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U S President Donald Trump is reportedly ready to give up on the Persian Gulf passage: Trump Tells Aides He’s Willing to End War Without Reopening Hormuz (archived) – WSJ In recent days, Trump and his aides assessed that a mission to pry open the chokepoint would push the conflict beyond his timeline of four to six weeks He decided that the U S should achieve its main goals of hobbling
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On my Windoze honeypot (same local network) the main markup file is loading properly from moonofalabama org, but assets (images, CSS) are still coming from the www635 your-server de address and being blocked by cert errors
- The MoA Week In Review – OT 2025-083 – Moon of Alabama
Last week's posts on Moon of Alabama: Apr 14 – Palm Sunday Attacks On Sumy And Al-Ahli Related: – Zionism, the Human Parasitoid – Scott Ritter – After Nonviolence – The end of peaceful resistance in Palestine – Ben Ehrenreich Harpers – “Poisoning ‘the Holy Land ’” – The Zionists’ environmental terrorism – Floutist Apr 15 – Ukraine Confirms Sumy Strike Target
- Macgregor: Purpose, Method, End-state – Moon of Alabama
Douglas Macgregor is a now retired Colonel of the U S Army and one of its few strategic thinkers (The currently faved COIN folks are mere tactical thinkers ) Mcgregor just published a provocative piece in the Armed Force Journal arguing against the standard U S policy mindset of interventionist wars Leaving out the ample historic references the gist is this (emph added): Despite the
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This purpose of this site is to discuss politics, economics, philosophy and blogger Billmon’s Whiskey Bar writings Some time ago, the commenting at Billmon’s Whiskey Bar became a bit excessive Billmon therefore closed the comments at his place on June 29, 2004 The community of commentators was left behind to search for a new place Moon Of Alabama was opened as an independent, open
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From a Wall Street Journal piece I quoted yesterday: White House Tries to Build Coalition on Iran to Address Energy Crisis (archived) – WSJ > The Trump administration as soon as this week plans to announce that multiple countries have agreed to form a coalition that will escort ships through the waterway, which runs along the Iranian coast, U S officials said The U S and potential
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The war on Iran is waging on – and will continue do to so for a while Tehran gets bombed to smithereens, the hydrocarbon infrastructure in the Gulf is shutting down or gets damaged, the economic pressure on the global economy is starting to show Neither effect answers the question of why the U S did decide to attack Iran U S President Trump has give about a dozen different reasons none
- The MoA Week In Review – OT 2024-196 – Moon of Alabama
Last week's posts on Moon of Alabama: Aug 12 – Ukraine SitRep: The Kursk Incursion Was Stopped Aug 15 – FT Reports A Ukrainian Warcrime Aug 17 – Ukraine SitRep: Kursk Attack Derailed Partial Ceasefire Deal Related: – Fitch downgrades Ukraine to 'RD' – Default – Inter Affairs – Dmitry Trenin: This European region could be the next Ukraine – RT – US oil services group SLB
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