Tyler Koteskey

Policy Director at @ConcernedVets | @GeorgetownCSS '26 | @UCLA '15 | Opinions are my own.

[Congressman Tom Barrett @RepTomBarrett]

Congress has the exclusive authority under the Constitution to declare war and authorize the use of force. The War Powers Act of 1973 delegates some of that authority to the president for a limited period of time.

That authority has expired, and my support of this resolution tonight is consistent with my belief that it is time for Congress to decide the scope of the mission and the appropriate limits on the use of force in Iran.
https://t.co/E72h2SuBf3

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Like honestly "it's going to take us several weeks to tell you who won the election" is failed state shit and should be much more stigmatized.

[Dimitri @thedimitri]

What a time to be alive

[Andrew Day @AKDay89]

When some Pentagon officials opposed regime change in Libya because that shouldn't be NATO's role, the State Department spokeswoman said, "We have been focused on getting rid of Qaddafi and moving on to a democratic Libya." Who was the spokeswoman? Victoria Nuland!

The interventionists used to be more candid about these matters. E.g. Ivo Daalder wrote in 1999 that there was "no doubt" NATO could use force for reasons unrelated to defending allied territory such as pursuing "humanitarian interests." He became US ambassador to NATO.

[Wade Stotts @wadestotts]

"Properly speaking, of course, a public monument ought to be pompous.

Pomp is its very object; it would be absurd to have columns and pyramids blushing in some coy nook like violets in the woods of spring.

And public monuments have in this matter a great and much-needed lesson to teach. Valour and mercy and the great enthusiasms ought to be a great deal more public than they are at present."

Chesterton, A Defence of Publicity

[Ryan Evans @EvansRyan202]

This was literally the most predicted and predictable outcome of a war with Iran. It still stuns me how leaders in Israel, Washington, and Tampa (CENTCOM) almost entirely failed to anticipate this in their plans and the 2nd/3rd order effects

[Kyle 🚄 @KyleTrainEmoji]

PICARD: Data, shields up

DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.

[camera shakes]

WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS

DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't

[Chris Combs (iterative design enjoyer) @DrChrisCombs]

It is perfectly acceptable to chant "USA" when you work at a company in said USA and just launched a ginormous rocket

[Mackenzie Eaglen @MEaglen]

I call it “The paradox of scarcity in a defense budget of largesse.”

[Brandan P. Buck @brandan_buck]

Doubling down on a historically unpopular war would in fact, be a very bad political move.

Then again, his motivation isn't to salvage the midterms, it's to deepen the war.

[Wade Miller @WadeMiller]

This is ridiculous. Troop positioning should be at the discretion of the Commander-in-Chief, not swamp rats in Congress.

[John Hudson @John_Hudson]

SCOOP: The U.S. has depleted much of its inventory of advanced missile-defense interceptors after expending far more high-end munitions defending Israel than Israeli forces used themselves, per DOD assessments of Operation Epic Fury 🧵

[Rotimi Adeoye @_rotimia]

When kids act like this, it is extremely irresponsible for adults and the larger society to simply explain it away as a lack of hangout space and avoid serious consequences for these kids. You cannot go through life throwing chairs at people and face zero consequences.

[Katherine Thompson @katherinet57]

Years of U.S. overextension, unchecked drawdowns, and refusal to treat tradeoffs and scarcity as real factors caused this munitions crisis.

Now lawmakers want to throw billions more at the problem without addressing the lack of restraint and foresight which caused the shortage in the first place. I detail why this is the wrong approach in my latest for @RStatecraft ⬇️

[Preston Stewart @prestonstew_]

The Congressional Research Service just listed the 42 US aircraft lost or damaged so far during the war with Iran.
4 x F-15E Strike Eagles destroyed
1 x F-35A damaged by Iranian ground fire
1 x A-10 destroyed
7 x KC-135 Stratotankers (2 destroyed, 5 damaged)
1 x E-3 Sentry AWACS damaged
2 x MC-130J destroyed
1 x HH-60W helicopter damaged by small arms fire
24 x MQ-9 Reapers destroyed
1 x MQ-4C Triton destroyed

[Emily Jashinsky @emilyjashinsky]

The "teen takeovers" are obviously not a venue problem, they're a behavior problem. You can hang out at Chipotle without fighting. You can even hang out in the street without fighting. It's patronizing and unhelpful to take this seriously just because kids say it.

[Congressman Pat Harrigan @RepPatHarrigan]

For 20 years, a $6 knob that takes one hour to 3D print has been grounding Black Hawk helicopters four times a month, and the contractor responsible won't sell us the part or the IP rights to fix it ourselves.

So instead, American taxpayers have been paying $40,000 every single time to replace the entire system, multiplied by four times a month, for two decades.

That is NOT a procurement problem, that is a shakedown, and it is exactly why right to repair has to be in this year's NDAA.

[Concerned Veterans for America @ConcernedVets]

The war in Iran hurts Americans at the pump. Since the start of the conflict, prices have skyrocketed.

Our actions abroad cost American families here at home. It’s time to end this war and focus on a foreign policy that puts America’s interests first.

[Andrew Perez @andrewperezdc]

Retiring Blue Dog Rep. Jared Golden just cast the deciding vote to kill a war powers resolution he *cosponsored*

[Justin Logan @JustinTLogan]

Next Tuesday, May 19 at 11:00, please come to @CatoFP to hear @LianaFix, @jekavanagh, and me discuss plans to withdraw troops from Germany (or Poland, as the case may be). @katherinet57 will moderate and a luncheon will follow: https://t.co/Gskm88aQa0