Chris

Roving analyst
International Relations, Military Studies and Economics

[Chris @ChrisLomes]

@policytensor Great analysis as usual but you still heavily underestimate US missile capabilities. The US is also one of the great missile powers with mass production of PrSM starting in the past year. It is maneuverable, fast and very hard to shoot down.

[Chris @ChrisLomes]

@dex_eve Think about the counterfactual where Iran had no ballistic missiles during this war. Operation Epic Fury might have succeeded.

[Chris @ChrisLomes]

@jess_ann_pin You are doing him a favor. Plenty of girlies on the TL will see this attractive Chad with his phone number and shoot their shot. You are a great wingwoman.

[Chris @ChrisLomes]

@AbudBakri My man is going to keep teasing us on the protocols without never giving the details. Come on.

[Chris @ChrisLomes]

@matthew_petti Yes unlike traditional keyword search they can actually read the documents at machine speed and understand enough of it to come back with interesting results that traditional search would have missed.

[Chris @ChrisLomes]

@matthew_petti The Turanist lobby needs to be defeated.

[Chris @ChrisLomes]

@AbudBakri Is there a writeup somewhere on how to use Pinealon and Epitalon when traveling East-West and West-East?

[Chris @ChrisLomes]

Khamenei would be alive if he had one. In that sense they are useful.

[Abdolrasool Divsallar @Divsallar]

جمله ای کلیدی از زبان‌ یکی از باسابقه ترین کارشناسان حال حاضر تسلیحات استراتژیک که شاید برای مخاطب ایرانی، به ویژه طرفداران ساخت سلاح اتمی، هم‌ مفید باشد.

«سلاح اتمی تقریبا بیفایده است.»

[Chris @ChrisLomes]

@Aviation_Intel The negotiation issue goes both ways: Iranians also seem to complain that this US administration has a habit of not following through on the deals it make.

[Chris @ChrisLomes]

@phl43 Been enjoying war Philippe these past few days.

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@matthew_petti The Claude API is 10-20x more expensive than the plans. It is much cheaper to upgrade the plan or buy additional accounts than to use the API.

[Chris @ChrisLomes]

@phl43 @woke8yearold Do you think the conspiracy theories about this being intentional have any weight?

[Chris @ChrisLomes]

@natkpowell @SashoTodorov1 Taxing wealth like advised by Zucman would work because as you mention french households save a lot but the politics surrounding that are poisonous in France.

[Chris @ChrisLomes]

@natkpowell @SashoTodorov1 But that comes back to his point: a third of education budget goes to pensions as revealed this week by the government. France had to cut real budgets of education, health, ecology because of ballooning pensions.

[Chris @ChrisLomes]

@natkpowell @SashoTodorov1 And this is not even taking into account France has the highest public spending in the world at 57.5% of GDP. I just don't think austerity is a convincing explanation of France issues.

[Chris @ChrisLomes]

@natkpowell @SashoTodorov1 I don't think you can call a country with a chronic budget deficits of 5% as being victim of austerity. Something else is at play. Even inflation adjusted the budget hasn't been balanced for decades.

[Chris @ChrisLomes]

@awindywalker @matthew_petti A bubble is a psychological and financial phenomenon where human belief changes its trajectory. Germ theory is science and true whether humans believe in it or not. Very different phenomenon.

[Chris @ChrisLomes]

@matthew_petti Skeptical that it is an actual bubble that will pop like the dotcom one.

[Chris @ChrisLomes]

@matthew_petti Yes Trump wants a sphere of influence for himself but he certainly doesn't want to give one to Russia or China.