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@Head4Liberty @Natsecjeff Correct. He hates to be seen as Jimmy Carter, with a hostage crisis in Iran. The jet shootdown was a massive scare for him which soured him on the whole war.

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@mdubowitz sorry but raising counterfactuals is weak sauce, you need to point to actual accomplishments if you want to convince the American people. Shocking that CENTCOM didn't draw lessons from Ukraine and prepare for the drone threat in the Strait instead of the irrelevant Iranian navy.

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@RnaudBertrand Because it's a dictatorship with rare leadership changes. It's easy to name three French politicians because they always keep changing: Chirac, Sarkozy, Hollande, Macron. Easy to name American politicians too. In China it's just Xi and Hu Jin Tao (and i'm not sure if Hu is dead).

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@MrMaitra Gunboat diplomacy in defence of extraterritoriality is now realism? Not forgetting that Palmerston was a driving force behind the Crimean war. He was a liberal interventionist avant-la-lettre. He just defined defence of liberalism as *the* British interest not unlike RBIO today.

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@Nervana_1 No, Trump is just doing what his Arab masters tell him to do. First, Gulf Arabs thought they could get rid of the Iranian regime cost-free, with Israel bearing the brunt of retaliation. The moment they started hurting themselves, Arabs turned around and told Trump to make a deal.

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@sfrantzman Amazing. Leftists like you would never be caught in the open supporting Elor Azaria but you'd sympathize with some Australian war criminals

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@UKDefJournal Romania's MoD didn't claim that British jets downed any drones, they merely stated they were "authorized to engage". There's no contradiction here, just irresponsible social media accounts spreading a claim falsely attributed to Romania.

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@rich_goldberg yeah, it's Obama's nuclear deal 2.0

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@HeTows There's been an undeniable pattern in Israel's wars post-1967 that Americans are always intervening to constrain Israel in the name of "diplomatic process" and "balance of power". Ironically Obama was more explicit about this goal than Trump.

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@LahavHarkov the politics of people who think Israel is this aggressive predatory state always looking for an excuse to launch offensives against innocent Arabs, in short the politics of *cough*conspiratory antisemitism

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@BDHerzinger @Luciu_satrninus Iran and Iranian proxies have killed thousands of Americans. You're just confirming his point. That if the pain is spread over time, the American people don't have the resolve and the fixity of purpose needed to deal with the problem.

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@DYShor this may actually be a hint to a planned US military operation to reopen Hormuz which is positive. if it was merely a matter of striking a deal with the Iranians, it could reopen much sooner.

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@K_AminThaabet It's shocking how Republicans are fumbling this lay-up. The GOP should be absolutely clobbering Democrats for rooting for the Ayatollah regime. Dems were literally more successful casting MAGA as traitorous for not being sufficiently supportive of Ukraine.

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@GerardAraud This is a bad argument. Assets can be moved from one theatre to another. Also, France doesn't spend all its expenses on Europe either (France ultramarine :))

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@stephenwertheim "The military won us the war. Then the politicians lost the peace." Very common view. See also, Germany in the aftermath of WW1.

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@sfrantzman Pizzaballa has previous, he's clearly a (witting or unwitting) tool of the enemy propaganda, spreading blood libels

https://t.co/IXW3x5qPbo

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@sfrantzman good pairing to that is Japan's Longest Day (1967) about the discussions and events around Japan's surrender. There's also a recent remake The Emperor in August (2015) which is okay.

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@K_AminThaabet I think you've mixed up your terrorists, that's not Larijani, that's Gerry Adams. Common mistake.

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@K_AminThaabet It's unavoidable that the US is getting blamed. Biden tried portraying the impact of sanctions on Russian oil as "Putin's price hike". Didn't help him either.