@GrantTRoosevelt@ianbremmer The failure in Iraq was a necessary condition for Trump’s rise in the first place. For now, Iraq remains a bigger fuck-up than Iran.
@_Jason_Dean_@JamesRaxz@mattyglesias Imagine if instead of tariffs and Greenland annexation threats and regime changes the US had built an alliance of nations who do not want to see their economies wrecked by a war in the Taiwan Straits establish a credible deterrent against CCP aggression
@planet4589 “The most interesting thing about King Charles I is that he was five-foot-six-inches tall at the start of his reign, but only four-foot-eight-inches tall at the end of it.”