/2 That was Gerard Baker stage one: denial.

This is stage two, anger

April 09, 2026 - 02:56 UTC

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Strangely, it's as if people recognize that "we can kill whoever we want, whenever we want without consequences and you can't stop us" is not a theory of geopolitics that is likely to lead to good places.
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Please define failure, Mr Baker
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youtu.be/U7s5pT3Rris
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Stage 3 bargaining will be: OK, we will agree to pay 200 million space bucks for every tanker that passes through the strait of Hormuz, but you have to agree to call it the strait of nohomo
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He’s not wrong. Nobody wants to cheer for an alleged violent child rapist
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I love his optimism for a “mostly disarmed” Iran. Heck, we all know something wounded is perfectly harmless
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How about we drop him on Iran if he’s so supportive?
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I mean yeah, I wanted the US to fail
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He's like if a stubbed toe could barely write
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He’s getting there.
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/3 Gerard Baker stage three: bargaining
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/4 Gerard Baker stage four: depression
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I’d like to thank the headline writers for saving me, and you, I hope, from wasting life on reading the actual articles
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He’s gonna need a Zoloft prescription pretty soon, isn’t he?
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LOL "oh it's just an asymmetric war so you know, probably we won or something"

(also Popehat of Avignon, best hat name yet)
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I don’t think the Iranians are Nazis or anything.

But if WW2 ended with the Nazis still in control of Germany, the US would have lost the war. If the Nazis were taxing their neighbors, the US would have catastrophically lost the war.
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Pure gold. What a wonderful meritocracy we have here where such insightful, talented people naturally rise to the top
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In a regime change war, "survival" does, in fact, sound like victory for them.
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