I'm not sure I understand the final goal being played at, but Macron is very clearly trying to ballroommog our president.
I’m in @foreignpolicy.com taking a big swing (but not a hot take): Trump’s defeat in Iran is a bigger US defeat in strategic terms than the US loss in Vietnam
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A war of choice has turned into a strategic disaster for Washington.foreignpolicy.com
US President Donald Trump said he had accepted French President Emmanuel Macron's offer of dinner this week at the Versailles palace of the Sun King Louis XIV. ‘Versailles is not gold leaf. It's the real deal. And I said, I'd like to do it,’ Trump said.
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I’ll admit when we started @liberalcurrents.com I did not expect a significant portion of our output to be “everything is gender,” but turns out, everything is gender
I don’t make the rules folks, but if you don’t have a brain injury, you’re a woman
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half one "we play a careful system of possession-based football"
"nothing happens"
half two "just let olise and mbappe do whatever they want"
3 goals
😩😩😩
ughh
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honestly I think the best metaphor for this debacle is the Russo-Japanese war:
-idiot ruler with delusions of grandeur
-empire wants to show a middle power whos in charge
-negotiators are idiots
-imperial logistics are all fucked up
-empire surrenders to middle power after defeat
