International Relations graduate, interested in insurgent groups in Syria and in the Sahel. Monitoring Chinese and Russian activities from time to time.
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MrRevinsky retweeted
Last night Trump said he could have won Vietnam in a week. His plan was “going after Ho Chi Minh City.”
Ho Chi Minh City was Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. Our ally. The enemy’s capital was Hanoi. We bombed it.
He called the presidents who fought that war stupid, then explained how he’d have won it by attacking our own side.
58,220 Americans died in that war. Trump got five deferments. Now he’s telling the rest of us how easy it would have been.
He’s had more than fifty years to learn which side we were on. He still hasn’t. That alone should disqualify him from sending anybody else’s kids to war.
Instead, he’s weighing more strikes on Iran after Tuesday. His administration has reportedly considered using the “mother of all bombs,” the one he calls “like a tiny nuclear bomb.”
The man who thinks we should have bombed our ally’s capital gets to choose the targets.
MrRevinsky retweeted
What are China’s “Six Networks”?
They’re a massive push into infrastructure:
1. Water - esp. cross-regional systems
2. Power grid - esp. smart grid for renewables
3. Compute - AI data centers, national network
4. Communications - 5G-A, fiber, satellite
5. Urban underground pipelines
6. Logistics - smart integrated transport
Head of NDRC said China is already spending over US$ 1 trillion this year alone on Six Networks and related areas.
More details for why and how: en.ndrc.gov.cn/news/mediarus…
MrRevinsky retweeted
"It can't be real, it's gotta be AI. It can't be real, it's gotta be AI".
It's real
MrRevinsky retweeted
Making crude cracks about Talarico’s sexuality, then opting to dress up as a gay wizard. That’s about right.
MrRevinsky retweeted
"For Trump there are only two kinds of election; ones that he wins and ones that are stolen." My weekend FT cover essay on what to expect from Trump's final two years. as.ft.com/r/0640c95d-029e-40…
MrRevinsky retweeted
"Putin will wage war. I don’t know when, but he will. And you, Europeans, will be surprised to discover that this war is aimed at you, too... You think that what is happening in Moscow has nothing to do with you—that it’s our problem.
Putin hates people like me, certainly. But through us—in Russia, or through the revolutionaries in Ukraine or Georgia—it is you he hates: your democracy, your society, your freedoms.
Do you think his regime is merely a threat to us? Your awakening will be brutal."
Anna Politkovskaya, in Paris, 2005.
She was assassinated in the lobby of her apartment building on October 7, 2006—Putin’s birthday.
MrRevinsky retweeted
"You look very healthy to me. You have no weight problem," Trump told freed prisoner Stephen Hubbard, who told NYT he was fed three times a day in prison in Russia, but not enough, just enough to live.
MrRevinsky retweeted
Trump now has GOP candidates talking about their own asses and wondering out loud at rallies what the President thinks of their asses.
MrRevinsky retweeted
Breaking News: The Trump administration has detained dozens of Afghan immigrants in Louisiana — including relatives of those who helped the U.S. military — and plans to deport them to Afghanistan, according to U.S. officials. nyti.ms/4jPVvrw
MrRevinsky retweeted
For those of you mercifully confused by this and her whole... thing, Nicki Minaj wants two things: a pardon for her brother (who was convicted of sexually abusing an 11 year old girl in New York State, a pardon that can only be granted by the governor) and a pardon for her husband (he didn't register as a sex offender in California, a federal offense, which can only be pardoned by the President.)
MrRevinsky retweeted
MUST READ: "... Under the cover of darkness, American jet fighters loaded with air-to-air missiles catapult off the deck of the aircraft carrier USS George Washington and make their way toward the Strait of Hormuz to shoot down Iranian cruise missiles..." wsj.com/politics/national-se…
MrRevinsky retweeted
Here’s another clip of a woman reading Trump’s words verbatim from a recent rally in Mississippi that puts a giant magnifying glass over how gone he is cognitively and unfit he is for office.
MrRevinsky retweeted
NEWS: Trump admin officials want US companies to accept the Russian diesel currently crossing the Atlantic.
But American firms want nothing to do with it. They’re very scared of the legal and reputational risk, industry sources tell me and @jstein_sun
washingtonsun.com/whitehouse…
MrRevinsky retweeted
Can't make this up. Pentagon officials are calling European leaders and telling them they are being too mean about Russia. reuters.com/business/finance…
MrRevinsky retweeted
According to Le Monde, citing sources, U.S. special envoy Witkoff held a tense meeting in Florida on October 9 with Budanov, head of Ukraine’s Presidential Office.
Sources claimed that Witkoff spoke to Budanov “like a child,” trying to “teach” him how to make money.
Witkoff proposed a postwar “regional prosperity plan” that included fully restoring Russian oil and gas transit to Europe through Ukrainian territory.
Witkoff argued that Ukraine would earn transit revenues while Europe would benefit from lower energy costs.
Budanov reportedly replied that Ukraine’s model is “not Belarus, but Poland,” then stepped out to call President Zelenskyy, who advised him not to show any reaction.
When the talks resumed, the Ukrainian side was shown a document outlining a U.S.-Russia diesel deal.
An irritated Witkoff reportedly said: “Accept this diesel deal and stop striking Russian oil refineries — you are putting the world at risk!”
Ukrainian participants were described as shocked, viewing the plan as creating dependency on Moscow and noting that the United States appeared to have secured nothing in return from Putin.
A source close to the delegation told Le Monde: “I have never seen the Ukrainians so stunned and alarmed after a meeting.”
Analysts contrasted the episode with the February 28, 2025 Oval Office incident, saying this one involves concrete policy decisions that could affect Ukraine’s ability to defend itself ahead of a potentially harsh winter.
lemonde.fr/international/art…
MrRevinsky retweeted
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his team have forced out another top general at the Pentagon, who served as director for strategy, plans and policy on the Joint Staff, the latest in a purge of senior officials, people familiar with the matter said. wapo.st/4zSepTk
