I don't want to alarm anyone. You guys know I don't like to say stuff just to say it. Does the American voter understand that this act would raise the risk of us seeing a nuclear war more than any other single ongoing world event? Not Iran. Not ongoing tensions with China.

There are at least 3 combatant commands (SOCOM, SOUTHCOM, CENTCOM) which will need legit Soviet style purges after this, because too many of their officers cannot be trusted to do the right thing, discern a legal from an illegal order, or place honor and decency above career advancement.

OH JOHN RINGO NO

"Hey guys, check this out, the old man is friggin wasted mentally. You can get him to do ANYTHING for you!"

Dirty bombs and the mythical al-Qaeda suitcase nuke ain't really that scary. (Different reasons for why each one isn't scary)

tragedy, farce, et cetera

Just, the whole thing really

The IRGC are gambling for resurrection in the biggest way I can think of since... the Battle of the Bulge? Incheon? In normal times this move would be so obviously incompatible with US grand strategy that it would likely lock the US in to more absolute war aims to prevent it. Today, who knows.

Conspiracy theories are core to the operation of nearly every totalitarian and authoritarian nightmare in existence, and it's up to us to beat them back. We can have a country worth living in, or we can have our politics consist chiefly of conspiracy theorizing. One. Or the other. Choose well.

Crit safety is relevant in the news! 😃 Crit safety is relevant in the news...☹️

The Iranian government butchered tens of thousands of their own people two months ago, a core goal of the protestors was women’s rights. The war is stupid and evil and won’t help anyone. But for god’s sake don’t go calling for solidarity with the Iranian regime.

removing the real, faltering trump from the news and replacing him with an imaginary trump of their own invention. more he falters, the more the imaginary reasonable trump shows up in the stories and especially the headlines

I enjoy how I am now able to point at American politicians and go "that is a literal, unexaggerated Kremlin agent" like it's 2011 Ukraine or something.

well, the PRC and the Cubans always had a strained relationship

my favorite article on this subject is the magazine named Jacobin arguing that it would be undemocratic for the French left to take coercive action against the French far-right

Yep, just an objectively terrible human being

Insert John Pedicini "if only you knew how bad things really are" meme here srsbzns: When people hear "modernization" they think about new nuclear bombs. They think about new military capabilities and expanding the arsenal. Understandable, but mostly not true. My nightmare in one graph (+🧵):

Benjamin Netanyahu, General Dan Caine, I beseech you, the IRGC are building centrifuges directly under this structure, my people cry out for protection

Anybody who fell for the GOP's crybully act when Charlie Kirk was shot is without exaggeration too stupid to be of any use in US politics.

Right. Lots of speculation on this site all week about what the Marine Expeditionary Units headed towards the Persian Gulf might do, most of it pretty unhinged, so this thread is MEU 101. I'll keep adding to it as necessary.

I am *very curious* if black and white incitement of domestic terror attacks violates any terms of Ms. Walsh's recent plea bargain & suspended sentence.

Aww, someone got passed over for battalion command huh

Go meet your friends in other parts of the country, they said. People you meet on social media can become real friends, they said. They aren't all weirdos or counterintelligence risks, they said. meanwhile, in the real world: >get dinner with one of em once >"Hey bro check this out"

Nah that (TS) portion mark means "This Shit is true fr ong"

ICE Radwan units flying career martyrdom flags of Greg Bovino and Kristi Gnome

Unspoken in this article is that this is the deterrent playbook NATO has been drilling against the Russians for years now. A fait accompli against a weakly guarded frontier, deterred by a tripwire force. MAGA foreign policy is predation & piracy. It is dangerous and it is anti-American at its core.

I'm gonna say it: Bob is at least directionally right even if I do not agree on all of his prescriptions. "We build, they build. We stop, they build" is back on the menu. It takes two to arms race, but we are categorically NOT the initiators if this race begins in earnest.

The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.

meanwhile on the other site, the top minds of the New Right PME reformers are running a clumsy but ugly dox and harass campaign against an analyst they don't like. truly we are living in our 1930s Kwantung Army era, where those with the emperor's favor can openly threaten you and your wife this way

delayed flight + airport beers, AMA nerds *nothing I will go to jail for or which will dox me

EVERYONE STOP DOOMING PEACEFUL NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS ARE BACK ON THE EFFING MENU LET'S GOOOOOOOOOO NO BRAKES ON THIS PLOW

Far be it from me to defend Alex Karp on the merits, but the full quote ends "...if you believe that that's gonna work out politically, you're in an insane asylum." It's fully the opposite meaning from the framing that's circulated on this app.

It is sort of wild that we have former DASDs posting on here with like 200 followers. not everyone wants niche microblog website celeb status, but ppl in these positions who talk freely about what they did are a great resource and more people should follow (IMO)

I am sad for Kori and for the Air War students who will miss out, but I am also not at all surprised. Fwiw, in my 21 years as PME faculty no previous administration of either party has made 'criticized the President in some other setting' disqualifying to give an academic talk

Yes. We are *far* too lax and have been for decades when it comes to binding people to those lifelong NDAs. Across most agencies.

and another thing: im not owned. please dont put in the public zeitgeist that i got owned

Declaring that no quarter will be given is straightforwardly prohibited under international humanitarian law. When done to threaten an adversary, the declaration itself amounts to a war crime. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...

CI briefer: yeah if she's out of your league and starts asking about your work or your interests out of nowhere she's probs a spy bro my wife (hotter than me) on a random Tuesday night: babe can we watch band of brothers and then you can explain the difference between cannons and mortars to me

ong fr is the friggin secretary of energy doing oil market manipulation by tweet?? DOE is the main science and innovation department within the Cabinet level departments, to include scientifically innovating a worse & dumber Energy Secy than Rick Perry

TIL Bsky has a lot of ballistic missile accuracy experts

Would it not be wondrous for this whole commodities market to be destroyed like a beautiful flower?

JFC… Some people should not have internet access.

>see video that looks fishy >the discussion circulating says it's edited or AI >The origin of that claim is *also* AI and is wrong

unfortunately, technically I am #2

Quotes and replies turned off, but it might be helpful to know which bluesky natsec libs are under discussion here...This is not a large group, maybe a couple dozen large accounts tops, and I have absolutely no idea which of them this is referring to. Feels windmill tilty, unless I missed something.

I disagree. Trump is historically, at least by reputation, skittish around nuclear weapons. Trump doesn't signal using the normal signalling language, it's true, but IMO the meat of this rant is "areas and groups of people not considered for targeting". Not "complete destruction, certain death".

Low hanging fruit, but Red Dawn. At 20: Fuck yeah Wolverines, me and the boys could totally run complex ambushes on the godless commies, i should buy an AK-74 At 30: Even the most righteous war is a vampire. it will steal your youth and your soul, victory is ash in your mouth (i bought an AK-74)

This is peak blueanon crank posting. I mean this is serious conspiracy nutter stuff. If a loved one started talking like this you'd see about getting them some serious help.

I think people with large accounts should question their value if their audiences are this dense. But then again this is the intended goal of someone like Ken.

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