Abdullah

[Shahab @hashurtag]

The Houthis are attacking civilian airports and civilian energy infrastructure. Not military targets. They are making it obvious that they are a terror org.

[Abdullah @abdullah_onick]

Only solution

[الدكتور منصور المالك 🇸🇦 Mansour Almalik @MSAlmalik]

🚨 سؤال: ماهو الحل مع ايران وكلاءها الاشرار؟

🚨 الجواب: دعم الأكراد والبلوش والاحوازيين والأذربيجانيين بالمال والسلاح لتحرير بلادهم والاستقلال عن ايران.

إذا موافق ساعد بالنشر.

[Dr Andreas Krieg @andreas_krieg]

The Emirati illicit finance web is a network of networks of 100s if not 1000s of nodes, including companies, individuals, banks and holdings

At this point no one in Abu Dhabi has the full grasp of what has been built in the UAE for 5 decades

Unravelling this network will likely take that long that the US Treasury will change its mind in the process

[Dr. Ali BAKIR (علي باكير) @AliBakeer]

🇸🇦 🇹🇷 🇵🇰|| 🇮🇷 The first official attack on the trilateral #Mecca_Agreement between #Saudi_Arabia, #Türkiye, and #Pakistan comes from #Iran.

Member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee in the #Iranian Parliament, Ebrahim Rezaei, calls it a dysfunctional "paper agreement".

Understandably, Iran, just like Israel, are against any serious efforts that would stabilize the region, unite the regional countreis, and achieve genuine security, peace, and prosperity.

Ultimately, those two dark and evil regimes, which have been serving each other for a long time, will fall by their own ill policies.

[ًً @kelevitch]

Turkey isn’t a distant guarantor in this pact. It’s already on the ground.
Turkey holds a base in Qatar. They are the dominating power shaping post-Assad Syria. That’s forward presence on both the Gulf and Levant fronts before the ink on this treaty even dries.
If Syria and Qatar formally lock into the framework, the geography closes a ring Turkey anchoring the north, Saudi and the Gulf anchoring the peninsula, Pakistan supplying the nuclear deterrent none of them currently have.

This isn’t the old model of separate bilateral deals with Washington, easy for Iran to probe state by state. A “Muslim NATO” has been floated before and stalled but this time the actors are already in position.

[🇸🇦Abdulsalam Saleh @abdulslam2017]

🚨Turkey 🇹🇷 - Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 - Pakistan 🇵🇰 It puts an end to U.S. chaos in the Strait of Hormuz and sends a calm message: the dirty game is over. It sends a message to Iran that piracy must end, and it sends a message to Israel and its regional proxies that the region has changed 🇵🇰🇸🇦🇹🇷

[ًً @kelevitch]

Saudi just moved on two tracks at once and

Track one: the Pakistan defense pact. Signed right after Israel hit Qatar. Pakistan’s defense minister came out and said the nuclear program “will be made available” to Saudi if needed. that’s a deterrence signal aimed at Israel, and it tells you MBS already priced in the risk that the American security umbrella isn’t reliable enough on its own.

Track two: the nuclear deal Trump just approved. Civilian program, US firms building it out, 30 years, tens of billions. The part that matters is that Saudi gets a real shot at domestic enrichment, and the oversight framework is bilateral, not IAEA. No Additional Protocol. That means less outside verification than the standard deal typically requires.

Put those two together and the picture is a state hedging its nuclear posture from two directions simultaneously. Pakistan gives Saudi an immediate, informal nuclear backstop. The US deal gives Saudi a legal, slow-build path to its own enrichment capacity with weak external checks. Neither one alone is a smoking gun. Together, they look like a kingdom building optionality on the exact capability everyone assumed only Iran and Israel were racing toward.

[ًً @kelevitch]

What we know for sure is Ismail Haniyeh spent a decade safe in Doha. One trip to Tehran, under Iranian security, and he’s dead.

Nasrallah assassinated in 2024 right as Iran was mid-negotiation on its nuclear file. Iran’s response? A missile that ended up killing Palestinians, not Israelis.
(Iran sold them all for their national interests)
The pattern isn’t subtle. When it counts, the “Axis of Resistance” gets sacrificed for Tehran’s own bilateral calculus. Doha kept Haniyeh alive for ten years. Tehran couldn’t keep him alive for one visit.

