Mirroring US capabilities: $1 trillion
Mirroring US bureaucracy: Priceless

The Russian losses in Novomykhailivka are just insanity.

RIP Daniel C. Dennett. Philosopher, wit, polymath. If you've never read anything by him, try this: lehigh.edu/~mhb0/Dennett-…

Johnson went from being a backbencher to a member of the Gang of 4. He’s gone from 0 real intel awareness to mainlining the strongest stuff—covert actions, ultrasensitive collection programs, exquisite source reporting. Some of that has shaken him, and he’s said as much publicly.

What I find interesting and what Sudani should find instructive is that he didn't have to experience being asked about Elizabeth Tsurkov by the U.S. President, by Christiane Amanpour, by The Wall Street Journal etc if he had just made his subordinates at Kataib Hezbollah give her back.

Varoufakis is a threat to no one but the brain cells of his own followers. And now he gets to play martyr. Stupid stupid stupid.

What drives ME crazy is how people post charts like this and never bother to look at, you know, the first half of the chart, where they can see whether rising consumer debt is associated with good times or bad times (it’s good times)

I've been on a binge recently but I love Tony Scott for doing next to zero exposition or world building and instead just showing us some dumb-ass fucking up in exactly the way a real-life dum-ass would fuck things up and then off to the races we go

🧵 This is already making rounds, so I will try to shed some more light on March/April 2022 Ukraine-Russia talks since the article is still far from the point, and because Poland played a much bigger role than anyone is willing to admit publicly
foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/talks-…

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Peaceful but loud protest in support of the kidnapped Princeton scholar Elizabeth Tsurkov at the White House when Iraq's PM Sudani is there today. Sudani commands the same force that kidnapped Elizabeth in Baghdad over a year ago and that faction helped appoint him as PM.

Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman has a remarkable quote from a source with knowledge of Israeli discussions on Iran: 'If the talks were broadcast live on Youtube, you'd have 4 million people clamoring at Ben Gurion airport trying to get out of here.' ynet.co.il/news/article/b…

IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari in a press conference puts the number of Iranian missiles and drones fired at Israel in the overnight attack at approximately 350.

He says the projectiles had a combined 60 tons of explosives, which 'could cause tremendous damage.'

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This 👉🏻 'In exchange for the arms it receives from UAE, the RSF channels the spoils of its gold through the UAE. The vast wealth hidden in Sudan’s soil isn’t being used to build homes, schools or sewers, but to buy influence and ammunition from the Gulf.' thecritic.co.uk/why-are-we-ign…