Kevin Hendrickson

@yashar From the geniuses who were just floating “Stupider Gallipoli” comes “stupider Dien Bien Phu”

BREAKING via WSJ President Trump is weighing a military operation to extract nearly 1,000 pounds of uranium from Iran, a complex and risky mission that would likely put American forces inside the country for days or longer.  Teams of U.S. forces would need to fly to the sites, likely under fire from Iranian surface-to-air missiles and drones. Once on site, combat troops would need to secure perimeters so that engineers with excavating equipment could search through debris and check for mines and booby traps.  The extraction of the material would likely need to be conducted by an elite special operations team specially trained to remove radioactive material from a conflict zone. The highly enriched uranium is likely contained in 40 to 50 special cylinders that resemble scuba tanks. They would need to be put into transportation casks to protect against accidents. That could fill several trucks. Unless an airfield was available, a makeshift one would need to be set up to bring equipment in and take the nuclear material out. The entire operation would take days or even a week to complete. Full Story: on.wsj.com/4m43Y9G

@Rakeshhkumaar @ChudsOfTikTok Is that the one whose wall of names had to be scrapped because a bunch of the names turned out to be Nazi collaborators, or was that the one in Canada?

“Victims of Communism Museum” in Washington, D.C., with an actual victim of capitalism lying right in front of it.

@nypost Are you announcing where everyone in the US was at the time? Weird project, and it’ll probably take a while, but whatever keeps you busy

Kai Trump was miles away at Miami Open during Tiger Woods crash trib.al/cFVy170

@daniel_c_roth @vali_nasr So do you think every American or Israeli university that does defense related research is a legitimate target to be bombed?

@vali_nasr This Amirkabir University?

This attack will have a huge emotional impact on Iranians. It will stiffen their resolve to resist. What clearer proof that this is a war on the country and on its people than attacking universities and schools, the human capital infrastructure.

@aydahare The North is Yorkshire. Evidence- Everyone is doing a Sean Bean impression

it's always "but Dorne is Spain!" and never "but the North is Scotland!"

@TheLastNeocon @maiamindel @_glorianas What happens if the sky is made of pudding? We can play the what-if game all day long, but Iran has the world economy over a barrel by closing the Strait of Hormuz, there are no good options to re-open it, and they don’t seem disposed to capitulate at the moment

@maiamindel @_glorianas what happens if iran agrees to trump’s terms

trump post military defeat, post the economic devastation it will imply, and post the ensuing inevitable midterm obliteration is going to be the most dangerous he's ever been probably

@breva80846 @yocalvomagno Space Greeks, actually! The Atreides are the descendants of Agamemnon from the Iliad. In Children of Dune, Alia hears his voice in her genetic memory

@yocalvomagno Los atreides son españoles intergalácticos

Cuantas más veces veo 'Dune', más curiosidad me dan sus motivos taurinos y la figura del abuelo torero atrida.

@Russell_Son_10 @AcademicAgent_X Factoring in the slowdowns and stoppages in downstream industries caused by oil supply shortages, there are now severe economic headwinds locked in that will likely manifest this summer/fall. They are now unavoidable. The only question now is their length

@Russell_Son_10 @AcademicAgent_X Restarting oil production is not as simple as flipping a switch- there will be a shipping backlog, and it’s a complicated process to bring wells and refineries back online. Experts estimate that for every day the Strait is closed, there will be a week’s delay in normal operations

I am now more convinced than ever that the huge US military budget has been a kind of gravy train investing in overbloated tech that doesn't really work and acting as a sort of make-work scheme. I no longer see it as an unbeatable military.

@avrilbradley23 @StatisticUrban Then you run into the problem of lack of infrastructure. How do you pitch someone on living in a WV hamlet that’s been dying since the coal mine closed, doesn’t have a hospital within 50 miles and the only places to buy groceries are the dollar general or the gas station?

@StatisticUrban It has potential to attract retirees and others who want to live in an area with nice mountain scenery possibly as an extension of DC exurban growth.

I'll be honest you guys, I'm not really sure how much of a future WV has.

