Category: Problems Europe didn't have before Trump and Bibi went wilding in Iran www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/b...

"In other words, Google has created a misinformation crisis. Studies have shown that people tend to trust what an AI tells them without question (...)." #AI #KI

New at CBS News - Army survivors of deadly attack in Kuwait dispute Pentagon's account, say unit "was unprepared" to defend itself — this is a photograph of the tactical operations center struck by an Iranian drone on March 1. www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-wa...

The world went from two superpowers to one when Pope John Paul II pulled the Poland piece on the USSR jenga tower. Pope Leo is looking at you, America.

They can turn to a pillar of stability and reason, one happy to provide market relief and predictable policy. 🇨🇳 Of course, there would be some compromises, but they may be ever more palatable as the crazy train trundles on.

The Delphic Oracle told King Croesus of Lydia that if he attacked Persia "a great empire will fall." He saw this as a prediction of victory and attacked. It was his own great empire that fell.

Trump's explicit threat of genocide against a nation of 90 million people is being treated by the New York Times as just another story on a Tuesday morning.

A statement that should be impeachable in the United States, but it's certainly damnable in almost every faith.

Fact Check: Image Does NOT Show American F-15 Crew Member After Rescue From Iran -- It's AI-Generated Is an image of a smiling man in a combat uniform holding an American flag a real photo of a U.S. F-15 crew member after his rescue from Iran? No, that's not true: The image wa...

Watch responses to this from mainstream media. The inability to call insane behavior insane is a major failure of contemporary “journalism.” Same with the failure to call out threatened or enacted war crimes for what they are.

Shameful to see willful misrepresentation of NATO by current and former Sec States. NATO was purpose-built. The North Atlantic treaty language is specific. FAFO outside of its territory (Art. 6) is not its remit. Lay guilt on individual states for not following the U.S. into folly, but not NATO.

Further incentivizing politicization of our military. This should be penalized, not rewarded.

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

The Swiss electorate is difficult to please, making government deals hard to get and easy to lose. Sunk cost may keep them in for now, but they’ll avoid any future US opportunities after getting shoved down the procurement stairs. www.swissinfo.ch/eng/foreign-...

NATO comes with instructions, in the form of treaty language. In the same way you don’t make toast in the bathtub, you don’t drag a defensive alliance into an offensive ME adventure with no apparent strategy.

One must credit this administration for its unceasing and innovative efforts, finding new ways to tarnish America’s reputation abroad and zeroize any remaining trust with our allies. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This regime has detained the parents of more than 11,000 U.S. citizen kids – New Directive: officials revised a document advising how ICE officers should interact with parents, removing the word “humane.” #PINKS www.propublica.org/article/trum...

"Trump, who took office promising to keep the U.S. out of 'stupid' military interventions, now appears to control neither the outcome nor the messaging of a conflict he helped to initiate." Via Reuters

Let's be sure and give Kori the full Streisand effect.

The vaccines worked

"In interview after interview, veterans across the country told ProPublica that one year into the second Trump administration it’s become more difficult to get treatment, as hundreds of therapists and social workers have left the VA." www.propublica.org/article/vete...

As an F-16 dude, it should be obvious to Gen. Caine what's next when the single source of power doesn't respond to throttle inputs. CJCS's one job is to provide military advice to the President. It didn't work. At all. Fire lights and the master caution are blinking and he's not in a great place.

It’s too bad we gutted the State Department and the National Security Council is just Marco Rubio running from one seat to another around an empty Situation Room conference table, talking to himself

He expects loyalty, which is not how states operate. He expects participation to confer legitimacy on his unilateral actions, which it would. He expects transactional behaviors like his own. He expects smaller actors to pick up after him, which a unified Europe is not.

Some 20 years ago, drastically short of grey hulls, USN leaders saw the utility of organizing navies and maritime resources around shared interests; cooperative security, not coercive. A good idea, but wholly incompatible with American unilateralism. www.usni.org/magazines/pr...

Customer irate that his car insurance does not cover boats outside of the region defined by the policy. Hints (again) that he will stop paying his premiums.

