Trump just announced a June 5th lease sale to drill inside the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a place so sacred to the Gwich’in people that its destruction would mean the end of their way of life.
The Arctic Refuge is the largest in the country, roughly the size of South Carolina. Its Coastal Plain is the calving ground for the Porcupine Caribou herd, the lifeblood of Gwich’in communities who have lived there for thousands of years.
Not really as important as it sounds, but it’s a trend where they please the anti vax MAGA crowd.
But most miltiaries in Europe, I doubt they have vaccinated against the flu unless they plan to deploy troops abroad. It’s not common to do with healthy people (annual influenza vaccine) below 40 years old and hardly really required for most people.
Perosnally, I have only vaccinated myself once for the common flu through work. I would if someone offered it to me for free shrugs or because I had to in my line of work, but not if I have to pay anything or its an inconvenience.
But it is interesting where we in Europe now vaccinate more and more through public programs, and also more and more for less lethal strains like even annual influenza as in this example, in the US they go in the other direction.
Edit: Things have changed since 2021, I see now all Norwegian soldiers ever since 2021, even conscripts, get influenza vaccines offered. I sure as hell did not get any such “unecessary” vaccine when I was a conscript, but got boosters of the “serious” ones. I suppose this came as a result of the corona pandemic.
It’s also just because Trump moved from Charles Lindbergh’s isolationism, to more active participation in the Great Games.
https://x.com/gideonrachman/status/2046646147867885855
On this. They had put Alaskan oil sites up for sale in an auction a little while back. No one was interested.
I’m hoping this will be the same or even better, one of those sites everyone turned down.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/2046651834014769167
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https://x.com/ReallyAmerican1/status/2046728791062466593
This is brilliant
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I think I’ll add the video in full
Just please dont be wearing the LFC tie
It’s excellent propaganda, but I hope people are aware that it is Iranian propaganda. Not everyone seems to be aware on the internet.
I would kindly ask that those videos are marked with a tiny ingress, informing people that it is information warfare and propaganda. There is a great danger when people lap it up without being aware, leading to some extremely unfortunate results in information literacy and media literacy.
It’s extremely well designed, so you will laugh and think it is cool. But it’s still a weapon of warfare and people should be aware that it is a weapon and not just some innocent lego videos.
Seen some shortsighted shit from him and that lot, but this one is a doozy.
Get another nasty flu virus loose in the military, and just wait! Victory is assured!
It’s awful anti democratic practice, but the GOP does this all the time, so cannot really complain. For non-Americans it is pretty damn revolting though.
https://x.com/MeidasTouch/status/2046748897331265997
But I’ll hold my nose and approve, even so.
It’s what it is in a flawed democracy, after all…
Republicans, after having done the same in Texas, may now do the same in Florida.
If you are about 10. It’s fairly cringy and completely OTT, but understandable, given the existential threat felt by Iran.
I actually thought a couple of them were quite amusing myself 
But my point is that they are very well made, aimed at an online and young western audience. It’s highly effective, though sure, imature at times (but it’s propaganda satire, what does one expect).
It’s just important to let people know what it is, that is my view. I don’t critique the quality, except noting that they are “hits” and that the propaganda is extremely effective as a weapon of war. And then, since it is a weapon of war, one has a responsibility to inform the audience about that exactly. Then they can enjoy it or not enjoy it (up to taste), but people need to be informed or it becomes very ehtically problematic to say the least.
As long as people know that the aim of these videos is to do strategic damage to the United States on behalf of Iran, I don’t mind. Let everyone watch it and love or hate them (or just don’t care, I don’t really go looking for them myself at all) if they so wish, as long as everyone knows what it is. A weapon aimed at a specific audience.
It’s more effective than the Iranian “death to America” chants and the usual propaganda videos of US cities burning (which is aimed at a domestic audience), because this seems “innocent”. But it’s not of course. It’s not innocent at all 
Personally, what I find most funny about American politics this week, are the many loud articles from Dershowitz, declaring that he is now a Republican and no longer a Democrat, desperate for the world to know, thinking he is a star.
Of course, in reality, Dershowitz is a political albatros of dimensions that everyone wants to stay away from.
The word I would use is “humanising”. The usual perception of the Iranian regime is the “Mad Mullahs” and the whole “death to America” thing. I’ve seen the British-Iranian comedian, Omid Djalili, and he takes the piss out of that stereotype mercilessly.
This propaganda is portraying the the Iranian regime as being funny humorous guys, compared to the bullying Americans. It is dangerous because it tries to humanise a particularly nasty regime.
Its a terrible state of affairs. It has long been part of our politics but it really escalated after the 2010 midterms. What you could do with computer modelling had made it theoretically possible to draw much more aggressive gerrymanders and the GOP turned that into reality with what they branded Operation RedMap REDMAP - Wikipedia
There are really strong arguments that the loss of competitive seats in the House that was end result of this is a significant driver in how dysfunctional Congress has become as a legislative body. Electeds now are far more accountable to their base primary voters than general election voters and that promotes more extreme candidates and disincentivizes anything that shows cooperation. Dems responded with a series of legislative solutions and legal challenges that would prevent this sort of fuckery and get maps back to something more competitive and failed in the courts and because of lack of support from the GOP. That was undoubtedly self interest given how badly RedMap’s success hurt their electoral prospects, but it was clearly their preferred outcome. This Sean Connery style “they put one of yours in the hospital you put one of theirs in the morgue” is really the only response left that does not mean unilateral disarming.