Christian Bartholomew

@WarMonitor3 And? We’re already obviously at war.

Iranian officials are saying any US naval blockade would be considered an act of war.

@TheMaverick_ @niktaylorde A country that allows its avowed enemies to acquire nuclear weapons is a stupid state, and no amount of handwringing about sovereignty will change that. All states are not created equal.

@CWBartholomew80 @niktaylorde A country that ignores sovereign borders is a terrorist state. Yet you point accusing fingers at Iran. Hypocrite!

Why does America have military bases all over the globe?

@iraninyerevan This legalistic bullshit is convincing no one. The US simply doesn’t care, and rightfully so. Critical choke points in the world economy will not be held hostage by terrorist regimes. If Iran won’t play a productive part in the world economy, it can burn.

An American voice: “Listen up, Trump, and every dumb f... in Washington who still thinks the Strait of Hormuz is some kind of American parking lot. This aint international waters. Never was. Never will be. Under the law of the sea, every coastal country gets twelve nautical miles of its own goddamn territorial water. The narrowest choke point in Hormuz is only twenty one miles wide. That means Iran and Oman own the whole fucking strait from shore to shore. Overlapping. Locked. Closed. No high seas. No open ocean free for all. Iran controls the big islands too, Qeshm, Hormuz, Larak, Abu Musa, the whole chain. You sail through, you are in somebody elses house. Iran never even signed that UNCLOS treaty, so they dont have to play your transit passage game. They say innocent passage and they mean it. You bring guns or you bring trouble, they can say no. America starts wars because it never learned geography in school. They  bomb first, read the map later. Before you drag us into another bloodbath, open a f...ing atlas. The water belongs to the land that touches it. Not to the country that prints the most dollars. Learn it now or bleed for it later.

@academic_la A country that’s sick of the bullshit and taking out the trash.

There hadn’t been a single day since October 7 when Israel didn’t kill anyone. Not one. And it killed well over 200 Palestinians in 2023 before that. A country addicted to slaughter.

@_jenkings @justinpodur So you went with preconceived notions and came back with confirmation bias. That’s not journalism.

you guys LOVE to leave out the part of why I went to Iran: the american and zionazi regimes bombed them for 12 days straight and massacred over 1000 Iranians. Yes, I went to Iran as part of a group of international journalists to report on the crimes of empire as there is a complete media western media blockade on the country. I know for a fact that I would not have gone to Iran last year if those horrific war crimes did not happen. so when you try to shame me for going: please know that there is no greater shame than being a cuck for the zionazi american regime. Iran is such a beautiful country: beautiful, kind and intelligent people. art everywhere. flavorful food. fruits and vegetables you can actually taste. food labels you can actually read & understand. everything is made in Iran. no disgusting advertising and soft porn plastered onto every crevice or their lives. no homelessness crisis. no glyphosate. no chem trails…. theres so much history, beautiful architecture and sites…. its everything that the american regime is not and its amazing. I cant wait to go back ❤️🙏

@iamufohunter Sure you do. Violent resistance = violent retaliation.

🚨 Hezbollah only exists because Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982 and stayed. Hamas only exists because Israel invaded Palestine and stayed. You don't get to police how people resist.

@MirMAKOfficial All that education and they still suppport murderous terrorist scum. Sad.

Negotiating Teams. Irani. PhD. PhD. PhD. PhD. PhD. American. Real Estate Developer. Real Estate Lawyer Venture Capitalist

@MikeRGlenn Bullshit. You have no entitlement to access facilities that would not receive members of the general public. The Pentagon has the right to trespass anyone they damned well please.

Full disclosure: I'm a member of the PPA and was one of the reporters who is no longer working in the Pentagon. The Pentagon Press Association welcomes the ruling by Judge Paul Friedman that the Pentagon must return press access to media outlets. Judge Friedman’s new decision leaves no doubt that the department must go back to the “status quo” as it existed for reporters in the Pentagon before it imposed a policy that restricted source-based journalism and, in the words of Judge Friedman, attempted to “control the message so that the public hears and sees only what the Secretary and the Trump Administration want them to hear and see.” We look forward to the Pentagon complying with the judge's order and our members returning to the Pentagon, where they will continue providing the American public, including members of the military, the information about how and why the department goes to war.

@alaafromgaza92 You don’t understand cause and effect, do you? Stop being a threat, and you will not be threatened. Stop tolerating terrorists, and you can live in peace.

If you’re wondering how intense the bombing in Beirut was yesterday, then you need to watch this video. It documents the bombardment around the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, near my family’s home in Nov 2023. This is what we call a “fire belt,” in Arabic, meaning relentless, consecutive strikes that feel like hell itself. I lived through this many times in Gaza before we left for Egypt. It feels like the end of the world, as if you’re standing in flames from every direction, with no escape and no way out. Don’t look away from this video. #Gaza #Lebanon #Beirut #Israël #Israel

@azizkavish @Haqiqatjou Maybe, just maybe, national interests are not intrinsically tied to religion.

