Schwokkenwolf

West Hartford townie, bad New York sports team enthusiast, radical NormieDem, unapologetic liberal Zionist 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🇨🇦

[Schwokkenwolf @schwokk]

Congratulations to Congressman LePage

[Ally Mutnick @allymutnick]

NEWS: Matt DUNLAP is the Dem nominee in #ME02, per RCV tabulations

He will face ex-Gov. Paul LePage (R)

Dunlap is aligned with Bernie Sanders. The DCCC backed Joe Baldacci, who was the runner up

This is a strong pickup opportunity for Rs

[Schwokkenwolf @schwokk]

@rodger Running scam on the rest of us that there are mammals that lay eggs

[Schwokkenwolf @schwokk]

Antizionists stop validating the central premises of Zionism challenge (impossible)

[Camilla Tominey @CamillaTominey]

Revealed: the Green plot against Zack Polanski. And, surprise, surprise - it allegedly involves Mothin Ali lobbying for the party to be... wait for it... less Zionist. Wake up, people. https://t.co/dziDrmsWzh

[Schwokkenwolf @schwokk]

@DerekPederson3 You could also probably get into the 75-100k range and still have a Palestinian state on 90-95 percent of the West Bank with land swaps

[Schwokkenwolf @schwokk]

JD Vance is doing Israelis a service here. They need to hear some home truths about the situation that the idiots and messianic loons in their government have gotten them into.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

JD Vance ends his press conference by turning on Israel: "What does bother me is you've seen people in Bibi's cabinet who have come out and attacked the deal and in some ways very personally attacked the president. My message to them is Donald J Trump is the only head in the state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time."

[Schwokkenwolf @schwokk]

A smart/non-feral Israeli government would say: “Of course we are willing to withdrawal from Lebanon and we will do so the moment Hezbollah, and their patron Iran, sign a permanent nonaggression pact with us that stipulates only LAF military south of the Litani”

[Schwokkenwolf @schwokk]

@havivrettiggur Are you, uh, aware of who the President of the United States is?

[Schwokkenwolf @schwokk]

@cementeriocc I appreciate your offer to educate us, can you explain how Italy missed three straight World Cups including one with 48 teams?

[Schwokkenwolf @schwokk]

@JacobALinker Although to be fair, Iran did just agree to never again launch any hostile action or use or threaten to use force against Israel

[Danny (Dennis) Citrinowicz ,داني سيترينوفيتش @citrinowicz]

One of the great ironies of this war is that the very person who built his career around the idea of toppling the Iranian regime are now witnessing the opposite outcome.

Instead of emerging weakened or isolated, the regime appears more entrenched and, in some respects, more diplomatically relevant than before. The assumption of the Israeli pm that military pressure would trigger regime collapse, pave the way for regional normalization, and allow Israel and the Gulf states to bypass the Palestinian issue has largely failed to materialize.

At the same time, the United States, under what many Israelis viewed as one of the most pro-Israel administrations in recent years has shown little appetite for a long-term confrontation with Iran. Washington's priority increasingly appears to be de-escalation and some form of accommodation with Tehran rather than another Middle Eastern military adventure.

The result is a strategic reality very different from what BB imagine in his worse dreams. Normalization with Saudi Arabia looks more distant than before, the Palestinian issue remains unavoidable, and Iran's leadership sees further evidence that it is not going anywhere. In fact, Tehran is now deepening its engagement with regional actors, including Saudi Arabia itself.

This outcome raises difficult questions about the assumptions that guided the campaign and whether key decision-makers relied on assessments that were disconnected from the political realities of the region.

Towards the end of his political career Netanyahu sees everything that he build collapsing, and the possibility of increased friction with President Trump is mounting.

On February 28, Netanyahu probably thought he was witnessing the fulfillment of his life's work: the United States and Israel going to war against Iran.

Months later, that moment increasingly looks less like the culmination of a grand strategy and more like the point at which it unraveled.

What was supposed to remake the Middle East turned into a house of cards, as the assumptions underpinning the strategy collapsed one by one. The result was not regime change, not regional realignment, and not a breakthrough in normalization, but a stark demonstration of how detached the strategy had become from reality and a real risl that his relationship with the US would deteriorate to a level not seen before

[David S. @DavidS_Liberdad]

Captain Ahab...... Or should we say Captain Bihab

[Schwokkenwolf @schwokk]

@ZacharyBraiterm Yinon is going through it

[Schwokkenwolf @schwokk]

My feeling is that the Israelis have moved from the denial phase of coping with the death of the strategic vision sold to them by Netanyahu to the anger phase

[Schwokkenwolf @schwokk]

@braunold @All_the_Ivri This is true but Smotrich cant lock in a binational state. Only masses of Israelis moving to the interior West Bank can do that. And it’s within the U.S. and Europe’s power to make that very unattractive to ordinary Israelis and begin squeezing the existing “deep” settlements

[Schwokkenwolf @schwokk]

@btharris93 I do think they will go to 64 within 10 years so they can go back to having 2 teams get out of the group. Plus more money

[Schwokkenwolf @schwokk]

@KarolusWangus @Serenarchy To be fair, I agree with her on that second flag she wants freed, but I sort of doubt we mean it in the same way

[Schwokkenwolf @schwokk]

@hdagres @All_the_Ivri No, a substantially better outcome

[Schwokkenwolf @schwokk]

Congratulations on your victory in 2024

[liel leibovitz @liel]

Congratulations to Barack Obama, our forever president, on successfully cementing his Iran policy in perpetuity. Heartfelt condolences to America for needlessly surrendering to Iran and gaining nothing. And a reminder that very bad things happen when America loses wars.

[Schwokkenwolf @schwokk]

15 University of Connecticut NCAA basketball national titles

[Mike Mitchell @MikeMitchNH]

The last 25 years (2001-present)

6 Patriots titles
4 Red Sox titles
2 Celtics titles
1 Bruins title

2 Giants titles (miracles vs the Pats)
0 Jets titles
1 Yankees title
0 Mets titles
1 Knicks title
0 Nets titles
0 Rangers titles
0 Islanders titles

13-4, with half the teams.

[Schwokkenwolf @schwokk]

@nolesfan2011 This looks like a battle for the last spot in the Gold Cup quarterfinals