We don't care about the Strait of Hormuz and we're going to wind down the war. Also if you don't reopen the strait, we will massively escalate the war Iran almost certainly will not blink on Hormuz. And needless to say, if Trump does this, Iran will respond by attacking similar

As Iran is highly unlikely to comply, in 39 hours we will either have a major escalation of the war, or a major blow to the U.S. deterrence ability.

Russian Air Defence takes down popular Russian influencer Pavel Koshkin

St. Petersburg just got its mobile internet fully cut. Digital detox, Russian edition.

Such a revealing 24 hours from the tragic national mistake in the White House. He says he’s glad a heroic Marine (who volunteered to fight and then bled in a war Trump cowardly hid from) has died … and now he threatens to wage war not on the despots of Iran or their complicit

Stienbeck bros were back up, dust bowl 2!

BESSENT, one month ago: “.. 2025 was about setting the table. 2026 is going to be a banquet for the American people. The economy is taking off.” CNBC

He has none of these things even in scarcity, which is why Orban is polling so far behind the challenger. A strange concatenation of geopolitics: Russia is interceding in the Hungarian election to help Orban, including with GRU officers in Budapest and an SVR-mooted fake

Netanyahu endorsing Orban is an incredibly dumb move 1. Why should Ukraine keep its world class anti-drone teams in the Middle East helping Israel, when both the US and Israel support the most anti-Ukrainian leader in the EU, a man who, reneging on a unanimous EU decision to

point: nepo baby

“…only servility.”

Trump and Netanyahu have in common that they are aggressive against (most) dictatorships abroad, but are shameless in their own corruption and desire for autocracy at home. Allying with Putin's terrorist state Russia remains a key "tell" of their values.