As a note, this strike was successful, and significantly relieved food insecurity in Dublin.

Crook

Gold

Russia is just honoring the Great Patriotic War!

US defense officials said they had managed to find the $300 million for Ukraine by making savings on recent purchases by the Pentagon, but stressed the need for Congress to pass more aid.

Unfortunately, until Congress unfucks itself, we have only scraps that we can legally send.

Hadrian just wants to bone his boytoy in peace, no matter how many barbarian men, women, and children he has to kill to get it.

Oh, I’m not saying they’re not shitty. I’m only saying they aren’t nearly as competent as people think.

DoD: “We have a recruitment problem, not an equipment problem. Allocate money properly please?”

Congress: “Where’s the profit in that? You can’t get kickbacks from the enlisted!”

Me: “I wonder how low I can get my ELO”

Sometimes they tried to kill Castro with exploding cigars.

The CIA is often attributed great cunning and intelligence, both in popular culture and by their enemies.

In reality, they were busy during the Cold War dosing up on LSD and trying to cultivate psychic powers, including tests to try to kill goats with mind-powers

Checking you out

1. Because the cry of “But nuclear weapons!” is exactly the line Russia has been pushing since day 3 of this war, in which the lesson is “You can do anything you want to ‘lesser’ powers if you have nuclear weapons, up to and including genocide”

2. Because they’re off by almost an entire order of magnitude (Russia is generally estimated to have 5,000-6,000 nukes, comparable to the US stockpile)

3. Because this is NCD, and we yearn to die in nuclear hellfire here.

Well, yes, but the principle is the same.

Do it Macron. It’ll make future generations gloss over the rest of your failures, like Winston Churchill being shitty every way other than leading Britain during WW2.

“We have to stop the expansion of NATO, no matter how many additional members we add to it in the process!”

What’s the tonnage on that?

You pronounced this nonsense, not me!

I wish I could lie to you. To give you sweet, comforting fictions.

But where do we find a sailor big enough to squeeze the trigger?