Every book I read in 2024 kinda reviewed

It feels like 2015, but not as fun.

It’s nearly 2025. The Ukraine war is still going on. Assad is donezo. Trump is president again. Diddy is in jail. Everyone loves Luigi. It feels just like 2015 again. Except in 2015, I was cool, and in 2024, all I do is sit and read books. I’m getting married in 3 weeks AND it’s the holidays so every day is a new adventure on how stressed out can I get without having a heart attack. Will everybody at my wedding hate each other? It’s looking that way! What member of my family will give me a panic attack that can ONLY be solved with tequila shots? Is everybody at my wedding going to have a bad time then form a circle and shame me for having to fly to an expensive city to go to a boring wedding? Will my husband dump me because of it? Find out in every book I read in 2025 kinda reviewed.

Ninth House - Leigh Bardugo

I’ve read a lot of books with a lot of steamy sex written by a shut in who has perhaps never had sex who uses phrases like “his cock tightened” and “his balls shuddered at the thought.” The main criticism this book gets is there is not enough balls shuddering. It’s a book where the secret societies in Yale do magic to insider trade and bring back RBG from the dead to ask her questions. Someone dies who is NOT rich and another person disappears who is a hot guy so of course a girl who can see ghosts has to track them down. It’s honestly actually pretty good. For this genre of kinda romantic fantasy books, this is one of the better ones. My balls certaininly tightened even if the only sex had was cuddling while on magic Yale MDMA. I do like the idea that people at Yale would use magic to insider trade instead of like… literally anything else.

The Maniac - Benjamin Labatut

Remember when America used to make things people were proud of? Like the Hoover Dam. People would point and say “look at that dam! A fine quality dam!” I haven’t felt proud of an American piece of infrastructure or breakthrough in science in a long time. They are building a bridge in Miami on something called the “Dolphin Expressway” that has been under construction forever and causes the worst traffic imagineable, so bad that the newspaper once ran a front page story about why the traffic on the Dolphin Expressway is so bad. I think all this new bridge is going to be is a few modern seeming rings added to the already existing bridge. It’s just making a regular highway into a Modern Farmhouse highway while ruining our lives for 10+ years. Anyway, The Maniac is part fiction, part not about the crazy physicists in the mid 20th century who built bombs and had theories and generally accomplished SOMETHING other than making an iPhone with a slightly better camera or a chatbot that wrote boring essays for English 101 students about whether abortion should be banned.

Hell Bent - Leigh Bardugo

This is the sequel to Ninth House. It wasn’t as good but still fun. It felt like a trailer for book three. Usually fantasy provides dimenishing returns as we will find out later in the year when a cool fantasy turns into Mormon God.

Siege and Storm - Leigh Bardugo

I listened to this while cooking and don’t remember it. Can you believe that the war in Ukraine is STILL going on? If we believe the numbers that each country puts out of the dead and wounded, each country would no longer have a population. This year Ukraine got really into press ganging people. The AFU really have people working on making fake tinder profiles for hot chicks with huge racks who ask incels out on dates only for them to arrive and a gang of dudes just shove them in a van and send them to front lines. A life lesson for 2024, nobody wants to date you and never leave your house. They just want you to serve on the frontlines of an unwinnable proxy war meant to dimmenish European power and make the entire continent reliant on American oil for a generation. Love is fake but power is very real and they will use your romantic tendencies to train you on how to use air defense systems for eight hours (the average life expectancy on the battlefield) until you die.

Wellness - Nathan Hill

I love a good book about middle-aged white people feeling regret and malaise. Oh no, they aren’t as cool as they used to be! Remember when they did cocaine at parties??? Now, they just go to playdates, and FUCK their child is autistic! Really getting sick of the armchair autism diagnosis from everyone if someone has one weird quirk. Oh no, they always lose their wallet do you think maybe THEY ARE AUTISTIC???? Like man, shut the fuck up. Anyway, I actually did like this book. A lot about how most skincare products and wellness products are placebo. This year I noticed the rise of annoying sober people who drink experimentatal beverages with copy saying “These functional mushrooms feel just like adderall!” I can’t wait until the moral panic about kids getting fucked up on the mushroom drink that doesn’t have to be approved by the FDA. You dug your own grave by creating “sober spaces” for people to “get fucked up, just not on alcohol.”

