Why the secrecy? Why does a low-grade drone campaign against AQAP in Yemen have to be a covert CIA action, when the much more extensive overt DOD one in Somalia faces no public opposition of any kind, and the Saudis etc. in Yemen welcomed the overt DOD air campaign there against the Houthis?

A very nice development out of Munich- a proper defence cooperation agreement with Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. Covers training and exercises (including standing up a new Greenland Rangers program) and more operational cooperation. It will be good to see how this evolves in future.

First, Heated Rivalry. And now this. CANCON is BACK.

btw the USMC still needs to answer for why they allowed a guy they openly acknowledged was a kidnapper to retain a commission "yeah we agree your conduct kidnapping a child was unbecoming but we aren't kicking you out" is certainly a choice

This is a legalized racist as fuck kidnapping www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...

jesus fucking christ, this is something straight out of a coming of age orphan novel

Fascism's far right European extremists gain US funding to further Russia's agendas.

you have to treat people like this with the same seriousness as you would a guy screaming at you about the lizard people on the street; they have a similar relationship with reality.

Weirdly fascinated by the so horrible it's charming Star Wars fighting game.

Like the violence contributed, but what broke the back of the southern GOP was the failure to actually integrate freedmen and unionists into a machine that work, and critically their economic program as much as it exist basically only introduce economic disruption without economic growth

1873 and the failure of the GOP to actual build durable politics machines in the South killed reconstruction

"To go to a foreign country and to ask for assistance in breaking up Canada, there's an old-fashioned word for that, and that word is treason" 🟢 Agree: 71% ⚫️ Disagree: 29% Read it for free here: open.substack.com/pub/canadian...

For example- this site's obsession with invalidating Buttigieg's homosexuality and McBride's transness because they are members in good standing of the Democratic Party, as opposed to negotiating their monthly dating rota and talking to a grief doula over accidentally eating meat.

As a newly-out (<1 year) bisexual, it really is striking how much being queer is treated as a subaltern of niche left-wing radical belief system, as opposed to a descriptive term of sexual attraction or gender identity.

An issue with the Epstein files is that the FBI interviewed a lot of people after Epstein died, and some of them were cranks who said things like “He sounds like Mossad to me” and now people can be like “Epstein was Mossad, it’s in the Epstein files!”

🇨🇦🇺🇸 Far-right Canadian separatists from the Alberta Prosperity Project (APP) say they met three times with “very, very senior” Trump administration officials in 2025, with another meeting planned, - The Daily Beast

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i mean if you just make stuff up then sure it seems like Democrats don't care

And again, events in the Caribbean are not "a far away place of which we know little" for Europeans at a time when over 3 million people in the Western Hemisphere are citizens of either full EU or overseas territories that are under the control of the UK and EU states.

The Cuban regime is an awful disaster, but just looking over at Haiti and elsewhere in the Western Hemisphere there are indications of the risks that could emerge if the last vestiges of state capacity in Cuba are shattered www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Well.

Imagine how much stupider the Mukden Incident could have been if Kwantung army officers could insider trade on the conflict they were about to start

It's honestly underestimated how many perverse incentives this creates for random border guard shmucks in and around frozen conflicts

You people are exhausting.

No Canadian environmentalist will believe this but our renewals installs and electrification projects dropped off in the mid 2010s and never recovered. Texas has beat Canada in new renewable capacity nearly every year in that period. Texas!

“As of 2023 -- the latest data year available -- Canada had only achieved a nine per cent reduction in emissions, while all other G7 countries have averaged a 30 per reduction.” The problem here is that Canada’s existing policies weren’t working, not the changes in the past year.

My 1936 Berlin games Olympic shirt raises many questions already answered by my shirt

One of the most fascinating aspects of the America Crisis is how under Trump much of the US Homeland security apparatus seems to understand places like Minnesota or Maine as little as the US National security apparatus under Bush understood places like Anbar or Herat

An American backed independent Alberta would be a diminished, landlocked vassal state, and the majority of its residents know this and want to stay. globalnews.ca/news/1163570...

a clinic that provided services to 12,000 people being closed on the basis of 8 complaints perfectly captures the nature of the uk 'trans-debate' www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

Arnaud is, as has long been known, a fucking idiot, but this is a surprisingly common delusion about Chinese history, as is the idea that it was consistently 'religiously tolerant.' Religious politics were extremely intense, and persecution of disliked sects common.

