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They just need to have Pahlavi draw a sword from a stone. That works don't it?

JD Vance is going to lecture Iran about not thanking Trump.

Clausewitz' trinity of War...totally lacking in this.

Morning Joe is working hard to be sober about all this mess this morning. "Please explain why" is about as much as they are saying about the Origami War of Epstein Story Got Too Hot.

Hearing from the Baseball sources that spring training attendance across florida is way down and I have an obvious answer: Canadians are not traveling to Florida.

I might not come tomorrow. I might be asked to work to support this and I won't.

Yep, you can't trust a person like that with your money.

He will not be there for the veterans of this conflict.

I'm really sad for any military families who are having to go through all this right now. We have much bigger stakes than this and all of it is for the ego and legal protection of one man.

I have a funny: I'm at my pickleball class with my spouse. The overbearing instructor who is really annoying me by stopping the flow of the class every 5 minutes with an observation like: "Does anyone know why its called a backhand?" and I'm at the point where i'm Bill Murraying the thing now. "Did they name it after Doctor John Backhand?" Anyway...he's stopping us to talk about buying our own racquets. The one lady tells him that she used AI to identify which one to buy and I said: "Did it tell you to bomb Iran?" and the instructor guy was not happy with that. Everyone else laughed though. Last class for me...

They know what they are doing

Imagine dying to keep the headlines from reverting to Epstein ?

Massie did

https://bsky.app/profile/diplomatofnight.com/post/3mfydo6mr4s2y

Epstein’s Fury

The unfolding situation in the middle east is origami of Trump's own making.

My gut tells me that the gulf states have put a lot of money into the Pahlavi family because they really want to butress the idea of monarchy in the region.

My brother called me to tell me there was a terrorist threat against all the living US presidents over this thing. I was like: fair trade.

So, Trump likely thought this was the thing that would save his presidency. He may try to cancel elections or whatever he thinks is necessary to do that but that will not save him.

Well, there is something to be said for Caine. China is the main adversary now. Not sobriety.

I wish we had the paradigm of 1991 in place still. Massive and exceptionally advantaged technologically, actually worried about outcomes and knock-on effects of disrupting current order, allies lining up to pay into a common fund for collective security, upset at killing civilians, Vietnam miasma in rear view mirror as a warning to not do that. Add in these elements: Sober as f SecDef - as opposed to guy who needs to show you how many push ups he can do between shots POTUS schooled in noblesse oblige and who had actually been shot down in a shooting war - as opposed to a guy who rapes children Chairman of the Joint Chiefs schooled by life as a small unit commander in Vietnam and the inventer of the weinberger doctrine - as opposed to whatever yassir we got now