Eric L. Robinson
@uticaeric.bsky.social
Attorney & advisor on industry, investment, & war. Formerly OSC, JSOC, NCTC, & 101st Abn. Hoya, Eli, Orange.
Co-host, “Second Breakfast” by China Talk.
Aspiring author, committed line holder.
“A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world”
Co-host, “Second Breakfast” by China Talk.
Aspiring author, committed line holder.
“A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world”
“Let me be clear, I think Chance the Rapper is going to be bigger than Jay Z”
Germany’s foreign intelligence agency (BND) intercepted phone conversations of former President Barack Obama while he was aboard Air Force One over several years. The interceptions exploited vulnerabilities in the aircraft’s encryption and known frequencies.
www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...
www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...
Spionage: BND hörte jahrelang US-Präsident Barack Obama ab
Der deutsche Geheimdienst überwachte regelmäßig Telefonate des damaligen US-Präsidenten an Bord der Air Force One. Erlaubnis von Angela Merkel hatte der BND nicht.
www.zeit.de
January 4, 2026 at 6:50 PM
“Let me be clear, I think Chance the Rapper is going to be bigger than Jay Z”
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this is repulsive, but for those who didn't live through "shock and awe" in iraq: it's the norm with the bootlickers who largely make up the dc/nyc press
January 4, 2026 at 6:04 PM
this is repulsive, but for those who didn't live through "shock and awe" in iraq: it's the norm with the bootlickers who largely make up the dc/nyc press
I rejected an illegal order about 20 years ago.
My Commander - an extremely stupid man who liked to brag about how he’d been invited to try out for a famous Special Missions Unit - ordered me to put a team with a light machine gun in an Iraqi school as part of an operation.
I said it was unlawful.
My Commander - an extremely stupid man who liked to brag about how he’d been invited to try out for a famous Special Missions Unit - ordered me to put a team with a light machine gun in an Iraqi school as part of an operation.
I said it was unlawful.
January 4, 2026 at 4:05 PM
I rejected an illegal order about 20 years ago.
My Commander - an extremely stupid man who liked to brag about how he’d been invited to try out for a famous Special Missions Unit - ordered me to put a team with a light machine gun in an Iraqi school as part of an operation.
I said it was unlawful.
My Commander - an extremely stupid man who liked to brag about how he’d been invited to try out for a famous Special Missions Unit - ordered me to put a team with a light machine gun in an Iraqi school as part of an operation.
I said it was unlawful.
We had to deal with years of commentary around MAGA being “isolationist” because it despised NATO, the UN, and the EU.
It was always a bright, shining lie on the movement’s behalf.
MAGA takes up Jefferson Davis’ stunted foreign policy and advances it across the Americas.
Piracy and banditry.
It was always a bright, shining lie on the movement’s behalf.
MAGA takes up Jefferson Davis’ stunted foreign policy and advances it across the Americas.
Piracy and banditry.
MAGA's supposed "anti-interventionism" is actually pro-pillage and pro-plunder.
Trump says Venezuela's oil wealth "goes also to the United States of America in the form of reimbursement for the damages caused us by that country"
January 4, 2026 at 3:01 PM
We had to deal with years of commentary around MAGA being “isolationist” because it despised NATO, the UN, and the EU.
It was always a bright, shining lie on the movement’s behalf.
MAGA takes up Jefferson Davis’ stunted foreign policy and advances it across the Americas.
Piracy and banditry.
It was always a bright, shining lie on the movement’s behalf.
MAGA takes up Jefferson Davis’ stunted foreign policy and advances it across the Americas.
Piracy and banditry.
"View my newsletter"
January 4, 2026 at 2:23 PM
"View my newsletter"
Podcaster - 6 hour a week job paying $750,000,
pretty decent gig if you’re entirely free of scruples and hate the 14th Amendment more than anything else you heard about for the first time last year.
pretty decent gig if you’re entirely free of scruples and hate the 14th Amendment more than anything else you heard about for the first time last year.
Dan Bongino has departed FBI, per statement
January 4, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Podcaster - 6 hour a week job paying $750,000,
pretty decent gig if you’re entirely free of scruples and hate the 14th Amendment more than anything else you heard about for the first time last year.
pretty decent gig if you’re entirely free of scruples and hate the 14th Amendment more than anything else you heard about for the first time last year.
Just so you’re tracking.
January 4, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Just so you’re tracking.
I’m watching a SNL episode from 2012 and they’re making fun of Zooey Deschanel and Michael Cera and it’s a pretty good time capsule of how civilization was reacting to “twee” in real time.
January 4, 2026 at 3:38 AM
I’m watching a SNL episode from 2012 and they’re making fun of Zooey Deschanel and Michael Cera and it’s a pretty good time capsule of how civilization was reacting to “twee” in real time.
