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Taiwan's first strategic imperative is sea denial to prevent the landing and support of an invasion force and their second is air defense. Ukraine has much to teach. bsky.app/profile/reut...

Looks like the new era of peace and prosperity that Trump has announced for the middle east is off to a great start. bsky.app/profile/reut...

What the hell, embrace the comic corruption and mediocrity - let's just send this guy to negotiate with Iran instead of JD Vance. bsky.app/profile/pbum...

I knew that the Dark Age was going to be stupid, but I am still doomed to be surprised and disgusted at each symptom that crops up during the collapse. Hope that we can still reverse this, but it might be too hard to trap the djinn Unreason back in the bottle. bsky.app/profile/carl...

To be clear, the "trillionaire" doesn't offer an efficient space program. Elon Musk has turned America's public capital markets to the subsidization of Mecha-Hitler's child porn and online fascist propaganda. The only space-related investment is in Kessler Event futures bsky.app/profile/nied...

Because I was reading this sort of thing during the northern hemisphere planting season and kind of worrying. www.npr.org/2026/03/26/g...

In exchange for waiving those sanctions and allowing Iran to be the only nation so far able to freely transit the Strait of Hormuz, the US has gained a commitment to hold talks on nuclear and other issues in the future. Which talks have now been "called off." bsky.app/profile/theg...

Okay. Let's review how the Trump peace deal is going so far. At least five Iranian tankers have already passed the US blockade line, carrying more than 5 million barrels of crude oil toward eager buyers under waivers of decades-old oil and finance sanctions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMbY...

Gulf states are major fertilizer producers, and the war with Iran has triggered a 25% price hike just as struggling U.S. farmers are planting corn.

I’m sorry, no. This is not the guy who did the reflecting pool. No. Come on. We’re just putting a hat on a hat here. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

“.. A trainee in his sixth week of basic training died after falling ill on Friday and being taken to Brooke Army Medical Center, the Air Force said in a news release.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

Exclusive: Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has set up secretive new cells in Iraq to carry out attacks on Gulf countries that host American forces, bypassing established militia networks to avoid detection, eight Iraqi sources told Reuters reut.rs/4uJVEOM

The CEO of UFORCE, a Ukrainian producer of attack drones, flew to Tokyo in April with a pitch for Japanese officials and defense contractors: build thousands of our drones to defend yourself and allies.

JD Vance’s staff were at the airbase ready to fly to summit in Bürgenstock for Iran talks before trip was suddenly cancelled Talks set to take place on Friday between the ⁠United States ⁠and Iran on implementing the 14-point agreement to end their war have been cancelled, Switzerland’s foreign ministry has announced. The talks were set to begin in the tiny Swiss village of Obbürgen on Friday, two days after the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that opened a 60-day window to negotiate a permanent understanding about Iran’s nuclear program while getting oil traffic moving through the strait of Hormuz. Continue reading...

A super El Nino is likely to unsettle global weather and threaten food output in the coming months, but near record world inventories, expectations of near-normal conditions in some key producing regions and advanced planning could limit the fallout.