“Decent Joe Biden” indeed!!

Not that BETRAYAL is anything new, mind you.
What IS new is BETRAYAL with a smiling, charming, beneficial, moralizing face!
Hold on! That’s not new, either.
Let’s rephrase, then:
What IS new is BETRAYAL as the conscious, intentional, altruistic, patriotic, over-arching POLICY of the United States Government…toward its own citizens…and—its “purported”, it must be stated—“allies”.

(And so, “Decent ‘Joe Biden’ indeed!!”…in its appropriately, if slightly, edited format…)

So where were we? Oh yes, BETRAYAL (our old friend; our dear nemesis!)…
Here’s an—almost unbelievable—article on how Nasser (of all people), by, um, trodding on British—and CIA—toes, saved the Jewish State!
“The Failed British Double-Cross of Israel”—
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/failed-british-double-cross-israel
(Read it to the end…)

+ Bonus (in the spirit of the current “wise-guy” zeitgeist):
“Beware the Do-Gooders;
“How a new class of capitalists couched their profit-seeking in the language of social justice and altruism”—
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/beware-do-gooders
H/T Powerline blog.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/12/13/incoming-republican-house-foreign-affairs-chairman-calls-tucker-carlson-an-agent-of-russia-based-on-dc-intel-briefing/

The best posture is to disbelieve most of what the intelligence community says.

The problem with fusion is controlling the reaction so its power can be used, as opposed to incinerating everything in the vicinity.

Bob Wilson:

I’m beating my own drum, but I put some effort into the comment linked below, making a similar point to yours:

https://www.thenewneo.com/2022/12/12/open-thread-12-12-22/#comment-2657211

At this point I’m pretty disillusioned with big budget magnets-lasers-D-T fusion reactors (Tokamaks). When the energy (and expenses, as you point out) are fully accounted for, that process needs to be improved by a factor on the order of 1000x to provide the power we need.

The current incremental improvements aren’t going to get us there. We need some fundamental breakthroughs to make the Tokamak approach work … if it can. Absent those, Tokamak is just a gravy train for some fusion researchers, which offers little benefit to the world.

Someday, somehow, we may crack fusion, but in the meantime we need better alternatives to Tokomaks — fission or fusion.

Higher ed apparatchik writes a short piece the point of departure of which is an assertion he knows damned well is nonsense. You could call him a liar, but his reaction would likely be that you were trash talking him. The people in charge of institutions in this country lie like ordinary people breathe.

Some more homework for you; an interview with a British volunteer who fought in Ukraine (against the Roosians) by Lindybeige, a YouTube historian:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbD4WBqPg4

Time period was early in the conflict. You undoubtably will relish his description of incidents of incompetence, corruption, and criminality that he describes. Which, wait for it, is a unchanging feature of war. Another thing you may not have realized.

Cheers, Brain E.

I see you are focused on corruption in Ukraine now. How quaint. Ukraine has corruption problems no doubt as well as a slightly larger problem of Roosia actively trying to dismember it. But then Vlad has decided that Ukraine doesn’t really constitute a nation, a culture, or a people; just lapsed or debased or Satanized Russians. Or haven’t you paid attention to that either?