Dr Andreas Krieg

Author - Associate Professor - Directing Staff - CEO of @MENAanalytica

Interests: MENA, Gulf, Network-centric statecraft

Views are my own

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: President Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, was fired after less than a week on the job, according to people familiar with the matter.  https://t.co/IDuom8hTtW

[Dr Andreas Krieg @andreas_krieg]

Soft power is based on appeal.

The vast majority of people in the world dream about European cars as a status symbol.

Apart from some hillbillies in the Midwest, nobody wants American cars. They are cheap looking tosh

[Ted Cruz @tedcruz]

Does it fly?

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

Saudi Arabia is sustaining a very strong oil loading activity, per to @CopernicusEU Sentinel-2 imagery. Yesterday (Oct 15), it was loading 9 VLCCs plus another 2 Suezmax / Aframax with crude, for a total of >20 million barrels, from terminals in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea.

[Dr Andreas Krieg @andreas_krieg]

Ofcom concluded that there was "a clear incentive for... the UAE, to use an influential UK newspaper to encourage positive coverage of UAE government commercial interests"

Also there was a significant overlap in personnel "between IMI and the UAE government giving IMI a clear incentive to influence the editorial line of the Telegraph Titles in a way that could potentially act against the public interest in the UK by influencing the accurate presentation of news and free expression of opinion"

"the track record of the UAE government specifically indicates that there may be a culture of restricting free expression"
https://t.co/4xA49viT1Z

[Dr Andreas Krieg @andreas_krieg]

Obama is KHamas

[The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post]

Opinion: When Obama speaks, millions of people listen. If he truly believes that it is “undeniable” that Jews “took land off people," then he is an antisemitism superspreader.
https://t.co/w8m4VgLuVr

[Dr Andreas Krieg @andreas_krieg]

@Ani_Seed27 My standing as an academic at a reputable university forbids me to comment on this publicly…

[Dr Andreas Krieg @andreas_krieg]

Trump's Washington is more bizarre than what AI can imagine. You have to really check twice to see what is and what is not AI these days

[Dr Andreas Krieg @andreas_krieg]

It is.

The US increasingly epitomises hyper-capitalist showmanship: a circus of clowns selling spectacle as innovation, with little added value to humanity.

Europe still has a sense of class: engineering with purpose, creating things people actually want, need and can use.

Spectacle vs substance

[Rod @rod_mallo]

if this isn't the cleanest example of europe vs america right now, i don't know what is

[Tim Oldland @Timoldland]

If any of you believe that is a proper vehicle that weighs over 1000kg you REALLY need to go back to school. Physics doesn’t work like that. No details, 2028 delivery, ridiculous stunts. I just know this is going to fill my feed today by idiots believing it 🤦🏼‍♂️

[Dr Andreas Krieg @andreas_krieg]

Not sure what good these innovations will do for humanity

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇪🇺 Europe regulates 🙁

🇺🇸 America innovates 😁

Writer: Michael

[Justin B. Smith @Justin_B_Smith]

SEMAFOR EXCLUSIVE - Qatar’s wealth fund keeps spending as war slashes government revenue https://t.co/bHnvdPyNVL

[Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs]

“The Iranian regime’s fresh approach is designed to do more than deter Washington psychologically,” writes Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar. “It is also meant to systematically degrade the U.S. military and intelligence infrastructure in the Middle East.”
https://t.co/02zn0TqdMD

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

Reuters: The order to throttle Starshield/Starlink for Ukraine came from the White House. https://t.co/S6neiduJy9

[Dr Andreas Krieg @andreas_krieg]

@MacaesBruno 😅

[Ahmed Eldin | أحمد الدين @aseisfree]

Israeli spyware sat inside 45 of Al Jazeera's computers. Nobody had to click. It got in through ads for phones and earbuds, in the same years Israel was killing the network's journalists in Gaza.

I worked there for a decade. I wrote about it: https://t.co/gAyxBJW2yP

[Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones]

Scary to think Israel infected Al Jazeera's network at the same time they were murdering their journalists
https://t.co/LAjHJJhn64

[Bloomberg @business]

Two Israeli companies manipulated online advertisements to install surveillance software on dozens of computers at the Qatari news organization Al Jazeera https://t.co/p8nSUHerMZ

[Ahmed Al Omran @ahmed]

Saudi air defences vs Houthi attack weapons

[Dr Andreas Krieg @andreas_krieg]

@habibahamid The Axis has lots of horizontal and vertical connections. The LNA's primary hub connection is with the UAE and all financial, logistics, political, information and arms networks in LNA territory run through the UAE. Others are just buying into it.

[Dr Andreas Krieg @andreas_krieg]

"If Iran can help secure a credible ceasefire between the Houthis and Riyadh, it could begin transforming its regional image from a source of insecurity into an indispensable participant in managing that insecurity," @andreas_krieg said.

"That would strengthen Tehran's argument that Gulf security cannot be organised around permanently excluding Iran. It could also complicate American and Israeli efforts to maintain a unified regional position against Tehran, particularly if Saudi Arabia concludes that engagement produces greater security benefits than continued confrontation."
https://t.co/zMuLGjDsPH

[Dr Andreas Krieg @andreas_krieg]

Iran's Revolutionary Guards and members of Iran's other ally, Lebanese Hezbollah, initially gave the Houthis knowledge of missile systems and their operation, said @andreas_krieg, senior security studies lecturer at King's College London.

"Former Yemeni ​military engineers and a growing generation of locally trained specialists have helped institutionalise these capabilities," he said.

"Tehran has not simply supplied the Houthis with weapons. It has helped create an indigenous military-industrial learning process that becomes progressively harder ​to dismantle, even if direct Iranian supply routes are disrupted."
https://t.co/xR7r8Y98fx