Sufyan
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Leisure is a lost art. Nobody knows how to relax anymore. You don't rest by endlessly scrolling. You need to be doing things. Go for an aimless walk. Discover new cafés. Play a game of tennis. Stretch. Peruse niche magazines. Listen to an album from start to finish. Write. Smell the flowers. Soak in a warm magnesium bath. Bask in the sun. You need to let your subconscious ruminate while your body completely disconnects from work. This is how the greatest ideas in the world are birthed.


Greeks drank wine from the Derveni krater. You drink estrogenic beer from a can.


An old documentary produced during the Algerian Revolution by the Ministry of Information of the Algerian Provisional Government 🇩🇿 1/2



@QuintusCurtius Freedom, like wealth, is not something one can boast of unless one has earned it through the sweat of his own brow.





I really liked this shot I’ll set it as my profile picture for a while

The Israelis are discovering that in an age of distributed reconnaissance and mass precision attack, the empty battlefield has gone from a slogan to a brutal reality of warfare. If it gets seen it will be attacked - and smart weapons are now as democratized as small arms.




Gasoline + Brent Spot chart w/ 2 posts by @tleilax___ on US oil stock drawdown + Iranian resilience in prior export draughts -> Iran can survive not exporting oil a lot longer than ROW runs down oil inventory -> $150+ Brent spot & $6 gas in US Ceasefire is unsustainable Every day w/o resolution is one day closer to inventory reaching critical levels & longer supply chain disruption (2-3 yr long issues based on COVID experience) Essentially, Trump admin is drawing down US inventory + trying to scare away traders speculating long positions to keep headline WTI paper px down. This is equivalent to a person w/o job pretending he has a job. You are taking away precious time needed to actually solve the problem. There are essentially 2 options here: 1) Resume bombing + put in ground troops. The latter needs to be a really large # to have a chance of success. More US military gear needs to be move into the region. 2) Give up the control of SoH to Iran + significant Centcom drawdown. Which essentially turns Iran into superpower of the region. Asians & Europeans will all have to drop sanctions on Iran to access cheaper energy from the Gulf. UAE is diminished. China/Russia/Iran dominates Eurasia. Both options are essentially politically not workable in America. 2) is geopolitically untenable for Israel & UAE. The loudest realists that were against the war are essentially advocating for 2), but don't want to explain the obvious consequences of giving up the US empire. The DC blob who are against Trump wants to pretend there is a third option where Iran turns stupid & give up on its national interest of becoming the super power of the region. If someone other than Trump takes power in US, could they actually accept 2)? No. Trump admin, facing rising reality of situation, is basically hoping for a third option to show up miraculously. I assume that's what this "short" bombing campaign is all about. But Iran can just rebuild infrastructure, lol. In fact, Centcom will probably run down JASSM b4 it can destroy most of Iranian infrastructure. So, it will in fact need to fly aircraft into Iranian air space, take more chances & have more F-15E down type of scenarios. All of which still just delays the inevitable ground troop scenario, which is what's needed to take away Iranian control of SoH.















