mountain cretin

[mountain cretin @NiceCrossbreeze]

Tweets from a parallel universe

[Seth Frantzman @sfrantzman]

I’d even take this a step further and argue the extremist rhetoric today is primarily a result of privilege. The working class fighters who founded the state didn’t have time to sit around and spout extremism, they were busy building things against all odds. People draining swamps and fighting Soviet armed Syrian and Egyptian armies don’t have time for this rhetoric. It’s a result of privilege and power.

[mountain cretin @NiceCrossbreeze]

@mdubowitz scoreboard

[mountain cretin @NiceCrossbreeze]

"And unlike any other country out there, Israel treats the protection of its own citizens as the government's highest obligation." yeah, for example the US government treats the protection of Israeli citizens as its highest obligation

[Rupa Subramanya @rupasubramanya]

Ben-Gvir's rhetoric often comes across as extreme. But it's impossible to understand Israel without understanding its predicament: it's a tiny country that has spent decades facing enemies committed to its destruction. That produces a security mentality unlike almost anywhere else. And unlike any other country out there, Israel treats the protection of its own citizens as the government's highest obligation.

[dylan saba @shaabiranks]

Full withdrawal from Lebanon would be the historically accurate answer

[mountain cretin @NiceCrossbreeze]

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[mountain cretin @NiceCrossbreeze]

@MairavZ minister since 2022 and polling at 10% btw

[mountain cretin @NiceCrossbreeze]

Israelis don't support a "forever war" or a "continuous frontier", they just desire the very reasonable: non-stop annexation of security zones to help stabilize resistance to occupation in the other security zones

[Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין @MairavZ]

What most Israelis demand is not “continuing war” for the sake of war (tho there are those among far right) but rather achieving security/stability. Don’t let Netanyahu fool you into thinking he’s pressured to continue war. The pressure is to provide a genuine, long term solution

[mountain cretin @NiceCrossbreeze]

@alexjordanATL On one hand its a bunch of dummies committing the sunk cost fallacy but otoh the objective of the committed costs is Greater Israel

[mountain cretin @NiceCrossbreeze]

@sfrantzman There must be a word for it when your target bank is the same order of magnitude as the population of the battlefield

[mountain cretin @NiceCrossbreeze]

Denver sucks far too much for this to actually happen but it would be so cool to see the evil Degette humiliated after decades of hegemonic malevolence

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

NEW poll shows a Democratic socialist born in 1997 leading against a veteran Democrat who first took office in 1997.

The CO-1 Democratic primary poll shows 29-year-old Melat Kiros ahead of Diana DeGette, 41-36.

*38-point-swing* toward Kiros since March.https://t.co/symFCNBKRo

[Rachel @tolstoybb]

He should sink an Israeli warship and claim it’s an accident.

[mountain cretin @NiceCrossbreeze]

you're not denying it?

[Sarah Nadav @sarahnadav]

I got kicked out of a long Covid WhatsApp support group for being Israeli.

It’s weird how an illness aligns with politics.

[mountain cretin @NiceCrossbreeze]

these mfs still doing Tehranology when it's very obvious that the only irrational parties you need to deeply study to understand are the US and Israel

[Danny (Dennis) Citrinowicz ,داني سيترينوفيتش @citrinowicz]

This campaign, from beginning to end, was built on a fundamental misunderstanding of Iran. There is a significant difference between analyzing Iran through intelligence reports and actually understanding how Iran thinks, operates, and makes decisions.

Concepts such as closing the Strait of Hormuz or seizing Kharg Island overlooked a critical reality: decision-makers in Washington were never likely to accept the risks inherent in such moves, especially when success was far from guaranteed. As a result, most of these ideas remained largely theoretical.

The same applies to the proposed naval blockade. As me and @BrettErickson28 and others argued from the very beginning, it was unlikely to achieve its intended goals. Even if implemented successfully, Iran has extensive experience managing oil production, storage, and exports under pressure. It would take a considerable amount of time before economic pain translated into meaningful strategic pressure, if it did at all. More importantly, Tehran understood that the global economic costs of disrupting energy flows through the Gulf would be immediate and substantial, giving Iran confidence that time was on its side.

And even if the pressure had intensified, Iran's leadership has historically shown a greater willingness to escalate than to capitulate. This is a critical point that many analyses failed to appreciate.

The broader lesson is clear: you cannot design a military campaign against a country like Iran based on assumptions, lobbying efforts, or the views of self-proclaimed experts with political or institutional interests. Decisions of this magnitude require the input of genuine subject-matter experts who understand the country, its strategic culture, and its decision-making processes.

When policymakers fail to do so, military campaigns become far more complicated than expected, which is precisely what happened here.

#iran

[mountain cretin @NiceCrossbreeze]

If you feel threatened by AOC your ngmi

[Kamel Amin Thaabet @K_AminThaabet]

American Jews have Vance and Tuckerites to the right and Squad / Platner /Mamdani types to the left. And the middle of the horseshoe grows smaller. Dark days ahead.

[mountain cretin @NiceCrossbreeze]

Any government not transitioning to solar at maximum speed is asking for it at this point

[Clash Report @clashreport]

WATCH: Black smoke billows over large parts of Moscow after Ukraine launched a major drone strike, hitting the Kapotnya oil refinery — the second hit on that facility in less than a week.

[mountain cretin @NiceCrossbreeze]

It would be tragic for Mouin if he got boomered into having an AI nemesis

[mountain cretin @NiceCrossbreeze]

Are we 100% sure ALK isn't an LLM ? Like are there photos of him at antiantizionist events?

[Adam Louis-Klein @adam_louis52328]

@MouinRabbani The devil speaks through Mouin’s voice

[mountain cretin @NiceCrossbreeze]

Man someone should make a thread of democrats mocking undecided voters for getting trump elected

[mountain cretin @NiceCrossbreeze]

@ProgressiveVic @KweenInYellow Our bombs and F16s seem pretty effective in Palestine, do you think they're geofenced over '48?