Powerless - Lauren Roberts

Jesus fucking Christ. I guess this is a BookTok thing. It was a NYT best seller and I needed something to listen to while I cooked and I think it’s the worst book I’ve ever read. It’s the first book I’m CERTAIN was written by mostly ChatGPT. I think the prompt was “Write a book in a world where rich people have Marvel superpowers and poor people don’t. There is a yearly trial similar to the Hunger Games. Enemies to lovers trope for the main couple. The guy has superpowers and the female main character doesn’t but she is very wily and sly.” There was zero chemistry between the main characters, the entire plot is basically stolen from other, better books. There are many, MANY Reddit posts titled “Why do people like Powerless???” with criticisms just like mine. Anyone who says they like it just follow it up with “But I like garbage!” It’s also riddled with spelling and continuity errors. It pisses me off the author, who probably made a shitload of money from this, likely used AI to write the book. I have no problem with AI writing garbage but at least say it’s written by the fucking AI. I believe with all of my heart this is an industry plant. Apparently, she is a reviewer of romance books on TikTok and suddenly she has a shitty book out?

To All the Boys I've Loved Before - Jenny Han

Whatever, fine. Here is a summary: “I am the teenaged main character! I have a dead mom but I’m always cheerful and family-oriented! No guy has ever liked me but suddenly everyone does! I love to bake cookies and cakes! I’m not having sex until marriage! Those are the qualities that everyone loves about me! Everyone loves me a LOT. I am annoying yet very nice and everyone likes my annoying traits.” I wish I was this normal and loveably annoying so people could like me too. Even when I make baked goods, I’m still a bitch.

Trauma in Metro - Theo Thimo

Theo does ketamine and wanders around NYC thinking about relationships and masturbating.

Rabbit Hole - Kate Brody

Why do men get to be alcoholics and women don’t? In every mystery novel with a female main character, the woman is an alcoholic (only on wine it seems) and by the end of the book she learns her lesson, puts the alcohol into a box to dramatically throw in the garbage, then finds a man who will impregenate her. Men get to drink liqour forever and it’s simply cool. This is the worst thing about sexism. Let us drink and it’s not always wine you fucks.

Anyway, this book seemed promising- solving the dissapearance of the main character’s sister by looking at Reddit a lot. But. If I’m promised a mystery, I want one. This was more about coming to terms with grief. I hate those books because it always is very conventional i.e. dumping the alcohol and having a baby, maybe going to therapy. I’d rather read a book where someone comes to terms with grief by doing something unexpected like flying a hot air ballooon across the Pacific Ocean WHILE chugging GIN. Fuck you, puritanical American attitudes.

Vagabonds - Hao Jingfang

Promising premise. Earth is hyper capitalism while Mars is communist and of course they’re in a Cold War. I guess any Martian colony would have to be communist? I wonder if Elon Musk knows that. He seems to think Twitter can be the government of his eventual colony on an uninhabitable planet. I’m pretty sure you would have to have a communist government. No “free speech” allowed on the planet where if you walk outside without a spacesuit on, you die. Sorry! Obviously in the book, Earth and Mars mirror America and China. It could make a great teleivision show but the plot was pretty weak. The Martians sent a contingent of students to Earth to learn and when they came back they felt different or whatever because I guess no more TikTok or doing molly with anarchists and they had to go back to their rigid planned lives. I want a book where Mars is a colony dedicated to EDM and house music. Why does Mars always have to be a military dictatorship or a communist government? Why can’t it just be the Burning Man headquarters? It’d be nice to ship those people off planet.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanigan

Maybe the best book I read this year. I read it because it was written by an Australian and half-based in Australia because I was in Australia at the time. It’s about these Australians captured in WW2 and made to build a railway through the jungle in a prison camp. It was so depressing and graphic with people just literally being eaten alive by bugs and kind of melting because of too much rain. Drowning in mud. Beautiful descriptions of being beaten to death by prison guards. Who would have thought Australians would be good at writing fiction? It’s going to be a miniseries by Jacob Elordi so I’m sure everyone is going to know about it soon enough. When Elordi showed up to that awards show with the beard, I was like well he is definitely filming this book. That was a prison camp beard.

Clytemnestra - Costanza Casati

You know I’m not doing well if I’m reading feminist retellings of the Illiad. Australia was good but the summer was actually really bad. Pro tip: Never work for the fucking government. It will make you existensially depressed in ways you never thought possible. I not only hate my job, I might actually hate the government, which is the mechanism that orders my entire life. It’s a deep and endless malaise. I like America too which makes it even worse that the government is a barely funcitoning bureacratic wasteland. It really destroys your faith in anything and everything. Medicare for all? These dipshits would never be able to fucking figure it out. Private healthcare? That’s bad too. It’s really just best to not think too deeply about anything and look at a nice tree. Otherwise, the cynicism will eat you alive.

