Iran was strategically on the back foot. Loss of Syrian proxies, inability to restore deterrence against Israel or the US, GCC states slowly accepting Israel in the region, sanctions generally working...and then we put them in a position to gamble for resurrection and boy howdy did they.
There needs to be Nuremberg trials of cringe after this is all over. It’s painful how stupid it all is.
A short blog post on the concept of space piracy and what enables it, which a neat illustration:
starmoth.space/Techology/th...
The scale and intentionality make it so easy to convince yourself that this is the result of malign foreign influence rather than the product of a group of ignorant, highly ideological, dumbasses taking the wheel.
How wrong is it that the former is literally soothing.
HORRIBLE framing. come on JPL. I know you can do better
Anyone else reminded of those obnoxious sweet 16 parties shown in My Super Sweet 16 with Trump birthday? I keep waiting to hear that he cried about the cake being wrong or his crush not showing up. What a national fucking embarrassment that this is happening.
Don’t forget also weakening alliances, burning down stockpiles, and making our military look a bit questionable! An unbelievable loss that was entirely by choice.
i apparently had AMD stock at some point pre-COVID that i sold for a gain, but man, if i had held it till now, lmao