This is how you deal with russia 👇

I must admit using the Armada, a word associated with Spanish imperialism and oppression when talking to a South American country is quite a trick. This is going to be a banger of an insurgency.

Buy it, read it. As an ex military person it challenged me. A brilliant set of essays well researched and grounded.

Early for 2026 wishes, but I sincerely hope the Secretary General of NATO stops brown nosing and does his bloody job instead. Because someone had better.

Read the good Doctor.

So i wrote this. open.substack.com/pub/jasont66...

This is the way

More in The Atlantic series on how to polish the turd. First it was RFK Jr now it is cabbage. Both with same IQ.

I think if 24 people are dead it's more than "testing" a ceasefire.

I am certainly no Oscar Wilde or even a good year 12 Eng Lit student, but I mean seriously wtf is this. It’s a car smash lost in an earthquake during a one hundred year storm. If it’s an attempt at Gonzo, Hunter S is turning in his grave.

Oh you think? It wasn’t a plan just misplaced hope.

So many times in the past ten months this has rattled through my head.

‘the leak, which he says caused "enormous damage to Israel's public image"’ Well perhaps don’t rape people in might be a better place to start.

This is brilliant

Gotta love Private Eye. Always cuts through the crap.

If you are shelling, it’s not a truce.

Excellent summary. When I discuss the Constitution in class with students, we pay attention to the fact that Article I is about Congress and it takes up about half the text of the document. If the Founders had “intent,” it was for Congress to assume a massive role in the federal government.

Getting profoundly desperate. He has worn that T-Shirt multiple times. No one could possibly equate that band to anti-semitism. The failure of conservatives to raise the bar does a disservice to Oz. You need a good opposition.

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

This individual going full MAGA was on my bingo card. As a fellow White Australian Male, he really needs to STFU about being strangers in Oz, because we weren’t here first and everyone, not just pasty white guys built it, for better and for worse. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

So I just watched 10 seconds of the Tangerine Tyrant’s speech to the UNGA, and I am very glad he is not meeting the PM of Australia. I mean

So walking home with my son after his MMR shot I was explaining how vaccines work and the selfishness of the deniers. I told him about the Ivermectin belief in regards to COVID. My 9 yo stopped in his tracks, ‘that’s silly.’ Some days there is hope.

„The assumption that ego management can be transmuted into lasting policy gains is wrong.“ My colleague Jeremy Shapiro has it exactly right. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Because it worked so well with Russia.

no shit

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

Time to unhook, he is a shaman.

Motherfucking wind farms…

This

Absolutely, Joel thank you Yes, that was Obama ONE & DONE NO, He lit the fuse

If you want a mark that the Democrats can’t rise to the Trump challenge this is it.

There is an episode in MASH that defines this individual very well, ‘a ring banger.’ You don’t want your CJCS to be a ring banger.

Well that Nobel Peace Prize isn’t looking likely is it.

Err, so I wrote this. Mainly Oz focused. open.substack.com/pub/jasont66...

Okay, that’s him off the table as a strategic commentator. Generally is was pretty trite commentary, all masks fall off.

2024 was another record year from global conflicts. Six months in, 2025 isn't likely to end that streak.

Ditto for the folks who say people were fine before vaccines.

I dunno, things have been thawing with UAE and Qatar was always Iran leaning. Iran also courting Iraq. That’s who this would really hurt.

AUSMIN is going to be a hoot.

@alanallport.bsky.social my thanks for the use of your quote. open.substack.com/pub/jasont66...

So another Dual Use launch platform blown up. Yet still no nuclear retaliation. Go figure.

This is the way.

Would seem to make more sense to define defence goals in terms of concrete threats and capabilities rather than some % GDP figure plucked out of nowhere but then I’m just some backcountry historian.

Umm, so any natsec types I wrote this; jasont66.substack.com/p/after-the-...

Anyone who believed Elon Musk would “step back” from being the biggest political donor in US history and a major powerbroker in the Trump administration is a sucker. Here he is—a white supremacist who hates the Black-run South African government—overseeing the racist sneak-attack in the Oval today.

The world surrenders all for the lack of a comma.

Let me fix the headline ‘The narrow minded bigots that like what they see.’ By even using the label ‘voter’ you normalise the racism. You imply Trumps policies have some form of electoral merit in a functioning democracy. The Atlantic certainly runs hot and cold.