stellar wind
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NYT subscriber. Reading about beliefs and alignments, preference cascades, Persia and Iraq.
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Hummers in the sketchbook 🤎
September 6, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Hummers in the sketchbook 🤎
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See, only fringe figures like the Israeli defense minister are framing Israeli action as collective punishment
September 8, 2025 at 7:38 AM
See, only fringe figures like the Israeli defense minister are framing Israeli action as collective punishment
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A politically paralyzed France has had four prime ministers in the past 20 months and appears on the verge of adding a fifth, a degree of instability suggestive of institutional crisis and unknown since the establishment of the Fifth Republic in 1958.
France, at an Impasse, Heads Toward Another Government Collapse
A vote of confidence scheduled for Monday appears set to topple Prime Minister François Bayrou and put more pressure on President Emmanuel Macron.
nyti.ms
September 8, 2025 at 7:40 AM
A politically paralyzed France has had four prime ministers in the past 20 months and appears on the verge of adding a fifth, a degree of instability suggestive of institutional crisis and unknown since the establishment of the Fifth Republic in 1958.
I’m not that keen on the Taliban but I am glad that Afghanistan is finally at peace. Been thinking a lot about that country lately. From the Herat rising to the time we left. I hope things get better there.
July 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I’m not that keen on the Taliban but I am glad that Afghanistan is finally at peace. Been thinking a lot about that country lately. From the Herat rising to the time we left. I hope things get better there.
Part of me wants to get a big following on here so I can solicit opinions on various things but part of the reason I nuked my twitter is because I have (had?) a big following and it just got… yeah
July 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Part of me wants to get a big following on here so I can solicit opinions on various things but part of the reason I nuked my twitter is because I have (had?) a big following and it just got… yeah
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i have quibbles with the article but it is insane that ezra klein is publishing these words in the new york times
July 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM
i have quibbles with the article but it is insane that ezra klein is publishing these words in the new york times
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I see the replies are still doing "everything in the USG on UKR was Jake Sullivan and only Jake Sullivan's fault" discourse
I don't give a shit about Sullivan but we're going to continue to miss the roots of the problem
I don't give a shit about Sullivan but we're going to continue to miss the roots of the problem
1) you’re allowed to have more than one group doing advance planning
2) Wolfers is cool
3) they didn’t use up a good name
2) Wolfers is cool
3) they didn’t use up a good name
July 1, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I see the replies are still doing "everything in the USG on UKR was Jake Sullivan and only Jake Sullivan's fault" discourse
I don't give a shit about Sullivan but we're going to continue to miss the roots of the problem
I don't give a shit about Sullivan but we're going to continue to miss the roots of the problem
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Anyway I might have an idea for this
Reply with your most substantive gripes about Dem FP
Reply with your most substantive gripes about Dem FP
There were 3 core issues on FP in the Biden Admin:
- a principal who would not be swayed on Gaza. Whether this should be disqualifying to any political who stayed on is a conversation that should be had
- a feckless OSD that was unwilling/unable to bring the JS, CCMDs, and indeed itself to heel
- a principal who would not be swayed on Gaza. Whether this should be disqualifying to any political who stayed on is a conversation that should be had
- a feckless OSD that was unwilling/unable to bring the JS, CCMDs, and indeed itself to heel
July 1, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Anyway I might have an idea for this
Reply with your most substantive gripes about Dem FP
Reply with your most substantive gripes about Dem FP
Turns out IAF did have tanker support from USAF, obvious in hindsight can’t believe I missed that.
July 6, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Turns out IAF did have tanker support from USAF, obvious in hindsight can’t believe I missed that.
Some historians traced the origins of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war back to the pre-Islamic rivalry between the Babylonian and Achaemenid empires 🤷♀️
Only in the Middle East are relatively comprehensible modern conflicts rooted in the balance of power of nation-states reduced to quasi-mystical "ancient hatreds."
June 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Some historians traced the origins of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war back to the pre-Islamic rivalry between the Babylonian and Achaemenid empires 🤷♀️
“Why would he turn off the replies?”
Absolutely laughable to call gaming "one of the most expensive hobbies around" because a video game costs ten dollars more. Gamers are children and should be treated with distain.
June 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
“Why would he turn off the replies?”
