Crucible

American lefties and having dogshit foreign policy opinions, name a more iconic duo

This feels a little strange to do in any case, but protecting the entrances to a facility that they claim is evacuated and that the US is claiming they will soon obliterate is weird; why would you need to re-enter it if there's nothing left?

The US was never going to be able to destroy the whole facility, and there was no way literally everything was evacuated so there was always going to be a need to come back at least for salvage.

The allowed strike aspect/off-ramp for Trump reads true to me. But I don't think it was done in the official way that the missile attacks after Solemani's assassination, but in the tit-for-tat way they've been talking about hitting Israel.

Trump knows that war is unpopular but dropping big bombs is popular. Ansarallah's truce with him shows that he's willing to leave the zionists in the lurch if it means the price of commodities at home returns to normal. IMO getting Trump to disengage and claim a win now means the Iranians live to hopefully blast the IDF back into the stone age before a regional peace treaty is pushed by the US and Russia

Massie-Khanna and Kaine are going for the same thing- reaffirming that the president needs congressional approval to go to war. This is part of the constitution and has been completely ignored since the Patriot Act, and mostly ignored from the Vietnam war onward before that. The wording to me is accepting that the president can act unilaterally militarily anywhere they want except for Iran- and whichever specific countries end up being named in their own bills later- instead of trying to fight the authorities of the Patriot Act.

Sander's bill is to restrict the use of federal funds to strike Iran unless authorized by the senate. IDK how it would work or how it would be enforced since Trump uses federal funds illegally for lots of stuff already.

They're both something, but not much.

the Brits may have sent it straight into the path of a known submarine to get it sunk and trigger the US entering the war. You can adjust their/US involvement to the level of conspiracy you want

American Prestige does good weekly rundowns of the world news. both the RWN guys have been on the conversation format episodes so they're a similar vein but academia brained instead of twitter brained.

Western culture permeates all, and tech guys are nerds worldwide

God I would love it if he tweeted too soon and the attacks haven't happened yet

Now I guess we find out how good these bombs are at bunker busting, and how good Iranian reinforced concrete is

Trying to get the multiple quadrant audience- Catholic pope talking to a Jewish guy who is actually a Protestant nazi.

I half expect the Israelis to try to nuke it but Trump steps in because he wants to be the one to get to use a nuke instead

Yeah, they were banned from Israel in April/May of 2024. The office was shut down and they had equipment seized. I think they may be just calling all unapproved journalists Al Jazeera as a general crack down on reporting their losses

The fatwa against weaponizing nuclear material still exists, so in theory they would be very behind on the implosion device. Enriching the uranium they have is doable. Building a device and building a device that can be put onto a missile are two projects, too.