Elekta - Jennifer Saint

Today I watched a shitty drone video set to terrible Russian metal music of a pack of dogs hunting down a Ukranian soldier and mauling him. Then, someone said they found the dog breed,even though the video quality was shit, and that the dogs were Korean. Jesus fucking Christ. Have you seen one picture of a North Korean soldier fighting in Ukraine? Because I haven’t and I have seen many images of this war. I don’t think they’re there! I think Americans are just so scared of North Korea that they invented North Korean troops to scare people into actually caring about this war. I’ll change my mind if someone shows me one picture of a North Korean fighting in Russia. If I find out it’s just a Mongolian, a hired mercenary, or the population of non-ethnic Russians that live in far east Russia, I’m going to call you racist.

The Familiar - Leigh Bardugo

Perhaps not enough fucking. She wanted to cash in on the romantasy craze but as we know romantasy requires phrases like “his cock tightened” and “his balls ached” and “The bundle of nerves at the CORE OF HER BEING swelled” and this author is just too good to write that kind of garbage. The book does suggest that Jews do magic. I’d like to do magic. If I could pick a power, it would be Tower of Babel themed. I could make it so idiots spoke and wrote in an incomprehensible languge and nobody was able to understand them so people like Dick Cheney, Victoria Nuland, etc. would not be able to drone random villages of inncocent people just trying to live their lives because nobody could understand their drone commands. Imagining using my magic to make Elon’s tweets unreadable.

The Will of the Many - James Islington

Also in contention for best book I read this year. It’s fantasy (which I read a lot of, sorry) set in Roman-coded world where the patricians had anwhere from 4 - 80,000 people ceding their “will” or strength to them to make them super strong. Kind of a cool way to depict slavery in the Roman world. They also used the people’s “will” to power devices like flying barges and stuff. Also written by an Australian! Insane! I didn’t think they were good at anything until this year. 2024 is the year I stopped hating Australians who I have hated since 2010 when I was on a four hour bus ride full of a bunch of Australians playing some farting game. I guess they’re not ALL like that. Australians are alright. People do grow and change I guess.

Honey - Isabel Banta

These books about young pop stars always seem so promising to me because Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus, and Lindsay Lohan had such crazy, dark lives. These books never GO there though. They seem to want to then the author gets spooked tat someone will call her sexist or bring up some bullshit “betchdel test” comment. The betchdel test thing is so stupid. Regular people have romantic relationships and that is the most important thing in their life and of course they talk about it. It’s not like we all need to talk about Derrida every second of everyday. Maybe I’ll write the perfect popstar book- a horror novel about Taylor Swift American Psycho style killing people on the Era’s Tour. The Warsaw chapter will be LIT.

Banal Nightmare - Halle Butler

This is so similar to my experience in grad school it was hard to read at points though very well-written and funny. My experience in both academia and the government is that middle managers are insecure and bitter. They definitely graduated without honors from a Ph.D. nobody has heard of, or was last in their class of a good Ph.D. and that fact HAUNTS them. It makes them terrtorial over the one scrap of power they have managed to grab ahold of, whether that is running composition programs or writitng copy for a social media account nobody will read. They have literal meltdowns over comma usage and I think have really really mean thoughts about anybody they precieve as a threat, which is actually everybody they meet! They’re bootlicking losers who love to pretend that a typo is the literal end of the world. They love their panic attacks because it makes them feel like an important hard worker and think people not having panic attacks over commas aren’t taking things seriously.

Mistborn, The Final Empire - Brandon Sanderson

This book was fun. The magic system is really good. Nobody is extremely overpowered like in the horny fairy or horny dragon books. The magic system is balanced so that there are physical tolls if you use too much of it. That was compelling. The society of grand ruler and aritstocracy vs. slave class was very good. I would definitely use this as a blueprint to write any fantasy book I wanted to write. It’s solid writing and really good worldbuilding

House of Earth and Blood - Sarah J. Maas

This is horny fairies but it’s urban fantasy so they also can binge watch horny fairy reality television shows and watch horny fairy porn as opposed to moping in castles. They have guns even though they can shoot lightening from their fingers. I enjoyed it because it had a fairly simply murder mystery plot with a side of romance. The main character is genuinely funny and cool. Usually, SJM’s main characters are completely insufferable Mary Sue types who she can’t keep straight through multiple books so their personality dramatically changes not through character development but because she just forgot what she wrote in earlier books and doesn’t keep notes.

