Ah, the Kerry strategy. We really are stuck in a loop of dying boomer delusions.
Much worse: 70x the grid boxes and 9x the ships
Doordash flag got me
Folks, Iran - we really beat the hell out of those guys! They said "Sir, we can't stand it anymore! Let's make peace!" And now we're the strongest allies! It's unbelievable! They were our enemy for hundreds of years, and now allies! And we'll save 5 trillion dollars by not keeping all those useless bases around. Instead we're gonna build some great things in Persia! and we can end all those Joe Biden sanctions, and they'll send us more oil than anyone even thought was possible!
In response, Israel does something highly kinetic to Trump (because that's all they can do) however he survives it. He soars from -30 net approval to +30, and wins both 3rd and 4th terms. He gets revenge by activating a stay-behind network to do strategy of tension in Israel, to neutralize them as a threat to the new order.
One year into his 4th term, Trump dies suddenly and peacefully in his sleep. At that time the US is considered the big winners of this conflict, along with Iran. The gulf states and Israel never recover, which means Yemen and Lebanon can prosper. Russia and Europe both take a minor loss from this ordeal. The issue of Palestine is still unresolved, but the era of Israeli impunity has ended. Syria is entiy under Turkish control. China neither wins nor loses. US still dreams of war with China, however everyone except Japan knows that's not a possibility anytime soon.
And we're all forced to admit that Trump wriggled his way out of everything right up until the end.
Also, how much extra capacity is in the global shipping fleet? At what point does sinking them (or even just damaging them) become a long-term supply problem?
If you focus on the fingernails, it almost looks normal. (Counterclockwise: thumb, index finger, 3 fingers, shadow, part of hand.) I think it's just over-tuned AI post-processing.
Absolute silence during genocide and concentration camps, but of course he shows up for this
The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of garbage.
New TikTok trend of posting comedic death threats against senators
The thing is, they're almost right: it was a spectacle, he did want attention - ATTENTION TO THE GENOCIDE. They just can't (or refuse to) understand that anyone could take any action to benefit a larger cause instead of benefiting themselves as individuals.
None of this is my fault, this was all Trump's decision, which I participated in and I still support it.