The Last Dragon

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🚨🇺🇸🇨🇳 INTERVIEW: Fmr U.S. Army officer Stanislav Krapivnik expanded on his view that the Xi summit functioned as little more than good optics for the U.S. when Trump was in desperate need of delivering something resembling positive news on Iran. "Trump needed him in Anchorage fast because he needed a picture. Trump needed the PR. This is the same thing." In this discussion, Stanislav talks about what will likely happen next in the Strait of Hormuz, the role China will play, and how Trump will be forced to respond to a rapidly changing war. @STANISKRAPIVNIK 03:30 - Trump’s China visit described as unprepared and diplomatically weak 05:51 - Venezuela cannot quickly replace Iranian oil exports despite huge reserves 09:06 - Taiwan’s political factions still fundamentally see themselves as Chinese 12:26 - Russia and land routes helping Iran bypass the blockade 16:41 - Is China quietly pressuring Iran toward concessions? 19:21 - Iranian demands viewed as politically impossible for Washington to accept 22:57 - U.S. attempts to control global chokepoints versus China’s Belt and Road strategy 25:43 - U.S. missile production and rare earth shortages are becoming critical 33:23 - How Israel may be driving escalation while Trump wants out of the war 35:02 - U.S. military presence in the Gulf is collapsing after heavy damage 44:50 - Gulf states to gradually improve relations with Iran 46:02 - On a U.S. withdrawal cementing Iran as a dominant regional power 47:05: Israel’s influence in America said to be weakening, especially among younger Jews

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Day 9 Sw Atamifuji 4-4 (L) M4 Daieishō 3-5 (R) Atomic has won 2 in a row and Eishō won yesterday after 5 losses in a row #natsubasho2026

Day 9 M1 Fujinokawa 4-4 (L) M2 Ichiyamamoto 3-5 (R) Ichiyama when he wants can still put in that full power long armed tsuppari that Abi can’t seem to muster anymore #natsubasho2026

Day 9 M13 Kotoeihō 6-2 (L) M15 Tobizaru 7-1 (R) This one just has to be good, their near equal records aside #natsubasho2026

Day9 jūryō Enhō 6-2 (L) Nishikigi 2-6 (R) I just want 8 wins for Enhō - no flying up the banzuke and getting hurt again and falling precipitously again #natsubasho2026

Day8 Oz Kirishima 7-0 (L) M4 Gōnoyama 5-2 (R) Kiri’s adaptability has been on display all basho and he can be first rikishi in makuuchi to log KK and stay ahead of the pack with a win here #natsubasho2026

@xacct01 My mates made me listen to this stuff

#OTD in 1992: The #1 song was "All 4 Love" by Color Me Badd

@Panagiotou90St Replace them all with robots

Wokists are so narcissistic that they cannot understand that the Odyssey is more important to the general public than their concerns about political expediency. They feel they are the only ones who are entitled to feel offended. And they are offended by anything that doesn’t treat them as the centre of universe. They will even freak out about pronouns. They will start calling you a racist just to control you. They will start calling you an extremist because you don’t want your culture to be liquidated and disrespected. It is time for the silent majority, the non-woke, to start feeling very offended with woke culture and give it the treatment wokists have been giving us for more than a decade now.

Russell Brand and Peter Hitchens meet again @rustyrockets @ClarkeMicah

@SynthPotato She's got a lot to prove Putting a woman in charge of gaming is like putting a woman in charge of F1 Unless the target markets are women, kids & alphabet people of course

I am really excited for the Xbox Showcase that will show off Gears of War E-Day among other big games next month Being the first Xbox Showcase under new CEO Asha Sharma, I feel like this is going to have some new energy that will fully deliver on all hype. I’ve been very pessimistic about Xbox for many years but what Asha has done the last very few months has completely re-invigorated my love and interest in the brand, she’s finally turned a ship that I have felt was going to completely sink very soon under Phil and Sarah, and I couldn’t be happier that things are changing. The only reason I am not getting an Xbox Series X right now is because I wanna wait for Project Helix, I really think that for once, things are looking up for the brand and that it will only get better from here on out. Fingers crossed things keep going this way and I end up not skipping owning an Xbox again, as it was my primary console throughout XB1 and 360 eras. The rebrand, the green logo, becoming XBOX. It’s all little touches but it feels like the console identity that I once ADORED is finally coming back, the brand of the power of X. How do y’all feel about Xbox right now? Still pessimistic on its future or do y’all agree its actually turning around now?

Basically every political instinct I had when I was a lib in 2015 ended up being completely wrong. Even in 2020, even after 4 years of being disabused of all sorts of bad ideas, all my remaining lib assumptions also ended up being totally, completely wrong. At some point you have to accept that you were the mark, that you were wrong about everything, laugh it off, and refuse to let sunk costs keep driving you off the same cliffs.

L.A. Noire released 15 years ago today. 🎩 Still one of the most unique detective games ever made. The atmosphere, soundtrack, facial animations and interrogations were way ahead of their time. Rockstar really made something special with this one. #LANoire #RockstarGames

Ten years later, the cult of ‘The Nice Guys’ keeps growing apnews.com/article/nice-g…

Russell Crowe Set to Attend Italy's Taormina Film Festival to Launch His Latest Film 'Bear Country' variety.com/2026/film/fest…

Cate Blanchett was thanked at #Cannes for speaking out about Palestine, to which she said: "It's a sad state of affairs that film festivals suddenly become the only place where one can talk about wars, conflicts, genocides, as if they're gonna be solved here." variety.com/2026/film/news…

@Variety I can understand what he is saying, but there are greater forces at work here than just individual men, dictators or not

Javier Bardem speaks out in #Cannes on toxic masculinity: "That problem also goes to Trump, Putin and Netanyahu... the big balls man saying 'my cock is bigger than yours and I'm going to bomb the shit out of you' is a f*cking male toxic behavior that is creating thousands of dead people." variety.com/2026/film/fest…