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This creative misreading of the Suez Crisis misses the point. Trump’s Iran war is already the US’s Suez Moment — the inflection point where US strategic decline becomes painfully undeniable. Britain, France and Israel lost Suez because they overestimated their own military and economic strength. Israel was acting as a revisionist and expansionist power, and tag-teamed with stronger Western allies to attempt to redraw Mideast borders in a supposedly “preventive” war against Nasser’s Egypt— in that case, the fear that Nasser would close the Suez Canal. *The war itself* then provoked Nasser to close canal. 🤦🏼♀️ Sounds familiar, eh? The author wrongly concludes, however, that Uk, France & Israel’s mistake was backing down, and hence, destroying their own credibility. The ACTUAL mistake was starting the war to begin with. Fighting for the sake of “preserving credibility” is like chasing losses at a casino. Genuine credibility can’t be manufactured by fighting. It naturally flows from vital national interests. The U.S. doesn’t need to “prove” it will fight for its core interests, like defense of the homeland from attack. The credibility of retaliation to attack on the U.S. homeland is inherent. (Kind of like how Iran’s threats to retaliate to US/Israel attacks on its territory were also inherently credible. Trump was foolish to discount them.) Where U.S. leaders have screwed up too many times is in trying to manufacture false credibility when the issues at stake *don’t* threaten core U.S. interests — like regime change in Iran, ending Iran’s support for Hamas and Hezbollah, etc. and all the other demands Israel foisted on the US-Iran nuclear talks. Everyone knows Iran cares a lot more about its own survival than the U.S. cares about Iran’s survival. The war is existential for Iran but NOT existential for the US. That means the balance of interests favors Iran, and always will, no matter what crazy hoops the U.S. jumps itself through, at great cost, to try and prove otherwise. That’s how we ended up fighting 20 years in Afghanistan to replace the Taliban with the Taliban. They outlasted us and everyone knew they eventually would. Let’s hope Trump deescalates the conflict and avoids the credibility trap in Iran, which leads only to quagmire. @defpriorities wsj.com/opinion/americ…
We are in the middle of a major conflict with a country who has a history of state sponsored terrorism and we are not paying our TSA security folks at the airports. This is insane.
Yeah, this is a problem.
No global financial crisis until Goldman forecasts a "super-spike" to 150-200
This is the only thing you need to know. Democrats want to open TSA. Republicans are refusing because they want to attach ICE funding. That’s why there are long lines. ICE.
As a reminder, China buys 90% of Iran’s crude exports at steep discounts
Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) stated the reason for the continued shutdown succinctly: "What we don’t want to fund is ICE.” Defunding ICE is clearly a non-starter with a majority in Congress and a majority of the public. However, Democrats are continuing this absurd shutdown...
Kyle Kashuv quoted a rap lyric as a kid and Thomas tried to ruin his life over it. Mamadani’s wife praised terrorists and threw around the n-word casually, with some posts made in her 20s, and suddenly he’s completely forgiving and approving of her defiance. Just incredible.
SICK! Texas Democrat Senate nominee James Talarico — who's allegedly a devout Christian — is now talking about "God's sausage" and defends saying "God is nonbinary." What is wrong with this sick freak?
EXCLUSIVE: While rhetoric disparaging Islam is not new, “there's an unabashed nature to it,” right now, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in an interview airing Friday. “It is being echoed from the highest offices in this country,” he tells @IAmAmnaNawaz. “They do so without any sense of shame.” Watch more from the interview on Friday's PBS News Hour.
God has given man AI as a gift to take dominion of the world. In the 1800's, they held church services just to praise God for the trans-atlantic cable and the telegraph invention. Now the church is scared of bar codes. How do we get the church to return to techno-optimism?
