Doubly insane when the first mention of what’s thought to be the Palestinians was by Ramesses III, 3199 years ago.

The hilarious new sequel - in theatres now.

Username checks out, at least.

On the bright side, it’s gonna be so funny

Funny thing, there really was no such thing as blitzkrieg as a doctrine. What the German army did they called bewegungskrieg - “maneuver warfare”. In essence, it pulls a lot from Clausewitz’s “schwerpunkt” (~pivot point) and the “cauldron battle” idea, combined from the tactics of trench infiltration of WWI.

During the Franco-Prussian war, Prussia utterly defeated France by, essentially, outpacing, surrounding and containing the French forces in a few ‘kettles’. These could then be ‘reduced’, while the actual objectives (Paris) were left essentially undefended. They tried the same in WWI, but found the armies were so large there wasn’t really an “army” or “around”, there was just the frontline, that turned into one big fortification. The trench warfare that followed caused so much destruction for so little gain that, post war, every strategist’s first goal was to figure out how to never let that happen again. And the answer everyone settled on was basically ‘mechanize’. See, the fundamental problem of trench warfare is not taking a trench, it’s that you need to take the trench, and the one behind it, and the one behind it… all the way to the end, and break out. If you don’t, the enemy will just keep adding trenches until you bleed yourself into defeat. But if you do, the trenches, all of them, become useless.

The British name that pops up here is Basil Liddell Hart, who conceived a two-component tank force, an "infantry’ tank to break the line, and a “cavalry” tank to exploit. The German name is Heinz Guderian, and the approach was to find a weakpoint, use an armored combined arms force to punch through, and then swing around behind the enemy, trap them, and destroy them. The Soviet name is Mikhail Tukhachevsky, and the name is “deep operation”, with the idea that you don’t strictly need a weakpoint, just enough artillery, and that you don’t really need to slow down to surround the enemy, just keep going and hit the logistics hubs - the mere threat of encirclement will force them to retreat in disarray.

You got it backwards - just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not after you.

You’re missing the analogy of it being a defence mechanism in cases of abuse in children. Just cleaning the child up will not fix the issue.

Is it still “First Lady” if the marriage is morganatic?

The reality is precisely the opposite.

The weird thing about Putin’s Russia is that it has no oligarchs, really. Specifically, the idea is that an oligarch is someone who’s wealth allows them access to political power, while in Russia, it’s the other way around - political position allows people access to wealth. Conversely, when they fall out of favour, their money doesn’t protect them - it simply goes away.

The USA, on the other hand, has plenty of oligarchs, and thinking they’re taking sides in politics because they fear Trump is idiocy. These are the people buying islands and building doomsday bunkers in New Zealand. These are the people who shoot themselves to space and copy haircuts of Roman emperors. They’re picking sides because Matt Christmann was right.

…or, more likely, a great^20 grandpa got with multiple great^20 grandmas. All it takes is one harem merging branches somewhere to tip the scales.

Yeah, the first time the press core deigned to call him “presidential” was when he launched rockets at Syria. The second time was when he assassinated Suleimani.

I’m actually shocked

I’m not. Ever since the war, every single closet xenophobe of the west has been taking full advantage of finally having an acceptable group of subhumans to hate. If any of this surprises you, you haven’t been paying attention.

Frankly that sounds like “OK, I did install a camera in your bedroom, but it’s not like it’s on or anything!”

I’m sorry, “sympathy for enemy combatant” is a banable offence?

…And just like that, John Bolton gets an idea…

If it did, the heater wouldn’t look like this.

…I typed out an answer in agreement, but then I remembered the folks around him, and I’m not even sure that’s a safe bet anymore.

That’s exactly the problem: he’s an anomaly, he’s a one off, he’s a foreign ploy, he’s unique and we just have to get rid of him, and everything will be fine again, he’s certainly not an outgrown of a movement thats been gaining steam for decades and points to deep systematic problems with the American politics and polity, no sir, everything else is fine, it’s just him and him alone.

And they do. My Philips TV didn’t even ask for DNS until hardcoded IPs for Netflix et al. timed out. And when it did, it asked Google, not my router.

It’s kinda funny, though: the Overton window shofted so far to the right we’re at a point where both parties pin the blame for everything wrong in America on foreigners.