Carlos Williams
@smartsapper86.bsky.social
A twitter refugee.
Unlike Kurt Schlichter I have a GWOT. Polisci, Vols, Patriots.
Use to be an Engineer now I’m an Armor Officer
Non Sibi Sed Patriae - Not for self, but for country - Cicero
Unlike Kurt Schlichter I have a GWOT. Polisci, Vols, Patriots.
Use to be an Engineer now I’m an Armor Officer
Non Sibi Sed Patriae - Not for self, but for country - Cicero
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Even cloaked in the guise of "counter-terrorism" or "counter-narcotics," a US military regime change operation in Venezuela would be a fool's errand.
www.crisisgroup.org/latin-americ...
www.crisisgroup.org/latin-americ...
Beware the Slide Toward Regime Change in Venezuela | International Crisis Group
The Trump administration is dispatching military assets to the Caribbean and sinking boats it claims ferry drugs. While it appears the deployment is part of a plan to depose Venezuelan President Nicol...
www.crisisgroup.org
October 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Even cloaked in the guise of "counter-terrorism" or "counter-narcotics," a US military regime change operation in Venezuela would be a fool's errand.
www.crisisgroup.org/latin-americ...
www.crisisgroup.org/latin-americ...
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This was entirely predictable because anyone who has had an interaction with the strategy cheese professional or unprofessionally will tell you he is a petulant asshole who thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room (spoiler alert, he is not)
November 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
This was entirely predictable because anyone who has had an interaction with the strategy cheese professional or unprofessionally will tell you he is a petulant asshole who thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room (spoiler alert, he is not)
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Hey remember when the administration’s opening foreign policy move was 1000+ air strikes against Yemen?
What was it ever the case? Unless you mean "America First" entirely in the whites first Lindbergh Nazi-sympathizing sense.
Wouldn't a more accurate way to phrase "fears that he is drifting away from his more populist stances" be "finally realized he is lying"?
Wouldn't a more accurate way to phrase "fears that he is drifting away from his more populist stances" be "finally realized he is lying"?
November 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Hey remember when the administration’s opening foreign policy move was 1000+ air strikes against Yemen?
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The desired solution seems to be a tribute-based economy, where trade deficits are financed by inbound investment flows from countries believed to be dependent on US demand and/or defense, but entities doing the investment have zero control over the investment or income from it.
I cannot emphasize enough that increasing foreign investment in the US and shrinking US trade deficits are in direct, irreconcilable tension w/ one another.
*US TO LOWER TARIFF RATE ON SWISS GOODS TO 15%, GREER SAYS
*SWITZERLAND AGREED TO $200B INVESTMENT IN THE US, GREER SAYS
*US TO LOWER TARIFF RATE ON SWISS GOODS TO 15%, GREER SAYS
*SWITZERLAND AGREED TO $200B INVESTMENT IN THE US, GREER SAYS
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The desired solution seems to be a tribute-based economy, where trade deficits are financed by inbound investment flows from countries believed to be dependent on US demand and/or defense, but entities doing the investment have zero control over the investment or income from it.
So you increased the price of On’s by 15%
U.S. and Switzerland reach trade deal to lower tariffs to 15%
U.S. and Switzerland reach trade deal to lower tariffs to 15%
Switzerland has been subject to one of the highest tariff rates levied on an individual country by the Trump administration.
cnb.cx
November 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
So you increased the price of On’s by 15%
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Trump is demanding that GOP side with him over Epstein's victims, Rep Ansari tells me. She had a harrowing exchange with one victim who recounts how her mom had cancer and he exploited that.
Also note her mockery of network disclaimers on Trump. More like this, Ds:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
Also note her mockery of network disclaimers on Trump. More like this, Ds:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Trump is demanding that GOP side with him over Epstein's victims, Rep Ansari tells me. She had a harrowing exchange with one victim who recounts how her mom had cancer and he exploited that.
