Brooks T. Harrison

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[NickFrank40 @NickyFrank30]

The entire cabinet should resign frankly, or stage a palace coup

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

If the USA weren't such a broken country, Iran getting $425 BILLION would be the death knell and impeachment of any president in history.
What an absolute embarrassment of an admin.

[Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 @Wilson__Valdez]

Because they all supported Russia's invasion and wanted Ukraine to capitulate but they realize saying that out loud makes them look massively hypocritical.

Especially since they've dedicated their entire lives to a different foreign conflict.

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

"At some point, friends of liberal democracy throughout the advanced democracies—including future liberal governments—will simply have to come together in a concerted and deliberate way to constrain Musk and all he’s unleashing."
https://t.co/WABhRyghgz

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

Fondly recalling the media dismissing Biden's five decades of foreign policy experience & then demanding Harris barf out 100 page policy papers while this guy just wings it like a frat boy who skipped an entire semester's worth of lectures and BS'ed his way through the final exam

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

Welp, I think we're done here.

Trump himself is now saying he buckled under the pressure of Hormuz.

It's as bad as it could possibly be. He's saying aloud that Iran can have anything it wants because America can't afford the staring contest.

If this is his own explanation in his own words, then the fact that the sanctions relief is front-loaded...suddenly becomes important. The fact that the inspections regime that will verify compliance will be negotiated by an American side that has already admitted defeat, that needs this more than the opponent needs it...is now significant. And the fact that the proxy system is now recognized as legitimate by the United States -- is suddenly exactly the disaster you feared it might be.

And the fact that America has declared aloud that it's not actually capable of imposing its will even in the world's most vital energy chokepoints, causing its allies in the Gulf to already begin to seek a new accommodation with Iran -- makes all of this worse than Obama and worse than the JCPOA.

Remember: the great unfixable flaw of the JCPOA that none of its boosters ever had a good answer for was that it merely kicked the can down the road. It solved nothing.

Trump's deal, as of this moment, is not even close to accomplishing so much.

"Iran never won a war and never lost a negotiation," Trump famously said of Obama's deal (as a reporter reminded him at today's press conference). Ironic that the Iranians would win a negotiation most spectacularly against a man who styles himself the greatest negotiator to ever grace the White House.

So what does it all mean?

It means that in the coming years, nuclear programs will sprout like mushrooms after the rain throughout the Middle East. It means that many nations will now build out new and larger ballistic missile arsenals.

It means that the state system will give way before the march of the region's transnational ideological axes. Minorities will again be trampled, new wars will be fought by stronger states to dominate the power vacuums within weaker ones.

You're thinking of Israel in Lebanon -- but that's just a specific campaign against a specific enemy. Think Turkey, which right now occupies a region of Syria vastly larger than Israel's presence in Lebanon. Think heightened Iranian support for the Houthis in Yemen and a new influx of money and guns to the different sides in Libya.

It means, in other words, that we will have a few more wars to fight, a few more technologies to invent to deal with this new age of cheap missiles and drones -- and also of supersonic Chinese missiles bearing nuclear warheads that Iran will eventually, inevitably, be capable of deploying against us.

And it didn't have to be this bad. (And maybe, when he's heard all the criticism, it won't be.) He could have left something, anything, to concede later. He could have kept the Iranians a little bit in the dark, just a smidgen, as to just how defeated America feels.

Israel's position in all this is simple, and more or less unchanged from last week. America gave us more than we had a right to ask for. But we may be going it alone from here out.

Dust off the nukes. Maybe test one somewhere far away from anywhere. Quadruple the interceptor production lines, double the size of the Mossad and the Air Force. And no, don't let Hezbollah breathe, not for a second.

It's the 1960s again. And Israel will have to defeat a couple more enemies before it can once again eke out a few decades of peace.

[Neera Tanden🌻 @neeratanden]

The GOP quakes in their boots at the power of a paper tiger

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

Couldn’t have said it much better than the Republican Senator who is no longer afraid of Donald Trump. I wonder what Ann Wagner is saying behind closed doors in hushed whispers?

[Luke Radel @lukeradel]

Question from @MacFarlaneNews: “You hear these concerns in your party that you’re the least electable in a general election. Why do people say that?”

Dr. @AbdulElSayed (D-MI): “I think my party doesn’t really know what electability is any more.” @MeidasTouch

[Rep. Shontel Brown @RepShontelBrown]

The Trump FBI conducted a massive raid targeting a voter registration group in NE Ohio. The FBI used hundreds of agents, in an election year, even going to people’s homes.

Voting is a constitutional right – so we need answers. I’m demanding details from the FBI.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Reporter: A wise man once said, 'Iran never won a war, but never lost a negotiation'

Trump: Who said that?

Reporter: Donald Trump

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

The President of the United States today said - “Hamas has actually behaved pretty well.”

He actually said that.

[Lattina Brown, MPA 🇯🇲🇺🇸 @LattinaBrown]

Because she has an issue with black people. Let’s keep it real. She’s a racist. Harlem ain’t playing with this damn girl. An outsider coming into our community simping for the far left DSA people pushing radical ideologies to destabilize the black community. Don’t play with us!

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump admits why he had no choice but to end the war:

"We would have run out of [oil] reserves in about 4 weeks."

Writer: Mhedi

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

At least someone’s benefiting from Trump

[Jonathan Lemire @JonLemire]

"Trump has always had a tenuous relationship with the truth, but evidence is mounting that on the most important questions of war and peace, the president of the United States seems to be losing his grip on reality itself" https://t.co/zfUBdyIPaj

[Dennis Goris | Cartoons @DennisGoris]

Tarp logic #coverup

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

Wild

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

I think I'm very ashamed of the job I'VE done.

[The New Republic @newrepublic]

Woman Told FBI Trump Tried to Recruit Her From His Tower https://t.co/8hLrJKyWHy