To add to this, N Korea also has a huge conventional army, and is a very mountainous country. Lots of soldiers+mountains=very bloody to invade.
This is also why Iran is fairly safe from ground invasion. It's like a gigantic Switzerland, which if you're familiar with WW2 history, even Hitler left Switzerland alone despite kinda wanting to occupy the place. The cost was just too high compared to the benefits, so, y'know, may as well skip it and invade the USSR instead.
tbf, Grant was pretty ruthless in his post-war pursuit of Confederate holdouts. He didn't have them shot, though, they were mostly hung.
The problem is that it is very hard to eradicate an idea violently. It just goes into hiding and bides its time, unless you just want to do a full genocide or something. I mean, it's not like people stand up and volunteer for their own execution when they know certain folks are being executed.
This works, but the quicker method for me was to hold the book over my head, out of my line of sight while I focused my eyes on something a little farther away (a few feet away is fine). Then you can simply move the book downward into your field of vision while refusing to let your eyes refocus. It should be blurry, because you're still focusing past it, despite it being right in front of your face. Then just relax and let your brain do the work.
This method got by far the quickest and most reliable results for me, most pop suddenly into view in just a couple seconds.
I think this method works best because you're using established muscle memory to focus your eyes on an object at a measurable, consistent distance, and then just not letting them change. Removes several variables from the equation.
You'd also need to make it immune to the various antibiotics that work on it. Otherwise it's not particularly difficult to treat with modern medicine.
Pol.is looks interesting. I wonder how many users it has so far.
Now that I zoom in, hard to say. Over the back half it looks like yes, over the front half it looks like no.
I know it probably wouldn't make much of a difference in effectiveness, but it'd be so much cooler if he had a little helmet.
“Just for the record, I'm not a deep state plant from either Bill Gates or Palantir, Peter Thiel or Bill Clinton.”
Exactly what a deep state plant would say. Checkmate, liberal.
Frankly, if the goal of the administrations was to be helpful to Russia's offensive, then halting shipments while muddying the waters with inconsistent messaging would be an excellent way to accomplish that.
Stop the shipments, but lie about it and say that you will ship more in the future. Then just never actually do that. This keeps them hoping for shipments that will never actually arrive.
edit: Another possibility here is that the Def Sec Hegseth does not want to help Ukraine, but Trump himself does not actually care one way or another, and thus could be convinced to overrule his Def Sec.
Tough to say.
She's got this really in-character vibe here. I wonder if Cate actually is just staying in-character between all the cuts as part of her acting method, or if that suit is just too uncomfortable to be able to relax in.
Yes, let's continue this. Do you have any other material?
Modern war planners mostly know better than to count on everything going well.