@playlikeajet24 @MaybeSoland @thefurlinator @Conblob Not defending Carter, but the Regan campaign was secretly in talks with the Islamic Republic to delay any hostage release to deny Carter a foreign policy win in an election year

@MaybeSoland @thefurlinator @Conblob Carter had 3 years to do something about it. And his handling of the hostage situation was atrocious.

People will say Buchanan or Andrew Johnson but I kinda view those guys as plumber-ball era presidents. The US was just so much less globally important and powerful so even a truly terrible president mattered so much less. Trump’s idiotic whims become instant global problems now.

@Russell_Son_10 @AcademicAgent_X 4. Oil prices expected to elevated till 2028, likely slowdowns or stoppages in downstream industries- ex. fertilizer, Parma 5. In the 90s, when the US helped Kazakhstan dispose of similar amt of HEU, it took a month and multiple airlifts- and that was with no armed opposition 2/2

@Russell_Son_10 @AcademicAgent_X 1. All the regime has to do to win is survive. And there’s no clear alternative at this point 2. Even interceptions still cost the U.S. millions more per missile than Iran 3. Ships approved by Iran, paying fees to Iran 1/2

@Russell_Son_10 @AcademicAgent_X And yet: 1. The regime is still in power 2. IRGC retains capacity for offensive operations- drones, missles, etc 3. Strait of Hormuz is closed 4. Energy markets disrupted 5. Iran retains its supply of HEU None of the various strategic goals the admin has floated have been met.

@AcademicAgent_X Yeah wiping out Irans navy, airforce, dripping 10,000 sorties, no more command and control, most missiles gone, is such an L. How will we ever recover?

@policytensor @nikhil_palsingh An SADM is like 70 lbs and the size of a trash can. Words mean things

@nikhil_palsingh Actually, this threat is a real possibility if Iran is destabilized. Although the ex ante probability is very low bc they don’t have the means to destabilize Iran.

Vance is truly one of the most dishonest and dangerous politicians I've ever seen. He'll say absolutely anything --immigrants eating your cats and dogs -- nuclear armed suicide bombers in your supermarket -- batshit threat inflation scenarios -- to advance his own ambitions.

@SimulaBVM @3persian3darius I question the “former” part of that description

@3persian3darius Communists can't fathom former hitlerites developing a brain and seeking redemption fighting for good.

Der Lachende Mann (DDR, 1966)

@TwinkTheory @kellockx No, the anti Irish racism is the character named Seamus who’s always blowing things up

@kellockx Their depiction seems racist to gingers or potentially the Irish

How did Harry potters parents have all that cash for his trust fund? They died at 21 and the only jobs in the wizarding world are civil servant, barmaid, teacher or shop owner. Or is it just like magic? And if so how are the Weasleys poor like how far does magic go? Are they just bad at magic?

@PariahSwag @grimoire_eis

@grimoire_eis How every fiber of my being reacted at yamantau after they dared to lay their hands on my beloved

still the unbeaten wife experience, even comes with hours of yap-yap after sex

@Quasy021 @esjesjesj Nazis, famously empathetic. Like, what are we doing here? Words mean things

@esjesjesj Empathy is not a good thing lmao😭. Empathy is what led to things like Nazi germany, Mussolini italy, and USSR

If right wingers actually had empathy, they could have turned Charlie Kirk’s assassination into a movement. But they don’t have empathy and neither did Charlie Kirk. That’s the entire problem.

@LegioEquestrisX @bullfranx @omriceren Without a coherent, achievable political end goal, they will just rearm once the war is over, and everyone is back at square one. Also, the Iranian regime has no incentive to disarm or capitulate at this point. From their point of view, deterrence must be restored. So now what?

@KHendrickson91 @bullfranx @omriceren Neutering the Iranian regime is absolutely strategic. If you don’t understand and that I don’t know what to tell you…

The sinking of Iran's navy was 1 of the 4 strategic goals for the war, outlined by the President when the war began. It's by definition a strategic gain. Do you guys see what I mean about think tankers just saying words?