DavidASuper
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@DavidASuper1
Law prof, Georgetown; former CBPP, Community Legal Services, UFW; interested in law, legislation, the budget, and social justice, not necessarily in that order.
5/7 capital inflows, require rising debt to prevent slower growth and rising unemployment. The counterpart to chronic imbalances in which excess saving is exported mainly to advanced economies, in other words, is not more investment, as economists typically claim, but more debt.
Georgian Dream has built a system that cannot survive genuine Western alignment. What GD called a "reset" was always a performance. Moscow and Tehran know it. Does Washington understand it? 19/19
Trump aims to shift power from China by forging better ties with Russia via Ukraine deal. A Trump admin official told me finding a “way to align closer with Russia” could create “a different power balance with China that could be very, very beneficial.” politico.com/news/2026/03/1…
Not only is Russia sharing intelligence with Iran, but Iranian drones targeting American forces and NATO bases are also equipped with Russian military hardware. Let’s stop pretending whose side Moscow is on.
Putin has lied his entire career. Yet Witkoff says we can take Russia “at their word” that they’re not sharing intelligence with Iran. Taking the Kremlin at face value while U.S. intelligence reportedly says otherwise is utterly incomprehensible and mind-boggling naive.
"He wants to be helpful," President Trump says regarding his conversation with President Putin and Iran, despite reports that Russia was providing intel to Iran on US military targets.
Putin's main propagandist complains that the US attack on Iran isn't fair because Trump didn't ask Congress and that it is a "very unpleasant situation for Russia" and that "it would be very difficult for Russia to enter into this conflict" due to the "ongoing special military operation in Ukraine".
🚨Hospital Ship Alerted For Greenland🚨 This appears to be the plan. ▶️USNS Mercy is being crewed up to depart Alabama Shipyard by the end of the week. ▶️She was scheduled to be done by Dec 2025, but work has been delayed. She was scheduled to shift back to the West Coast and resume shipwork in Portland, Oregon with Vigor. A $90M contract was issued in January for March to Sept 2026; that is on top of the $19M done in Alabama ▶️Comfort, which arrived in January in Alabama, will not be done until April. The Alabama Shipyard needs all the ships out by May as it is shifting over to a construction yard for nuclear submarine modules. ▶️If Mercy is selected to go to Greenland, the following issues need to be considered: ⏩️The ship will need to sail to a port (probably Norfolk) to load medical personnel, stores and supplies. This means pulling active duty medical from stations, activing reserves or some arrangements with civilian medical. They will also need to embark an aviation detachment ⏩️Mercy has never operated in the Arctic and the ship is not ice rated. ⏩️If Mercy misses her maintenance window in Vigor, she may face serious operational and mechanical issues and delays in returning to service after a Greenland deployment. ▶️Finally, the Military Sealift Command is experiencing a shortage in crews and pulling the necessary merchant mariners from the fleet may impact other ships and their deployments. This will also continue the gap in the Pacific of no hospital ship. ▶️It is not clear what will be the mission for the hospital ship. Annually, one of the two goes on goodwill voyages to the Pacific or South America. This could be similar, but thosw have extensive planning behind them, along with logistics and funding. Video to follow on What's Going on With Shipping on @YouTube.
🇺🇸🇺🇦 Senator Lindsey Graham in Munich: “I want to give Tomahawks to Ukraine. I want the U.S. to supply Tomahawks to reach out and hurt the infrastructure that Putin counts on to build the drones and all the other stuff. I want to change the military equation”
Mass reports of Russian operations paralyzed at the front in the aftermath of losing Starlink. "Command and control of troops at the front is virtually paralyzed. According to reports from the field, assault operations have been suspended, and the unit command and control system is experiencing serious interruptions. The reason is the Starlink shutdown for Russian troops following the introduction of mandatory pre-registration. For several days now, Elon Musk's company has effectively banned the use of its satellite communications by the Russian side, while the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to use the system after authorization. According to reports from the front, the situation is close to critical. Over the two years of active Starlink deployment, almost all operational command and control—communication between units, fire coordination, and UAV data transmission—has been tied to the American satellite infrastructure. There has been no practical alternative comparable in stability and speed."
