Running Twitter: This thread got a lot more responses than I expected. So here is some consolidation of points for comment:
Gear:
I wear CW-X and 2XU compression tights, heat permitting. My dailies are Ghost 12 and Pegasus 37, plus Wave Prophecy 9 for long runs. I tried Nike /1
& UA compression; they’re really athleisure, not performance wear. Also, I have zero-drop Altras (Escalante 2, which I don’t like) and minimalist Adidas for speedwork/racing.
Issues:
I get pain in my left upper back leg, which I figure is my IT band. And my hams ache /2
constantly.
Causes:
I have duck-feet, with a worse splay on the left. I figure that’s my problem; it hurts my form. (Curiously though, my shoes wear as a supinator [on the outside] not a pronator. I don't get that.) And generally, I am 47 which is old for running, so my legs /3
constantly ache.
Mitigation:
CWX & 2XU are heavily marketed/reviewed as helping stability, fatigue, & soreness, and that’s me. I get that compression pants are contentious among runners, but if they might help, I’ll try it. More generally, I throw anything I can at all these /4
Weather:
The heat and humidity really make a difference. My last PRs were in May. Now I have to stop every few miles to hydrate. I am not keen on gels and /5
and bars though outside of long runs. My daily is an 11K, which isn’t enough for nutrition. Also, it is so hot, that it's not comfortable to wear recovery pants or even socks.
Bonus:
I can’t stand how fit everyone looks in compression gear advertisements.
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1. Trump is too lazy & clownish for a project as large & serious as a major war
Once it became clear that a strategic victory required ground combat, he got cold feet. If he had read anything about US wars in the M East or had
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insisted on a proper policy process beforehand,he might have learned that. He didn’t, bc work bores him & he doesn’t read. So he trusted Netanyahu & his own gut
This is very similar to Trump’s refusal to prep or learn bf meeting Kim Jong-Un. Trump winged it thru those de-nuke
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talks, which is a big reason why nothing came of them
2. America learned the limits of airpower - again
This is not new, & if Trump had done his prep & wasn’t so incurious, he probably would have asked his advisors if this would work now, where it had not in the past, & what
2. Trump doesn’t actually care about the details of SK investment; he just wants to market it as a ‘win’ on Fox
So the S Koreans are stuck with whatever thrown-together ‘framework’ emerges from the disorganized, competing interests within the Trump administration
3. The US
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visa system has been a mess for decades, and xenophobic MAGA wants it that way
So the SKs don’t know how to get in the needed work-force to operationalize Trump’s deal. They end up getting arrested, bc Trump’s gov't is a disunified, disorganized mess which can't prioritize or
fundamentalists in the M East rather than US general interest
- undermines NATO which has kept the peace for 80 years in a core area of US FoPo interest
- believes autocracies like Russia or N Korea are credible counterparties
- rejects alliances which supplement US power
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& enable US global power projection
- thinks trade wars with allies enhance US power
- is guided in foreign policy by his own ego quirks - loathing for Zelensky & female leaders, admiration for dictators - rather than US national interests
running, deep-seated hatred for UKR independence, it is hard to believe this whole thing actually turned on a far-away event 16 months earlier: the 2020 US election. Indeed, the belief that the whole world turns on US decisions is a particular American hubris, probably derived
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from our long-running superpowerdom. But it is not true. Other countries have agency independent of us, especially great powers like RU.
2. Vance and MAGA did not know that UKR had no pathway to victory for the last 3 years
This is lazy retrodiction – using contemporary info