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Recent satellite images show the strait of Hormuz isn’t straight at all.

PSAB attacked. Odd that it wasn’t protected by air defenses. Air & Space Forces MagazineUS Forces at Saudi Air Base Suffer Iranian AttackMultiple U.S. service members were wounded and some aircraft were damaged in a March 27 Iranian attack on Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia.We’ve used approx 800-850 Tomahawks in the last month, or 20% of our inventory. The 2026 budget procures 57.

“Joe Kent is a crazed egomaniac who was often at the center of national security leaks, while rarely (never?) producing any actual work,” Taylor Budowich, Trump’s former deputy White House chief of staff and a political consultant, said in an X post. “This isn’t some principled resignation — he just wanted to make a splash before getting canned. What a loser,” Budowich said. Here's one of the times where he leaked National Security Secrets on a podcast: And here's another clip where his Trump Derangement Syndrome is extremely apparent: He could've just said "I quit because I hate Jews and I'm a Nazi" and dispensed with all of the below gobbledygook.

This is going to be an economic, social, and military disaster.

One of the unexpected benefits of once again relieving the world of "WMDs and Terror" is that it's also a logistical attack on China.

There is a meeting today between Hegseth and Anthropic. Anthropic's AI, Claude, is integrated within the Palantir Software used in the Maduro raid. Anthropic found out and informed the DoD Claude's terms of service stipulates is should not be used for applications involving violence, weapons development, or mass surveillance. Claude has guardrails in place to impede/prevents its use for such. It appears Claude is the only AI model approved for use on SIPRnet. Hegseth is unhappy. He says all AI models with DoD contracts need to remove any such guardrails so the full capabilities can be used by the DoD for "all lawful purposes." Hegseth is threatening to terminate Antropic's contract and deem them a "supply chain risk". Who is right? Hegeseth or Anthropic?

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It matters insomuch as your ability and willingness to do anything about it. Therefore, it still does not matter. Keep voting.

I'm cancelling my subscription.

The destruction of Democracy is necessary to defeat Russia.

I've used the word "fantasy" multiple times in this thread to describe these completely unrealistic positions/goals. You're explicitly telling me you're fantasizing. You're not going to be king. Nobody who thinks like you is going to be in a position to decide in favor of the things you want to happen. Some of you need to step back and consider the totality of the circumstances. You're focusing on variables that aren't going to change. Allowing oneself to dwell on pipe dreams and delusions is unhealthy.

Because it's a hilariously overly simplified comparison. For starters, we were a stronger power fighting a conflict 6-9 thousand miles from home. Russia/Ukraine are fighting a conflict 0 miles from their border. There are thousands of other variables, (social, language, economic, ideological) that make this situation different, just as in the earlier WWII examples. It's lazy to attempt to frame this conflict as the same as any other just because you can claim there is a strong player and a weak player, one was somewhat more committed, one was somewhat less committed. Nonsense. You could say Israel cannot win against the Palestinians because they're super committed. Your rule of thumb doesn't seem to apply there, does it? You're cherry picking a single argument. That's just one of my points in a post with several others. If you want to talk commitment, I would like for just one of you to explain to me how your individual support for Ukraine goes beyond pecking a few keys to whine about how we (collectively) are not dumping hundreds of billion$ more into this fiasco.