The Well of Ascension (Mistborn #2) - Brandon Sanderson

This guy is starting to lean into… being Mormon. It’s starting to become very obvious that he is Mormon. There is a lot of discussion about religion. There is a Jesus figure. It’s still good and he’s not fully endorsing Mormonism or foisting Jesus on the readers. It’s kind of interesting to read about a religion being birthed. However, the main character had the chance to fuck a bad boy and didn’t. BORING! As a Mormon, Sanderson is not great at writing sex. It’s like “Vin went into a tent and cuddled then… it’s morning and Vin says oh my that was delightful!” LOL. I wish he’d team up with SJM and get some cock tightening in when someone needs to have sex.

The God of the Woods - Liz Moore

I’ll tell you what. Obama may have drone striked (drone struck?) a bunch of poor people just trying to have weddings and so on. He was an asshole about Edward Snowden. He promised change and just continued the shitty, corporate downward trajectory of the American Empire. You know people buy into our empire because we can provide defense for free trade with our giganto military. And yet. The Houthis are sinking ships left and right in the Red Sea. Doesn’t seem like anything when you hear about it but it does undermine the entire promise we make to the Western world - “We get to be the Superpower and in return your trade is protected by our military.” Does our military… suck now? Not great for remaining a superpower. Anyway, I digress. What I wanted to say is that Obama’s book list is always good! I always read three or four books on it and I really like them! He definitley has good taste in books and if you ever need gift ideas for literary parents just pick something off his book list. This book was a smart, literary thriller set at a summer camp in upstate New York in the 70s.

The Hero of Ages (Mistborn #3) - Brandon Sanderson

After I finished this, I turned to my fiance and said maybe it’s time to lay off the fantasy. This one was hard to get through. The first two were good but this one. The ending. Lets just say he goes full-on fucking Mormon. There is one entity called Chaos and one called Preserverence and I guess they control the world. Who the fuck knows but the end is full on Heavenly Father, sacrafice of Christ for the sins of the people coded content. I was like ughhhhh. Such a good start to simply go full Mormon on us. I like the discussion of religion rather than the preaching of it. Brandon Sanderson, do some fucking spice and read a horny fairy book. I’m glad you finished the series though. Not many fantasy authors do!

Service - Sarah Gilmartin

This fucking book lol. It was set in Dublin at some fancy restaurant run by a celebrity chef who sexually assaulted and/or harassed his wait staff and he’s in the middle of being cancelled. It’s kind of an open question for most of the book whether he did do the sexual harassment or not. Good premise! The book itself though kind of read like a rape hotline handout with clinical sanitized language to describe sexual assault. I’m sure that’s useful in a clinical setting but this isn’t therapy, this is a novel and novels should dig deep into complex and sometimes opposing, or uncouth feelings. Fiction should interrogate feelings that are unexpected as opposed to just taking a DSM symptom list and making it into a character.

It had three perspectives: cancelled chef, his wife, and the girl who was perhaps sexually assaulted by the chef and two timelines - the assault timeline and the post cancellation timeline. The acknowledgements section had a fucking link to resources for people who have been sexually assaulted. This is FICTION, not a manual for how people should act. That’s my gripe with a lot of fiction in the Trump era. It feels it has a responsibility beyond good storytelling and compelling language to teach people how to be Good. It doesn’t. It just makes bad fiction. And it pisses people off. The fiction that does inspire people does not consciously try to do that as if it was an Instagram infographic.

House of Sky and Breath - Sarah J. Maas

I couldn’t tell you one thing that happened in this book. It’s over 1,000 pages and the only plot I can remember is Bryce tells Hunt they can’t fuck until Christmas but then changes her mind at the gym and they have sex after lifting weights together. Oh, sorry for the spoilers but who cares because horny faries- the bad guys in this book turn out to be ripped off of fucking INDEPENDENCE DAY they go from planet to planet as parasites sucking out resources. Very funny thing to rip off for horny fairies. I heard her first series, Throne of Glass, is just a Game of Thrones ripoff and that she thought the Hand of the King was like a real historical medieval thing. Oh, Sarah.