Palestine and Lebanon are Sunni Muslim nations, yet the Arab King did not support them. Iran is a Shia Muslim nation, yet the Arab King did not support it. What, then, is the religion of the Arabs?

@cem_uk_ Yes, because Iran is bad, Cuba is bad, and Venezuela is/was bad. Countries are not equal and their actions should not be judged equally.

It's fine for the US to close Cuba's and Venezuela's waters, and it's fine for Israel to close Gaza's waters, but if Iran blocks the countries that waged war against it from the Strait of Hormuz, that's unacceptable?

@Perma_banned_me @tonysangimino @KatieMiller @xai Why is this necessary? If the outcome would already be unlawfully discriminatory, there’s no reason to target the AI. Just go after the unlawful outcome with laws that already exist. The only purpose of this law is to preempt the results AI can produce.

But it doesn't. The bill isn't applicable to chat models or Grok as used on X. It's applicable to high-risk systems making consequential decisions on: (a) EDUCATION ENROLLMENT OR AN EDUCATION OPPORTUNITY; (d) AN ESSENTIAL GOVERNMENT SERVICE; (e) HEALTH-CARE SERVICES; (f) HOUSING; (g) INSURANCE; OR (h) A LEGAL SERVICE.

Today, @xAI sued Colorado to stop a new law (SB24-205) that would force Grok to promote the state’s ideological views on various matters, racial justice in particular. Colorado wants to force Grok to follow its views on equity and race, instead of being maximally truth-seeking. Grok answers to evidence, not woke leftist government regulations. ft.com/content/55e8cb…

@TicTocTick If the Brits hadn’t done their thing, somebody else would have, and you’d be blaming them. You should be thankful it was the Brits. Current actors should accept responsibility for what’s happening now, and stop deflecting and blaming others.

100% of all of world’s current geopolitical problems and wars are due to what the British did 60-80 years ago. Every single one of them.

@RetroCoast @LafWall2 Americans would not. We would actually fight back, but I can’t think of anyone stupid enough to sacrifice themselves just to take a performative stance.

@LafWall2 🤣🤣🤣Fake Jewish propaganda from Tel Aviv The only people at bridges and power plants are VOLUNTEERS Americans would do the same thing if a psychotic foreign government threatened them

@nxt888 Delusional bullshit. Communism failed. It always does. We just helped.

They genuinely believe they won the Cold War because their ideas were better. Not because they outspent the Soviet Union militarily until the Soviet economy broke. Not because they were willing to proxy-war across four continents and leave millions dead in the process. Not because they propped up any dictatorship, no matter how brutal, as long as it was anti-communist. Their ideas. Their values. The inherent appeal of the American way of life. This is what they tell themselves. And from inside the bubble, it makes perfect sense. From outside the bubble, you see a country that spent nearly half a century destroying any alternative that emerged, not because the alternative was failing, but because it might succeed, and success would disprove the story. You don't need to suppress bad ideas. You only need to suppress the ones that might work.

@EdKrassen How about we bomb them back into the Stone Age instead?

BREAKING: Iran has outlined a 10-point proposal that includes: 1.Assurances that Iran will not face future attacks 2.A lasting end to the war—not a temporary ceasefire 3.A halt to Israeli military operations in Lebanon 4.Removal of all U.S. sanctions on Iran 5.An end to regional conflicts involving Iran-backed groups 6.In exchange, Iran would reopen the Strait of Hormuz 7.A proposed transit fee of $2 million per vessel passing through Hormuz 8.Revenue from those fees would be shared with Oman 9.Iran would establish guidelines to ensure safe navigation through the strait 10.Funds collected would go toward reconstruction efforts rather than reparations

@DailyMail Sure, pull off something that literally no one else in the world could accomplish, and wouldn’t have the balls to do anyway, but it “almost failed.” It didn’t fail though, did it?

@Microinteracti1 Predictably weak

French President Macron: “Europe is an extremely attractive continent. For months I’ve been saying this, and thanks to our American friends, I now have an unprecedented selling point: We are predictable.”

@RealGerryNolan @Sseeji You don’t break them with the siege…unless you’re serious about it and actually do. No one can hold out forever. Communism in Cuba has had its day.

🇨🇺 They call it “sanctions.” Cubans in their own words call it what it is. Hospitals running on fumes. Fuel lines stretching for blocks in 30-degree heat. Families sleeping in the dark — not because Cuba can’t pay, but because Washington has made sure no one will sell (beyond Russian emergency shipments). RTVI’s cameras just showed the world what an energy blockade looks like from the inside. The real version — dark streets, empty fridges, and ordinary people on camera telling you exactly what life under American “democracy promotion” feels like. Simple and brutal collective punishment. Washington doesn’t cut off a regime. It cuts off a people and then wonders why they’re angry. The embargo is attempting to work as designed — not to free Cubans, but to break them until they beg for a different government. Not liberation but siege warfare. But as always, the miscalculation is the unifying effect of anger. Siege warfare hardens the besieged. You don’t break a people into submission by making them suffer together... you temper them. Rome knew this. Washington apparently doesn’t.