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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m sure they’ll all rush to draw down their diesel reserves at the same time Trump is talking up a diesel export ban.

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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

All the stories mention the bomb squad on scene but none mention finding, you know, a bomb.

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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

They may want to have a word with him about those end zone acrobatics.

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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

When it scales up to where 30-40% near-immediate dead is the result, then those second/third order effects are such that being in that 30-40% might be preferable.

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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A house fire can be sufficiently hot. C + O2 + heat = CO2

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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

They’ve latched onto it as a multipurpose wonder drug. Claims are all over the place but a popular one is that it’s a cancer cure that “they” are keeping secret.

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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I’m reading it right now and loving it! (Thanks for clarifying the incredible unlikelihood of vacuum decay in the chapter I just finished. That one’s a doozy.)

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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Every nuclear weapon is strategic. Thinking otherwise is delusional.

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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Meanwhile on the east coast we’re upset that we have to wait for the 1/4 of Americans in Mountain and Pacific to get into their late afternoon before we can start nationally broadcast events.

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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The… Bangor Tribune? I’m from Bangor and was there just yesterday. I think you’ve got a name wrong.

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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Only people who specifically request this one will get it, thank goodness. Although I’m not sure why anyone would willingly show off their love of Trump to a foreign immigration officer.

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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

There’s no such thing as secretly moving through the Strait. It’s just not that wide and tankers are massive radar reflectors.

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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

It does illustrate the mentality of MAGA. Saying anything critical about one individual person = on the other side.

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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

It’s down to just Vanilla Ice and Flo Rida at this point.

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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

“The swamp” and “the deep state” and “corruption” are better understood as “laws, policies, or other government actions that MAGA doesn’t like.” That’s really what they mean when they use those terms.

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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Likely the only good thing about it. All else being equal, Bluetooth has lower audio quality than wired.

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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

It’s so bizarre that an official whose job has zero to do with any of this is the public face of the Iran war. Even if it is true (very doubtful) how does that information ever end up in the hands of the director of the National Economic Council?

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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

You could blow a lot of younger minds talking about that relationship.

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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

It’s probably not just food either. Operating in the Gulf of Oman while the established logistics hubs (Bahrain, Jebel Ali) are on the other side of the strait has to make replenishment much more challenging.

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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I can’t wait for the leak or “Truth” that sends the market swinging the other way. It’s like a dog chasing a weeks-long series of imaginary ball throws without ever figuring out that there is no ball.

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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The bigger problem might be getting rid of the heat.

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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Right. No one believes the President of the United States any more and that is an enormous problem for the world.

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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

It’s helpful to get a visual so I’ll know I’m doing it right. Thanks!

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 09/04/2026

It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.

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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

One way to answer that: It’s about the size of Alaska.

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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Maybe so, but it seems prudent to only trust one’s own eyes these days.

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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The service chiefs aren’t in the operational chain of command. Their remit is the “man, train, and equip” stuff.

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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

This still stands as The Onion’s finest hour.

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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Back in 1994 under Nunn-Lugar we removed 600 kg of material in Kazakhstan. With the full cooperation of the Kazakh government and no one shooting at the team it took a month of 12-hour shifts to locate and prepare it and three C-5s to fly out.

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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I once ran into a few ROK soldiers who grew up in the U.S.

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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Right? There are support and sustainment capabilities that largely reside in the Reserve Component by design. But hey, it’s gonna be quick and easy and only a pessimist would worry about such things.

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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Among the older Trump voters I know, “They all do it” is the standard response to anything specifically about him. It’s frustrating because no, they don’t.

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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Kudos to the 10% who read/watch a thing before commenting on it.

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Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

This statement is intended for an audience of one. And it will have its desired effect.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 14/03/2026

Inside the Department of War are two wolves: "We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting." "How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"

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