/3 Gerard Baker stage three: bargaining

April 09, 2026 - 03:01 UTC

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In a regime change war, "survival" does, in fact, sound like victory for them.
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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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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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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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He’s gonna need a Zoloft prescription pretty soon, isn’t he?
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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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/4 Gerard Baker stage four: depression
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I figured they'd have a Baghdad Bob existential crisis on this one about a month ago.

bsky.app/profile/highlandsurfer.bsky.social/post/3mgfy3w7qgc24
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“We have become Baghdad Bob.”

Whaddaya mean ”we,” white man?
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I love the use of the Stages of Grief - as it turns out it explains so many things
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/5 Gerard Baker stage five: acceptance
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It only took a month!
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Baghdad Bob? WTF, everyone knows it was Comical Ali...
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Doesn't he mean "Tehran Tommy"?
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My basic assumption is that the Trump administration is lying. At all times. So I will definitely be more likely to believe the Iranians... It's not even close.
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We have become Baghdad Bob is on target.
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There is a League of Gerards… Baker, Butler, Lyon (a pro Brexit economics) and Depardieu are in the BAD Gerards side of the ledger.
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What a difference a month makes
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