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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nothing was going to stop the Bushies after 9/11 from overthrowing Saddam. The US had Saddam's son-in-law who ran the WMD program telling them it was all BS after 1992. We had UN inspectors in Iraq for years until 1997. Ashes, ashes.

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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We can end the confusion over "football" by calling the American collision sport "CTE Ball." "Dementia Ball" is also an acceptable alternative.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

As you can tell from this short thread, Korte is a pro, and some national MSM outlet ought to pick her up and get her back in print, pronto. You'd get a lot of great stories, and you'd drive Hegseth bananas.

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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 13/08/2026

This will reduce potential sortie capacity something like 40% and put unexpected cycling strain on reactors which were not designed for it. Basically indistinguishable from literal sabotage, if you care about such things as readiness or reliability or lethality or whatever

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Finally got around to seeing The Odyssey. Two chief thoughts, and many follow-ups. Firstly I wish Tom Stoppard or Carrie Fisher was alive because Nolan is a wonderful director who cannot write dialogue to save his life and badly needs a first-rate script doctor.

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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

What's the German word for schadenfreude?

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Alex Luck @alxluck.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

We appear to have a new type of Chinese nuclear powered submarine on out hands. The most remarkable aspect about it is its construction at Jiangnan in Shanghai, in a dedicated new facility. A few additional remarks in a quick thread. www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

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New Mystery Submarine Signals China’s Rapid Undersea Expansion

China is launching submarines at a pace unmatched by any other nation. Its latest design, a distinctive and innovative vessel that dispenses with the traditional sail, marks another step in the evolut...

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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Using DuckDuckGo and a VPN, it got nothing much right other than OS.

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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The big media won't cover any of this.

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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

China probably hopes that the US again becomes bogged down in a long conflict with Iran, but its strategic plans are usually not based on hope. 1/7

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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Great work by NPR, true investigative journalism. They did the work. It's not NPR's fault that this expose is also crazymaking by reminding us that Biden+Merrick Garland wasted four years, and that countless others covered this up for decades.

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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

This is even stupider than it seems... bsky.app/profile/ayoo...

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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

This is four levels of dementia, pick your flavor. Starting with him thinking the governor of Louisiana has dick all to do with the deployment of a US navy vessel just because that is where a drydock is located.

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Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander of Nato in Europe, General Sir Richard Shirreff (& author of the novel ‚War with Russia’) in an op-ed in the 🇬🇧Mail yesterday: “My message to European leaders is this: America is no longer our ally but a predator and a bully. Stick together and prepare for war.“

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GENERAL SIR RICHARD SHIRREFF: US is no longer our ally but a predator

It may have sounded like a joke when in 2019 Trump raised the prospect of acquiring Greenland from the Kingdom of Denmark. But seven years on and the rubber has hit the road.

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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I'm free from the need to have opinions on latest developments, so I'd just note that the US op to seize Maduro and declare our sole interest is oil reinforces exactly how Beijing views to US. A reckless declining power breaking laws and norms to maintain primacy.

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CNN @cnn.com · 27/12/2025

A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility, the villagers of Jabo in northwest Nigeria are in a state of shock and confusion.

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Fear and confusion in Nigerian village hit in US strike, as locals say no history of ISIS in area | CNN

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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Sen. Warner drove this in a couple of days later. Good thing Trump is pre-surrendering to China on tech, Taiwan, human rights. Because in a war, we could be truly screwed. bsky.app/profile/ship...

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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

David Sanger's NYT analysis of Trump's NSS, there's this nugget... "...and there is barely a mention of the remarkably sophisticated, extensive cyber attacks that have burrowed deeply into American telecommunications and utility systems and stayed there, despite years of efforts to oust them."

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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Beyond the sheer idiocy, I sincerely hope these frauds get the deflationary spiral they want.

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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Dear Subway, Which of your sandwiches has the highest ballistic coefficient? No reason...

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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Of course the WaPo editors think this is dandy. What utter shit the paper has become.

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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Trump confirms decades of insider reports that he shits his pants, explodes his diaper, and literally smells like shit. And considers himself King Shit.

