He assessed that Afghanistan could be won through slow cultural conversion by unconventional forces, described as "multiple generations of winning hearts and minds", and anticipated 100 years before such objectives could be achieved, saying:
We are in a war of ideas and we are fighting an ideology. It is easy to bomb a tank, but incredibly difficult to bomb an idea. We need a long-term strategy that discredits the ideology of Islamic extremism ... We are in a multi-decade war and we are only 15 years in.
It does seem to be a downward trajectory at least though.
They're off their peak, as they're being forced to try and govern in the smattering of local elections they've already won. Also, Reform is getting larded up with Tory and New Labour refugees. The joke I've heard is "this may be the first boat to get sunk by the rats jumping on board".
I hope the wider British public wakes up before the election.
The public is constantly being "woken up" by a hysterical national media. It is, if anything, too awake. Like a man on a coke bender who hasn't slept in days. They're incapable of supporting any kind of moderate liberal campaign for fear of these candidates being too nice to Muslims or Gays or KGB agents or pedophiles.
you’d be better off somewhere that has a relatively young democracy and/or dictatorship in living memory (Germany and Spain look pretty good from where I’m sitting - but even Germany is a little bit O.o).
Germany is absolutely fucked. The AfD is polling on par with Reform, atm.
Spain is caught between a dozen different rocks and hard places. I'd say they at least have some nice HSR, but two derailments in as many months is fucking bleak. All of Europe is once again staring down the barrel of "Oops, all out of money", thanks to their inability to tax billionaires or nationalize critical industries. It's going to be a repeat of 2010 if the US economy repeats 2008.
Everyone under 30 needs a side hustle to make ends meet, especially in a school as godawful expensive as Columbia. Neuroscience by day, OnlyFans by night, because otherwise you're living out of your mom's car in a Staten Island trailer park.
Past that...
Columbia University President Claire Shipman said that “federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a ‘missing person.’”
“It is important to reiterate that all law enforcement agents must have a judicial warrant or judicial subpoena to access non-public areas of the University, including housing, classrooms, and areas requiring CUID swipe access,” Shipman’s statement continued.
Clearly and obviously a lie. But when you're at a pro-genocide university, I guess this is table stakes.
You know, I really don't hate the idea of buying a car without a finish and then getting a custom job after the fact. If there's a silver lining on the Cybertruck debacle, its the steel frame that you can do up however you like.
But holy fuck is that thing not the most "My 4-year-old's favorite Hotwheels" ass chassis design. An absolute embarrassment of automotive engineering.
Which are also usually people who voted for Harris.
Not by much
I think there was once a time I could have been in favor of this as at least an opt-in as it would benefit everyone to work collectively. Before Trump won a second time.
If you're living in LA California and you turn to your neighbors, which went 64/31 for Harris, and say "Fuck you, you're all on your own" when ICE rolled into town... Idk, buddy. Maybe Harris didn't deserve to win, if these are the kinds of people who claimed to support her policies.
DNC: Um, aktuly, the Dems are running a candidate who has repeatedly endorsed a 10-12% reduction in genocide over 30 years. What have you lefty shits ever done?
I guess this is what you do when you're all out of Hessian mercenaries.