Why would Putin ever do something productive for global peace
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Why would Putin ever do something productive for global peace
I don’t know how many times I have to say “you literally just need someone on the NSC to write a memo and you can do it” before people accept it
They don’t deserve it. This isn’t the Sicario I was promised by Villeneuve
Well you know. The drugs were headed towards the United States. So in a way, it was a self-defense strike
Rubio’s tweet announcing a US military strike somewhere in the Caribbean…if I’m not mistaken, first combat action by SOUTHCOM since the Clinton administration called off the invasion of Haiti three decades ago.
Live INDOPACOM reaction:
>HEY THEY DON’T HAVE AN AUMF FOR THAT
Taliban government now saying that Manogai, Watapur, and Chapa Dara districts—the districts of the Pech valley—along with Chowkay and Nurgal are the districts that seem hit hardest by the earthquake in terms of death toll. Awful. Communities that have survived so much fighting, now just collapsed.
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so the thing is, there is an actual law, the 1949 amendment to the national security act of 1947, that says he can't do this congress can pass a law changing it, and the senate could ratify, and the president can sign. but this is not executive order stuff
Yeah. Like I said. It was a priori knowledge
I know Aella is involved in this at a metaphysical level.
It's an objectively bad show and anyone who watches it instead of Veep can't be helped
Pure distillation of Trump's view that positive-sum trade is literally impossible—buying = losing & selling = winning, automatically But also a good view into the inconsistencies of his trade "demands". He's mad at India for its tariffs, but even zeroing them wouldn't be enough?
Maybe Trump can win a Nobel Prize for uniting the rest of the world against America.
At the risk of being booed, it's not really wrong to call NASA a national security-related agency
When the overnight low slips to 49
She's extremely Valentina Istomina coded unfortunately
Trump has been president for 8 months. There is no need for any emergency tariff to last longer than 3, because if the country really needs that particular tax congress will pass it. All emergency tariffs should be moot after 90 days.
Zero shot anybody remembers to tell Doug Burgum
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Day 1284. I am in the heaviest battle of Pokrovsk, Donetsk, East Ukraine. This is my combat gear and my weapon. It does not shoot, but it delivers A LOT of pain to Russian invaders. With this weapon, they have nowhere to hide. I am Ukrainian Soldier. That’s what I go through 🧵
YOU BELONG WITH WHO? Pentagon Bigwig’s Astro-Affair Ends in Bad Blood
GRAND VIZIERMAXXING AT THE PENTAGON
Fifteen years ago this week in (and above) Kandahar’s Zhari district during the Afghan surge.
Is there any formalized game theory treatment of this phenomenon?
retvrn to random Canadian army guys making fun little edits
I miss War Aesthetics like you wouldn't believe man
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Look, they're operating at a varsity level. I'll give them that
I can’t believe I understood what every word of this meant. Absolute new low for me
I’m sorry, is this a military strategy-themed porno?
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Both?
At some point we have to hit a point where there’s no dignity left to lose
It can’t possibly get worse
It’s just marriage. It’s a thing people in love do. It’s not like…a political statement.
Patriot
OH HELL YEAH
D*** f****** b****
It’s good bait. I’ll give them that
And no. They’re both openly liberals. What the fuck are you even talking about
>is getting married MAGA??? I fucking hate American politics so fucking much
They aren’t paranoid enough. Everyone is out to get you. Never trust them. Selfless help? Yeah more like love bombing if you ask me
Identifying the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas members who assaulted a mixed-race family last summer is probably the investigation I'm most proud of so far. I'm thrilled that its impact was recognized and helped win Steven and I this award.
They’re secretly plotting against you. Help? Yeah more like using the opportunity to case your office
You gotta steal their windows now tbh
Neighboring office (archenemeses and rivals) came to help clear the rubble
HOW BOUT THEM BOYS
Death toll in Kyiv has now climbed to 17 after Russian air strikes with 31 missiles and 598 drones, according to Ukraine’s state emergency service, which is still searching the rubble of destroyed apartment blocks for trapped residents.
Russia's deadliest attack on Kyiv since Anchorage has damaged EU and UK offices and killed at least 17. Among the infrastructure hit was a courier sorting facility and a train depot. “Not a single train will be canceled,” the train company said. www.wsj.com/world/russia...
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
even the lysenko comparison is at this point an insult to lysenko
“As they see colleagues fired, reassigned or stripped of their clearances, those who remain will be less willing to report intelligence that contains unpalatable truths or contradicts Trump’s views” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Idk I feel like DHS using the principal installation for training new sailors for another dog and pony show would get in the war of warfighting and lethality but what do I know
>raid his apartment with a dozen dudes in tactical gear >release a highly edited video of the arrest >grand jury declines to indict him Lmfao
Very Miami Vicecoded tbh
I love the photo — it’s 1943, FDR in Morocco enroute to the Casablanca conference, being saluted by soldiers whose shadow you see, generals (including Patton and Devers) arrayed saluting both the president and soldiers, FDR’s hat and hand over his heart.
🫡
It got so many guys
You’re welcome
You promote into trash management
Live look of the MSS, SVR, and VAJA
They’re literally me
Better an MP than a weeb
Average off*cer
I am an NCO. There is nobody who can collect cigarette buts like I.
Next week: "Big Balls has been beaten up again, this time by irate seniors whose social security records were leaked."
DONALD TRUMP NEEDS TO SEND IN THE MILITARY TO CLEAN THE TRASH OUT OF OUR CITIES
Pathetic behavior from the US Air Force Academy.
We’re turning the corner. In six months the waste management companies will be standing on their own.
This is really important. Why has Travis Kelce refused to release the epstein files
In a metaphysical sense, your Brigade SGM is an 80-year-old authoritarian.
They’re busy at Starbucks atm
No, in all fairness, this is the most accurate depiction of being stateside active duty military I've ever seen
Yeah see. I knew there was an angle
No that’s not true. In both cases his favorites just hang out in his office all day pretending to work
The President is basically just America's 1SG
Ramirez, clean up the parking lot next to Burger Town!
Bro my contract was option 40 wtf I'm not supposed to be picking up trash :(
It's almost beautiful in a way
I had to do it so they should have to do it. I don’t want to make things better, I want other people to feel like dorks too
BECAUSE I HAD TO SPEND YEARS POLICING A MOTORPOOL
>no PT belts War...has changed
I, for one, am glad to see the NG suffering the deprivations I was subject to
“Look at the poor National Guardsmen picking up trash Imagine how bored they are! How could we use our service members like this!”
I'm glad that Americans get to see a more realistic view of what our selfless Active Duty servicemembers do on a daily basis in garrison. Maybe this is actually going to improve civil-military relations.
Israel justified its strike on the Nasser Hospital, which killed six journalists and more than a dozen others, by claiming a "Hamas" camera was set up there. The location they attacked is where Reuters and the AP livestream. From me and others (see byline/contribs) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/w...
Me posting about hating YA novels
Everything about this seems doomed to produce psychopaths.
A 🔥 quote from the New York Daily Tribune in the 1840s about liberal nationalism: “American nationality…is a thing of ideas solely, and not a thing of races. It is neither English, nor Irish, nor Dutch, nor French…our nationality is our self-government, our system of popular liberty and equal law/
I would like it more if people cared that the official public USG account for DHS was indistinguishable from /pol/.
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I fucking hate my party so much
Literally nothing about addressing DHS, masking, and randomly grabbing people off the street