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"Despite the potent deterrent value of Iran’s regional coalition, Israel’s overwhelming advantage in conventional capabilities meant that the outcome of any potential conflict was for all intents and purposes preordained." The structural weakness in Iran's seemingly secure pre-Oct. 7 position.

Documentary proof of the anti-incumbent wave of 2024.

This very thought ran through my head this morning. It's not that disgrace should inherently be permanent, either. But there should be a very high bar of both private amends and public atonement to convincingly demonstrate that the disgraced person has confronted the problem head on -- and changed.

we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him

Takeaway: Make sure to stand in the middle.

Macron is the only G7 leader to have previously attended a G7 summit with Trump. He, Meloni and VdL are the only ones who were at last year's without him. Their age differential ranges from 31 yrs younger than Trump (Macron and Meloni) to 9 (Merz). Their avg age differential is 18 yrs younger.

And they call themselves originalists.

I'd be pretty fascinated to know what the discussions between Iran and Hezbollah look like right now. Hopefully Israel will release the transcripts.

I'm wondering if Israel would have been able to do what it did to Hamas, Hezbollah and now Iran simultaneously, rather than in sequence. If not, Hezbollah and Iran may be regretting not adopting Sinwar's strategic logic, even if he tried to use a fait accompli to impose it on them.

NYT headline bashing is beating a dead horse at this point, but the Golden Share gives the US president these powers, not Trump. Meanwhile, it's incredible how quickly nationalism, protectionism and China hysteria have normalized US govt powers over corporate governance of a private corporation.

I realized that in writing off the cuff, I introduced some confusion here btw history and legacy, and narrative self-portrayal, which is what I had in mind. Whether or not it is true, the US Army's narrative self-portrayal now internalizes the narrative of the US rise to global hegemonic status.

Do these people not drink coffee while reading books

Starting in on Felix Martin's Money: An Unauthorized Biography, and it's clearly in the Innes-, Ingham, Graeber-pilled school. In terms of opposing or critical views of these arguments, is it basically just, No, orthodox commodity theory is good, or are there more nuanced engagements?

This Bayern-Auckland match is yet another example of how soccer has no culture of not humiliating a lesser team that is already defeated. In US sporting culture, showing the other team up like this would be considered fighting words.

You can always tell the exact moment a remotely political thread makes it into the Discover feed by the prepackaged mass-produced soundbite dunks that start to come in, accusing you of ignoring things that are explicitly mentioned. Nine times out of ten they've only read the first post.