Rodrigo Ferrada Stoehrel

PhD, Media and Communications.

[Aaron Blake @AaronBlake]

Trump has now attacked or threatened 1 out of every 13 countries in the world

https://t.co/TrIiT7zS1y

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

Quienes consideran que ondear la bandera de un Estado es “incitar al odio”, o han perdido el juicio o han sido cegados por su propia ignominia.

Lamine solo ha expresado la solidaridad por Palestina que sentimos millones de españoles. Otro motivo más para estar orgullosos de él.

[Steve Hanke @steve_hanke]

Distinguished economist & commodity market guru Jeff Currie on when oil shortages will hit:

"Parts of the world like Australia, Philippines, Thailand already are [in a shortage]. Europe will hit tank bottoms sometime in May. In the US it will be around July 4th, if not sooner."

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

Dramatic video from a railway station in Bangladesh shows a father shielding his infant underneath a moving train after the child fell off the platform.

Local media reported that both escaped unharmed after eight carriages passed over them.

[Rodrigo Ferrada Stoehrel @FerradaStoehrel]

And,

[Bloomberg @business]

President Xi Jinping is wrapping up what’s been an unusually busy week of diplomacy in Beijing, showcasing the fervent interest of world leaders to develop ties with China while the US is embroiled in a conflict with Iran https://t.co/GBlwLhEL2w

[Rodrigo Ferrada Stoehrel @FerradaStoehrel]

Idk if this Iran war is going to be the “end of the American empire” (probably not). But sure the US has shown they’re not a rational partner of trust and stability, and this will benefit China.

[Rodrigo Ferrada Stoehrel @FerradaStoehrel]

Exempli gratia:

[Bloomberg @business]

China is now on track to become the world’s top tourism economy in the next few years as a sharp drop in foreign visits sets the US back. https://t.co/BXGcD3fmuB

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Hillary Clinton:

I know from personal experience how Netanyahu has tried to get every American president to agree to have an open-ended war with Iran.

I had many, many long, hours-long conversations with him and his war cabinet about this, and refusing to go along with a very inchoate desire to do something to Iran with no real end state that could be described sufficiently.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

The Vatican is two weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon.

[Rodrigo Ferrada Stoehrel @FerradaStoehrel]

Principen om suveränitet verkar tillämpas om den gynnar vissa intressen och åsidosättas när den inte gör det. Det moraliska språket följer alltid med.

[Institute for Hispano Studies @hispano_studies]

🇨🇳🤝🇪🇸🚨BREAKING: China moves to crown Sánchez as Europe’s chief representative, bypassing Brussels entirely. Beijing confirms its 4th high-level visit in 4 years, handpicking Spain’s PM as the EU’s de facto voice.

Trump’s “nemesis in Europe” (FT) and axis of resistance mogger-in-chief, who called for Netanyahu’s arrest, is reopening Spain’s embassy in Tehran, and is pivoting toward Algeria against Morocco, is done playing by the old rules.

[United Nations @UN]

Lebanon has been hit with one of the largest waves of Israeli airstrikes since the escalation began.

Civilians are bearing the brunt of these attacks.

Civilians are #NotATarget.

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

The scale of the killing in Israeli strikes on Lebanon Wednesday is "horrific", the UN rights chief said, urging the international community to help end the unfolding "nightmare." https://t.co/sG1VQrJuKp

[Oren Cass @oren_cass]

I mostly avoid commenting on what President Trump says from day to day, while pulling no punches in my assessments, whether positive or negative, of his policy. His Iran ultimatums feel different. Making such threats is a policy. If he were to follow through on them, the consequences would be immediate, irreversible, and catastrophic on a world-historical scale.

So while some will inevitably insist he should be “taken seriously rather than literally,” or that he is executing a sophisticated “madman” strategy in a complex game of 5-D chess, or that he needs everyone’s steadfast support to maximize his leverage, now rather than later seems the time to say that the actions that he is proposing would be a disaster for our country, both strategically and morally, which makes the remarks themselves a terrible mistake.

Simply put, what’s the point of all this? If these are empty threats that we all know he will not carry out, then they are ineffective threats (the Iranians are on X too!), merely making the president and our nation look foolish. If they are not empty threats, then the president is asserting the American position that such actions are acceptable in this situation and ones we are willing to take. We are not living in some quantum thought experiment where he simultaneously is and is not serious. We cannot expect the Iranians, but only the Iranians, will believe him.

Whether the threats are empty or not, we should be willing to say: This is wrong. We should not establish a pattern of threatening escalation from a blockaded strait to elimination of a civilization. We should not launch strikes intended to devastate the lives of millions of people and take our nation to total war without indisputable justification, or before the American people have deliberated upon and assented to the path with full understanding of what total war might mean for them. Those principles are vital to our Republic, independent of whether the strategy could “work.”

But it’s also worth emphasizing that the strategy is a dead end. This war is actively weakening American power, increasing the danger to American citizens, and frustrating the president’s important efforts at addressing our many domestic challenges. It has closed a strait that was previously open, strengthened the incentive for other nations to pursue nuclear weapons, and in this most recent rhetoric made more plausible their use. Our choices for continuing the war appear to be catastrophic escalation of the air war or extensive deployment of ground troops, neither of which were planned or had support at the outset.

Stepping back from these threats and admitting such actions do not offer a path to resolving the conflict may be unpalatable, but it is by far the least unpalatable option available. Let us all hope cooler heads prevail.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

A country that has nuclear weapons is threatening to use its nuclear weapons on the country it won’t allow to have nuclear weapons because if they had nuclear weapons they would ‘use them.’

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

It is very easy to become accustomed to Trump’s ravings, and laugh them off. That’s a dangerous thing to do.

When Trump states: “A whole civilization will die tonight,” he is threatening to commit genocide.

We can’t allow that to happen. Congress must end this war NOW.

[Jewish Voice for Peace @jvplive]

Trump is threatening to eliminate the people of Iran overnight. Years of normalizing genocidal rhetoric and mass violence has brought us to this cataclysmic moment.

Our condemnation of this shameless endorsement of mass murder is as strong as our rage at the elected officials and media whose endless appeasement of genocide led us to this existential crisis.

[Rodrigo Ferrada Stoehrel @FerradaStoehrel]

And then stealing, ofc.

[Rodrigo Ferrada Stoehrel @FerradaStoehrel]

Trump has been criticized for not having a plan. The problem is that this assumes there is a rational one. But if you are insane, destruction and the killing of innocents is the plan:

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

Trump has not "painted himself into a corner".

Massive destruction of Iran and murder on an incredible scale was always the plan. As I posited three weeks ago.
https://t.co/LHq9CTcXSo

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

Trump’s strategy of threatning Iran with destruction unless it submits won’t work for one simple reason : Iran knows it will be destroyed *if* it submits. That’s when the cult of violence starts working against you: everyone fights you to the death