Speaking of hard to read…

It also raises concern over the competence of the US military command and deployment staff in the area, because that was an entirely predictable, avoidable, unforced error resulting in the loss of a serious strategic asset.

Yep. It’s bad people doing bad things for bad reasons to other bad people, and the plebs get caught in the meat grinder.

Same as it ever was, I guess.

In the context of this shitty situation, this is pretty much the absolute least controversial point of the whole thing. Iran supplied shaheds, as well as the design (which Russia proceeded to refine and mass produce and use against Russia). Iran has effectively been actively hostile towards Ukraine for years before Operation Epstein Feelings kicked off. What the actual fuck did they think was gonna happen?

To be clear: the Iran War is absolutely, categorically, pants-on-head stupid, and is an awful idea for a multitude of reasons from a multitude of domains. But this specific aspect of it is entirely uncontroversial.

Kessler syndrome goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

You need to understand that there is a real faction within the already heinous Nationalist Christians that are even more truly batshit insane than their already crazy baseline, who are genuinely doing their level best to bring about the biblical end times - which, of course just means a nuclear holocaust for everyone. This is not hyperbole. There are people who are actually pushing for that outcome who are part of our regime right now.

I’m so tired

This article is specifically about pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical precursors. It is about air transport, and the fact that war makes air transport dangerous.

The article is not primarily about sea passage.

RTFA.

The problem is not sea passage. The problem is “the Persian gulf is now combat airspace, and several major air transit and cargo hubs are in the area”.

RTFA

It is highly dependent on where you live. And it’s not density-specific, either. Some cities are sketchier than others. Some rural areas are sketchier than others.

It is super fucking weird being unitedstatesian, being fully aware of how repressive the Iranian regime is, being fully aware of how fucking unhinged our own regime is, and straight up rooting for the Iranian hackers here

So would Israel

I am pretty sure he is talking about the insider trading he and a bunch of people in the regime are doing on polymarket and similar platforms

It would be quite hilariously telling if orangeboi starts nattering on about “warm water ports”

$3M

Effectively, they won. That can’t even be classified as a slap on the wrist. That’s cheaper than an hour of OpEx for them

Fr holding on to those fuckers would have been the play tbh

I mean… trusting the current regime to actually back up any security guarantees would be… shall we say, foolhardy.

It’s rather incredible to me how the EU seems to be getting caught flat-footed and unprepared for literally every possible development. The US going in this direction was clearly something that should have been planned for around 2016 or 17 at the latest. But no - wishful thinking is much cheaper in the short term.

Oooooohhhh is it starting? I hope it’s starting 🤩

Too many people with too much power are making too much money, so they all work together to keep the cash cow going. It’s become pretty clear that’s what the US has reduced itself to at this point. It’s kinda nakedly obvious this whole thing is a giant fucking Ponzi scheme at this point - I’m fairly certain I’m never getting the social security I’ve payed into for my whole career.