The Consequences of Incompetence
The US lost the first round of the war with Iran decisively. If Trump decides to go a second round, the results will be disastrous for American and its allies.
For nearly 40 days, Israel and the United States carried out an extensive aerial campaign against Iran designed to topple the government and suppress Iran’s ability to defend itself. This campaign failed to achieve any of its stated objectives. Instead, it devolved into a numbers game where inflated outcomes were sold to an unquestioning public by military professionals and politicians alike.
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Economist Editor-in-Chief: Clearly you and I agree, and we’ve both been critical of the Israeli government.
Tucker Carlson: Well, I’ve been critical of the Israeli government.
The Economist: I’ve been plenty critical.
Tucker Carlson: What do you think of what happened in Gaza?
Micro penis @marklevinshow is such a SMALL MAN he had to go beg the president for a pat on the head (in the middle of a war!) to make himself feel better about … well, you know.
This, after one mean tweet about him - following his 111 (!) nasty, non-stop, personal, misogynistic attacks on me. (Fox has an OBSESSED HARASSER on its hands.)
Just like all feckless, weakling bullies Micro can dish it out but he can’t take it. After just one post putting the so-called “great one” in his place, he ran crying to Daddy.
🇺🇸🇮🇱 HOPE FOR A DEAL: KUSHNER AND WITKOFF MEET NETANYAHU AGAIN
Jared Kushner and Stephen Witkoff were filmed leaving another late-night meeting at the New York hotel where Netanyahu is staying.
Witkoff, who is Trump’s special envoy for the Middle East, said he hopes a deal can be reached to free the hostages.
This adds to a flurry of talks around the UN General Assembly, where leaders are trading ideas and pressure.
Netanyahu is set to speak at the UN, and these side meetings are raising expectations.
It’s diplomacy in hotel hallways, with real lives on the line.
Source: KANN News
My jaw hit the floor listening to this
“The central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve was created right before the war”
“The head of the German central bank and the head of the American central bank were run by brothers during a war between the US and Germany”
President Trump has posted a video of Barack Obama being arrested, right after "arrest Obama" was trending on X.
The video shows agents hauling Obama away in front of Trump at the White House, then cuts to him alone in a prison cell.
The real question now—could this actually happen, or is it just a distraction from the Epstein scandal?
🦠 Prominent economist Jeffrey Sachs has released a series of theses following a four-year investigation into the origin of COVID:
✔️ COVID was created in a US laboratory (likely at the University of North Carolina).
✔️ The virus was sent to Wuhan for testing before accidentally leaking.
✔️ Research funded under the direction of Dr. Fauci, and hidden 2019 emails suggest US culpability.
✔️ The CIA has acknowledged the lab origin, but falsely blamed China.
COVID was caused by a virus that from the beginning had clear signs that it was created in a laboratory... The CIA has finally stated the truth, namely that this virus was created in a laboratory. What they didn't tell you, and what is very important, is that it was almost certainly done in a US laboratory, not in a Chinese laboratory.
- FRWL
this was the exact moment Trump’s political career truly began.
NOBODY said this in public before him. It was the moment he broke from the political game and shattered the paradigm.
And now he is falling for the same trap. Beyond insane.
I keep seeing scores of people saying that unless China intervenes in the Middle-East, it will somehow be their end.
Meanwhile, fascinatingly, here’s what Oriana Skylar Mastro, who used to be the Pentagon's top strategic planner on China and is now a professor at Stanford, has to say about it 👇
In a nutshell, she says that the U.S. would love nothing more than to "drag" China into conflicts like that with Iran - and she herself has "often tried to articulate recommendations" to trap China in that way - but China never takes the bait, which in her view shows that they're "very strategically disciplined".
It also reflects the fact that China, unlike the U.S. obviously, "do not believe in foreign military intervention as a tool of power": they believe in "using political and economic tools."
She asks rhetorically: "the war in Afghanistan cost the equivalent of 10 Belt and Road initiatives. So which one is more impactful on the world?"
She is adamant that the U.S.'s renewed involvement in the Middle East is an unequivocal mistake. As she explains, not only it will prevent once more the mythical "pivot to Asia," which is obviously in itself in China's interests, but it will only further deplete U.S. resources without much to show for it in the end.
Effectively, according to her, China gets exactly what they want: the U.S. repeatedly getting baited and exhausting itself into costly military interventions with little strategic rationale. As she puts it: "that's how great powers decline." In fact, it's exactly the type of strategic overextension that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
So, who’s right? The Twitter crowd or Pentagon Oriana?
My answer to this very question in my new Substack article where I explain why I find myself surprisingly agreeing with a notorious Pentagon China hawk (link in next tweet)
This eagle caught a fish that probably weighs more than it does.
Apart from the weight of the fish, the weight of the water on its wings, incredible and brutal the force.