Hope no one breaks a hip between now and then.
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Just bought tickets to an Iron Maiden, Megadeth, and Anthrax show in September and I am STOKED. What a freaking lineup.
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We did two rounds of recovery testing when I was on JPM. NASA was great to work with.
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Every manned space flight involves launching from the littorals and a planned withdrawal via the sea which means that, doctrinally, they are all amphibious raids.
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Big historical footnote: The Navy amphibious vessel recovering the Artemis crew this evening is named for John Murtha, the first Vietnam vet in Congress, who ultimately opposed the Iraq war and sought accountability for U.S. war crimes fox5sandiego.com/news/local-news/navy-supports-nasa-artemis-mission/
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I knew an Iraqi Army battalion commander who used to pay his soldiers to visit local brothels also frequented by Iranian agents who were also very talkative with the ladies. Then they’d get a visit.
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Politics has unexpectedly hit a special interest of mine so here is a quick rundown on the Avignon Papacy.
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I hate to break it to people but a post-US led world order doesn’t look like global socialism. It looks like the Warring States Period but the states have nukes.
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I would simply threaten the Catholic Church with the power of the sword, a problem it has never previously confronted.
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This isn’t just about this administration either. We let our navy atrophy over decades of admins in favor of costly and wasteful land campaigns. We let our economic enforcement mechanism literally rust away. It was only a matter of time before it bit us and now it has.
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Ok on a serious note, it cannot be exaggerated how bad formalized Iranian control of the Strait is for the world. The entire global economy rests on an American guarantee of free commercial shipping. That guarantee is gone. We don’t know exactly what will happen but none of it will be good.
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“Guys next time, instead of trying to run all the way to the fight, why don’t we just attack the other bullpen? It’s right here.”- me in a bullpen if I didn’t suck at pitching
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This war went so badly it made Ben Rhodes right about something for the first time ever. Totally unprecedented.
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My favorite part of baseball fights is the bullpens running in. They never make it in time but they also don’t want to be left out so they just get a nice little jog in.
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We even got what we wanted out of the negotiations to end the War of 1812. That’s probably not going to happen in this case.
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The fact that there's multiple versions of the 10-point plan is wild, there hasn't been this much confusion about a 10-point plan since Moses came down the mountain
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For what it's worth, I don't think the other Gulf states are going to accept Iranian control of Hormuz no matter what the US, especially since Iran has been war crime'ing them for a few weeks now. Iranian threats kind of ring hollow when they're already getting hit anyway.
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human shields is a war crime too, not like anyone cares at this point
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