Only people who are politically aware after Oct 7 still buy the Axis-of-Resistance framing as anything other than a client-management strategy with a media budget and takes this fraudulent regime seriously

[Dr Andreas Krieg @andreas_krieg]

Congrats Spain. Well deserved! 🇪🇸👑

Argentina has been the most disgraceful team I have ever seen at a World Cup. No sportsmanship, no class, no integrity, no ethics and foul losers.

[Abdullah @abdullah_onick]

😂

[Sam @sambearrr]

The “tough opponents”

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

We are all Spain now 🇪🇸

[Abdullah @abdullah_onick]

Interesting

[Michael França @MichaelFranca]

A pobreza tem muitos inimigos e a preguiça costuma ser o mais conveniente deles.

Segundo o Datafolha, a parcela de brasileiros que associa a pobreza à "preguiça de pessoas que não querem trabalhar" saiu de 22% em 2022 para 40% em 2026. No mesmo período, caiu de 76% para 58% a fatia dos que apontam a falta de oportunidades iguais como explicação principal.

E a resposta mais curta e direta que posso dar à pergunta sobre se é a preguiça que causa a pobreza é: dificilmente.

O esforço individual tem um papel importante, só que ele é relevante dentro de uma estrutura de oportunidades semelhantes. Economistas gostam de separar os fatores que dependem da escolha individual daqueles que chegam antes da escolha. Local de nascimento, renda da família e cor da pele, por exemplo, chegam à vida da pessoa muito antes de qualquer esforço dela. Chamar essas heranças de mérito é forçar a mão.

Porém, existe uma razão para a tese da preguiça ser tão sedutora. Ela economiza pensamento. Se o pobre é pobre porque não trabalha o suficiente, some da conversa tudo que veio antes dele, da escola que teve à família em que nasceu. A culpa cabe no indivíduo. O Orçamento público fica em paz e a consciência dos bem-nascidos também.

A literatura acadêmica tem mostrado, há décadas, que crenças sobre pobreza moldam preferências políticas. Alesina, Glaeser e Sacerdote compararam Estados Unidos e Europa e argumentaram que sociedades que enxergam a pobreza como culpa individual tendem a tolerar menos redistribuição. Alesina e La Ferrara mostraram que a percepção sobre mobilidade futura também pesa, pois quem acredita que pode subir sozinho costuma apoiar menos políticas redistributivas.

Portanto, a disputa sobre a preguiça nunca é apenas uma conversa sobre comportamento, mas é também uma conversa sobre impostos e quem merece um empurrão do Estado.

Experimentos também ajudam a entender o mecanismo. Em estudo sobre esforço, sorte e voto por redistribuição, Lefgren, Sims e Stoddard mostram que, quando as pessoas acreditam que diferenças de renda vêm do esforço, elas reduzem o apoio à redistribuição. Se percebem o papel da sorte, o apoio cresce.

Desse modo, a política social acaba dependendo da história que contamos sobre a origem da desigualdade. E, no Brasil, essa história sempre foi especialmente conveniente para quem está no topo. Um país que nasceu distribuindo terras e cidadania de forma desigual aprendeu a chamar atraso de escolha pessoal.

Estudos sobre desigualdade de oportunidades na América Latina apontam que circunstâncias de origem respondem por uma parcela relevante da desigualdade. Trabalhos recentes sobre mobilidade intergeracional no Brasil, com dados administrativos, mostram que o país segue marcado por baixa mobilidade, embora algumas regiões ofereçam chances maiores do que outras. O lugar de nascimento ainda prevê, com boa margem de acerto, quanto alguém vai ganhar na vida.

Isso não torna o indivíduo irrelevante. Apenas torna a conversa mais adulta.

E, no final... a grande questão não me parece ser a da existência de pobres preguiçosos. Em qualquer classe social há gente que trabalha menos do que poderia.

A grande questão é: por que a preguiça dos ricos raramente produz pobreza?

Coluna completa: https://t.co/SxgVvsxMNp

[Abdullah @abdullah_onick]

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[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I am officially nominating Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) for the Nobel Peace Prize.

No President in History has ended the same war so many times.

Our Dear Leader has ended the war with Iran at least 38 times by CNN’s count.

No President has ever done this before.

And he is nowhere near finished ending it.

