Here’s one I prepared earlier www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...
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"Iran’s military strategy was never built to perform like the United States or Israel in high-tempo precision warfare... performance should be judged against the strategy Iran actually built—not the one analysts wish it had."
"An Arab diplomat said the message on timing had been relayed to countries in the region. “The Israelis are preparing international players for the prospect that the war with Hizbollah could drag on and last longer than the war with Iran,” the diplomat said."
"Administration figures keep hinting, as does Netanyahu, at something really awful coming in the next couple of weeks. Lydia Polgreen of the New York Times is not alone in speculating that this might involve a tactical nuke, an idea that was previously floated for the bombing of Fordow..."
"the Gulf states... hoped for a short war that would replace top Iranian leaders with more pragmatic autocrats, presumably from the military, without shattering the state in ways that would spread instability, refugees, and uncertainty..."
"the Gulf states... hoped for a short war that would replace top Iranian leaders with more pragmatic autocrats, presumably from the military, without shattering the state in ways that would spread instability, refugees, and uncertainty..."
what is becoming clear is that the means are the ends. The weapons aren't being used in pursuit of anything; Hegseth's goal is to be using the weapons, a far more deliverable objective than 'regime change'.
"There is no effort to legally codify or even rationally justify this lurch into war. They will not even do the American people the courtesy of lying to them..." - @lioneltrolling.bsky.social
"If Trump’s intention was to remove Khamenei from the political landscape, he may instead have fixed him in it, recast in the eyes of his devotees as a figure of sacrifice rather than failure."
Finally, the wake-up call those MAGA-loving Guardian readers needed
"If Trump’s intention was to remove Khamenei from the political landscape, he may instead have fixed him in it, recast in the eyes of his devotees as a figure of sacrifice rather than failure."
"There is no effort to legally codify or even rationally justify this lurch into war. They will not even do the American people the courtesy of lying to them..." - @lioneltrolling.bsky.social
“ As Trump used to look for depressed properties to scavenge, now the neocons inhabit the decaying hulk of Trumpism.” @lioneltrolling.bsky.social captures the extraordinary apathy that seems to be driving this war open.substack.com/pub/johnganz...
ICYMI - @leninology.bsky.social on the the ongoing crisis within the Labour Party. We talked about McSweeney, Mandelson, Labour Together, and the broader crisis of legitimacy facing the British state and its key institutions:
💥NEW PTO EXTRA!💥 - @meadwaj.bsky.social on the Green's historic electoral breakthrough in Gorton and Denton (and Labour's historic defeat).
ICYMI - @leninology.bsky.social on the the ongoing crisis within the Labour Party. We talked about McSweeney, Mandelson, Labour Together, and the broader crisis of legitimacy facing the British state and its key institutions:
Catching up on @poltheoryother.bsky.social and reminded of the continued relevance of @aerond.bsky.social analysis of the 'reckless opportunists' in the formation of today's political class (manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526127280/)
"During the European sovereign debt crisis in 2012, his primary concern was not the collapse of social democratic rule... ‘Europe is in meltdown, bringing down the global economy, I am ex EU minister and I cannot make any money talking about it?’" - @piercepenniless.bsky.social
"Labour has serious difficulties facing a mass left wing challenger party because it's never had to." - @philbc3.bsky.social
Surprised to learn that the correct anti-racist position is to assume that all Hindu voters are BJP supporting ethnonationalists.
"During the European sovereign debt crisis in 2012, his primary concern was not the collapse of social democratic rule... ‘Europe is in meltdown, bringing down the global economy, I am ex EU minister and I cannot make any money talking about it?’" - @piercepenniless.bsky.social
Listen to the episode here:
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"Much like the guff about Keir Starmer being a thoroughly decent man, you really have to wonder at the strategic blind spots and the implicit value judgments of anyone describing Peter Mandelson as charming." - @leninology.bsky.social
Listen to the episode here:
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Richard Seymour on Peter Mandelson and his erstwhile friends in the media:
"Much like the guff about Keir Starmer being a thoroughly decent man, you really have to wonder at the strategic blind spots and the implicit value judgments of anyone describing Peter Mandelson as charming." - @leninology.bsky.social
