
Robbie Gramer
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Robbie Gramer
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Millennials are the elite generation because they cranked out 12-page essays the night before they were due. No ChatGPT. No Claude. Just lo-fi beats playing in the background, Black coffee at midnight, footnotes that were somehow correct, and pure delusion. Grade was an A minus. Period.




Yes, this administration has gutted Middle East experience at the State Department, but ... ...it doesn't really matter how much/little expertise the current State Department has, because it is totally out of the policy loop. apnews.com/article/iran-s…




The nuance here is very interesting and I’m not sure there’s an actual contradiction. A similar line appears in the text of the report, but uses the (tortured) phrase “intending to try to recover” (“intending to try to recover from the devastation of its nuclear infrastructure sustained during”). So it’s possible she misspoke (or intentionally dropped the caveat) and the real answer is Iran plans to rebuild but hasn’t actually done so. I’d also go with what’s in the report as the authoritative IC position rather than her remarks (in a normal world, there shouldn’t be a delta, but we’re not in a normal world).

🚨🚨🚨Trump on Truth Social: Israel, out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East, has violently lashed out at a major facility known as South Pars Gas Field in Iran. A relatively small section of the whole has been hit. The United States knew nothing about this particular attack, and the country of Qatar was in no way, shape, or form, involved with it, nor did it have any idea that it was going to happen. Unfortunately, Iran did not know this, or any of the pertinent facts pertaining to the South Pars attack, and unjustifiably and unfairly attacked a portion of Qatar’s LNG Gas facility. NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL pertaining to this extremely important and valuable South Pars Field unless Iran unwisely decides to attack a very innocent, in this case, Qatar - In which instance the United States of America, with or without the help or consent of Israel, will massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars Gas Field at an amount of strength and power that Iran has never seen or witnessed before. I do not want to authorize this level of violence and destruction because of the long term implications that it will have on the future of Iran, but if Qatar’s LNG is again attacked, I will not hesitate to do so