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Just going to point out that in just the last month we’ve seen the most intense, multi-modal warfare between two nuclear-armed states ever (India & Pakistan) and now possibly the largest-ever attack on nuclear-capable assets in a nuclear state (UA vs Ru, today).
The times they are a-changin’.
The times they are a-changin’.
June 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Just going to point out that in just the last month we’ve seen the most intense, multi-modal warfare between two nuclear-armed states ever (India & Pakistan) and now possibly the largest-ever attack on nuclear-capable assets in a nuclear state (UA vs Ru, today).
The times they are a-changin’.
The times they are a-changin’.
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Absolutely insane footage! Strategic Russian aviation getting wiped out on an unprecedented scale.
June 1, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Absolutely insane footage! Strategic Russian aviation getting wiped out on an unprecedented scale.
The difference between Trump and Yeltsin is that Yeltsin had meaningful internal opposition
May 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The difference between Trump and Yeltsin is that Yeltsin had meaningful internal opposition
I ordered Max Hastings’ book on Vietnam, will post some pics once I get it. Will be a little bit more active on here I think
May 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I ordered Max Hastings’ book on Vietnam, will post some pics once I get it. Will be a little bit more active on here I think
Reddit was already being astroturfed in 2014. Wasn’t just political either def corporations at work there. No clue what it’s like now
“We had to make multiple accounts, burner accounts, and go and reply to comments, saying things that weren’t true—even Reddit forums,” a former Nancy Mace staffer tells @jakelahut.writes.news --
read all about it:
read all about it:
Nancy Mace's Former Staff Claim She Had Them Create Burner Accounts to Promote Her
According to former staffers and a deposition, Nancy Mace has allegedly used her tech background to deploy bots across social media—and asked staffers to surreptitiously post on her behalf.
www.wired.com
May 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Reddit was already being astroturfed in 2014. Wasn’t just political either def corporations at work there. No clue what it’s like now
I’ve been interested in Habermas for years but for whatever reasons I’ve never actually read him, just synopses of his work
May 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I’ve been interested in Habermas for years but for whatever reasons I’ve never actually read him, just synopses of his work
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pursuing martyrdom as a primary strategy of resistance is selfish anti-activism
May 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
pursuing martyrdom as a primary strategy of resistance is selfish anti-activism
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FYI do not take legal advice from non lawyers, especially on the topic of money laundering because her OP is all but advocating to willfully circumvent (B)(ii) in the rule she posted
May 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
FYI do not take legal advice from non lawyers, especially on the topic of money laundering because her OP is all but advocating to willfully circumvent (B)(ii) in the rule she posted
for the record this is a classic motte-and-bailey. Missile defense at tac level works is the motte, NMD/GBM works is the bailey. also, Bret has a very poor understanding of anything tactical-operational as amply demonstrated by his twitter threads.
I agree the 'golden dome' seems strategically pretty damn silly, but I'm going to need you to unpack "doesn't work" here, given that missile interception has become a pretty regular wartime occurrence and my understanding was that anti-ICBM capability has been demonstrated as well in tests.
May 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
for the record this is a classic motte-and-bailey. Missile defense at tac level works is the motte, NMD/GBM works is the bailey. also, Bret has a very poor understanding of anything tactical-operational as amply demonstrated by his twitter threads.
Friendly reminder that if OPSEC actually important for you, Signal is really not ideal. PGP encryption and an anonymous proton mail are far far superior in that respect.
Opsec isn't defeatism, modeling risks is a useful skill, using Signal to make it more expensive for the government to surveil you doesn't imply taping your mouth shut and burying your head in the sand, I don't know why any of this is controversial
May 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Friendly reminder that if OPSEC actually important for you, Signal is really not ideal. PGP encryption and an anonymous proton mail are far far superior in that respect.
Found a paper giving a pretty good overview of the Iskander complex vis-a-vis the INF treaty. Lot of interesting detail, I never knew it was more a successor to 9M714 Oka than to Elbrus/Tochka-U.
November 23, 2024 at 7:19 AM
Found a paper giving a pretty good overview of the Iskander complex vis-a-vis the INF treaty. Lot of interesting detail, I never knew it was more a successor to 9M714 Oka than to Elbrus/Tochka-U.
I still don’t understand why HR McMaster was so obsessed with going to war with North Korea
November 19, 2024 at 6:57 PM
I still don’t understand why HR McMaster was so obsessed with going to war with North Korea