@thomaswinderl
Atheist, liberal and left leaning. Science and data. Formerly United Nations. Loves books as thinking machines. International Politics and International Development. History, Natural Sciences. Singing, guitar & Backgammon. Austrian in Spain.
⚡️Moscow attacked by over 60 drones in single day, mayor says.
The Russian Defense Ministry also claimed that nearly 300 Ukrainian drones had been shot down across the country over a 10-hour span.
Unprecedented corruption. Literally asking for billions of dollars.
This Trump tweet is a work of art and needs to be kept for posterity. It turns out that the US has destroyed 100% of Iran’s military capability. Yet, to combat a military with no capability he is left pleading with allies he has regularly insulted to save him in the Gulf.
two weeks before us marine expeditionary force—some 2,500 marines—now being deployed to iran arrives in the mideast.
this war (and global economic disruption) isn’t over soon.
handelsblatt on trump’s iran war
“U.S. leaders have drastically underestimated the Iranian regime’s ability to survive, adjust, and strike back,” Phillips Payson O’Brien argues.
Trump issues a general license for shipments of oil from Russia effective from yesterday, making Russia the principal beneficiary of Trump's war on Iran.
The stages of losing a war:
1. Start a war with no agreed war aims
2. Never plan using available data (eg 50 years of work on Hormuz scenario)
3. Spout data with little relevance to the conflict (eg ships, a/c sunk)
4. Disregard adverse reports
5. Cast aspersions on the messenger: now
6. Next: lie
Yes. This is transparently the plan. It is a destructive and unconstitutional plan. And it can be stopped. It can even be turned into an electoral issue that hurts Trump. But only if we face this now.
Extrem gefährlich, wenn die Ukraine immer weniger Luftabwehr zur Verfügung hat. Schlimme Folgen des willkürlich vom Zaun gebrochenen israelisch-amerikanischen Irankrieges
Maybe this is just me, but I think that if you swear an oath to defend the Constitution, you should actually read the document once all the way through
This story suggests that Witkoff and Kushner bungled the negotiations with Iran because they don't understand nuclear technology
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“It is becoming increasingly hard to avoid the conclusion that the Trump administration has embarked on this operation without a plan, and is making it up as it goes along, as if they killed enough of the right people and destroyed enough Iranian assets everything would fall into place.”
Good morning. Let's begin with OBrien on Rusamerican ingratitude & treachery. 🎯 again 👇
"This kind of miscalculation happens in war. The thing that does not is that while 🇺🇸 was begging for aid from 🇺🇦, it was providing protection and a windfall of support for the power trying to destroy 🇺🇦."
Imagine how many innocent Ukrainian civilians could have been saved
Brilliant :( wenn das FBI jetzt Iranspezialisten hinauswirft, weil sie den Trump-Leuten nicht passen.
Trump surrounded by preachers who put their hands on his shoulder and pray for him
Who should object if the US wants to overthrow a fanatically religious system?
Im Krieg gegen #Iran droht den USA durch #Drohnen ein ähnliches Dilemma wie der Ukraine im Kampf gegen Russland. Nun bietet Kyjiw Hilfe an – unter einer Bedingung. Habe für @spiegel.de mit @cemoll.bsky.social und @hoanssolo.bsky.social gesprochen: www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...
Vielleicht wenn man die USA einmal ausschaltet und wieder einschaltet???
... übrigens auch mit wichtigen hintergründen zum #iran .
The Maduro raid will encourage the dangerous notion that daring operations and decapitation strikes can help conclude a major conflict. Capturing or killing an enemy leader, the theory goes, will trigger chaos and collapse resistance. History, however, suggests otherwise.‘
Als sich mein Vater 1969 bei einer öffentl. Wohnbau-Gesellschaft in Tirol als Hausmeister (!) bewarb, wurde ihm mitgeteilt, es würde helfen, wenn er der ÖVP beitritt. Er tat es und bekam den Job und die günstige Dienstwohnung.
57 Jahre später müssen noch immer solche Kommentare geschrieben werden. 🤯
Proxy how progressive/ secular / sympathetic a country is.
Umfrage zu persönlicher Zustimmung zu "eine frau sollte immer ihrem Mann gehorchen" Nur in Indonesien, Malaysia und Indien mehr als 50% Zustimmung.
Die Daten sind ein internationaler Durchschnitt. Einzelne Länderdaten sind öffentlich verfügbar.
Sie zeigen: Diese Frage wird DEUTLICH durch Indonesien, Malaysia, Indien und Südafrika verzerrt.
With Iran, the Trump Administration has done away with the alleged moral imperatives and grand imagery of the Iraq War and moved straight to dropping bombs, Jay Caspian Kang writes. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...
Trump has launched a war in the Middle East without a plan, without a strategy, and without any clear idea about where it leads or how it ends.
He has no clue what he’s doing in Iran. [Cartoon by Brendan Loper]
Beunruhigend zu lesen:
Fortschrittliche KI-Technologie identifiziert Ziele im Iran und priorisiert diese schnell, um die massiven Militäroperationen der US-amerikanischen und israelischen Streitkräfte zu unterstützen.
150 Tote bei Angriff auf iranische Mädchenschule unweit der Strasse von Hormus wahrscheinlich durch US-Raketen verursacht.
What's your quintessential Central European city? For me it's always been this one ⬇️
robjcameron.substack.com/p/to-the-cas...
