🚨 Victor Davis Hanson: THE SIGNALS ARE ALL POINTING THE SAME DIRECTION
No U.S. analyst knows better how to cut through the fog of war than Stanford University Prof. @VDHanson.
In the clip below, Hanson, who’s studied how wars end for 50 years, says the tide has turned in America’s favor against Iran. Forget the rancid propaganda flowing from all quarters related to the Iran conflict and how it is going - Hanson says look at how everyone else is behaving.
Hanson’s Key Points:
• Europeans: They never touch a conflict until they smell victory. Early on? Crickets. Now they’re quietly moving assets and offering support. Pure calculation — they’ve read the battlefield and decided which side wins.
• Gulf petro-states: Saudis, Emiratis, Qataris survive by reading the room perfectly. They’re expelling Iranian attachés, silently intercepting Iranian missiles over their capitals, and the UAE just reaffirmed its $1.4 trillion investment commitment to the U.S. mid-war. These are not gestures — they’re bets. And they’re all-in on America.
• Al Jazeera: The Qatari state network that usually bashes U.S. actions (and hosts Hamas offices) is now calling America’s bombing campaign “brilliant” and “underestimated.” When the outlet that hosts both the biggest U.S. air base and Hamas praises U.S. effectiveness, the message is unmistakable: they think we’re winning.
• Military reality: A-10 Warthogs and Apache gunships are now flying strike missions inside Iranian airspace at will. These slow, low-flying platforms only appear when enemy air defenses are effectively gone. Confirms what’s really happening on the ground.
Iran’s only play left is rope-a-dope: drag it out, hope U.S. public opinion flips, pray midterms pressure Trump to quit.
VDH’s verdict: If Trump sees it through — and he will — the regime falls. Not in years. Pretty soon.
Bottom line: Watch what people do, not what they say. Every player with skin in the game is betting on America. The signals don’t lie.
#Iran #Europe #Warthogs #Trump @AlJazeera
90 years ago this man, Naz! Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, successfully got the most educated and most advanced country in the world, Germany, to believe one simple thing: ALL of their troubles were because of the Jewish people. Like "free Palestine", his campaign slogan was very simple: "Juden sind unser Unglück" or in English: "The Jews are our misfortune".
The slogan appeared on every street corner bulletin 📃 on every radio 📻 broadcast, and every political speech 🎙️
And guess what? the most educated, advanced, science based society IN THE WORLD at the time, Germany, believed it.
It led to the worst crime against humanity in history and the Holocaust. Many Germans didn't believe what Goebbels said, or with what was done to the Jews, but they figured it didn't impact them.
I often wonder if on April 30th 1945 when Goebbels and his wife took the lives of their own 8 children and then of one another, with Germany laying in rubble, 50 million deaths later, and Stalin taking Berlin perhaps Goebbels had any regrets about the hate he spewed.
I do know that the German people strongly regretted not speaking out against hate.
A young generation of Americans, Canadians and Europeans now believe that a large amount of the world's troubles are all because of one nation: Israel. Most adults are looking on in silence.
The consequences for this blind hate have yet to be told, but if those adults know anything about history they should know that this hate never ends well for anyone.
Speak out against antisemitism today.
@cheeksmeta@WhiteHouse How exactly saving the poor Iranian people this amazing nation that is held hostage by Islamic regime is about making Israel great?
This is the future! But I also think people like to browse (through the web and even through pages of SaaS tools).
So (SaaS) companies will have to work harder to have exceptional UX so that the agent will just be a gate to enter a richer experience and not a full replacement.
Thoughts about the future of UI that excite me:
1. Complex web interfaces are dead in the long term. They are solving human perception limitations that will no longer be relevant. No one will want to learn how to use complex UIs in the future. If this is your app's differentiator, move fast.
2. Personal agents will win over dedicated app agents. People are getting used to agentic experiences, so building a dedicated agent for your app may *seem* like a good idea, but this is just a "faster horses" solution. No one will browse to 4 different websites to use 4 different agents. They'll use their own single agent and won't care how your websites even look.
3. The new frontend will be UI snippets that will be returned from MCP servers to be rendered in your personal agent. The agent will control the experience, and will display only the specific visualization or interactivity piece that you need from every app. There are fascinating questions there around how the apps will keep their brand in this new world, but without clashing with the agent's own experience. I'm most excited to work on that part.
4. If you're reading this and thinking "there is no way I'm giving up on dashboards" - you're still thinking like a project manager and not like the US president. The president doesn't look at dashboards, he has helpers who look at them and extract only what he needs to know. All visualization is a way of answering questions and make sure you're not missing anything. Eventually it's either "this is going well" or "this requires attention". Once we'll establish trust with the agents capabilities, we'll rely on them like on personal assitants, they'll extract this data, act on it and will defer to us *only* when a human decision or attention is specifically needed.
