Remember the terrible war between Aberbaijan and Albania that Trump stopped? Well, that was nothing compared to the one between Cambodia and Armenia. That was a really bad one:
The Taliban has controlled the airbase since 2021 and the US withdrew troops from the country
On Saturday evening, Trump told reporters the administration wants Bagram back "right away," and "if they don't do it, you're going to find out what I'm going to do."
And then there was this, also from Trump’s busy Saturday evening:
President demands prosecutions of Comey, Schiff and James in now-deleted Truth Social message
That’s now been deleted, but the internet is forever:
DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics
3h
lol Trump just posted what looks like a direct message to AG Pam Bondi on Truth Social… except he published it publicly for everyone to see.
All’s well that ends well, says Fox:
About an hour after the Truth Social post was sent and deleted, the president sent out a much more amiable post, commending Bondi for her "careful" work over the last eight months.
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Reports that TikTok will transfer an 80 percent stake in its U.S. operations to Oracle, Silver Lake, and Andreessen Horowitz are celebrated in Washington as a strategic victory over China, where its parent company is based. But a closer examination of the deal reveals a different winner: the foreign government of Israel and its lobby in the United States.
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As Mike Gallagher—a former U.S. congressman, current “head of defense” at big data company Palantir, and author of the revived and successful effort to ban TikTok—wrote in November 2023, the reason the U.S. needed to ban the most popular app among Gen Z was not because the algorithm caused young Americans to support China but because it caused them “to support Hamas.”
As weird as Trump is, and he is weird beyond belief at this point, I take some comfort in not having to witness what Kamala would have done to us and to the country (and to the world). Sad, that.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/how-israel-captured-tiktok/
Reports that TikTok will transfer an 80 percent stake in its U.S. operations to Oracle, Silver Lake, and Andreessen Horowitz are celebrated in Washington as a strategic victory over China, where its parent company is based. But a closer examination of the deal reveals a different winner: the foreign government of Israel and its lobby in the United States.
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As Mike Gallagher—a former U.S. congressman, current “head of defense” at big data company Palantir, and author of the revived and successful effort to ban TikTok—wrote in November 2023, the reason the U.S. needed to ban the most popular app among Gen Z was not because the algorithm caused young Americans to support China but because it caused them “to support Hamas.”
As weird as Trump is, and he is weird beyond belief at this point, I take some comfort in not having to witness what Kamala would have done to us and to the country (and to the world). Sad, that.