Okay, in honor of the 80th of Pearl Harbor, let's talk national security and battleships. When even @Twitchshow notices it's Pearl Harbor Day it's time to talk battleships.
Gonna do this in two separate threads, the first with some content that frames the political and strategic importance of Pearl, and the second that's about, you guessed it, battleships!
First the national security bit. Pearl Harbor was immensely important for the formation of the US national security state. 19fortyfive.com/2021/12/how-pe…
Watching Casablanca because it’s important to remember that the US and France are, fundamentally, always going to be friends.
But… and I’m not sure that IR theory in all of its glory really grapples with this… Britain and Australia are family. And family, in the end, comes before even the best and oldest of friends.
There’s a narrow path to thread here; vax refusers are in fact doing bad and destructive things, but they’re doing so at the behest of pundits who revel in mobilizing culture war tropes.
@McDonalds could do a lot worse than “show your vaccination card, get a free McRib.”
I’m old enough to remember when even whispering the idea that Glenn might be a right-wing libertarian crank was sufficient to bring a torrent of abuse from the more respectable parts of the progressive blogosphere and twitter commentariat... lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/04/two-li…
By 2007 we knew he was fond of pro bono defenses of white supremacists, that he enjoyed writing racist screeds about immigrants, and that he had supported the Iraq War. It was also around that time that he began to get VERY interested in the Thoughts of Ron Paul.
I mean, you had to TRY HARD to not see who he was. He was very straightforward about it!
But hey, a lotta folks were willing to put in that effort.