Beaver

sink into the sea

Cool, another item I will simply no longer buy because it's dogshit now.

That's the major irony to the USA's world historically high military spending. It's sort of like a reverse Jevons paradox: there has been so much money pouring into the MIC, and at such an increasing rate, that the entire industry re-oriented towards optimizing graft. So now every new contract is optimized for Maximum cost and Minimum deliverables. And you do really want to minimize the deliverables - after all, every dollar you're spending on an actual piece of military equipment is a dollar not going into someone's pocket. And that's lead to the rapid de-industrialization of the MIC, focused on delivering small quantities of uber complex uber technological wunderwaffe (or more blatantly, just super expensive konventionelle Waffen). When an actual war breaks out, you have counter-intuitive situations like Russia out-producing all of NATO because they prioritized and planned for how to ramp up industrial output.

For most people, it's an unknown word. But it's commonly used in a few industries, and so it's familiar to a small tranche of normies.

Plus: that roadway is in range of shahed drones, and so shipment convoys could be easily attacked.

Ship Captains are spiritually small business owners

This is basically the Palestinian diaspora equivalent of being a Reza Pahlavi supporter

Well, yeah. The US Navy couldn't secure shipping in the Red Sea against the Houthis. The Russian Black Sea fleet had to retreat from the waters around Crimea and southern Ukraine and is now mostly just hiding out in Novorossiysk. The UAV, USV and anti-ship missile threat of 2026 is currently very heavily favored towards the attacker.

All of Trump's talk about blockade running has gotta have the US Navy sweating. As we've seen in the Black Sea and Red Sea, the current paradigm of warfare is not favorable for surface vessels operating near enemy shores.

JDPON Ed Harris became a Born Again when God started speaking to him about how the 3rd world is going to rise up.

(imagine this in the format of the "myth of consensual sex" meme)

🇮🇱 I want to end the war!

🇺🇸 Me too!

🇮🇷 Is there someone you forgot to ask?

I've heard similar, and we do try that approach. Sometimes it feels like I'm trying to instantly come up with something to re-direct them to, for example "feet on the ground" whenever she starts climbing on the table.