What is the impact of the Ukraine war on US gasoline and diesel prices? None.

When Trump decides to lift sanctions and buy Russian fuel, he is not just funding Russian attacks on Ukraine but its ongoing attacks on all of America’s European treaty allies. He is quite literally giving aid and comfort to the enemy of NATO and the United States.

It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.

I love this country.

Shameful.

Delighted by this FT „Best Books of the Week“ review of Germany Rearmed: „Fix is a pessimist. She belongs to a generation of Germans unwilling to trust that their country-and Europe-will behave itself once unmoored from the US-led security order. She offers solutions. It is worth hearing her out.“

Houthi attempting to turn airports into choke points they control access to

It would really be great if folks not affiliated with the Trump Administration could stop using "Department of War." The Department of Defense is a statutory creation, and the name is statutorily given--the administration cannot unilaterally change it.

The U.S. military no doubt can, and perhaps even should, cut back its senior management—but Pete Hegseth’s approach is damaging the military and the public’s trust in it, Kori Schake argues.

so there are lots of moral reasons this is bad, and practical reasons too, but it's hard to believe the cia isn't screaming "don't make the jihadists' propaganda for them"

Interest payments on the debt — the fastest growing part of the federal budget — exceed defense spending. As former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen said in 2010, the debt is the “most significant threat to national security.”

I always laugh when I think of Anne Carson’s introduction to her translation of Euripides’ Hekabe: ‘I have had for some years on my computer a file called "Unpleasantness of Euripides," in which I place at random thoughts on this subject…’

Christoph Wehner wrote a great study in the 00s about how the refusal of insurance firms to provide basic cover to nuclear power projects fundamentally hampered the rollout of nuclear reactors beyond state-backed megaprojects. Something people working on AI frontier models might want to read

Not really. The Army's promotion system was just seniority: no merit, no up or out. Marshall replaced it with 2 reviews: vetting for vigor and judgment by a panel of retireds he selected; testing in Louisiana Maneuver for ability to innovate with the new tech (tanks). 11 of 42 GOs commanding passed.