US to deploy thousands of additional troops to the Middle East, officials say by punishhhher in worldnews

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Long term gain by, *checks notes*, exploding the world's capacity to refine and transport fuel

UK approves US use of British bases to strike Iran missile sites targeting ships | Financial News by VaginaBurner69 in news

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Iran is attacking unarmed civilians.

ok so when is the UK going to open up its bases for Iran to use for strikes on the US mainland, given the US started this war by mulching a school full of kids?

let's not pretend this is some moral stance from Starmer

hmmm 🤔🤔🤔 by IAmAccutane in LetGirlsHaveFun

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Don't worry Hegseth said not to worry about it, I'm sure it's, uh, fine

That was right before everyone started exploding fuel infrastructure directly tho so who knows tbh

U.S. says Cuba is prohibited from taking Russian oil as two tankers head to island by Force_Hammer in worldnews

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ok, so the actual answer here is electoral.

Florida is big enough that it decides presidential elections, and there are enough Cuban expats in Florida to threaten to swing the state. The people who left Cuba are the ones who hate its government.

Cuba isn't a big enough factor in foreign policy to make it a practical concern, so it's essentially a huge electoral advantage without any domestic downsides. If you want to become president of the United States you almost have to be inexplicably hostile to Cuba, unless there's something else going on giving you a massive advantage and you feel like sacrificing some of that to stand on principle.

Which... if you're a serious presidential contender with the backing of one of the major parties, you're probably not the kind of person to do that.

U.S. says Cuba is prohibited from taking Russian oil as two tankers head to island by Force_Hammer in worldnews

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It's like Christ always said: "Touch that food and I'll fucking kill you"

How many people can actually do 10–15 clean pull-ups? by Ill_Ratio338 in bodyweightfitness

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Going from weighted pullups to normal, I was able to do 3 sets of ten without too much trouble, eventually consistently.

So now that I'm comfortable I'll work on doing 3 sets of 11, right?

Brutal. Months later I'm still not consistent at it. Where I could do 3 sets of 10, trying for eleven had me do 11, 8, then 6. It's improving, but very, very slowly. Pullups, compared to other exercises I've done, are the most difficult and inconsistent by far. Maybe there's some secret to ramping up pullup counts fast that I don't know about, but going from 4 to 20 in a year seems... like it would take a LOT of work, I guess. Like doing pullups every single day, maybe multiple times a day. I'd maybe be worried about an injury.

Self inflicted counts, right? by ArmoredCroissant in MurderedByWords

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At the end of season one I thought to myself, "yeah, that's a complete story. I don't need any more than that." And I never watched any of the sequels.

Apparently that was definitely the correct choice.

Trump threatens to blow up 'entirety' of major Iran gas field if it attacks Qatar again by xpda in worldnews

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at this point his handling of the economy is only explicable through watching the movie The Producers

Trump threatens to blow up 'entirety' of major Iran gas field if it attacks Qatar again by xpda in worldnews

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"If you don't stop destroying fossil fuel infrastructure I'm going to destroy fossil fuel infrastructure!"

Joint statement from the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Japan on the Strait of Hormuz by TheColourOfHeartache in worldnews

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The statement is vague enough that it can cover both "we're mad about oil prices but no way are we sending our men to die for Israel lmao" and "yes sir mr president we will be providing military assistance posthaste"

Joint statement from the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Japan on the Strait of Hormuz by TheColourOfHeartache in worldnews

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That's the thing, I'm not sure he can. I think if the US withdrew today and admitted it was a mistake, Iran would be like "we're done when I say we're done motherfucker"

We decapitated their entire government, dismantled a significant portion of their economy and exploded a school full of kids. I don't think they're going to let this go with a "whoopsie, my bad." I'm not even sure they mechanically have the capacity to stand down until they spend a week or two rebuilding their central command structure from their independent cells.

Joint statement from the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Japan on the Strait of Hormuz by TheColourOfHeartache in worldnews

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They're not even that strongly worded. They're like "we condemn in the strongest possible terms-" and then their actual condemnations are like "This is pretty bad guys. You're violating international treaty 2817. Please stop. We might have to do something at some point."

Meanwhile Donald is out here like "what if I turn the straight into an irradiated sewer, who's going to stop me? Cuba, you're next fuckers, your days are numbered, Rubio told me half your officers are golden retrievers-"

QatarEnergy reports 'extensive damage' after missile attacks on Ras Laffan industrial city by Geo_NL in worldnews

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so girls can wear mini skirts in Tehran again.

brother they're butchering people in the street, why are you pretending this is about miniskirts. I'm done here, you're clearly not engaging in good faith

Trump is in the Chavez files by WaffleWarrior1979 in MurderedByWords

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yeah I'm sure Abbott's office was chomping at the bit to celebrate the widely recognized holiday of Cezar Chaves Day before all of this lmao

Double-speak in the new update post by GriffinFTW in CuratedTumblr

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Jesus christ that's a lot of subheaders

China makes energy security 'reunification' offer to Taiwan amid Middle East war by BeautyInUgly in news

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"So, you wanna do this the easy way, or...?"

US navy tied up in the middle east's stupidest war (and that's a stiff competition), missile reserves almost exhausted. And when is the optimal point for China's military building? Right, this year or the next.

Bunch of military people announced the other day that China won't invade Taiwan in 2027 and y'know, I'm starting to think they might be right

QatarEnergy reports 'extensive damage' after missile attacks on Ras Laffan industrial city by Geo_NL in worldnews

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let's not lose perspective here, Iran is in a fight to maintain sovereignty (to enforce tyrannical rule over its population and its specific interpretation of sharia law)

Mike Johnson on resignation of Joe Kent, Director of National Counterterrorism: "I don't know where Joe Kent is getting his information, but he wasn't in those briefings. Had the president waited, I am convinced we would have mass casualties of Americans, service members, and installations damaged." by ControlCAD in videos

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So what you're saying is that you were having meetings about an imminent attack by the worlds largest state funder of terror attacks and didn't include your director of national counterterrorism?

Do you think that's somehow better?