Trump--whom Axios reported had used expletives in an antagonistic call w Netanyahu this wk--praised the Israeli PM as a "great partner." Then added: "They couldn't have done [the Iran war] without us, couldn't have even come close...They needed us, & they got us to help them" 2/2
Sen. Murray to Rubio on the big question: "You were one of just a handful of top aides with a seat at the table when the president ultimately did decide to launch the Iran war. Did you advise the president against the war?"
Rubio: "I agree with the decision that he made."
Seeing things, knowing where they are, and understanding what is happening is very important for nonproliferation.
Counterproliferation, too, for that matter.
This Bloomberg graphic shows how counterproductive U.S. military force has been on the Iran nuclear file.
In 2024, the IAEA conducted 493 inspections of Iran's nuclear sites -- more than 1 every day.
In 2026, there were zero.
Iran halted all inspections after the 12 Day War.
.@JustinTLogan made his Trump Report debut to analyse the Iran war - from Trump declaring Iran won't have a nuclear weapon, to how much of a security threat Iran was to begin with and whether the President ignored warnings over how Iran would retaliate.
https://t.co/HWJumhNjku
.@JustinTLogan made his Trump Report debut to analyse the Iran war - from Trump declaring Iran won't have a nuclear weapon, to how much of a security threat Iran was to begin with and whether the President ignored warnings over how Iran would retaliate.
https://t.co/HWJumhNjku
@CurtMills Abraham Accords mean US security guarantees to Gulf dictatorships in exchange for their normalizing relations with Israel.
Hardest of hard passes.
People who supported the Iraq war, then slunk away from it, still control the commanding heights of the GOP in the media, Congress, and elsewhere.
The fact that the grassroots understands something might be amiss is a testament to their bullshit detectors.
A lot of people are about to pretend they never backed the war, never attacked people who were correct from the beginning, etc
That's fine, it will work, most people will just forget
As long as we can get back to actually caring about America that would be great
Before he was Biden’s top Middle East guy he was Trump’s Middle East guy. Before that he was Obama’s Middle East guy. Before that he was Bush’s Middle East guy.
Germany’s GDP is about 50% larger than France’s and its fiscal position isn’t a basket case like France’s is.
Paris should be asking why and how it wants to stay out in front of Germany.
France's top general said out loud what French defense circles have been whispering for months: France could fall behind Germany.
"For the Americans, Germany is gradually becoming the European benchmark." https://t.co/TVNtMSzCn0
“In Europe and I think in the US, everyone is kind of asleep at the wheel and just carrying on life as normal,” Tom Baker, a board member at Vitol, said at S&P Global’s Middle East Petroleum & Gas Conference in London.
https://t.co/CzXQgluUXr