There is well-sourced reporting courtesy of @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social that indicates the Maduro operation was authorized under the September 2001 AUMF.
This is absurd but no one is going to lose their rank over the definition of “narcoterrorist” and whether it fits within the AUMF’s porous limits.
This is absurd but no one is going to lose their rank over the definition of “narcoterrorist” and whether it fits within the AUMF’s porous limits.
Real black pilled on the military. The oath means absolutely nothing at all, apparently. Happy to be praetorians, just as long as the check clears.
January 4, 2026 at 1:56 AM
There is well-sourced reporting courtesy of @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social that indicates the Maduro operation was authorized under the September 2001 AUMF.
This is absurd but no one is going to lose their rank over the definition of “narcoterrorist” and whether it fits within the AUMF’s porous limits.
This is absurd but no one is going to lose their rank over the definition of “narcoterrorist” and whether it fits within the AUMF’s porous limits.
The real civil-military relations crisis was here all along.
Remember when Valerie Jarrett thought the uniformed VCSA was a waiter and asked for a drink?
Hilarious! Good natured fun.
Remember when Valerie Jarrett thought the uniformed VCSA was a waiter and asked for a drink?
Hilarious! Good natured fun.
i am not really sure this crisis shows JSOC-like entities are bad bc the problem in general is expectation that military is going to be some autonomous source of moral good when US political institutions as a whole have fallen
January 3, 2026 at 11:58 PM
The real civil-military relations crisis was here all along.
Remember when Valerie Jarrett thought the uniformed VCSA was a waiter and asked for a drink?
Hilarious! Good natured fun.
Remember when Valerie Jarrett thought the uniformed VCSA was a waiter and asked for a drink?
Hilarious! Good natured fun.
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This is how it's done. If incumbent Democrats won't do the job, their primary challengers can and will use this to make sure someone else does
The Republican Congress has chosen to give away its authority and power and now we are being told Trump plans to occupy Venezuela. We don't cry for Maduro. We demand the following of our laws and Constitution. He is already threatening Mexico and Cuba will be next. Ann Wagner is silent.
January 3, 2026 at 9:39 PM
This is how it's done. If incumbent Democrats won't do the job, their primary challengers can and will use this to make sure someone else does
What the fuck is the Department of Travel?
The Department of Travel launched an airport civility campaign in November that included a call for travelers to dress up. Are they doing it?
Uncle Sam is asking fliers to dress better at airports. Are we?
The Department of Travel launched an airport civility campaign in November that included a call for travelers to dress up. Are they doing it?
bit.ly
January 3, 2026 at 10:37 PM
What the fuck is the Department of Travel?
"This actually isn't about oil" is often perfectly correct and it's guaranteed to make the most noxious, stupid people on the internet lose their ever-living minds.
OK, crash course in oil. Oil has two main gradings, viscosity (light or heavy) and sulfur (sweet or sour). A light (low viscosity) and sweet (low sulfur) oil is easier to process into gasoline and other products than a heavy and sour one, so the light & sweet oil commands a premium price.
I know several oil barons, I’ve had the oil and gas industry as clients in a past life: none of them want the Venezuelan oil, it’s dog shit quality and getting the PDVSA fields up to modern standards would take 20 years! It’s just trump being stuck in 1987
January 3, 2026 at 10:08 PM
"This actually isn't about oil" is often perfectly correct and it's guaranteed to make the most noxious, stupid people on the internet lose their ever-living minds.
Substantial amount of ink spilled in how the Ellisons hired Bari Weiss to fundamentally re-orient CBS News to launder right wing perspectives on behalf of the White House.
It's an important story, no error in observing.
Same attention needs to be on American national security think tanks in DC.
It's an important story, no error in observing.
Same attention needs to be on American national security think tanks in DC.
January 3, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Substantial amount of ink spilled in how the Ellisons hired Bari Weiss to fundamentally re-orient CBS News to launder right wing perspectives on behalf of the White House.
It's an important story, no error in observing.
Same attention needs to be on American national security think tanks in DC.
It's an important story, no error in observing.
Same attention needs to be on American national security think tanks in DC.
Between Todd Huntley and Oona Hathaway, he's got a sound record of finding people who legitimately know the shot here.
January 3, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Between Todd Huntley and Oona Hathaway, he's got a sound record of finding people who legitimately know the shot here.
Pete's adopted the vest-under-suit look, otherwise known as the Chonky Astronaut.
Let this end that horrible trend.
Let this end that horrible trend.
“I’m in”
January 3, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Pete's adopted the vest-under-suit look, otherwise known as the Chonky Astronaut.
Let this end that horrible trend.
Let this end that horrible trend.
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Another normal one on LinkedIn.
January 3, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Another normal one on LinkedIn.
