thx!

Kit Klarenberg is an investigative journalist, not an opinion column writer.

Please post somewhere else next time so we don’t get reports. Maybe c/history or c/ukraine.

I wouldn’t be surprised if some back channels between Iran and the USA agreed to these limited exchanges to save face and not go to war.

I’ve heard from multiple sources that this is the case, and I haven’t heard any counterarguments.

And I wouldn’t be surprised if Israel knew this and is exposing this as a way to push the USA to war.

Doubtful. Assuming the satellite images are real (very likely), they would have gotten out anyway. These are commercial-grade resolution, akin to Google Maps.

“Fu Manchu made me do an imperialism.”

Sorry to hear about your investment woes, downvoters 📉

It’s fine: Gates has the best PR apparatus money can buy.

📺 Richard Feynman explains.

grok is this true

Just as the IDF is the most moral army in the world.

It was a snow day. A neighbor saw it live from his huge-ass satellite dish. He called to tell me it blew up, and I thought he was taking the piss.

The tail is not wagging the dog.

Did you see the Magic Seas go down?

• Reuters, 2014: Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU
• Leaked recording between Nuland and Pyatt: audio | transcript
• Counterpunch, 2014: US Imperialism and the Ukraine Coup
• Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland Made Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change without weighing the likely consequences.
• Monthly Review Online, 2021: The Maidan massacre in Ukraine: revelations from trials and investigations

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

China’s “monopoly” is not on the minerals themselves but on the processing. Anyone can “break” the monopoly by building their own processing industry.

No, you’re thinking of the US.

But they told me that these CIA/MI6/Mossad-backed Salafi Jihadists were moderate rebels. At least that terrible, horrible no good, very bad Bashar al-Assad is gone, though!

Armenia’s PM offers to expose himself in escalating Church row

A bitter standoff between Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and the Armenian Apostolic Church has seen mass arrests, allegations of a coup plot, and an extraordinary offer by Armenia’s leader to reveal his private parts to prove he is a Christian.

Earlier this week, Pashinyan told his 1.1 million followers on Facebook he was prepared to expose himself to the head of the Armenian Church and his spokesman, to prove they were wrong that he had been circumcised.