Daniel

Me on my way to create shareholder value

The fact that a billionaire real estate playboy who liked to slap his name on steaks and wine has proven to be a better diplomat and military strategist than every other politician and foreign policy expert over the last 30 years is such a damning indictment of the DC establishment I honestly don’t know how they recover.

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan discredited interventionism in the eyes of the American public. What the last few years have done in contrast is discredit anti-interventionism, or the idea that American power cannot be used for good. First came the Abraham Accords, where contrary to every prediction made by practically every Middle East expert, Israel signed peace treaties with several of its neighbors without taking care of the Palestinian issue first. Throughout the first Trump administration, the maximum pressure campaign had Israel, the Arabs, and the US all on the same side against Iran. The Syrian regime falls, the new leader in Damascus is pro-Western. We ended up fighting both Assad and ISIS, and defeated them both. Then you had the Venezuela operation. Without losing any American soldiers, we removed the Maduro regime, and replaced it with a government that has been freeing political prisoners and opening up the oil industry to American companies. Cuba will probably be overthrown without any cost next, ending the over half-century nightmare there. Now, after taking a detour during the Hamas war and wiping out Hezbollah's leadership, Israel along with the US slaughter the entire upper echelon of the Iranian regime. What's next in Iran? Who knows? But isn't there at least a chance it'll be better than the old theocrats? Why would anyone dismiss the possibility? People deny this is possible just because they want America and the West to fail. Russia and China remain problems and North Korea is an exception. But when it comes to weaker enemies around the world, we can just kill them and everything will be fine. As it turns out, we misunderstood the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan. The lesson wasn't "never do regime change" or "never kill bad people." The lesson we should've taken was "don't do social engineering through war." Killing bad people and removing bad government is fine, both in terms of American interests and from a humanitarian perspective. Now that we've seen how easy it is, we arguably have a moral obligation to keep doing it. There is a lot to be gained by just removing the worst of the worst. Going from Stalin to Khrushchev and Mao to Deng made things much better. Same with going from Maduro to Delcy, and the same is likely to be true with regard to whatever comes next in Iran and Cuba. Don't waste your time on micromanaging the country and having feminist art exhibitions like we did in Afghanistan. Just remove regime you don't like first, and then be pragmatic with the next steps. America is powerful and good. We just need to understand that it is ok to admit it.

I won’t lie If Joe Biden was slamming beers with the USA hockey team after they won gold I would have loved every second of it lol. If your politics consume you to the point this enrages you you are beyond repair lol.

@HuffPost Go fuck yourself

Thank you Harbs 💜

I know Venezuelans living in Venezuela are all celebrating right now, but has we stopped to consider what socialist trust fund kids in Brooklyn think?

this aged hilariously

All that Charlie ever did was have conversations with people. He didn’t insult anyone. He made arguments. He debated. He wasn’t an extremist in any way. Everyone who knew Charlie personally loved him. That’s the kind of guy he was. And they still killed him. I am furious and heartbroken in equal measure. I cannot put into words how I feel. Maybe that is for the best.

Jalen Carter’s banner night run

Getting caught having an affair with an executive at a Coldplay concert gotta be top 5 whitest things in history

Genuinely how do you stop doing this

Upstairs apartment culture

I'm upset that my parents never got rich enough for me to become a socialist.

Libs adding the Iranian flag emoji to their bios

So the conclave is just a bunch of dudes hanging out until they decide one of them can probably talk to god? That’s podcasts. You’re describing podcasts.

Trump was pursuing a policy of strategic ambiguity with the Ukraine minerals deal. There wouldn’t be a concrete security guarantee but Russia would know better than to attack de facto American resources in Ukraine. It really was that simple. It would’ve ended the war. Russia would’ve been able to agree to it, keep the territory they’ve already fought and bled for, and save face. Zelensky thought he could milk more support out of his paypig and overplayed his hand—or he genuinely has no intentions for peace. Given what Europe is promising him, he might’ve thought he would be able to embarrass Trump on the international stage into upstaging Europeans with security promises. What Zelensky and his European allies fail to realize is that Trump isn’t interested in competing with Europe to see who can give Ukraine more money. The US is the only thing Trump cares about and America is done being ripped off.