She is also trying to Marvel-ify her books. There is now a “Maasverse” so a horny fairy extended universe. To understand the next Court of Thornes and Roses book, she said you have to read the Crescent City series (what this book belongs to). There is also, on her website, a “reading order” for the books that are not the order they came out in because apparently the first Throne of Glass book is actually a novella prequel (she decided 10 years later) and the fifth book is actually first or something. There is a lot of discourse of how these HORNY FAIRY BOOKS should be read. Good on her because she’s convinced people to drop $80 on special editions of her books and Marvel clearly makes a lot of money so why not cash in on horny fairies but also like can we make art that stands alone as opposed to having to read or watch 12 other things to understand one thing. My brother made me watch Deadpool 3 and I warned him I’d only seen one Marvel movie in the past five years and he said oh there is nothing you need to know besides Wolverine is dead. Then the whole movie, he was chuckling about things that happened in Doctor Strange 3 or whatever or Loki the TV series and I was like what the fuck you liar. Deadpool is just a movie made entirely of references and I guess that’s what the people want. To feel smart for knowing about the easter eggs. Because that’s all Taylor Swift does too. You know what makes people smart? READING A FUCKING BOOK!!!!

Crazy Sorrow - Vince Passaro

Pretty normal story of a relationship over the course of 30 years in NYC where the guy invents Starbucks and the girl is never really all that happy but successful none-the-less. 9/11 happens in it and there is a wonderfully written twin towers scene. It was recommended on Twitter by this author who has completely gone off the deep end. I think Twitter now boosts posts of people giving takes in the most black and white, radical way possible. It’s not “Daylight Savings Time should be abolished because X” it’s “You’re a fucking lunatic who hates America if you don’t want to abolish Daylight Savings Time.” I’ve seen so many “Weed is brain poison” tweets and also “Weed cures cancer” tweets. Anyway, this guy has been tweeting nonstop that the CEO killer is actually an op. I’m sick of hearing things are an op. It diminishes the things that are ACTUALLY ops. Everything that happens, some idiot journalist somewhere calls it an op just to pump engagement on Elon’s insane algorythm that celebrates radical opinions on either side of the spectrum (funny coming from “Mr. Moderate”).

Anyway, this author who recomendded Crazy Sorrow said it should have won the Pulitzer Prize if not for “DEI bullshit” so I tried it out. It was good but I don’t think it would have won the Pulitzer Prize even if there was no DEI bullshit. Every tweet he sends has the underlying purpose of being asked by Fox to be a talking head. He congratulated Greg Guttfield (not bothering to spell check his name) for having a baby. Good grief. What if your biggest dream was to appear as a talking head “former lib who now owns the libs” on Fox News for five minutes? Sad! The internet has warped people’s brain. Read a horny fairy book instead.

The Wager: A Tale of Shpwreck, Mutiny, and Murder - David Grann

I read this on a cruise and exclaimed to my fiance “This boat is going to SINK” very loudly, meaning to indicate the boat in the book. Not a great thing to say on a cruise. This book taught me that people have hated lawyers since the beginning of time. One of the castaways would make people sign a contract saying they agreed with being left behind or murdered so he could give it to the courts later. Nobody wants to be cast away with THAT guy. You’re already castaway ona barren rock in Patagonia and now there is paperwork too??

The Armour of Light - Ken Follett

I love a good tale of a town in olden times where you get to know a bunch of characters - the poor people, the rich people, the middle class, etc. It’s kind of sprawling and really immerses you. This was a really good example of that and taught me a lot about unions in the 18th century when textiles were first introducing factories and stuff. I really enjoyed that. The only thing I didn’t like is that the last act was the Battle of Waterloo so it went from sleepy English town with its various minor villains and heroes to like “THE FRENCH FLANKED THE RIVER ON THE WEST WITH CAVALRY.” Jarring. Can’t people write war differently? I hate the word “flank” and nobody can stage manage lines of battle very well. Just follow one guy in the fog of war instead of describing an aerial view of a battle. Stick your flanks up your ass.

