@GrayConnolly@EmmaMAshford There were certainly others (Larijani chief amongst them) but we killed all of them too. So we’re left trying to orchestrate some bastard son of operation Ajax with Ahmadinejad as the linchpin (seriously who the hell greenlights these plans?)
@JustinWStapley Graduate student @ UVU? Could you not get into a real policy school? 🤔 This is the kind of overly simplistic analysis I would expect from a UVU “graduate school”
@CurtMills DOGE was bullshit and will end up net cost to taxpayers money when the dust settles. Cutting fraud, waste, and abuse is absolutely imperatives, but any such effort that doesn’t start in the Pentagon is pure window dressing
@RKelanic@defpriorities People don’t understand how an economy that has had to figure out how to endure almost 50 years of near-global economic sanctions actually functions. Policies grounded purely in a neoliberal understanding of the global economic order are likely to fail
@EWErickson@neoavatara We’re told there’s no money for programs that benefit everyday Americans, but somehow there’s seemingly limitless money for wars of choice, corprorate bailouts, and “loans” to foreign governments. MAGA indeed
@lupafin@nfergus You can believe whatever you want, doesn’t mean your “belief” is true. Dropping nuclear weapons on Israel could kill huge numbers of Palestinians and have widespread impact across Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and Egypt. 60% is not bomb level, that’s 90%+