Ari Zel

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Ari Zel

Ari Zel

@AriZel91

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The Daily Controversy With Chris Reid
Matt, I respect your principled stance on prioritizing American interests above all—it's a view I share deeply. While I understand your concerns about the Iran strike under President Trump, I believe it directly serves our economic and national security in profound ways. Allow me to explain logically. First, national security: Iran's regime has long pursued nuclear weapons, funding proxies like Hezbollah and Houthis that attack U.S. forces and allies. Despite setbacks from prior actions, intelligence shows their program advancing covertly. Striking now prevents a nuclear-armed Iran, which could embolden aggression, spark regional arms races, or enable terrorist access to WMDs—directly threatening American lives at home and abroad. A neutralized threat means fewer deployments, reduced military spending long-term, and safer global alliances. Economically, Iran disrupts vital oil routes in the Strait of Hormuz, spiking energy prices that burden American families and businesses. Their sponsorship of terrorism destabilizes markets, inflating costs for everything from shipping to insurance. By dismantling this regime, we secure energy stability, lower inflation, and boost U.S. exports in a calmer Middle East—benefits flowing straight to our citizens. You're right that "freeing Iranians" isn't our sole duty, but removing a hostile government that chants "Death to America" inherently protects us, not just them or Israel. Politically, strong leadership often rallies support; history shows decisive action against threats can unify, not divide, especially if swift and successful as projected. This isn't blind loyalty—it's calculated realism for America's prosperity and safety. Praying alongside you for our nation. @michaeljknowles @ChrisLoesch @SethDillon #Khamenei
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H.A. Hazony
H.A. Hazony@HAHazony·
I'm going to answer this question, as it seems to be posed in good faith. Setting aside Israel's interests, what does US stand to gain? 1) Isolating China. Like the Venezuela operation, the purpose is to isolate China in the US/Ch hegemonic war. Iran is a major supplier of oil, as well central to Chinese Belt & Road. 2) Isolating Russia, ending war in Ukr. Trump has promised to end war in Ukr, but that has been illusive. Russia relies on Iran, knocking out Iranian drone factories applies pressure on Russia. 3) The straights of Hormuz control a major flow of oil globaly. Iran has used this strategic location to apply pressure to US multiple times. Enough is enough. 4) Trump US ME policy appears to be marrying Israel/UAE with KSA/Turkey alliances. Pushes China out of the region. But this is not possible while Iran continually attempts to drag everyone into war (no peace between KSA and IL while there's war). If such a coalition were built it would allow US to withdraw from ME. 5) As much as people ignore it, Iran is an actual threat to US security. Funding terror orgs. in central America. Responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American soldiers in the ME. Their nuclear and ballistic weapons programs are designed to threaten US. Neutralizing these capabilities is 100% US interests. 6) This regime tried to assassinate Trump on multiple occasions, just for that we should kill all responsible. I agree that US should only fight wars that are explicitly in our interest. But we can't pretend there's nothing to be gained here. Every war is risky, but this one can have major payoffs. I hope you take the time to respond to this.
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Matt Walsh
Matt Walsh@MattWalshBlog·
As always I only support military action anywhere, in any context, if it directly serves the interests of American citizens. It’s troubling that the arguments we’re hearing for this war in Iran, including from Trump himself, seem to revolve primarily around “bringing freedom to the Iranian people.” As Americans, the freedom of Iranians is not our responsibility. If a single American life is lost in the service of that goal, it will be a travesty. What nobody has even come close to sufficiently explaining is how this war will first and foremost directly benefit American citizens. That is a case that needed to have been made clearly and convincingly before this move, and it wasn’t. We’re also told how this will benefit Israel, and I’m sure it will. But Israel is not America. What does it do for America? How does it help us? That needs to be explained to us. And it isn’t “panicking” or demonstrating “disloyalty” to demand those very basic answers about how American tax money, and potentially American lives, are being spent. We hear about the danger of a nuclear Iran, but that’s odd because we were told that Iran’s nuclear capabilities had already been set back decades. We hear that this war will be over quickly and easily because Iran is powerless, which I hope and pray is the case, and maybe it will be. But that’s odd, too, because if Iran is such a paper tiger then how were they a danger to us in the first place? It seems hard to argue both that Iran is an existential threat to the United States and that we can topple them in 20 minutes with no casualties or negative downstream effects. Also the political calculation really matters here. A huge majority of American oppose this. That’s just a fact. If it costs Republicans in 26 and 28, then, no matter how things work out in Iran, it will not have been worth it. A free Iran at the cost of Democrat rule here at home is a bad deal. A free Iran for an unfree America would be just about the worst trade of the century. I’m praying for our great country today.
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Ari Zel@AriZel91·
Living in a literal simulation right now in southeastern MA. We have 4 feet of snow on the ground, much of which came down several weeks ago and never melted. & apparently 60 foot trees. #blizzardof2026
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Ari Zel@AriZel91·
@Prompt_Driven @thdxr But these apps cannot spin up infrastructure in a corporate environment easily. They cannot negotiate terms and talk with infrastructure engineers, and confirm the specs required. There’s so many conversations that need to happen at a corporation in order to get resources allocat
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Prompt Driven@Prompt_Driven·
@AriZel91 @thdxr This is exactly why treating AI code as the asset creates spaghetti. Prompt-Driven Development (PDD) fixes this. You define the architecture in the prompt (your source of truth). The AI generates the code. If it's flimsy, you update the prompt. #PDD
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dax@thdxr·
everyone's talking about their teams like they were at the peak of efficiency and bottlenecked by ability to produce code here's what things actually look like - your org rarely has good ideas. ideas being expensive to implement was actually helping - majority of workers have no reason to be super motivated, they want to do their 9-5 and get back to their life - they're not using AI to be 10x more effective they're using it to churn out their tasks with less energy spend - the 2 people on your team that actually tried are now flattened by the slop code everyone is producing, they will quit soon - even when you produce work faster you're still bottlenecked by bureaucracy and the dozen other realities of shipping something real - your CFO is like what do you mean each engineer now costs $2000 extra per month in LLM bills
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