Yakov Feygin

I depressingly think this might become the new normal in 'multipolarity'. minimal boots on the ground, no even pretense at nation building, just an occasional 'fuck you' bombing campaign that kills top leadership and has the explicit intent of destabilization.

could see a status quo developing where great powers don't give a shit about other nation's sovereignty but still rarely actually invade. just bomb, assassinate, do spec ops shit, or raid in force to kill specific people, take specific things, etc.

Holden Bloodfeast thinks this was a bad idea.

I believe he’s been playing play station games and considering going back into ophthalmology? Sounds like a nice life all things considered.

IRL Holden Bloodfeast thinks this is a bad idea.

You don’t fucking say?

Senior U.S. officials have become increasingly pessimistic that any opposition figure backed by Washington would realistically be able to control the country.-Reuters

Sadly, quite possibly true

Hell freezing over

The can’t think beyond rhetoric.

Strategy policy match!

Fun fact: Computer security has a famous 2014 paper on how dramatically different assumptions and practices must be dealing with the most motivated+resourced attacker in the world, who is after specifically -YOU-.

This is, -literally-, known "Mossad vs not-Mossad."

www.usenix.org/system/files...

But their initial fires were just a fraction of what their own doctrine would call for. Not just the targeting.

I suspect that’s the reason why. It’s also cause the actual units only had a week to move from peace time status.

Yeah. But like they had a semblance of a policy strategy match. It was just delusional in the exact opposite way. A theory I’ve heard is that they never used as heavy an opening salvo as their doctrine called for because they assumed they’d didn’t want to damage stuff they assumed they’d own.

Those guys were calling in reservations to night clubs and stuff. It was wild!

The funniest thing was the intercepts of them arguing over who gets the nicest places on the first day of the invasion.

They literally had a network of people they asked to leave their keys in their apartments before they fled to Russia the week before the war so the incoming fsb curators had some nice places to crash.

Tbf to Russia, it seemed that they had a semblance of a government in waiting to take over had their ploy worked.

Joe Biden withdrew from 🇦🇫 like everyone said they wanted, & the media decided it was a scandal worthy of destroying a presidency bc it wasn’t immaculately clean.

Donald Trump just launched an unplanned illegal war & assassinated the leader of another country, & they’re fluffing the Shah’s son.

🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

It took escorting them to keep it going

I don’t think anyone is really in charge there and it’s a lot of rage.

It's kind of amazing that Iran is doing the heavy lifting when if comes to coalition building for us.

Because it will need padding.

At that point it’s time to get as close to a bribe as ethically possible.

Ordered a literal burrito taxi and I feel ashamed.

U.S. war in Iran risks depleting munitions for Ukraine now, Taiwan later What the Iran War means for U.S. weapons stockpiles, and the implications for Ukraine munitions and a Taiwan scenario.

President Donald Trump’s administration is expending a significant proportion of America’s best firepower – at a speed that may take the country’s industrial base years to replenish and leave American power diminished for other wartime scenarios.

Straight is way worse.

Just gotta make it uninsurable

They don’t have to close it. Just make it dangerous enough to be uninsurable.