I can oppose both Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the US/Israel war on Iran.

Two enormous armies in a proxy war on foreign soil is nightmarish for the people forced to endure. All so that the Pentagon and the Russian MOD can have a dick swinging contest without touching tips.

But there’s this insane Westoid reasoning that says Total War is fine when we do it. It only becomes a crime when anyone else cribs from our notebooks.

Why wouldn’t they? We did the same for Ukraine. They get to inflict the same kind of attrition on US forces that we intended to inflict on them during their own disastrous operations.

Each one of these that bite the dust means 5-10 less planes raining bombs on Tehran.

These aren’t just bombers. They’re part of the air force’s command and control structure. You fly one of these planes at high altitude and use it to command a fleet of fighter-bombers. Losing five of them functionally puts dozens of more basic aircraft out of commission.

Americans have wanted to invade Iran going back to the Reagan administration. Trump’s just so zooted up on his own supply that he thought he could make it happen.

That’s okay, though. We’re going to invade Cuba next. We can stop blaming Zionists and point the finger squarely at Florida Billionaires going forward.

We get to pay for that.

Can we even build these planes anymore? The C-17 was produced by McDonald Douglas, a company that went bankrupt back in '97 and had to be acquired by Boeing. Now Boeing is way behind on orders, because they’ve outsourced themselves to the hilt in the same way that ruined Douglas.

This isn’t just an issue of the fiscal costs. The US literally cannot produce airliners reliably anymore. Boeing is increasingly just booking orders it cannot fulfill. Even if Hegseth gets a blank check from the Treasury, this equipment isn’t going to be replaced any time soon.

Pete Hegseth going over to his emergency appropriations request and adding another zero to the back end.

Japan, one of the world’s largest gas importers, on Friday said it would expand the use of less-efficient coal power plants, as it tries to diversify its generation capabilities. In Bangladesh and India, coal plants are already shouldering the burden of shortfalls elsewhere.

Even in Europe, where plenty of dirty power has been phased out, the Netherlands, Poland and the Czech Republic could all see more coal use if gas prices remain high. Germany is considering reactivating mothballed coal-fired plants as a way to curb electricity prices.

Coal is one of the most expensive per-kwh sources of energy in the modern day. It’s primary appeals are density and reliability - you can generate an enormous amount of electricity for a relatively small geographic footprint and regulate it based on fossil fuel inputs more easily than solar/wind.

Even then, we’ve phased out a lot of the old coal mining operations, thanks to the post-COVID price crash. This is a distressing turn as a stopgap measure, but it is also an economic shock that’s going to force people away from fossil fuels in the aggregate that much sooner over the long term.

After all, the Straight of Hormuz isn’t the only international energy choke point. And coal supply trains can run as long as their LNG/petroleum peers.

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Shock Doctrine was a fantastic piece of work.

Idk if she’s moderated, per say. Might just feel that way as the rest of the public has been recovered radicalized

Only if you replaced OP with a twink.

Girl makes the same video

Plot Twist: It’s the same video, but the “girl” is edited in via AI.

Double plot twist: The views and reacts are also fake, because YouTube is flooded with bot accounts

Triple plot twist: AI making AI videos for AI consumption is technically gay and simping

Quadruple plot twist: It’s a fix-it video. People are taking the information you put out there and using it to fix their shit. Why are you complaining?

Quintuple plot twist: Neither of these videos take place in an attic.

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What they’re doing is laudable. But these boats are tiny compared with what the Cubans need to survive.

These appear to have arrived before the US tightened the blockage in earnest. Their plan was for a 2 GW combined installation, of which this represents maybe 1%.

Thankfully solar and other supplies are being given to Cuba in large quantities

That’s news to me. Was just listening to a podcast interviewing a local Cuban journalist, suggesting help was not - in fact - on the way.

Incidentally, Belly of the Beast does some excellent domestic Cuban coverage. But everything they are reporting suggests these supplies have not been forthcoming, on account of the military blockade of the island. Like, you cannot sail ships into and out of the major harbors (shy of outright smuggling or armed escort).

Much like with the Gaza Blockade, there are ongoing efforts to build political pressure by assembling relief and directing it at the island. There’s no reason to believe it will actually arrive.

Liberals are hyper exposed to the latter and sheltered from the former.

Check the Cuba coverage right now. We’re getting wall to wall #SOSCuba tier hysterics, while the devestation of the blockade and the threat of a military invasion goes fully unreported.

That moment when Voyager One hits the edge of the map

Survivorship Bias. The boomers alive today are the ones that weren’t killed by wars, pollution, and poverty

This is actually your fault, btw

Boomers haven’t been a voting majority in over a decade. JD Vance is a Vice President by, of, and for millennials.

Straight up coming down to “Do you have an industrialized plumbing system?” and “Do your buildings have A/C?”

So much of the future of humanity will be dictated by the machinery that guarantees access to the basic conditions of life. One reason why I am not bullish on the future of the American state. We’re a country that loves social murder. We will gleefully box in our neighbors and let mother nature finish them off. Turn every minority neighborhood and rural community into the Superdome during Katrina.