my negotiation strategy with russia is kill more russians

it turns out it's much cheaper for a resource constrained actor to blow up dugin's car than to retake donetsk

This results in a really funny, bizarre situation where Lenin is hated but Nicholas II and Stalin are simultaneously praised as excellent leaders in russia

Another fun implicit assumption from a lot of Russophiles, especially but not exclusively leftist ones, is that 1917 was a baptism that washed away all the sins of the Russian Empire so thoroughly that modern Russia should never have to reckon with them (even as they benefit from them)

The campaign actually was worth 3-4 points everywhere where it was active! That's the upper end of what the literature thinks is possible. It was a very good campaign, just an environment that couldn't be overcome.

Oberkommando der Wehrmacht is the best they can do?

Also if you throw enough 155 into a grid....

"Convincing a faerie to settle down as your spouse and convert to Christianity" is actually a pretty well-worn folkloric trope. But instead we get stories about gangsters who don't even swear, labeled with tags like "TW: indirect reference to M*rmonism".

Secular dark romantasy: enemies-to-lovers with the brooding prince of the fae who have enslaved humanity Christian dark romantasy: falling in love with a Catholic

The bloodborne insight mechanic is real

Synthesis; it was one more reason to hate an already detestable man

american hegemony was the worst thing you could imagine, save the alternative, of course

Most dangerous men in FPS

Now I may be wrong, but I am inclined to think the reason Syrians are talking about being free of Zionist occupation is because Syrians are in fact currently living under Zionist occupation.

Mental flashbang that Bill Kristol is the one saying this

2025 was a great year of reading making this a very difficult exercise. Some recommendations by folks on here made the list! My latest⬇️

the whole insight mechanic in bloodborne making you more susceptible to mental damage as you gain more knowledge was actually based on reality

does feel like the biggest lessons from ukraine for the US et al is "you do not have enough artillery" and "you do not have enough air defense"

The Biden admin shoulda followed the Harry Hopkins school of lend lease tbh

Reddit occupied colorado

Youtube what the fuck is this

@boxelderdust.bsky.social Has beaten the horse to death but every journo aspiring for their next tell-all book is an incentive that *needs* to be curbed.

Even with the high propensity supersoldiers, R+Double digits was always going to be a hard to push through.

Election prediction: Van Epps wins by high single digits, let's say 8%. Still an excellent showing for Ds given the partisan lean of the district but I think Behn's chance to actually win was a "sneak one past the goalie" ultra low turnout race and the GOP got enough attention to avoid that

Comparing OBBB to TCJA feels incredibly disorientating, and they're ostensibly from the same party!

Playing through dynasty warriors 8 with a friend and i have to say the hypothetical path for lu bu is so fucking funny. Incredible character development for mr. "wont anyone provide me with a decent challenge" himself to decide that killing people who cant fight back isnt worth it.

"Surely a quick, violent, successful war of aggression is just what the ruler needs to shore up his legitimacy," said just about every failed monarch in history shortly before invading Serbia.

thinking of that quote from gustavo petro about how columbia first has to do functioning capitalism before it can do socialism

Margin Call gang rise up

“Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.”

If Trump proactively pardons Hegseth, the solution is to signal either to the ICC or the country of origin of the murdered men that we will honor extradition requests on this point. And then, in something of an irony, Noem him out of the country before anyone can react.

Critical support for deepstateua to nuke this from orbit

critical support to the truck usury industry honestly.

Im crying people are actually doing the "you only live once, buy a 20% APR truck" and being shocked at the results

She Lyndon on my Johnson til I Baines

It has to get brought up again but the modern moderation tools that social media uses are a direct result of ISIS + offshoots flooding online places with propaganda, beheadings and battle footage. Mainlining trauma is really bad! Average users should not be able to see it!

I am partial to the "England just chose to be like that" theory of Children of Men

Doug Jones *barely* won against a pedophile in his senate race. The turbo racism makes winning with a D next to your name equivalent to winning the lottery down there

Hukou system is the pretty logical endpoint imo

We need to establish the slopulist containment zone

Like in 99 out of 100 scenarios sending out a bunch of Kampfgruppe "random vehicles and motorcycles" into the french countryside does not work. Incredible streak of breaks for germany, helped by the fact that basically every officer in the french army needed to be shot for incompetence.

basically the only militarily impressive thing, singular, the Nazis ever did was the logistical feat in capturing paris the way they did and the correct takeaway is holy shit they got ungodly lucky with that one

Lily white republicanism on the TL is crazy

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I don't think that the Targaryen's are inherently good or even necessarily modernizing, I think Danerys in particular is, which is why they spend 5 seasons of the show demonstrating her sincere (and eventually successful) commitment to slavery eradication bsky.app/profile/roni...

it's been at least 1,000-3,000 years since they learned to make good steel, which they forgot, and there's still no printing press, no gunpowder, no clocks... yeah, they're not going anywhere.

I think it all clicks into place when you realize the show was subtly setting up the wheel as an elaborate metaphor starting with the first episode. bsky.app/profile/padr...