37-1. Yet another stunning global marker of how far we’ve descended and exactly how concretely regressive the Administration’s agenda is. www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-stands-al...

This is very good on how the cult of tactics and lethality is about to do serious damage to US PME I'd add that anti-intellectualism is a major threat to PME elsewhere, too

What I thought was a dangerous thing to do has indeed become a dangerous thing to do.

Before NDIA ethical standards, there was Fenning's Universal Spelling Book with "Lessons both moral and divine" (1755), which was used in Colonial-era (and later) American schools. Moral: unchanged Note: recall "f" with no crossbar makes a "long s" sound in English - prior to the 19th cent.

“I know more about wars than the generals do, believe me.” — DJT

Rather than face a power hitter, Air War College opts to walk the Doc in what would’ve been a timely pre-season exhibition. Signs of a weak bullpen and fearful management.

Almost like it was a mistake to alienate all of our allies with idiotic trade wars, and then launch an actual hot war where we needed their help gcaptain.com/trump-calls-...

Türkiye has had their sights set on this for a long time, in addition to becoming more self sufficient in sourcing their own defense requirements. Must admire Ankara’s drive. 📈🇹🇷

This is, to put it mildly, a double standard. This guy was part of a government that encouraged online social media figures to engage in routine harassment of government employees to the point that many were fired or went into hiding. Some of it was done by Elon Musk, this guy's boss.

OMG they released the deposition videos where they revealed that these two DOGE bros were just feeding grants into ChatGPT and saying "tell me if this is DEI in less than 120 characters." www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...

"U.S. officials called London insurers and brokers, trying to figure out how the market operates, industry insiders said." When applied to the current administration, I urge caution in using terms like "plans," "strategy," "policy," or "doctrine." www.wsj.com/finance/u-s-...

DOGE said it was cutting government waste. So they gutted USAID — the agency that feeds starving people around the world. Meanwhile the Pentagon spent millions on lobster, ribeye, and even a $98,000 piano. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

🔌"China also recognized its strategic vulnerability to oil shocks years ago and has been methodically decreasing it..." ⛽ "The Trump administration has ended E.V. subsidies, discouraged investment in charging infrastructure and weakened U.S. fuel economy standards."

Iran has domestic politics — every country does, though commentary often treats them as monoliths — and one of the lasting impacts of the war could be empowering hardline factions in Iran, especially Revolutionary Guard.

“For the first time in two decades, the largest share of US arms exports went to Europe (38 per cent) rather than the Middle East (33 per cent).” Via @sipri.org 2021–25 www.sipri.org/media/press-...

As a nation, we are most pathetic internally & abroad when we forget that our revolutionary founding documents embodied ideas about human equality & freedom that have spread into the world not just as aspirational benchmarks but as rights to be defended and upheld. www.greatpower.us/p/wars-of-in...

"Our government is treating the suffering of the Iranian people as a backdrop for our own entertainment, as if it’s just another piece of content to be swiped through .... But, in the end, we lose our humanity when we are thrilled by the destructive power of our military."

"If the Iranians were right that they were 'negotiated' into a kill box, no government facing an existential American ultimatum will ever be able to assume our good faith again." The reputation of the U.S. is sufficiently damaged, it will take years to rebuild the trust of friend or foe alike.

“It is becoming increasingly hard to avoid the conclusion that the Trump administration has embarked on this operation without a plan, and is making it up as it goes along, as if they killed enough of the right people and destroyed enough Iranian assets everything would fall into place.”

‼️🇮🇷𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: 𝗜𝗥𝗚𝗖 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗚𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗼𝗴𝘂𝗲 𝗔𝗺𝗶𝗱 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘀 #OSINT #Iran #GulfSecurity #MiddleEast 1/14

"Not since Adolf Hitler blew his brains out in a bunker beneath the garden of the German Reich Chancellery on April 30, 1945, have the lives of so many people around the world been so buffeted by the psychosis of a single man."

Well, @cfr.org is going to have to update this list soon. GWB's invasion of Iraq in 2003 was ranked the worst U.S. foreign policy decision in history and Ike's overthrow assist in Iran in 1953 fourth worst. 🚧 Make room for Trump. www.cfr.org/ten-best-ten...