Also note her mockery of network disclaimers on Trump. More like this, Ds:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
Also note her mockery of network disclaimers on Trump. More like this, Ds:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
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Trump’s threat to use military force against Nigeria sparked a crisis that Beijing quickly turned to its advantage. China stepped in to defend Nigerian sovereignty and picked up a soft power win while Washington lost ground, writes Mandira Bagwandeen
Nigeria and the U.S.-China-Geopolitics of a ‘Guns-a-Blazing’ Threat
The first few days of November delivered a powerful, if chilling, lesson in contemporary geopolitics for Abuja. When the U.S. President, Donald Trump, fresh from re-designating Nigeria as a “Country o...
chinaglobalsouth.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Trump’s threat to use military force against Nigeria sparked a crisis that Beijing quickly turned to its advantage. China stepped in to defend Nigerian sovereignty and picked up a soft power win while Washington lost ground, writes Mandira Bagwandeen
This is costing taxpayers $2 billion dollars. Meanwhile there are entire brigades with tanks and APCs that are older than me and soldiers living in unsatisfactory barracks.
November 14, 2025 at 12:08 AM
This is costing taxpayers $2 billion dollars. Meanwhile there are entire brigades with tanks and APCs that are older than me and soldiers living in unsatisfactory barracks.
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
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2025 on pace for best global vs. US returns in >30 years (annualized) $VEU $SPY @AugurInfinity
November 13, 2025 at 10:32 AM
2025 on pace for best global vs. US returns in >30 years (annualized) $VEU $SPY @AugurInfinity
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When your government gets its economic data from DoorDash but failed to read the report.
November 13, 2025 at 1:04 AM
When your government gets its economic data from DoorDash but failed to read the report.
Yea it’s bad as fuck.
Oof
*OCTOBER CPI AND JOBS DATA LIKELY WON'T BE RELEASED: WHITE HOUSE
*OCTOBER CPI AND JOBS DATA LIKELY WON'T BE RELEASED: WHITE HOUSE
November 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Yea it’s bad as fuck.
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the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo
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Glad this story is finally public but also incredible that it is taking media so long to dig up what is essentially open knowledge in these communities rn.
November 12, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Glad this story is finally public but also incredible that it is taking media so long to dig up what is essentially open knowledge in these communities rn.
They are going to come for women in combat arms www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: ‘She was the best man for the job’: Hegseth’s policies are forcing qualified women out of the military | CNN Politics
Active service women and men who spoke to CNN say that goals Hegseth laid out often don’t make sense and will damage the military.
www.cnn.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:58 AM
They are going to come for women in combat arms www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
I might have to wear this bad boy to the Christmas party.
November 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I might have to wear this bad boy to the Christmas party.
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It's estimated that hundreds of thousands of people have *already* died because USAID was shut down. And USAID was shut down not because it was a longstanding GOP wish, or because Trump wanted it done, or because it was in Project 2025. Nope: It was all Elon Musk.
www.thebulwark.com/p/welcome-to...
www.thebulwark.com/p/welcome-to...
Welcome to Tesla Capitalism
Or: JVL explains why Americans are toying with socialism.
www.thebulwark.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
It's estimated that hundreds of thousands of people have *already* died because USAID was shut down. And USAID was shut down not because it was a longstanding GOP wish, or because Trump wanted it done, or because it was in Project 2025. Nope: It was all Elon Musk.
www.thebulwark.com/p/welcome-to...
www.thebulwark.com/p/welcome-to...
I beg your fucking pardon??????
US MILITARY EXPLORING $500 M BASE NEAR GAZA FOR 10,000 PERSONNEL; NAVY RFI OUTLINES LOGISTICS AND SUPPORT PLANS
November 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I beg your fucking pardon??????
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Again, the Dept of Defense was not previously known as the Dept. of War. The Army was previously the Dept of War & a cabinet position, same with the Dept of the Navy. In '47 they were combined (w/ War renamed Army & Air Force split off) as the National Military Establishment, later renamed the DoD.
Trump: "We have officially renamed the Dept of Defense back to the original name, Dept of War. And remember we won World War 1, we won World War 2, we won everything in between. We won everything that came before. And then we brilliantly decided to change the name. We became politically correct"
November 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Again, the Dept of Defense was not previously known as the Dept. of War. The Army was previously the Dept of War & a cabinet position, same with the Dept of the Navy. In '47 they were combined (w/ War renamed Army & Air Force split off) as the National Military Establishment, later renamed the DoD.
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NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
edition.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
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