies are the most extreme and he’s actually a functional person.

He can stand in front of a camera and give a boring normal sounding address filled with bile

My family isn’t but we do “rotate” who we subscribe to then move on.

Poland, France, and the UK doing a lot of that lifting tbf

It’s something I think more modern war films are getting right.

It was my big gripe about Band of Brothers is all the 20 year olds played by 30 year olds.

Masters of the Air got the casting more accurate to “wow everyone here is an actual child”

It’s one thing to live through the “climate change isn’t real” policy ping pong over the last decade.

It’s another to shift to “great replacement theory” is official US policy.

The NSS that posted last night is the evil version of “Me and Three other guys”

Well, Patel was a no-shit serious federal prosecutor doing CT stuff in NSD, but I think the dynamic here is Bongino transitioned gradually from LE into pundit into whatever he is now, whereas Patel made a deliberate choice to break all at once with his previous life, when he went to work for Nunes

This is accurate.

Can they achieve it through policy? Probably not the NSS is mostly a wish list.

To me the issue is the signal it gives to the worst actors across the government about what beliefs are acceptable to have and act on in their official capacities, and set the climate in their orgs.

Despite a successful pre-war tank program, Sweden fell hopelessly behind the rest of the world after WW2 and had to shop for tanks abroad. #OTD in 1952 the British offered them 80 Centurion Mk.3 tanks, which were accepted into service as the Strv 81. #tanks #history #ColdWar

I can’t believe Tankies think this guy would have ever fought Hitler if he didn’t get attacked first