Why would you leave your prints on the murder weapon, when you can get someone else to carry out the act

Don’t be ridiculous, obviously deployment of fractional troops will be accomplished by rotating a single soldier in and out of Al-Assad on tours of decreasing duration until he’s just on the ground for a few minutes every couple of days.

Hence my outrunning them

Cut to Pete Hegseth, crying bitterly at his desk as he takes another shot

[laughs in light infantry battalion with indirect fire and air support]

Skeleton face with the voice of James Earl Jones probably seemed a bit too derivative at that point

(Just trying to think of what I would discuss after calling all of the nation’s top military leaders together)

shit I was actually hoping you were gonna help me brainstorm new grifts

But Jack, what other grifts let one cosplay as an operator while getting sweet paychecks from non-profit donations, with no oversight or accountability?

One of the effects of the war in Ukraine — or more specifically, the Russian military’s failures due to organizational flaws, command and control failures, and equipment/logistical issues stemming from corruption — was that the Chinese leadership has taken a much harder look at the PLA’s readiness.

Quite literally.

Iron Beam did ok in tests, but has yet to be deployed. And woe betide you if it’s cloudy.

Hmm. I’m not trying to be combative. The larger point that Taiwan (another place in which I’ve lived) faces a dire threat from Chinese missiles is not overstated. But that the PLA is rife w/ corruption affecting readiness — and that Zhongnanhai is trying to root it out — is fairly well established.

I mean I lived in China, and speak Mandarin. This doesn’t sound like any 成语 I ever learned. What idiom are you referring to?

…which part

This is why I tell my network of street dealers to give a discount to the homeless. Because humanitarianism is important.