[Upcoming TV show] Constellation (February 21, AppleTV+)
Created by Peter Harness (Doctor Who) and directed by Michelle MacLaren (Breaking Bad), the conspiracy-based space adventure will star Noomi Rapace (Prometheus) as an astronaut who returns to Earth after a...
Let me emphasize this.
The point of a "dirty bomb" is to contaminate an area with radioactive material. People in the area will ingest some of that material and will need medical treatment, but few will ingest enough to produce radiation sickness. 1/
You build character by:
- Losing money
- Getting hacked
- Being ignored
- Getting robbed
- Being rejected
- Losing someone
Painful events make you stronger.
China should be unsettled. Russia is demonstrating right now what the lack of recent wartime experience at scale (Syria, Georgia and even Chechnya were fairly small) can result in even if you have huge force numbers and a lot of modern equipment. Big lesson for Taiwan campaign
The leftists defending Russia’s “justified security concerns” claim the US would invade Mexico if Mexico made gestures towards joining an adversary’s (ie Russia/China) orbit. Uhhh that war would be wrong, too and the world should punish the US if that happened. Hope that helps.
Zelenskiy with another video from his office in the heart of Kyiv.
Not many presidents would still be there and not in a bunker, on the 12th day of an invasion, with multiple intelligence reports of hit squads out to get him.
His resilience is proving hugely inspiring here.
The Sessho-seki, a famous rock in Nasu, Japan that was said to have imprisoned the evil nine-tailed fox demoness Tamamo-no-Mae, was found broken in half.
After nearly 1,000 years, the demon vixen is presumably once again on the loose.
Ukraine, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, it doesn't matter. War is war. Our condolences to those who lost everything without having a choice. Having more empathy would be an achievement for humanity
It is interesting that people think that Putin is irrational for launching a disastrous and doomed war in Ukraine but they don't think that the US is irrational for launching and then continuing for 20 years doomed wars in the Middle East...
Todd: Why rule out the no-fly zone? Why not make Putin think it's possible?
Blinken, after a long explanation: "...For everything we're doing for Ukraine, the president also has a responsibility to not get us into a direct conflict, a direct war with Russia, a nuclear power..."
It’s the little things too. Things we take for granted. Having a routine, feeling calm and knowing when you’ll get your next meal. These are the things that war takes from innocent people.