Gerry Doyle
@mgerrydoyle.bsky.social
Bloomberg News Global Defense Editor. Novelist, aviation geek, bartender, dad. Ex-NYT, Reuters. Grew up in Midwest, moved to Mideast. Views my own. Wrote a fun book about Chinese missiles: https://tinyurl.com/2p94pay6
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well and more to the point with speeches, the difference between the verbatim transcript and how it is interpreted in print is often pretty vast. and stuff like demeaning somalis is completely ignored. I dunno man
January 23, 2026 at 5:28 PM
well and more to the point with speeches, the difference between the verbatim transcript and how it is interpreted in print is often pretty vast. and stuff like demeaning somalis is completely ignored. I dunno man
the problem france is facing right now isn't that they don't have enough people or good stuff, it's that they can't hire/buy even more of it because they're a little light in the pocketbook
January 23, 2026 at 4:27 PM
the problem france is facing right now isn't that they don't have enough people or good stuff, it's that they can't hire/buy even more of it because they're a little light in the pocketbook
most experienced beyond ukraine's military, I should add, which has been fighting a high-intensity war for four years now
January 23, 2026 at 4:14 PM
most experienced beyond ukraine's military, I should add, which has been fighting a high-intensity war for four years now
a lot of americans like to snicker about the maginot line or baguettes or whatever but it's just stupid.
January 23, 2026 at 4:13 PM
a lot of americans like to snicker about the maginot line or baguettes or whatever but it's just stupid.
he was right about the pushback but I don't think it's resolved yet....
January 23, 2026 at 10:54 AM
he was right about the pushback but I don't think it's resolved yet....
as the quoted post says, u.s. cemeteries are full of people who died to (for instance) destroy slavery. then there's the women's suffrage movement. civil rights. anti-war. all those folks fought hard, some were imprisoned or died. is your point that they are chumps? because I think that's gross
January 23, 2026 at 9:39 AM
as the quoted post says, u.s. cemeteries are full of people who died to (for instance) destroy slavery. then there's the women's suffrage movement. civil rights. anti-war. all those folks fought hard, some were imprisoned or died. is your point that they are chumps? because I think that's gross
not sure why this thought occurred to me just now
January 23, 2026 at 9:08 AM
not sure why this thought occurred to me just now