He spent a year on that article?????

It strikes me as problematic the extent to which knowing how something works or even wanting to know is seen as endorsement of it.

No, dude, that was Frederick Douglass' genuine read of the situation. Douglass was America-pilled. If you want America-pessimism from the same period, you have William Lloyd Garrison right there. They (Douglass and Garrison) famously had a huge fight and falling out about it.

What level of racism do you have to be on to imagine Frederick Douglass giving "What To The Slave Is The Fourth of July?" but actually, behind the scenes, he's struggling through the text of the Constitution like "Th-th-the b-boy a-ate th-the a-a-pp-apple"

This is just unconscionable man

Again I’ll say: Virtually anything is physically *possible* in the oil market. Far fewer things are economically viable, let alone profitable. This is a nonsense take.

Instead, he says, "the firefight on both sides was like the Battle of Parma" (in North Italy, in 1734). The War of Polish Succession and the tactical developments it brought to infantry warfare, need to be reintroduced to the overall story of infantry tactics. 13/20

When we do that, we see a world where flexible infantry tactics are more common on 18th century battlefields. When the Marquis de Montcalm (Plains of Abraham fame) sees infantry fighting from cover at Carillon in 1758, he doesn't say: wow, this is unique to North America! 12/20

In order to understand eighteenth-century infantry warfare, you've got to hold both the practices which emerge in the War of Polish Succession in Northern Italy, and the impressive Prussian discipline that comes out of the War of Austrian Succession, together in your mind. 11/20

Another major contribution of the book is where it begins: with the War of Polish Succession in the 1730s. Here, while fighting in Northern Italy, soldiers took cover, fought as skirmishers, fired independently at long range, and avoided going into melee. 9/20

My book uses the writings and perspectives of enlisted men in order to show that eighteenth-century battles were a negotiation of authority between officers and their men. The officers wanted the men to fight like they do in the movies. The men weren't having it. 8/20

On Thursday, my book Infantry in Battle, 1733-1783, released. Why should you care? It changes the story of 18th century battles by telling the experiences of enlisted and NCOs, not just the officers. Battle looks different when you are enlisted. A thread for the infantrymen. 1/20

In short, 18th-century armies (like the redcoats, Frederick's Prussians, or Washington's Continentals) weren't just a hopelessly outmoded force waiting to be swept aside by the armies of the French Revolution and Napoleon. The 18th century was a tactically dynamic time 5/6

-took cover from enemy fire shorturl.at/7YKxM -fought as skirmishers in certain armies and circumstances kabinettskriege.blogspot.com/2018/02/how-... 4/6

-moved at speed on the battlefield (jogging or running) when the situation required shorturl.at/SJmsk -engaged in melee (hand-to-hand) combat infrequently. shorturl.at/TyNTl 3/6

Instead, we should be focusing on the way that these men: -engaged in small arms firefights at 100-200 yards. shorturl.at/j5oU8 -frequently fired without orders from their officers (rolling fire) shorturl.at/yUd1u 2/6

The narrative that eighteenth-century soldiers were slow moving, ineffective automata who were only capable of engaging the enemy at insanely close range and quickly moved into hand-to-hand combat is one of the most widespread and damaging myths in military history. 1/6

being called a racist genocide denier because I referred to "Indian" tribes, by someone who turns around and claims Frederick Douglass is an illiterate who didn't understand slavery, is such an incredible bit that I'm not sure it would work as fiction. it could only be real. it could only be bluesky

So they're creating a Department of 'We' Studies (Europe) and a Department of 'Other' Studies where the latter includes Africa, the (Central, South and Indigenous) Americas, and Women. Like...pardon me...but come the fuck on.