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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 2h

Honestly I don't think the Houthis would stop as part of an Iran War deal This was them restarting the Yemen War of 2022, and I don't think ending the Iran War of 2026 is gonna change that The only shot in hell KSA has is winning the Battle of Taiz, and it can't do that without help on the ground

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 47m

New Podcast! Many have attempted to draw parallels between #Yemen today and #Syria in 2024. They don't have any idea what they are talking about. open.spotify.com/episode/63aI...

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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 49m

“Israeli forces deliberately demolished homes, schools, mosques and roads... The scale of Israel’s systematic demolition has fueled fears among many Lebanese that Israel is seeking to permanently empty the territory of its population.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Israel’s Destruction of Southern Lebanon Intensified After the Cease-Fire

Much of Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon has been leveled, according to a Times analysis. The majority has been destroyed by Israel since the April truce.

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Iona Craig @ionacraig.com · 17h

Fo reference, Sana’a airport in Yemen’s capital has been bombed at least 83 times by the Saudis in 11.5yrs and bombed by three different countries (US, KSA, Israel) in the last 18 months. All of which resulted in at least 40 civilian casualties and five passenger jets destroyed - courtesy of Israel.

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Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Three weeks ago!

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

An event where you can shake hands with Spencer Ackerman and Erik Larsen within 20 minutes of each other is pretty something that I am glad exists.

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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think the world would be a much better place if, like my peasant family, people were taught that the main advantages of buying a home are 1) stable rent payments and 2) potential to borrow against it for consumption smoothing rather than 3) you'll make *so* much money off of this

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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I do not think of buying a house as an investment. Based on what we know about population trends that seems like a bad model. Think of it as working toward a place where, after paying the bank for 30 years, it will be relatively difficult for capital to evict you from so you can die in peace.

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The left sees more clearly in being angrier at the slave-drivers than at Nat Turner. Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran & co, nasty or not, are all just reactions to US and Israeli choices. It's deeply childish to pretend that these entities would be as negative or even exist without empire's choices.

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

McGurk made policy for W/Cheney, Obama, Trump I and Biden. His new memoir, defending war policies continued by Trump II, is now praised by a prominent Dem Senator. This is the sinister “horseshoe theory,” no? Why not?

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My review of "Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life" by Robert Dallek www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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See what your friends are reading

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yup. Those who think other countries have agency on the world stage simply haven't read enough.

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Why did he fail to do what his daddy did? Why do you think it's better that our intervention led to 500,000 deaths rather than the 20,000 of Hama in 1982?

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The US created the war, yes. We turned a shitty dictator into a worse one.

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You are reacting to your imagination of what I said, not anything I actually said.

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh, I am an American. My vote, and my ability to steer the votes of my people is the only hope we have of reining in the US government.

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I can try to educate, but just get called a war criminal for my efforts. Sigh. It would be less disappointing if morons like you weren't running important parts of the US government.

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Like the guys who almost took Damascus spent more time fighting each other than Assad.

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I want more freedom. I want the US to exercise less coercion. It would make the US (& the world) safer and more powerful.

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh you clearly weren't paying any attention at all in the 2010s. The rebels were all fuck up until we helped them consolidate under Al Qaeda in Idlib.

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not sure where you get the impression I liked Assad. His days were numbered long before we launched the war. Honestly the war might have kept him in power longer.

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Small manner of China and the Soviet Union you're leaving out there. And our sanctions architecture was nowhere near as developed as it is today. Secondary sanctions didn't exist until the 1990s and had massive pushback until 9/11.

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Love the contrast between my common sense statement based on historical facts, and your fanatic woke imperialism.

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yes, only the US has agency. Those who think otherwise just haven't read enough.

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yes, they got put on a timeout, protected by Turkey, funded by the US, and sat back as the US Treasury Department crushed Assad's Syria into dust. Not sure what we are arguing about here?

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yes. The Syrian regime was a hollow shell 4 years after winning the war because of the US Caesar sanctions.

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You certainly have a lot of confirmed ideas about what I believe. Erroneous, alas.

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

No my ideal would have been South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Poland, or any one of a number of places that had far worse dictators that were bribed out of power. 500k dead & Al Qaeda in charge was a US choice.

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Incorrect. The Jihadists that turned Syria into hell were all US and Gulf (US ally) funded.

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Almost all of them got on a bus to Idlib. Then the Turks kept Asaad out of Idlib.

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We are. It should be all of our concerns. But tens of thousands of dead kids apparently aren't much of a concern on this site.

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And Dropsite's coverage of Epstein has been infinitely more sweeping and damning than that of any other outlet.

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I am self obsessed with no longer paying for mass murder in the Middle East with my tax dollars.

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I know, adulthood is foreign to you.

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don't see any lying. Just an unwise overcorrection in who he chooses to trust. The service to power here is your adopting a position that helps the pro-genocide and pro-war elites silence a dissident voice.

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not what I said, but it's been pretty clear you are low on reading comprehension.

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Your chronology is off. Barrel bombing, chemical weapons use, these are all evil acts of desperation Assad's regime resorted to AFTER years of US & Gulf sponsored Jihad war. In 2011, it was mostly Assad's soldiers dying as he tried concessions. (Assad always sucked, but war makes everything worse)

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Only the US has agency in international relations, yes. Every country has some levers it can pull in its own territory, but the US is in charge.

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

He is a brave truth-teller. I think he also takes what I believe to be some incorrect positions on some SA questions. I am an adult, so I take the good with the bad. There are a lot of scrupulously 100% correct people on SA who support mass murder in the Middle East.

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A lot of thinkers I like pride themselves in questioning prominent ideas. "Always believe women" is a prominent idea I agree with. "Dissenters from US empire must always be destroyed no matter the cost" is a hegemonic idea I want to fight.

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah, that bugs me too. I think there's a case to be made that "woke 1" had some excesses, but that's no reason to dive into every controversy from an anti-victim perspective. Grim & a few other thinkers I like sometimes fall into this trap.

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I am just smarter than you. There were an array of victims in the war in Syria that the US started. The most powerful actor in sponsoring a war deserves the blame.

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yes. Turkey was annoyed that the US had decided to play both sides of the ISIS thing they had created together.

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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Amid all of the hubbub around the Bab al-Mandab, please don't forget that as of last reporting the Houthis have Yemen's third-largest city completely surrounded. That's not great.

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Completely wrong, but that's cool. Very used to complete ignorance on this topic.

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Qatar, man. I guess it's too much to expect you to read an article.

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Robert Morris @morefreedom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It worked though. Russia ended the war. Then US sanctions ended Assad.

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