Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
Thursday, May 14, 2026

From JMIC Update 45: Bab-el-Mandeb Strait tanker transits average 13.42/day May 7-13, 2026

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 Strait of Hormuz 1.57/day. BAM tanker transits aren't even up to 2022's average of 30/day. The crisis of the oil trade is not being...
Sunday, May 3, 2026

Christopher Caldwell for The New York Times thinks the American Empire has met its match in the Persian Gulf when it already met it a year ago in the Red Sea

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... the United States lacks the military means to impose its will on Iran in a long conflict. In 1991 a million soldiers from more than 40 ...
Thursday, April 9, 2026

America is no longer a world superpower because it doesn't have a Navy capable of maintaining freedom of navigation in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, let alone in the West Philippine Sea or the Taiwan Strait

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But we can still put people in a tin can and send them around the moon like we did already in 1968. We also don't have a military capabl...
Saturday, March 7, 2026

If Daniel McCarthy were a conservative who understood history and human nature, he wouldn't issue embarrassing pronunciamentos like these

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 Win or lose, Donald Trump has begun the last war the United States is ever likely to fight in the Middle East. ... That's what we thoug...
Sunday, January 4, 2026

George W. Bush crossed the Rubicon of American Imperial pre-emptive first strikes in 2003 in Iraq but it was hotly debated in 2002, now we hardly bat an eye when Trump does it

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Government of the Uniparty, by the Uniparty, and for the Uniparty. Trump fancies that he's different from George W. Bush, but he's t...
Saturday, January 3, 2026

Trump captures Maduro on the sixth anniversary of his Soleimani assassination lol

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  ... Explosions were reported in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, at about 2 a.m. local time (0600 GMT), according to images circulating o...
Friday, October 24, 2025

One man is about to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Venezuela

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 The more the Uniparty changes, the more it stays the same. Bush invades Iraq. Putin invades Ukraine. Trump invades Venezuela.  Expect Xi to...
Sunday, September 14, 2025

It's an American tradition: Peggy Noonan loses her head

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Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Feels Like a Hinge Point: What a disaster for the young. It will forever shape their understanding of politics ...
Sunday, August 24, 2025

Trump is so bad that Gen Z is falling in love with the guy who didn't keep us safe on 911, invented the religion of peace, gave us Michael Brown, and abandoned free market principles to save the free market system

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  Gen Z Falling in Love -- With George Bush...     ... "Many comments on videos tagged as #Bushcore use past moments to contrast the cu...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Meanwhile Sean Davis' The Federalist is ground zero for the anti-war right, still ignoring what der Führer says

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There isn't a single story on the front page right now at The Federalist about the Israeli-Iranian conflict, like it's not even news...
Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Some have asked, Where did the party of Ronald Reagan go?

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 It went to Afghanistan and Iraq and never came back.
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Not even ass-kisser Mark Levin can take the Ukraine BS from Trump

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 Levin almost never disagrees with Trump. It's very revealing of Mark's priorities, which include the absolute rectitude of George W...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Another Trump MO is his perverse demand for reimbursement from totally wrecked countries which we "helped"

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Friday, February 14, 2025

Holy cow, a seventh prosecutor resigns over the renegade DOJ attempt to toss the Eric Adams case

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  A seventh federal prosecutor resigned Friday over the Department of Justice ’s controversial order to dismiss criminal corruption charges...
Thursday, February 13, 2025

The VP of the country which invaded Iraq in a pre-emptive attack can't figure out who the bad guy is in Ukraine

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Sunday, December 29, 2024

Donald J. Trump was against the H-1B Visa Program before he was for it lol

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Donald J. Frankenstein is the GOP's version of Boltneck, who was for the use of force in Iraq and Afghanistan before he was against pay...
Friday, December 6, 2024

In March 2016 Pete Hegseth was no different from NeverTrumpers like Erick Erickson, Mark Levin, Charlie Kirk, and Ben Shapiro who all now bend the knee

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   CNN video here from Dec 3rd, in which Hegseth criticizes Trump for being an arm chair warrior who had the temerity to criticize John McC...
Friday, November 29, 2024

It's amazing how so-called conservative women will twist themselves into pretzels to defend Pete Hegseth, for example by lowering Brett Kavanaugh to his level

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   Don’t let the left do to Pete Hegseth what it did to Brett Kavanaugh  It’s the Brett Kavanaugh show all over again. ... Was Hegseth also ...
Sunday, November 24, 2024

Iraq combat vets wondered why National Guard member Pete Hegseth showed up in Iraq in 2005 leading a platoon

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  “I showed up in the 101st Airborne Division, in one of the most storied units in our nation’s history, with a bunch of combat vets who’d...
Monday, August 12, 2024

Tim Walz implies he stood at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan as a member of the national guard

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 He didn't. He was in Congress when he did that, on January 9, 2008: WALZ RETURNS FROM OVERSEAS TRIP INVESTIGATING MILITARY HEALTHCARE. ...