i wish this was a joke, but i'd bet all the money i own that it is not

The Israelis, the Saudis, and the Egyptians all have reasons to see their rival Iran smashed.

The Russians want to see the US dragged into a "Special Operation" and to have the global oil markets collapse so they can buoy their collapsing economy with oil money.

China is just watching it happen but ratcheting up propaganda.

This is painfully obvious to virtually everyone except the US taxpayer, or the shillbots that control their viewpoints.

when you already have all of the money you can buy up the market once the crash happens.

that's the goal of Project 2025. Put billionaires in power by owning everything.

That's exactly what it is; and it's worse than negligence for the Atlantic to pretend not to understand this*.

The phenomenon of the Epstein class explicitly calling wars and coups and crashes "full of opportunity" gets virtually zero analysis in Epstein-class owned media, and it's past time that people connect those two dots.

* Did I sign in to the Atlantic to confirm that they pretended not to understand this? No. But I would be shocked to be wrong.

then they should have called it a "mental faculties" failure.

this is an attempt to make it look like the CIA or NSA fucked up, when we know damn well they knew Iran had been prepping to fight the US for decades.

this is a Presidential failure, or more likely, a Presidential Advisor failure. and "failure" in the sense that Stephen Miller or Steve Bannon have been pushing for this since day 1.

there is a reason no president ever decided to take a go at them until now, and we're seeing why

Read the last line of the article again.

Colon Powell was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs during Iraq I and knew damn well that Iraq II was based on BS.

He still sold it in front of the UN -- he could have resigned.

Apologies don't make missiles go back in silos or resurrect dead people.

lol he thinks big ISPs upgrade their infra or care.

Did I say that? No, you made it up. Why you chose to make that up, I can only imagine (or should I make things up too?)

Also everybody else responding to me is ignoring the point that most rural municipalities can barely afford keep their roads marginally flat, let alone tear up the roads, lay fiber, then repair those roads. Municipal fiber is a pipe dream in most scenarios, but workable in reasonably high density regions that have a tax base to work with.

they voted a conservative government who did what conservative governments do.

what did people think abbot and turnbull were selling? wasn't better service for users, it was servicing telstra and murdoch.

bible study and alcoholism

a non-trivial number of HN is, in fact, literally (in)vested in their companies.

lotta folks here with FAANG pedigrees...

the slop has been in regular TV for decades.

and even if it's not algorithmically generated in a direct sense it is clearly subject matter made and selected by algorithm.