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NYT subscriber. Reading about beliefs and alignments, preference cascades, Persia and Iraq.
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Some historians traced the origins of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war back to the pre-Islamic rivalry between the Babylonian and Achaemenid empires 🤷‍♀️

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

“Why would he turn off the replies?”

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Just going to point out that in just the last month we’ve seen the most intense, multi-modal warfare between two nuclear-armed states ever (India & Pakistan) and now possibly the largest-ever attack on nuclear-capable assets in a nuclear state (UA vs Ru, today). The times they are a-changin’.

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

Absolutely insane footage! Strategic Russian aviation getting wiped out on an unprecedented scale.

submitted 20 days ago • 60 comments

The difference between Trump and Yeltsin is that Yeltsin had meaningful internal opposition

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I ordered Max Hastings’ book on Vietnam, will post some pics once I get it. Will be a little bit more active on here I think

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Reddit was already being astroturfed in 2014. Wasn’t just political either def corporations at work there. No clue what it’s like now

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve been interested in Habermas for years but for whatever reasons I’ve never actually read him, just synopses of his work

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

pursuing martyrdom as a primary strategy of resistance is selfish anti-activism

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

FYI do not take legal advice from non lawyers, especially on the topic of money laundering because her OP is all but advocating to willfully circumvent (B)(ii) in the rule she posted

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

for the record this is a classic motte-and-bailey. Missile defense at tac level works is the motte, NMD/GBM works is the bailey. also, Bret has a very poor understanding of anything tactical-operational as amply demonstrated by his twitter threads.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Friendly reminder that if OPSEC actually important for you, Signal is really not ideal. PGP encryption and an anonymous proton mail are far far superior in that respect.

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

Found a paper giving a pretty good overview of the Iskander complex vis-a-vis the INF treaty. Lot of interesting detail, I never knew it was more a successor to 9M714 Oka than to Elbrus/Tochka-U.

submitted 210 days ago • 0 comments

I still don’t understand why HR McMaster was so obsessed with going to war with North Korea

submitted 213 days ago • 0 comments

There’s two kinds of citizenship: -Jus soli birthright citizenship -Citizenship via government permission If you get rid of the first, you are giving untold new powers to the government

submitted 214 days ago • 7 comments

Both these commentators are wrong because most people can’t think to begin with and the vast majority of beliefs and alignments are pre-rational. and this is true for all strata of society and all levels of IQ. just with the higher IQ comes better rationalisations, not wisdom or intelligence.

submitted 220 days ago • 4 comments