Alex 🇺🇸🥂

Common sense. Foreign policy and news commentary. Peronists’ worst nightmare. Lee Kuan Yew Thought.

[Alex 🇺🇸🥂 @AlexBConX]

LMAO

[Bloomberg @business]

Russia has effectively abandoned attempts to replace the dollar with China’s yuan under the pressure of US secondary sanctions, underlining the difficulties facing other nations looking for an alternative global currency https://t.co/mEDY8zxOPL

[David Alandete @alandete]

Spain has officially entered the realm of political science fiction. This 11/11 unions are going on strike not against the government but against the opposition, just in case they win the 11/29 election. A preemptive strike against a government that doesn't even exist yet!

[Senator Chris Coons @ChrisCoons]

Elon Musk, Pete Hegseth, and anyone else who played a role in cutting off Ukraine's ability to defend itself must answer for it. Congress must get to the bottom of this.

[Alex 🇺🇸🥂 @AlexBConX]

Levin is right

[Sr. Toad-lock @Mobgamer513173]

Bro’s crashing out

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[Alex 🇺🇸🥂 @AlexBConX]

Give up girl

[Cindy Hyde-Smith @cindyhydesmith]

We are not backing down. This election is not over. Our team is working across Mississippi to monitor the remaining ballots and protect the integrity of the process. We will see this through to the very end!

[Nick Gambill @NickBGambill]

retvrn

[Alex 🇺🇸🥂 @AlexBConX]

@redelitist Well but the thing is that El Sayed was objectively a bad candidate. I’m not sure bigotry can account for a 6-7 point delta (between his actual performance and how he should have performed). We’ll have a Black Senator in Mississippi, come on lol

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

I think Nikki Haley will make a wonderful first female President after Trump finishes his second term

[𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 @atlanticesque]

Maine's 2nd House District: GOP GAIN
New Hampshire Governor: GOP HOLD
Vermont Governor: GOP HOLD
Maine Senate: Ran EIGHTEEN POINTS ahead of the national GOP

NEW ENGLAND REPUBLICAN EXCELLENCE

[Mitt Romney @MittRomney]

Bad policy, bad character make bad politics: erratic tariffs, impulsive Iran war, blanket pardons, apparent corruption, weaponized justice, ICE brutality, mountainous deficits, hiding Epstein, abandoning allies and coddling enemies. Hoping for a course correction, for the country and for my party.

[Alex 🇺🇸🥂 @AlexBConX]

“Trump/Vance voters” lmao there is no such thing, JD. They voted for Trump. For most, you were nothing more than an afterthought

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

JD Vance cites the US’ relationship with Israel as the reason the Republicans lost the midterms.

[Nikki Haley @NikkiHaley]

This is not the time to whine, complain, or point fingers. We need to take our medicine, focus on what the American people want, and get back to work.

[Nikki Haley @NikkiHaley]

The biggest lesson is that when Republicans stay close to our policies of economic freedom, lower taxes, and smaller government, we win. We need to return to that, stop the distractions, and get back to work for the American people.

[Ayaan Karan 🇺🇸 @ayaankaran_]

I feel very vindicated for supporting Nikki Haley in 2024

[Alex 🇺🇸🥂 @AlexBConX]

AHAHAHAHAH

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” says an informed observer.

Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last week’s election results, he can’t form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war.

To that end, he’s applied maximum pressure to his closest allies in the administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper. Both oppose a negotiated settlement to the war they’ve so grievously mismanaged; both are pushing to restart major combat operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe are also following Netanyahu’s lead, as are leaders of the Democratic Party. In a recent meeting on the subject, former president Barack Obama said he opposes the current Iran peace deal being drafted in Doha.

The rest of America’s longtime allies in the Middle East are terrified by the prospect of more war. On September 27th, Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi to enlist the UAE in his lobbying effort for a final attack on Iran. The Emiratis refused. After eight months of conflict, Gulf economies are teetering. So are global energy and fertilizer markets. They won’t recover soon. Globally, there are a total of about 850 supertankers used to transport oil from producers to the rest of the world. In October alone, 11 of them were badly damaged in Hormuz. At this pace, a global depression is imminent. A nuclear strike would radically accelerate the destruction. Fallout from a ground explosion at Pickax Mountain would contaminate the Persian Gulf, poisoning the water supply for 100 million people.

And those are just some of the immediate consequences for the region. The rest of the world is every bit as exposed. No country other than the United States has ever used a nuclear weapon in war. Some would like to. An American nuclear attack on Iran would set a new precedent. The Russians have already told at least two other governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would free them to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Pakistan and India would be tempted to do the same against each other, as would North Korea against Seoul. After the first nuclear strike, World War Three is inevitable. That war would be short and final.

We’ve been sleepwalking toward this moment for months. Since February, the administration has quietly rewritten America’s nuclear doctrine to make first use of so-called “battlefield nukes” easier and therefore more likely. No one in Washington in either party seems bothered by this. Now we’re on the brink of it.

Close observers say Trump is likely to decide by next weekend whether or not to use nuclear weapons. That would be November 7, six days from now. To his credit, he’s hesitating. At the moment, Trump is listening to his vice president, JD Vance, and to his envoy and friend Steve Witkoff, both of whom argue a deal with Iran can be made.

They’re right, though it won’t be simple. The Iranians are famously frustrating to negotiate with under any circumstances, and elements of that government have become more radical since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family were killed in February. After decades of isolation, even relatively moderate Iranian leaders seem confused by how decisions are made in the West. (There is a widespread belief in Tehran, for example, that the United States government controls Israel.) But overall, people who have spoken to decision-makers in Iran say there is consensus there that more war is bad for everyone and a deal is worth making.

One group that hasn’t been consulted so far is the global population — the hundreds of millions of people who will be killed along with their children if Trump is pushed by Netanyahu into launching a nuclear strike next week. Now would be the time for them to speak up.

[Alex 🇺🇸🥂 @AlexBConX]

@PollTracker2024 Who cares bruh

[Alex 🇺🇸🥂 @AlexBConX]

@nick_field90 Angus King will never endorse against Collins. Mills voted for Collins though she will tell you otherwise. The fact is Jackson is a mediocre candidate and Collins is a great senator. People pretend otherwise and that’s why they keep being surprised.

[Alex 🇺🇸🥂 @AlexBConX]

@redelitist No please we don’t want him

[Alex 🇺🇸🥂 @AlexBConX]

@PollTracker2024 Not when it comes to the Senate race. Gideon won the mock election 46 to 41 in 2020

[Alex 🇺🇸🥂 @AlexBConX]

@StefanFrancisci Lmaooo they’re not genocidal