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You’ll have to wait til later this year, but in my forthcoming book on counterterrorism in #Afghanistan, I explain in depth why this is *not true* (as Eric’s sarcasm implies)
“I am a strategist, you see. I worked for Petraeus so you know I’m good, and direct action raids against the center of political, paramilitary, and criminal networks always permanently break those networks. Pay me money.”
January 3, 2026 at 7:48 PM
You’ll have to wait til later this year, but in my forthcoming book on counterterrorism in #Afghanistan, I explain in depth why this is *not true* (as Eric’s sarcasm implies)
“This donut tastes good.”
I bet, but you stole it. Whether or not it tastes good is irrelevant.
“But I wanted it.”
Of course you did. You stole it. You’re not supposed to steal. It’s a crime. It’s a violation of the public trust.
“It’s my donut. I just ate it.”
<American civic discourse, 2026>
I bet, but you stole it. Whether or not it tastes good is irrelevant.
“But I wanted it.”
Of course you did. You stole it. You’re not supposed to steal. It’s a crime. It’s a violation of the public trust.
“It’s my donut. I just ate it.”
<American civic discourse, 2026>
January 3, 2026 at 6:11 PM
“This donut tastes good.”
I bet, but you stole it. Whether or not it tastes good is irrelevant.
“But I wanted it.”
Of course you did. You stole it. You’re not supposed to steal. It’s a crime. It’s a violation of the public trust.
“It’s my donut. I just ate it.”
<American civic discourse, 2026>
I bet, but you stole it. Whether or not it tastes good is irrelevant.
“But I wanted it.”
Of course you did. You stole it. You’re not supposed to steal. It’s a crime. It’s a violation of the public trust.
“It’s my donut. I just ate it.”
<American civic discourse, 2026>
If Democrats had a national security bench with courage, they could make a strong argument about why the rule of law is paramount & simply waving at gofast boats and saying “imminent threat, they die”, or picking fugitives up in acts of war, are fundamental abrogations of the Constitutional order.
January 3, 2026 at 4:30 PM
If Democrats had a national security bench with courage, they could make a strong argument about why the rule of law is paramount & simply waving at gofast boats and saying “imminent threat, they die”, or picking fugitives up in acts of war, are fundamental abrogations of the Constitutional order.
I’d leak this, too, if I wanted loyalists to start dumping their cell phones all while giving verbal orders to start ventilating each other for the next 36 hours.
A CIA source within the Venezuelan government monitored the location of Nicolás Maduro in both the days and moments before the leader’s capture by American special operation forces, according to people briefed on the operation.
C.I.A. Source Inside Venezuelan Government Helped Track Maduro
The spy agency also used stealth drones to monitor the whereabouts of the Venezuelan leader.
nyti.ms
January 3, 2026 at 4:15 PM
I’d leak this, too, if I wanted loyalists to start dumping their cell phones all while giving verbal orders to start ventilating each other for the next 36 hours.
“Book an appointment”
January 3, 2026 at 4:04 PM
“Book an appointment”
Cigars at MaL, James
The babes will put us on their Reels
History was waiting for men like us*
Anyone have another Goose Island?
(*we made $219,000 on PolyMarket while putting Nightstalkers and an Army SMU in imminent danger)
The babes will put us on their Reels
History was waiting for men like us*
Anyone have another Goose Island?
(*we made $219,000 on PolyMarket while putting Nightstalkers and an Army SMU in imminent danger)
So like…now what? Is there a plan here exactly for what happens when you decapitate a government overnight?
Or is this just the “Jesus take the wheel” school of military planning?
Or is this just the “Jesus take the wheel” school of military planning?
January 3, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Cigars at MaL, James
The babes will put us on their Reels
History was waiting for men like us*
Anyone have another Goose Island?
(*we made $219,000 on PolyMarket while putting Nightstalkers and an Army SMU in imminent danger)
The babes will put us on their Reels
History was waiting for men like us*
Anyone have another Goose Island?
(*we made $219,000 on PolyMarket while putting Nightstalkers and an Army SMU in imminent danger)
Self-described “Strategist” admits The Law is tiresome and only serves to encumber the great men of history.
Tomorrow, Greenland. Next month, Ottawa.
NDU is a joke, but Georgetown shouldn’t allow these kinds of people to walk its halls, much less instruct its students.
Tomorrow, Greenland. Next month, Ottawa.
NDU is a joke, but Georgetown shouldn’t allow these kinds of people to walk its halls, much less instruct its students.
January 3, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Self-described “Strategist” admits The Law is tiresome and only serves to encumber the great men of history.
Tomorrow, Greenland. Next month, Ottawa.
NDU is a joke, but Georgetown shouldn’t allow these kinds of people to walk its halls, much less instruct its students.
Tomorrow, Greenland. Next month, Ottawa.
NDU is a joke, but Georgetown shouldn’t allow these kinds of people to walk its halls, much less instruct its students.