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Cuba might just read the room and negotiate a way out.

From their point of view, pretty well. They seem to be able to attack anywhere, just not everywhere. They've killed members of the leadership from the nominal political executive on down. They've written down much of Iran's big ticket military equipment. They can, undeniably, cripple just...

"Don't understand" is one explanation. "Don't care" is another. People who really believe Trump's administration is an adversary ought to act accordingly. "Know the enemy" includes understanding them on their terms. The same advice applies to anyone who believes the administration is merely...

Trump wants everyone to do his bidding, whatever it happens to be at the moment. Since some of it is self-contradictory, there's not much hope of fulfilling it if someone wanted to. No point trying. No point worrying about it. What can be done is to ensure people who might be thrown...

Is that, and the statement preceding the quoted bit, aimed at me personally, or the people running the administration about whom I made my observations? I stand by my observation. The administration is being run by people who do not defer to the "experts" readily, have their own ideas about...

Assuming a change of government in Iran is desirable, what would be an effective way of achieving it? Invasion and occupation (eg. Iraq)? Regime removal and let the locals fight it out (Libya, probably Iran)? Severe economic sanctions and other non-military pressure (eg. South Africa)? Just...

Bush's Iraq War was orders of magnitude worse than anything the Trump administration has managed to do. Regardless, part of the point is that while people like Vance and Hegseth may be lightweights and the people of the Bush and Obama [administrations] may be heavyweights, the heavyweights did...

The innovation space often enough is populated by people who neither attempted the credential ladder or abandoned it early to do something real.

You've just described the administrations and congresses going back for decades. Which one would be preferable to the one they have now? The only realistic alternatives to the Trump administration are a Democratic one, or one composed mainly of the pre-Trump Republican establishment...

You're welcome. I don't feel like I have to write to satisfy you either.

If someone posts a valid criticism of the administration, I rarely feel a need to chime in with my agreement; and, most of what gets posted here is of no particular "substance" - it's just people venting their frustrations and spinning up oddball theories about what they imagine is going on or...

Even Commandants are sometimes relieved for poor judgement. You assume an emotional burden where none exists.

Studies of culture and politics have a place. Cultural and political indoctrination masquerading as study of culture and politics does not.

. Maybe we can retire the bullshit-mongering over USSC decisions?

Pretty soon we'll get into the bottom of the zone where prices should be if we seriously intend to reduce carbon emissions. Then everything will turn green and the world will be wonderful.

Putting the "anti-Muslim backlash" at the head of the list of things to worry about after a terrorist incident thought to have a militant Islamic nexus/cause has become a bit of a joke.

Sure, it's a difference of quantity, not quality. An important factor is whether people try to use the provisions of "the system" to challenge results - even if their beliefs are anywhere from unlikely to absurd - or just blackguard outcomes they don't like. The latter is much worse. That...

Unfortunately, Hillary trotted out her "illegitimate" line more than once. Denialism isn't just a trait of Trump and his maga-minions.

There's no point getting worked up about "stolen election" claims. People from Hillary Clinton on down claimed the 2016 election was stolen, and there are deniers flapping their gums about 2024. It's practically part of the process. 2000 was close, and some of the losing side claimed they...

An operating surplus is no big achievement. The 2026 Fiscal Reference Tables show 2024-25 Revenue > Expenses already, extending a long period of operating balance surpluses broken only by the 2008-09 fiscal crisis and the COVID crisis. Getting to net surplus in 5 years looks unlikely, given...