This will happen faster than we think. Try to use Jira's Claude integration for few days, and its "regular" web UI will start to seem unnecessary bloated.
In few years the idea of navigating to dozens of websites to manually use dozens of different interfaces will seem very primitive.
Personally I'm very bullish on this direction, and have been for the past months. I come from a long career in web development, so naturally there are mixed emotions for me seeing a decade of web UI development concepts evolving into something new. But I'm very excited about it, and very lucky to be at the forefront of it.
@PeterBeinart Just like on October 7th Hamas brutally murdered Israelis who devoted their life to peace, who hosted Gazans as friends (who later shared their knowledge about the Kibbutz with Hamas ) your antisemite friends who pretend they are just anti Zionist will hate you deep inside. Shame
24hrs after the snake Starmer decided to recognise the terror state of "Palestine".
Today Meloni's government were asked to do the same, they refused.
And now this is the scenes in Milan.
Never negotiate with terrorists, nevermind give them all they want!
Arrest them all. Deport them. Greta Thunberg’s Gaza “flotilla” is not aid. These aren't humanitarians. They are tourists of trauma, parasites of pain, sailing not for the needy but for the spotlight, seeking followers while real bodies fall. If this were about famine, they would be in Port Sudan, not off the coast of Israel. There, over 20 million are being starved by the Muslim Brotherhood led army in Sudan( Hamas of Africa). According to the UN, 5.2 million of them are children. A child dies every few minutes. But Sudanese children are Black, Arab, Muslim. No PR value. No Western applause. So not a single boat sails for them. Not a single tear is shed.
Where were they when Hamas dragged screaming babies from cribs on October 7? Where were they when Shiri Bibas and her children were murdered? Standing silently or clapping from afar. Because the truth is, they do not stand with Gaza. They stand with the murderers of Gaza. They are the sails of Hamas’s propaganda, filled with the foul winds of lies.
The Bible says:
"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... who put darkness for light and light for darkness." (Isaiah 5:20)
This flotilla is exactly that. Evil pretending to be holy.
And what did they bring? A few bags of “aid”? That is not aid. That is insult. If they truly cared, they would have handed it to real organizations. But Hamas shot at American Gaza relief workers this week, so Greta’s crew avoided them. Cowards hiding behind slogans.
Let us be clear. This flotilla is not for Gaza. It is against you, against me, and against all of humanity. It is against truth. It is against every real victim in the Middle East. It's not about Israel its about antisemitism.
They are not activists. They are accomplices. They are not saviors. They are staged martyrs of a false gospel. So cast them out. Let them return to the nations that birthed their delusions. Nations that want nothing to do with them. Even the land rejects liars who sail under the flag of false compassion.
And remember this. The world does not need more noise. It needs moral clarity. The seas do not part for fools pretending to be prophets.
@BayanPalestine Not build Gaza not build better future for your children. But destroy Israel.
Great! Wait for the next round of your fake genocide. Kids running on streets with guns celebrating the end of the war your started.
The Jews are a nation of great morals, a school of respect. Yahya Sinwar killed their children and raped their women, and on the day of his demise, they did not drag his body as some did with Gaddafi. They did not cut off his head as Hamas did with the Israelis. They did not stomp on his corpse with their feet as some Iraqis did with Saddam, nor did they spit on his body despite the utter vileness of this being. Instead, they placed the body in a black bag and transported it with full respect. This is the difference between barbarism and civilization, the difference between the children of darkness and the children of light. It is the difference between those who respect both the living and the dead, and those who respect neither. This is the distinction between the morals of the brave, victorious knight and the cowardly fugitive whose end came without a single companion, like a rotten, perished rat.
#YahyaSinvar #Israel
Do not negotiate with terrorists or offer them anything under any circumstances. Israel, you acted perfectly in eliminating Yahya Sinwar and Nasrallah, serving the interests of humanity, including those in Gaza and Lebanon. Continue with this course—there is no place for Hamas or Hezbollah in the future of the Middle East. Ignore the leftist voices in Washington, Paris, or anywhere else. When your enemy is weak, destroy them—do not allow them to recover. Protect your nation—your Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Arabs. This is justice. Their attack on October 7th sealed their fate—they dug their own graves on that day.
@JeffBezos@amazon shame on you. First not supporting in a word your employee Sasha who is help in captivity by Hamas. What a great organization to belong to. And now this.
@CNN He was at the Nova music festival. Palestinian terrorists threw grenades into the shelter where he was hiding and blew off his hand. They kidnapped him to Gaza and held him for 11 months before executing him but CNN makes it sound like he died of natural causes
@CNN When @CNN reports that someone "has died," it's usually from old age or cancer.
Hersh was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by Hamas, and CNN can't even be honest about that.
I can't fathom the reason for a sanitized headline here, but CNN deserves to be despised for doing it.