One of the most dangerous assumptions in national security is believing an adversary has been defeated simply because it suffered losses.
Professional adversaries expect setbacks. They lose leaders. They lose training camps. They lose weapons. Sometimes they lose entire safe havens.
The question that determines their future isn't: "What did we lose?"
It's: "What did we learn, and how do we come back stronger?"
History is filled with adversaries that absorbed significant losses and adapted. Al-Qaeda rebuilt after losing its sanctuary in Afghanistan in 2001. ISIS evolved after the collapse of its caliphate in Iraq and Syria. Terrorist organizations routinely study failed attacks as carefully as successful ones, changing their tactics, communications, recruitment, and operational security based on what they learn.
The same principle applies to nation states. As the conflict with Iran continues, don't just watch the strikes or count the damage. Watch what Iran learns, what capabilities it prioritizes rebuilding, what tactics it changes, and which relationships it strengthens.
Never underestimate an adversary that is still capable of learning.
When someone fraudulently charged $25 on my credit card, I knew within 24 hours and fixed the issue.
When my Door Dash order gives me a small fry instead of the large fry I paid for, I get a refund within a day.
When my Instacart order is missing the bananas I ordered, I ensure it’s replaced immediately.
So why can’t the government figure out how to spot fraud and abuse that’s rampant across all taxpayer funded programs?
The auditors (Congress) are in on the grift and/or the government has way too much of our money that would be better managed at the local level where we can track it easily.
Either way the only solution is for the feds to go back to using our money to fund only the items specifically spelled out in the Constitution and give states responsibility for everything else.
**No, not voter fraud.**
Omar Fateh’s brother-in-law, Muse Mohamed, was convicted in 2022 of perjury for lying to a federal grand jury about how he obtained and handled three absentee ballots as a volunteer on Fateh’s 2020 campaign.
He received 6 months house arrest + 2 years probation. Fateh has said he had no knowledge or involvement, and no charges were filed against him. The case stemmed from an investigation into Minneapolis absentee ballot procedures.
You know what's better than a book written by the autopen?
This viral documentary where we exposed the truth about what really happened in the Biden White House while Joe was asleep at the wheel.
Spread the truth.
The fact that Minnesota RINO never Trump Republicans are flipping out right now is a sign that Donald Trump endorsed the right person for governor! @realMikeLindell@phillipcparrish
Why not the other vape brands? You’re only going after a Minnesota business, you hate Minnesota. And news flash, adults like what they like and your doing government overreach trying to limit citizen choice in the name of ‘young people’
🚨#BREAKING: I have received HORRIFYING footage of what appears to be a police officer being smashed between two cars during a "teen street takeover".
The officer screams and then lies on the ground in pain while everyone laughs and films him.
Truly horrifying.
Pro-lifer protesting at an abortion clinic? 4 years and 9 months in prison
Indian illegal kiIIs three Americans? 4 years and 8 months in prison
Two-tier justice system
A 36-year-old man in Colorado is suing the hospital where he was born for allegedly switching him with another child at birth.
Jeremy Morrison says he always felt different than his family and decided to get a DNA test a couple of years ago.
When he got the test back, he found out that his parents were not actually his parents.
"I know I definitely wouldn’t be here in Colorado today if I went home with the right parents. I would have been working the farm with my older brother that I never knew I had," he said.
Morrison says he was switched with Kyle Bylin, who was born just hours apart at the same hospital in Grafton, North Dakota, in 1988.
Morrison went home with Bylin's biological parents, and Bylin went home with Morrison's biological parents.
Both of the men and their families are suing Unity Medical Center. They are demanding more than $50,000 and a jury trial.
According to KKTV, both parents have now met their biological sons.
Loon bird > Loon vapes.
Especially when those vapes are being illegally sold in kid-friendly flavors like cotton candy and blue razz slushy.
We’re suing to get them out of Minnesota. https://t.co/olIphlghWl
@UltraMagaMN@AGEllison He’s such a f*cking idiot I cannot even laugh at him anymore. This is like him suing Glock because criminals found away to manipulate their guns.
@cicero_mn@Stevkostev Seriously. I just walked outside and started b*tching thinking our neighbor was having a fire (because he normally doesn’t at all hours of the day no matter the weather). And then I had a ‘V8’ 🤦♀️ moment. It smells horrible.