Checking the group chat to see if SecDef has texted around the attack plans yet...
Okay, then, open it.
Not the biggest deal disclosed in this piece, but imagine if a Cabinet member, say a Secretary of State, had used a private email instead of the one provided by the government for her functions.
Would the NYTimes make an issue if it? Hard to tell...
Statement from Mayor of London Sadiq Khan calling for Musk and his platform to be held to account:
To avoid this non-catastrophe, we made our missile defense and our deterrent capabilities ACTUALLY disappear, while also provoking Iran to shut down the Strait of Hormuz, which was entirely predictable and predicted.
Genius!
So Iran was building conventional weapons so that when they later said Ha ha, we are building nuclear weapons, we wouldn’t be able to do anything about it. Except for our missile defense, deterrent capabilities, etc., which mysteriously vanish from Kennedy’s account.
A decent rule or thumb is that when you happen upon really egregious misconduct, it’s unlikely that you just fortunately stumbled upon the first unique instance. More often it escalated to be that bad via a lot of lesser infractions for which there were no consequences.
a VLCC is ~2m bbl, so that's 50 transits - not impossible for dark transits and/or iranian ships but, like, it's at the outer bound of how much has been slipping through
also given prior flows were something like 21m bbl/day, uh, congrats, that's 5 days worth of normal flow
