Okay cool nothing to do with what I posted.

It is wild the number of voters that show up for Trump and nobody else

This is the first oil crisis in which clean alternatives to oil and gas — solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles and batteries — are both inexpensive and widely available.

clean technology flying off the shelves already...
nytimes.com/2026/04/01/o...

people are so, so ready to be done with this but he is doing so much damage before we get there

my kingdom for a snap election

Being soft on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, abandoning Syria to the IRGC and Russians while refusing to enforce his red line, spurning the Anbar Awakening and leaving Iraq without a new SOFA causing the rise of ISIS, failing to confront China, and pushing sequestration was historically disastrous

"Basically said it" is such a lovely term of art.

No she wouldn't have, why do you believe this?

Nah it's Oman they play smart and aren't totally oil drunk.

You'll note from the date that that is not about the Armenian Genocide.

Also the law you're referring to, whilst awful, didn't set up death camps. The death penalty, yes, which is grotesque and evil. But not death camps.

we're very lucky that the PLA don't actually have a credible capacity to cross the strait (don't have enough materiel and haven't seriously trained for the sheer scale of it), cus uhhhh otherwise this'd be an ideal time to go

also the Chinese are gonna have reams of data about our stand-off weapons and EW capes, etc; Russians get to shore up their flaming out economy with high oil prices; and the ukrainians are gonna be begging for spare PAC-3 cool cool cool

we put the worst bastards in the driver's seat, ratified the worldview and priors of said worst bastards, and have potentially given them 10% of their GDP in hard currency... cool cool cool

cla.umn.edu/chgs/holocau...

The Holodomor was first repoeted by Gareth Jones, as Welsh journalist, in 1933.

Poor choice of words on my part: very few genocides have actual murder factories is the point I'm driving at here. The sort of rapine and plunder occurring in Gaza is much more common in terms of historical genocides, like the Armenian one.

The Holocaust, Holodomor and Armenian Genocide are all genocides and are all distinct forms of genocide.

Yes but not all genocides are the Holocaust.

I refuse to believe Persephone isn't pegging Hades.

Genocide and Holcoaust are not synonyms. What Israel is doing in Gaza is nothing like the Holocaust (but is very similar to things like the Bosnian and Circassian Genocides).

I mean, I believe Netanyahu asked Trump to attack Iran for him because he has asked every American president since Abraham Lincoln. I simply do not believe there was no way he could have expected Bibi to do it and said no for the same reason.

Fun to play as in EU4 but hilariously starts without a coastline.

Compared to their neighbours, Oman isn't quite as evil or tasteless.

Can recommend Rowland White's Storm Front which is largely about how the SAS and RAF helped create modern Oman.

Difficult to have proxy armies when you don't actually share a religious branch with your neighbours.

They have a secret third thing form of Islam and aren't quite as obnoxious as the other states.

They also used to have a colonial empire which streched across the Indian Ocean.

Oman is the only Gulf State I have any respect for.

Don't want to violate my "no authoritarian holidays rule" though.

I didn't say they were smart.

The only Gulf State I actually want to visit.

Used to own a bit of what is now Pakistan!