"isn’t it a problem that Trump has made it clear that he actually wants Iran to pump oil — he’s letting them sell oil right now during the war! Strangely, both sides share a goal: Iran wants to sell oil for money, and Trump wants them to sell oil so that gas prices are low. This undermines Trump’s leverage"
This. Seems to me the moment we didn't stop Iran from selling oil when they stopped everyone else, we showed we didn't "have the cards". There is no value to endangering marines taking Kharg island - all we have to do is say we won't allow any Iranian ships (or ships that paid Iran) to pass through Hormuz unless Iran does. An important part of this plan is starving the Iranian regime for income. Now they're making way more than they were pre-war. If we weren't willing to deal with gas prices going up a couple dollars to overthrow the Iranian regime then we shouldn't have gone there at all. This is why we aren't supposed to have wars without consulting the people via congress - war always sucks, and you need buy in, otherwise you're screwed.
"After all, I’m arguably “on the cusp” of becoming a Spanish-language rap star — it just depends on how many events you’re willing to cram into the word 'cusp'."
I played basketball with Pete for one season before switching to playing football. I think Pete’s use of football metaphors are spot on if Pete is using Princeton football circa ‘99-‘02 as the example. Our air assault in the open field was awesome when our jet-like receivers had room to run. But, our ground game was limited for those last few yards…if only the defensive lineman of the opponents had no hands - what’s up with that Dall-E image! 😂
Yeah, Thiessen's confidence, real or pretended, is hard to watch. I used to read him, grudgingly, during the Biden years, so as to have some right-wing content in my media diet.
After four years of exquisite sensitivity on how allies would react if Biden put any restriction whatsoever on Ukraine aid, he thought Zelensky was to blame in the Oval Office, excused the Anchorage meeting with Putin as a well-intentioned gesture towards peace, and when that fell apart, he confidently wrote Trump would now put pressure on Russia. The aid didn't even resume, but that didn't put a dent in his wide-eye optimism.
I think you are missing GEN Keane’s point. He isn’t using double speak like you are accusing Thiessen of (and fair point). He’s simply pointing out very aggressive operational-level objectives. Then he says “if” it succeeds, then hey give credit where credit is due. And he’s right. He then predicts Trump and his team will not get the due credit “if” this is successful. And he’s probably right about that too.
> Okay, so we’re at the 20 yard line, but we’re facing, like, the ‘85 Bears’ defense, and we have no time outs, and our quarterback has just been diagnosed with a rare blood disease.
It took me a minute to realize that those were apostrophes and not single quotes. 😂
"isn’t it a problem that Trump has made it clear that he actually wants Iran to pump oil — he’s letting them sell oil right now during the war! Strangely, both sides share a goal: Iran wants to sell oil for money, and Trump wants them to sell oil so that gas prices are low. This undermines Trump’s leverage"
This. Seems to me the moment we didn't stop Iran from selling oil when they stopped everyone else, we showed we didn't "have the cards". There is no value to endangering marines taking Kharg island - all we have to do is say we won't allow any Iranian ships (or ships that paid Iran) to pass through Hormuz unless Iran does. An important part of this plan is starving the Iranian regime for income. Now they're making way more than they were pre-war. If we weren't willing to deal with gas prices going up a couple dollars to overthrow the Iranian regime then we shouldn't have gone there at all. This is why we aren't supposed to have wars without consulting the people via congress - war always sucks, and you need buy in, otherwise you're screwed.
This made me laugh!
"After all, I’m arguably “on the cusp” of becoming a Spanish-language rap star — it just depends on how many events you’re willing to cram into the word 'cusp'."
I played basketball with Pete for one season before switching to playing football. I think Pete’s use of football metaphors are spot on if Pete is using Princeton football circa ‘99-‘02 as the example. Our air assault in the open field was awesome when our jet-like receivers had room to run. But, our ground game was limited for those last few yards…if only the defensive lineman of the opponents had no hands - what’s up with that Dall-E image! 😂
I gave DallE several tries and that was the best one. It’s good if you don’t look at it too closely.
Yeah, Thiessen's confidence, real or pretended, is hard to watch. I used to read him, grudgingly, during the Biden years, so as to have some right-wing content in my media diet.
After four years of exquisite sensitivity on how allies would react if Biden put any restriction whatsoever on Ukraine aid, he thought Zelensky was to blame in the Oval Office, excused the Anchorage meeting with Putin as a well-intentioned gesture towards peace, and when that fell apart, he confidently wrote Trump would now put pressure on Russia. The aid didn't even resume, but that didn't put a dent in his wide-eye optimism.
Maybe the Administration misunderstood the blooper reel of George Sr.'s Caged Wisdom as well and are taking faith as a fact.
I think you are missing GEN Keane’s point. He isn’t using double speak like you are accusing Thiessen of (and fair point). He’s simply pointing out very aggressive operational-level objectives. Then he says “if” it succeeds, then hey give credit where credit is due. And he’s right. He then predicts Trump and his team will not get the due credit “if” this is successful. And he’s probably right about that too.
> Okay, so we’re at the 20 yard line, but we’re facing, like, the ‘85 Bears’ defense, and we have no time outs, and our quarterback has just been diagnosed with a rare blood disease.
It took me a minute to realize that those were apostrophes and not single quotes. 😂
I believe you're thinking of Tiffani Amber Thiessen. She always looks at the bright side!
I am often thinking of Tiffani Amber Thiessen.
See you on Karg Island this summer! BYOB by the way.....
Sounds rad! (Except for the BYOB part)