The Inheritance Games - Jennifer Lynn Barnes

On the cruise I saw several teengers reading this book with wide eyes, completely still, engrossed. I was like, I should give that a try. I found it for $8 at Target. A few weeks ago I was having major wedding anxiety. Anytime anyone asks me a question about flowers (the answer is always I don’t care which is the worng answer) or God it’s so humiliating having to text the people who don’t RSVP whether they’re coming and having to read a paragraph about how sorry they are that they can’t make it or family members you love just GHOSTING and not saying anything at all. Like just RSVP instead of making me feel, I don’t know, feelings like somehow I’m not good enough or that my big day is very low on the list of priorities you’re listing as excuses. For those that even bother to list excuses. This is after a whole year of fighting and even losing frienships because weddings make people go insane, or maybe show you who they really are. I love my fiance and want to marry him. That’s not in question but Christ are weddings stressful and people get NO grace for it. We’re expected to have a creepy book of exactly how we want our dress to look or flowers arranged and also work through making all those expensive decisions. I also haven’t really had a carb since August. Being skinny sucks. Nobody even notices and tells me I’m a good girl.

Anyway, I was having full on meltdowns nearly every day so I went to Dallas and spent roughly 12 hours in the hot tub reading this book trying very hard not to think about a wedding with seemingly endless details I need to decide on that I didn’t even know existed (do you want people to blow bubbles as you walk down the aisle after the marriage? A guestbook?). All these traditions that I don’t even want to do and when I mention that people stare at me until I break down and say yes we will do a first dance even though we don’t want to do a fist dance and never wanted a ceremony with bubbles but here we are. I’m constantly having stress dreams I get blackout drunk at the wedding to cope and totally humiliate myself and lose friends (already have lost friends related to this wedding!). I keep thinking, at what point will I be sobbing in the bathroom completely overwhelmed by the enormity of such an event … yeah, so I read a shitty YA book. It’s about a regular poor girl living in her car who suddenly inherited a Texas oil billionaire’s money. But he also loves puzzles! So, she and his four hot grandsons need to solve puzzles he left behind to… I’m not sure what the stakes are if they don’t solve them while also people are trying to kill her to get the billionaire money but they do solve them and they act like it’s important.

I was promised a love triangle and this book kind of delivered. Like Service, I think love triangles are kind of out because people are currently so appalled by cheating like it’s not one of the most interesting and juicy thing to read about. I guess people want to read about a relationship with communication issues that are solved though therapy. Good lord. Just cheat! Please cheat! Bring back cheating! I did leave this book in a community library so some 12 year-old can get it for free and read it, completely engrossed, and root for Avery to be with Jameson or Grayson.

The Inheritance Games 2 - Jennifer Lynn Barnes (it had a name but I’m not including it because whatever)

If my grandfather didn’t leave me an inheritance and instead made me solve a bunch of puzzles and do sudoko, I would stop loving him. Like, fuck you. How do any of these people want to solve the puzzles? I would be like grandfather is dead, finally we can stop competing and doing bullshit puzzles- oh wow the fountain has 13 prongs which is the same number grandfather had etched in the secret compartment in his Davenport Desk. Fucking, kill me please. I grew up in a highly competitive family and you know what? I completely disengaged because it made me feel like a failure constantly. I’ve always hated most puzzles though, besides crosswords and jigsaw. I hate riddles, I hate puns, I hate logic games. I prefer everything to be straightforward or I won’t engage. I read spoilers for the rest and they gave up on the love triangle and the puzzles just got too ridiculous and she ends up with the self-absorbed moron who is obsessed with the puzzles because he is “hungry” to solve puzzles I guess? It was a nice distraction.

That was 2024. I’m just glad it’s nearly over. I do love books of all ilk from honry fairy to Gravity’s Rainbow and these books did distract me from the stress of planning a wedding, writing a book, and having three jobs. I’m feeling much more chill about the wedding like I might even have a good time. I’m excited to get blackout drunk in a safe place where my family can’t find me, like a booze cruise on the intercoastal blasting The Thong Song with all my homies.

See you next year, losers. As for next year, the war in Ukraine will probably still be happening because the USA will be shits about lifting sanctions and until they do, Russia needs to have a wartime economy so that their economy doesn’t completely collapse. Interest rates over there are already something like 20%. I guess the new hip war is Israel going completely nuts and declaring war on every country in the Middle East. I have no opinion on Israel or Palestine and have no real knowledge of that war to give an opinion but I do have an opinion on the IDF. I grew up thinking it was the best army in the war due to Hebrew School brainwashing but the IDF fucking sucks. Their airforce is good but they are not good at ground operations. Mossad is competent because that pager thing was insane and clearly their op but their army is incompetent (in the age of drones, who made the call to invade Lebanon with 20 tanks across a plain with no cover? Was it a photo op thing?). All modern wars still need good infantry. Also, war is fundamentally different now. A few teenagers with an alibaba drone and some fireworks can take out a tank so you actually have to be creative with your tactics.