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[Brookings Foreign Policy @BrookingsFP]

"It is clear that Iran went to school on the U.S. way of war and understands how to leverage its limited assets to strike at the heart of U.S. power projection capabilities both on land and at sea."
@ProfTalmadge and Mara Karlin write: https://t.co/ZZD1e91FWH

[Phil Gordon @PhilGordonDC]

"It would be premature to succumb to the fatalistic conclusion that there is no hope for more principled and reliable U.S. leadership after Trump, whose policies are now reminding many Americans what they lose when such leadership is abandoned."
https://t.co/kGjf9T9ncx

[asli aydintasbas @asliaydintasbas]

İran savaşının uzun vadede Türkiye için anlamını @BrookingsFP için yazdım.
Türkiye, Amerikan'nin zayıfladığı bir Ortadoğu’da daha geniş bir hareket alanı bulacağını düşündü. Ancak İran savaşı, ABD'nin peşpeşe hatalı adımlarla zayıflamasının, tam tersine tüm bölgede daha tehlikeli bir ortam yaratacağını gösteriyor.
Peki Türkiye, ne yapmalı? Burada⤵️
https://t.co/8mqhBaTRp3

[Brookings Foreign Policy @BrookingsFP]

"Xi deciding to risk great power war is far too momentous a choice to be reduced to calculations over weapons inventories alone."
Read @MichaelEOHanlon & @m_poznansky on why the shortage of U.S. munitions is serious, but not critical: https://t.co/3ZVfiGszR4

[Brookings Foreign Policy @BrookingsFP]

"The fragmentation of the U.S.-led order may give Turkey more room to maneuver regionally, but it will also expose its weaknesses and usher in a harsher regional environment with fewer rules and guarantees."
Read @asliaydintasbas on Turkey's dilemma: https://t.co/5P1k0s5Gzw

[Brookings Foreign Policy @BrookingsFP]

"As soon as you reach a certain level of success, you'll get a knock on the door, usually from the IRGC intelligence organization asking for a cut. And if you don't bring them in somehow, you're at risk of being imprisoned, or at the very least of your business being destroyed."

[ProfTalmadge @ProfTalmadge]

Delighted to share this @BrookingsFP piece with Mara Karlin on the long-term military implications of the Iran war. https://t.co/G5u9sxxCWN

[Brookings Foreign Policy @BrookingsFP]

By launching the Iran war, President Trump has inadvertently "replaced a cautious, elderly, and unpopular Iranian supreme leader in his twilight years with a vengeful, hardline, and even more mistrustful military-dominated regime," writes @philgordondc: https://t.co/ULjSvdHjLj

[Brookings Foreign Policy @BrookingsFP]

"Americans are paying much more for gasoline—and for the diesel fuel on which the U.S. trucking industry mostly depends. Because trucks transport more than 70% of goods in the United States, higher fuel costs tend to raise prices throughout the economy." https://t.co/W6SMJOTz9y

[Brookings Foreign Policy @BrookingsFP]

"It's not a technology problem with a governance footnote. It's really a governance problem that's very much entangled with technology and technical problems." Elham Tabassi.
Watch the full episode on the significance of Pope Leo's AI encyclical: https://t.co/NQyku2sCv8

[Brookings Foreign Policy @BrookingsFP]

"Details have been opaque thus far, but some reports say that the IRGC is charging $1 per barrel of oil; for a very large crude carrier, this would mean $2 million per transit."

@samanthaenergy and Ryan Beane write: https://t.co/bNkovEdOS5

[Brookings Foreign Policy @BrookingsFP]

In case you missed last week's event with @Maloneysuzanne interviewing @bozorgmehr and @yjtorbati about their book, "Stolen Revolution," you can still watch here: https://t.co/1J49TRqGsz

[Lev Nachman @lnachman32]

🧵Last month @poscwty & I published a three-part series for @BrookingsFP featuring the most current updates to Taiwanese public opinion available.

In our first piece, we asked what Taiwan thought of Cheng Li-wun's trip to China & meeting with Xi Jinping:

https://t.co/1kymeJkkKx

[Brookings Foreign Policy @BrookingsFP]

"The key to loosening Hezbollah’s grip is to erode its Shia political base by filling the vacuum left by the state—providing the services a functional government should, which Hezbollah has long supplied." Former U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Jeffrey Feltman: https://t.co/QYYltCk2Sv

[Brookings Foreign Policy @BrookingsFP]

"Failed wars have consequences that endure longer than the presidents who start them."
Read @BillGalston's take on the domestic fallout of the Iran war: https://t.co/W6SMJOTz9y

[Brookings Foreign Policy @BrookingsFP]

"To paraphrase what British Prime Minister Winston Churchill once said about democracy, a U.S.-led world order is probably the worst of all possible orders—except for all the others that have ever been tried." @PhilGordonDC writes in @ForeignAffairs: https://t.co/7BLaphWDKx

[Samantha Gross @samanthaenergy]

I'm worried about the future - with Iran controlling the Strait of Hormuz and the reserves the world is relying on depleting by the day. Read more here. @BrookingsFP
https://t.co/yzu5AyTPVp

[Brookings Foreign Policy @BrookingsFP]

"AI is a very extractive technology. It takes your data. It looks at areas where that data is combined and conjoined with other attributes that you have in the digital space. And it uses that in a way that I think people do not have agency." Full episode: https://t.co/NQyku2sCv8

[Brookings Foreign Policy @BrookingsFP]

"This has served as a guide for people following this area to consider: What does it look like to have a technology that embraces the spiritual component in a way that values humanity and human civilization?" @drturnerlee on Pope Leo's AI encyclical: https://t.co/NQyku2sCv8

[Brookings Foreign Policy @BrookingsFP]

"The conflict has ratified Beijing’s judgment that it need not confront Washington in a climactic showdown for global leadership. Instead, China’s leaders can afford to steadily accrue power and influence while Washington flounders."
@ryanl_hass writes: https://t.co/WGACsB1s89