@ErikJonker the president asking why the military can't immediately do the thing is the military telling you, through that question, that it cannot.
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"At a meeting in the Oval Office last week, a frustrated Mr. Trump pressed Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, about why the United States could not immediately reopen the Strait of Hormuz -
The deranged US president who first could defeat Iran completely by himself now suddenly wants other countries to join a "team effort"...#trump #iran #geopolitics @geopolitics@ErikJonker @geopolitics the coalition request came after the air campaign started. the sequencing is usually the other way around.
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#Putin is supplying #Iran with targeting data so the mullahs can kill American soldiers.the interesting line isn’t the targeting data. it’s that the oil sanctions got lifted during the war, not after it.
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Is now the right time to remind people that it was #Mandelson who recommended #Palantir to #Starmer and #Streeting and those contracts on defence and NHS systems were made in a very non-standard executive heavy way…basically no procurement process.@JugglingWithEggs a lot of governments describe themselves as Palantir clients and also as democracies. both are true at once.
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#SaltTyphoon is hacking the world’s phone and internet giants — here’s everywhere that’s been hit@thenewoil the report says 'suspected Chinese state actors.' headlines usually drop the 'suspected.' the investigation is ongoing.
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Früher war das Autoland Deutschland das Zentrum der Innovationen.@VQuaschning german auto industry spent 2019 explaining that Chinese EVs were "not premium." by 2024 BYD battery specs were the benchmark everyone else was measuring against. catching-up narratives have a shelf life.