Netanyahu is trying to use the Iran war for his own domestic political advantage, whether as an excuse to call of his corruption trial or to pass an unpopular budget. But there are good reasons to think it's not going to work, and that the war might even end up being his undoing. Gift link:
"Stunned, sidelines and disunited" could be the EU's motto, tbh.
Oman worked so hard to stay neutral in the conflict between Iran and the US.
The pretense of power is as much of a drug as power itself.
I'll be on @cnn.com at 10pm ET, to discuss the latest developments in the war against Iran, with @abbyphillip00.bsky.social
Kitchens across India ditch hot food due to cooking gas shortage reut.rs/3PdOaVe
Iran-linked hackers attack US medical device maker Stryker reut.rs/4rtx57o
How many ships have been attacked in the Gulf since start of Iran war? reut.rs/4ltTP5S
Ok, but no indication Israel will align. May instead target infrastructure kept off targeting so far. Kharg being the big one.
EU envoys approve sanctions on 19 Iranian officials, entities over rights violations reut.rs/4s8UWKH
Iran attacked commercial ships on Wednesday across the Persian Gulf and targeted Dubai International Airport, escalating a campaign of squeezing the oil-rich region as global energy concerns mounted and American and Israeli airstrikes pounded the Islamic Republic.
A special prize to anyone who protests about animals on banknotes *WHILE USING AN ANIMAL TO REPRESENT THE MYTHICAL GREATNESS OF THE NATIONAL CHARACTER*
My latest: Trump has no business being "surprised" by Iran's response to being attacked.
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the mental fragility of maga he-men is incredible to behold bsky.app/profile/scot...
Thank goodness Pete Hegseth is bringing martial virtues back to the armed forces.
Breaking News: The U.S. was responsible for a missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, an ongoing military investigation found. The inquiry said the strike — which Iranian officials said killed at least 175 people, most of them children — was the result of a targeting mistake.
This paper by @proftalmadge.bsky.social is extremely prescient, and highlights how many of the challenges we're bumbling into were already well understood by those paying close attention in 2008
ICYMI by me @foreignpolicy.com
The implications for islamists, annexation, Saudi nukes, and normalization...
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keep in mind that, for years, orban has been waging war on 'foreign influence', shutting down NGOs & universities & taking over state & private media.
this is hypocrisy on steroids & highly telling abt orban's version of 'sovereignty' (which is simply code for personal power)
Sure, sure.
Marco Rubio's BFF is an accused foreign agent and money launderer. His trial is about to start — and Rubio is on the witness list.
My @vanityfair.com story on the legal bomb that's poised to go off in Trumpland.
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...
Strait of Hormuz crisis is reinforcing my prior that many geopolitical disasters involve people looking at maps badly
That headline yesterday (from the Jewish Insider, not the Onion):
Gulf states spent decades building oil pipelines around Hormuz. Now they're racing to do the same for data.
The third in a Rest of World series on data infrastructure in the conflict zone looks at the six overland cables competing to give Big Tech a way out
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"Iran is using drones not just as strike assets, but as a campaign management tool....The data points to a model of warfare in which drones are not supplementary to missiles. They are the backbone of the pressure architecture"
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Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could “bomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.
In the past, US politicians supporting the MeK was dumb but mostly irrelevant. Not anymore:
“The past shows ample precedents of US support for groups with little or no legitimacy in countries it invades can have negative consequences,” Juneau said.
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BREAKING: Iran's sports minister said Iran cannot participate in the 2026 World Cup after the US killed their leader. 'Considering that this corrupt regime has assassinated our leader, under no circumstances can we participate in the World Cup' reut.rs/413RFjD
The US-Israeli war on Iran has effectively shut the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow shipping lane between Iran and Oman through which around a fifth of the world’s daily oil and liquefied natural gas supply passes. Reuters Graphics looks at how the closure affects global oil supply reut.rs/3P4JHUO