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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Leaks about a covert ops finding on Venezuela put this into context. Ellis is the guy back in 2020 they tried to shove into NSA as general counsel before Jan6. Nakasone blocked him. If you name Ellis your top lawyer, you are intending to break a lot of laws, and not just wrt Venezuela.

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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

What if Trump calls on the PRC to renounce use of force in exchange for a halt to US arms sales and Trump announces US support for reunification? Still nominating him?

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Erin Sikorsky @erinsikorsky.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Fascinating look at China's resilience to extreme weather events -- investments in physical adaptation capacity unparalleled and innovative, yet information control that limits local officials' ability to build trust/tell truth limits effectiveness. (1/2)

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How China was ready for Super Typhoon Ragasa – and what still needs to be done

Chinese cities have been hit by a series of deadly storms over the decades, but this time no one died on the mainland.

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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Yeah, we know. Someone should tell Chuck, Hakeem, and Nancy. They seem to think the polls indicate Dems will do great in the midterms. They don't know they're going to Gitmo for being ANTIFA.

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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Think about this: Will Trump/MAGA peacefully relinquish power?

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 12/09/2025

last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper" anyways, great news! (1/X)

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Zack Cooper @zackcooper.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

After 14 years, I think the time has come to acknowledge that the "Rebalance to Asia" has failed. I've spent the last decade writing and thinking about how to make the rebalance successful, so this is a painful realization. A thread on my new piece for RSIS...

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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

BTW, I first posted this on the other site five years ago.

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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

What Trump wants from the military besides personal loyalty to him is for them to be killers. He has no idea, and would dismiss if explained, the role of laws governing armed conflict or domestic use of armed forces. He likely thinks Russian war crimes in Ukraine are great.

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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Trump+henchmen are conditioning the country for their next insurrection if they lose an election. The DOD+IC and DOJ+FBI purges, combined with troops and goon squad in Democratic cities create the tools to invoke the Insurrection Act.

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Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · 15/05/2025

Read Bonny Lin, @johnculver689.bsky.social, and @brianthart.bsky.social on the growing risk that China will make a deadly miscalculation in the Taiwan Strait—and what the United States can do to “deter a conflict or, failing that, to deny and defeat Chinese military adventurism.”

foreignaffairs.com

The Risk of War in the Taiwan Strait Is High—and Getting Higher

Beijing’s worry about the future could spur a deadly miscalculation soon.

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Hardcoded credentials in the Signal archiving tool used by the White House is a five-alarm security dumpster fire.

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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Least surprising news in forever: Fetterman is spiraling, needs to resign. Gee, what were the signs?

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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Welcome to the "Omnishambles!" There's no strategy. Trump sees trade as losing. He loves tariffs. But he's in 30s% approval territory and GOP sees its blood in the water. He gets pumped up by Navarro, then gets shit scared. On top of *all this other horrible shit*.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Mmmmmmmm if DoD is truly now unilaterally operating deportation flights without any DHS involvement (and this isn't just more attempts by DoJ to get sanctioned for lying) then that is a) extremely newsworthy and b) something several USAF GOs should get hauled up to the Hill to be yelled at about

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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Important to look at Hegseth in context of the overall cabinet, especially NatSec members. Their lack of qualifications is why they were chosen. Their jobs are to destroy the administrative state, not competently run agencies. Hegseth remains only at the whim of Trump... 1/2

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Mark Parker Young @markparkeryoung.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

This is an interesting account of how Volt Typhoon came up in a bilateral cyber dialog. I would be wary of assuming that Wang's comments here reflected a high level decision in Beijing to signal Washington. I'm a bit skeptical because Beijing probably did not view www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

wsj.com

Exclusive | In Secret Meeting, China Acknowledged Role in U.S. Infrastructure Hacks

A senior Chinese official linked intrusions to escalating U.S. support for Taiwan.

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John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Congrats, Stable Genius has wiped out a year of stock gains in just two days. One again, Trump's superpower is destroying anything he touches.

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