Simone Ledeen

Tech & National Security / Special Operations / Intelligence / Senior Fellow at @StraussCenter / fmr DASD Middle East and Treasury OIA

[Simone Ledeen @SimoneLedeen]

Appeasement is actually escalatory.

[Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer]

Yes, the idea is that killing your children because they might have disabilities should not be normative and to see it announced like a job search decision is jarring and underscores that.

[Simone Ledeen @SimoneLedeen]

Oh

[U.S. Central Command @CENTCOM]

🚫CLAIM: Iran claimed today that it did not attack the passenger terminal at Kuwait International Airport and damage was instead caused by a U.S. missile interceptor. Totally FALSE.

✅TRUTH: Iran struck the civilian airport with drones in a deliberate, calculated, and unjustified attack.

[Simone Ledeen @SimoneLedeen]

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[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

UPDATE:

63 injured, 1 dead in Iran's attack on Kuwait's airport. Seven required emergency surgery. Casualties include civilians, workers, and passengers.

[Simone Ledeen @SimoneLedeen]

“Criminals and terrorists no longer need billions of dollars for weapons and aircraft. They just need an influencer and podcast budget to create more damage to our society than high powered weapons.” ✅

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

I don’t think conservatives realize how much Russian propaganda we have been fed over the last few years as “independent journalism”.

It’s starting to become very clear to me how many people who claimed to be defenders of the West were just saying that to suck in a pro-West audience so they could slowly brainwash them with foreign propaganda until they could convince their viewers to work against the West.

Those “interviews” we all defended were not actually interviews. They were psychological operations meant to weaponize political factions in America for the purpose of pushing foreign interests.

And many of us fell for it because we let our anger with the system get the best of us and we decided to trust personalities who have never been honest about who they are and where they come from.

I’m starting to think the entire podcast ecosystem is and always has been on giant psychological and information warfare operation.

Criminals and terrorists no longer need billions of dollars for weapons and aircraft. They just need an influencer and podcast budget to create more damage to our society than high powered weapons.

I hope the DOJ will investigate all of this.
It’s a shame so many false accusations of Russian collusion were spread over the last 10 years as a way to smear Donald Trump and his allies with lies, because now that actual Russian interference is here in our media and on social media, nobody believes it’s real.

It’s starting to get very creepy just how coordinated, organized and well funded this OPP is.

[Simone Ledeen @SimoneLedeen]

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[US Attorney CAS @SDCAnews]

Exit on U.S. side of cross-border tunnel announced today by U.S. Attorney's Office and partners. The subterranean passageway, stretching from Tijuana, Mexico to the purported retail store near the Otay Mesa Port of Entry known as “Buy 4 Less,” is estimated to be about 1,933 feet long, 55 feet deep and 4.5-feet in height, with reinforced walls, rail and ventilation systems and electricity.

[Simone Ledeen @SimoneLedeen]

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[Tousi TV @TousiTVOfficial]

🚨 BREAKING: Hezbollah has rejected President Trump’s ceasefire proposal

Israel is under missile attack tonight.

[Simone Ledeen @SimoneLedeen]

We will never forget.

[مستر امیر @MrAmir_30]

۵ ماه از شبی که همه با هم رفتیم بیرون ولی ۴۰ هزار نفرمون دیگه برنگشتن گذشت

فراموش نکنید.

[Joseph Ledford @JosephALedford]

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[Phillip Smyth @PhillipSmyth]

"KH will supervise other militias' disarmament." Hahaha

[Simone Ledeen @SimoneLedeen]

Pure evil

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

HEARTBREAKING: Her 10-month-old baby was cut in half with a knife in front of her, her husband shot dead, and she watched them split her second child's skull with a machete. They also cut off one of her hands.

This is life for Christians in Nigeria. The media remains silent.

[Simone Ledeen @SimoneLedeen]

Oh

[Wladimir van Wilgenburg @vvanwilgenburg]

Inspector General report: Extremist Infiltration Hampers Counterterrorism Partnership with Syrian Government

"Foreign fighters, including former extremist groups, participated in the Syrian government offensive.120 The DIA reported that the inclusion of former extremists and lack of rigorous vetting have enabled malign actors to infiltrate the Syrian military. These groups undermine stability through abuses against minority groups or attacks on Coalition forces like the attack that killed two U.S. Soldiers and an American interpreter in Palmyra in December"
https://t.co/qzpzrrZnG9

[Simone Ledeen @SimoneLedeen]

Unfortunately this will prove to be much worse than just a waste of time. ISIS terrorists headed to Africa because that’s where their leadership is now located.

[Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain]

U.S. Syria Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack wasted a year of everyone’s time, promising the world a Syrian Israeli ski resort at the border between the two countries. Instead, we got Syria exporting Islamist terrorists to Africa’s Sahel, the upcoming battlefield for the brewing jihad terrorism.

[Simone Ledeen @SimoneLedeen]

Correct. And also predictable.

[Rojava Network @RojavaNetwork]

According to Pentagon report, following the withdrawal of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) from the region, the whereabouts of 20,000 ISIS members who escaped from the Al-Hol camp following its occupation by HTS terrorists are unknown

[Simone Ledeen @SimoneLedeen]

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[AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_]

Initial: Plane lands safely after attempted cockpit breach aboard United Flight 2005.

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

.@SecScottBessent: "A nation that cannot manufacture, mine, ship, or refine its needs gradually cedes its strength and sovereignty to others. That is a dangerous dependency for any country; it is an unacceptable one for the United States of America."

[Robert Greenway @RC_Greenway]

Mining the Strait, launching ballistic missiles at its neighbors, extorting global shipping…it’s as though they really aren’t negotiating in good faith.

[Simone Ledeen @SimoneLedeen]

Touch some grass maybe….

[Josh Nathan-Kazis @joshnathankazis]

On the ex-Americans that Israel keeps appointing to top diplomatic posts in the US, from today's @JewishCurrents news desk newsletter.

[Simone Ledeen @SimoneLedeen]

The UN is basically the upside down at this point.

[Ambassador Mike Waltz @USAmbUN]

It’s ridiculous for the UN to put a democracy like Israel—with robust rule of law that conducts investigations and holds criminals accountable—on the same level as terrorist organizations like Hamas & ISIS which DELIBERATELY target civilians for sexual violence as a weapon of terror.

https://t.co/JOXsvnyBP0

[Ambassador Mike Waltz @USAmbUN]

It’s ridiculous for the UN to put a democracy like Israel—with robust rule of law that conducts investigations and holds criminals accountable—on the same level as terrorist organizations like Hamas & ISIS which DELIBERATELY target civilians for sexual violence as a weapon of terror.

https://t.co/JOXsvnyBP0

[Simone Ledeen @SimoneLedeen]

So many exciting opportunities for partnership with Vietnam. It’s wonderful to see this being prioritized.

[Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell @TheElizMitchell]

.@SecWar begins his bilateral meeting with Vietnam’s General Secretary Lam and minister of defense.

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