It’s a record worthy of the Nobel committee’s recognition. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

[Patricia Marins @pati_marins64]

Barak,
You’ve been following these negotiations for a long time.
How could an understanding on these points even be possible:

1 - A country attacked by two nuclear powers giving up its enriched uranium? This would be a measure condemned by every single Iranian.

2 - Hezbollah remained loyal to Iran by opening a front against Israel, following tactical orders from Tehran, just like the Iraqi militias. How could Iran withdraw support from its proxies today?

3 - Limiting Iranian missiles is another complicated point. Any Iranian government that dared to announce this would be deposed.

These are just 3 points among many others that are completely insurmountable. I can’t see how to make progress on them.
And especially for Israel, any agreement without progress on these points would be a profound defeat. The same goes for Trump.

[Sophia @les_politiques]

Like the Mafia, Israel demands absolute loyalty, and like in the Mafia, this loyalty is tested by asking to accomplish and accept the vilest of actions.

The agreement between Israel and the Lebanese gov is to send the Lebanese army to coordinate with Israel in the south in areas Israel is supposed to retreat from. Hours after the Lebanese president defended the agreement in an exclusive interview on CNN and attacked Iran, Israel targeted and killed the command of the Lebanese army headed to coordination areas.

The Lebanese government of Joseph Aoun and Nawaf Salam is now joined to Israel by the hip and they must execute its most devious orders.

Or maybe they are part of the plan to purge the Lebanese army from soldiers loyal to the homeland and keep only the traitors?

Enjoy your collaboration with the genocidaires. It will ruin you and ruin Lebanon.

[Anas Alhajji @anasalhajji]

🎯This is incredible!

🇸🇦Some Hajj areas are only used once a year, yet they handle thousands of buses — all refueled by mobile gas stations on site. (see info below)

🇸🇦Imagine the level of planning and coordination required to keep electricity, jet fuel, diesel, and gasoline flowing without interruption for millions of pilgrims from around the world. Sophisticated mathematical models have been used in recent years just to solve the congestion problems.

🇸🇦Absolute masterpiece of logistics

[Abdullah @abdullah_onick]

They won't ,😂 why are you so desperate for Saudi Arabia?!?😁

[Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC]

If in fact as a result of these negotiations to end the Iranian conflict, our Arab and Muslim allies in the region agreed to join the Abraham Accords, it would make this agreement one of the most consequential in the history of the Middle East.

Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Pakistan joining the Abraham Accords would be beyond transformative for the region and world. It is a brilliant move by President Trump.

To Saudi Arabia and others: Now is the time to be bold for the future of a new Middle East. I expect, as President Trump has suggested, you will in fact join the Abraham Accords effectively ending the Arab-Israeli conflict. If you refuse to go down this path as suggested by President Trump, it will have severe repercussions for our future relationships and make this peace proposal unacceptable. Further, it would be seen by history as a major miscalculation.

President Trump: Stick to your guns in getting a good deal with Iran. Equally important, stick to your guns in insisting Saudi Arabia and others join the Abraham Accords as part of these negotiations.

Again, this is a brilliant proposal by President Trump.

[Abdullah @abdullah_onick]

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[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

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[Karim Emile Bitar @karimbitar]

Actually, the latest Turki Al Faisal oped is perfectly in line with the 2003 statements of his brother Saud Al Faisal who along with French and Vatican diplomats, presciently warned against the destabilizing effects of the US invasion of Iraq, which “will open the gates of hell”, he said, and which “handed the whole country over to Iran on a silver plate without reason”

With hindsight, Saud al Faisal’s warnings proved remarkably accurate, as he predicted the destruction of the Iraqi state, the emergence of militias, long term regional instability, chaos and sectarian fragmentation, the exact same threats we are facing today.

With the exception of Pope John Paul II, Jacques Chirac and Dominique de Villepin, few world leaders had the courage to confront the US at the time. They were vindicated years later.

[🇸🇦Abdulsalam Saleh @abdulslam2017]

🚨 A New Era of Aerial Sovereignty: The largest defense deal in Pakistan's history 🇵🇰 in cooperation with its Turkish ally 🇹🇷.
​The signing of a $15 billion deal to procure 65 "KAAN" 5th-generation fighter jets is not merely a military purchase; it is an official declaration of breaking the Western monopoly on advanced technology. 🛡️✈️