theturtlemoves [he/him]

The British ruling class is more interested in maintaining their own power than in supporting Israel. Israel isn’t their military base, and they want good relations at least with the ruling classes of the Gulf states. If pushed too hard, there is a possibility that they will throw Israel under the bus to save their own skins. I’m not betting on it happening, but Harmer & Co. are spineless cowards, so anything is possible.

Muslims in the ruling class.

We should do what works. Entryism into Harmer’s government would, in general, be a waste of time. Getting the BBC to correct this particular mistake might work, as (1) the UK has a sizeable elite Muslim population, (2) the UK, unlike the US, needs to maintain good relations with oil producers, and (3) criticising Israel and supporting Palestine is therefore much more ‘acceptable’.

It’s a public service. It needs to be corrected, not abandoned.

The coup is when you get the army and industry onboard to the point you aren’t arrested as soon as you go to bed after making that speech.

That’s a successful coup. But even an unsuccessful coup can get a lot of people killed. That’s my concern. I’m not American; I don’t care who sits in the White House.

Real galaxy brain take.

There’s already Essex, Middlesex, Sussex and Wessex, so all we need is a Norssex to ceate Sexland.

While the Latin mass bollocks is gone, Catholics are still expected to know a few Latin words, and Luce = light is one of them. So any conspiracy theorist who stirs shit over this can be safely dismissed as an ignoramus.

Luce = light, Lucifer = light bearer (his job before he rebelled)

There are only so many Latin words; at some point they’ve to use some word that looks like some other word.

Yes, but is it worth going to war over a drone dropping some leaflets? Returning an equivalent amount of waste paper was funny and appropriate, war is neither.

as a kind of protest against the war in Gaza.

Well, I guess enforcing the Genocide convention is technically ‘a kind of protest’.

The smaller the eye, the stronger the wind?

You can write Türkiye as Tuerkiye if you want to stick to ‘pure’ English. I mean, Latin.

Old buildings, particularly stone ones, can stand for centuries with good maintanence. I’ve seen so many cases of old (100yo) buildings standing in much better shape than newer (20-30yo) ones.

I’m guessing hydro-electric also requires a water supply.

The CSA precedes the Nazis. In fact, Nazi race laws were partially based on slavery laws from the southern US.

NATO losing to Russia in Ukraine, and to the Houthis in the Gulf of Aden, will send a message to a lot of neutral countries that (1) NATO can’t / won’t protect you anymore, and (2) you can push back against NATO and win or at least gain concessions. NATO will still be the single largest military bloc in the world, but they’ll actually have to negotiate, maybe even compromise.

i’m also not sure that the rise of hypersonic missiles means the end of all naval operations. the PLA navy don’t seem to think so. they’re building up a big green water/ coastal defense fleet. in a somewhat similar vein, iran just launched its first aircraft carrier, a design based on a container ship mostly designed for drone launching.

Not disagreeing with your overall analysis, but warships take years to build. The construction of these carriers probably started long before the war.

Is the guy on the left holding his staff correctly? It feels like he is holding it by the end, which would make it easy for her to knock it off.

What can the harvester hope for, if not the approval of The Reaper Man?