Even if we didn’t have that cover, we could do it. No country wants to have their planes flying in the middle of a bombing campaign.

When we bombed Libya in 86, we pretty much closed the entire airspace of NA, not just Libya, until the operation was over.

Yes, but we can do that anyways by signaling that we are starting a bombing campaign—de facto we close it (as we did in Iraq, Kuwait, KSA, UAE during desert storm, & then in 2002)

Trump & his administration are behaving as if they are never going to leave power and/or face any accountability.

Has warned, to the fascists, it is, for example, de Gobineau’s or Carl Schmidt’s ideas of what & how western civilization should be like that win.

You do not want that concept of western civilization to be victorious because it comes with a bill soaked in blood.

But we know that the ideas of some of these guys led directly to the attempted extermination of an entire ppl, created/theorized the hierarchy of races, & justified the elimination of those who didn’t belong from western civilized societies.

If you cede the debate, as @dhnexon.bsky.social

intolerance, colonialism, antisemitism & the industrialization of mass murder—i.e., the Holocaust.

See, Montesquieu, Locke, Rawls, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Arthur de Gobineau, or Carl Schmitt all define themselves as civilized westerners protecting & promoting the values of western civilization

which were transmitted over several centuries, & saw several reiterations through several civilizations. Shaped & reshaped by the Greeks, the Muslims, the Enlightenment, etc thinkers to be at their best humanistic & inclusive

OTOH, Janus’s other face gave us eugenics, ethno-nationalism, religious