The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 15h“ Egypt, which has worked against American purposes for the better part of the past 30 years, gets sympathy because its Soviet-supplied arsenal needs modernization. Loyalty seems to Turks not to produce dividends.” 270 0
The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 16hThis memo a year out from the 1980 military coup in Turkey mentions the fallout of the Iranian revolution, US arms embargo, and Egypt/Israel peace, on Turkish/American relations. 171 0
The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 16/10/2026What you find is they weren’t provincial either. They held global ambitions as well. 120 0
The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 16/10/2026During the Carter admin, the Argentines complained about Israel’s war on terror getting a pass but not theirs 2143 0
The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 15/10/2026There’s a looney tunes show episode that plays with this idea. Granny’s backstory reveals she was an allied spy during the war. 1111 0
The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Julia Child serving in the OSS is one of those things that makes the 20th century feel like another world entirely 2101 0
The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Picturing Mao Zedong viewing the Grapes of Wrath 081 0
Reposted by The DeciderJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I can't believe he'd do this. This is the second time now he's called for his VP to be executed. 311313203 0
The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard place 161 0
Reposted by The DeciderJon Ficke @jonficke.bsky.social · 15/10/2026This has been a mantra for years. I discretely remember the line of “well if you’d just elected Romney it wouldn’t have come to this” being a line in Trump I. Sorry but this isn’t serious as an excuse for their extremism. 2879 0
The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 15/10/2026A quagmire entirely of his own making. He can’t back down without lending credence to TACO. 160 0
The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Huh that’s strange. All these constraints and maneuverings by the President, I thought the CIA was supposed to be running the show! 140 0
The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Kissinger’s role in the Vietnam war actually dates back further than his tenure as National Security Adviser. In the fifties, he was among the defense intellectuals who promoted limited war as an alternative to massive retaliation: 040 0
The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 14/10/2026It’s fascinating to watch a Jacobin writer reinvent Cold War realism 0120 0
The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Johnson’s real power wasn’t intimidation(though many found him imposing). It was his intense involvement in the legislative process and wealth of knowledge about Congress and the individual legislators he had to persuade. 092 0
The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Hubert Humphrey mentions the Israeli presence in Africa during this time 061 0
The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 14/10/2026[Key participant in the events] Let’s not point any fingers here 250 0
The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 14/10/2026It’s interesting to see the meta discourse surrounding this appear in Nixon’s acceptance speech 0100 0
The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Nixon taking pot shots over the Pueblo incident in his 1968 acceptance speech 240 0
The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Johnson for example, on the basis of[nothing] believed the civil strife in DR over Juan Bosch’s overthrow was a Cuban plot and sent in 20,000 marines to the island. 271 0
The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 14/10/2026In the sixties at least, exporting armed revolution was a goal of Cuban foreign policy. That usually manifested in lending support to militant groups abroad(e.g. FAR in Guatemala) But this was not a coherent policy consistently pursued across decades, as US intelligence documented during the 70’s 250 0
The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Was reading this 1967 congressional record entry from Thurmond as part of research into the Bolivian army raid that killed Che Guevara, and noticed something interesting 170 0
Reposted by The DeciderAsher is left to face the fall alone @asherball.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I love this clip because LL Cool J here is an *actual* curious person open to learning and excited to find out new things vs Joe Rogan who just pretends to be one. 1173 0
The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 14/10/2026This hostage situation in Bolivia happened just a few weeks into the LBJ presidency 172 0
The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 13/10/2026God I just remembered this. These losers can’t even be bothered to get their myths from the 80’s right. 140 0
Reposted by The DeciderThe Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Refueling tankers are honestly so cool. Pulling up to a jet mid-flight to be like “I got you buddy” 3132 0
The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 13/10/2026An irony of all this that Im sure will be pointed out in historical accounts, is that one of the few countries that still do public executions is Iran 150 0
Reposted by The DeciderManiek Kantorzewski @kantverstehen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026The Wehrmacht of 1944 couldn’t even beat the American army of 1944 lmao 1925 0
Reposted by The DeciderTyler King @tyleraking.com · 13/10/2026He’s quoting reading material they teach new field grade officers in command and staff college, making LL Cool J more qualified to lead the department of defense than Pete Hegseth. 212815 0
The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Did not expect to get LL Cool J lecturing on Clausewitz 150 0
Reposted by The DeciderWill Smiley @will-smiley.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I mean, this kind of answers itself. Could 1962 France defeat 1962 Algeria? Could 1970s Portugal defeat 1970s Mozambique and Angola? We have empirical evidence on those! Oh that doesn’t count as winning? Hm, let’s explore that. 1232 0
The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 12/10/2026This position Robert Tucker took was more extreme than Reagan’s, which was essentially a revamped version of Ike’s earlier attempt to enlist Arab states in a ring of containment. It was appeasement of the Arabs, not the USSR, that Tucker viewed as having been America’s folly in the 70’s. 142 0
Reposted by The DeciderDylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 11/10/2026"Hubert," of course, is the name of the legendary sword given to Secretary of State John Kerry by Ted Kennedy 110916 0
The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Not sufficiently appreciated that Reagan built the contours of the current US/Saudi alliance during a time when a decent chunk of his base wanted to glass the Saudis as revenge for the oil embargo 092 0
The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 12/10/2026From a briefing book prepared for Ford during the 1976 primaries 071 0
Reposted by The DeciderWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 08/10/2026On here this is a preaching to the choir thing to say, but the turn against Indian immigrants is the sharpest possible example of ‘real debate, fake debate’ wrt heritability of IQ. 90% of the guys Just Following The Science are now waxing rhapsodically about white indigenous ways of knowing. 857074 0
