Renzo Cucinotta

E anche #Pizzaballa è diventato #Hamas

This great piece by @ishaantharoor, in which I'm quoted, gets the 1956 Suez War history right and explains its echoes for the Iran War. Increasingly I fear that Trump's massive strategic error will damage U.S. power and prestige far more than Suez hurt Britain and France. The UK/France gambit to take the canal backfired spectacularly. The *war itself* prompted Nasser to block the canal -- the outcome the UK/Fra was trying to prevent. It heralded the final decline of Britain from great power to "has been" status. The analogies to Trump's Iran debacle are legion. But an especially overlooked similarity is how the Suez War dramatically strengthened Nasser's power and influence throughout the region -- much like Trump how Trump's war has perversely *strengthened* the Islamic Republic of Iran. The war has provoked an entirely predictable (in fact, predicted) nationalistic response among many Iranians -- including those who hate the regime but now hate the U.S. and Israel more for bombing universities, threatening the electric grid, and blanketing Tehran with toxic rain following the explosion at a nearby refinery. Not only has the regime consolidated power, but it is now filled with hardliners after Israeli assassinations have killed off relative pragmatists like Ali Larijani. Courtesy of Trump, Iran has also discovered it can paralyze oil shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and collect "tolls" in exchange for freedom of passage. Iran is now trying to institutionalize its newfound leverage, which could be a lasting unintended consequence of this foolish war. I've argued before that Trump's Iran war is already the U.S.'s "Suez Moment" in terms of signifying U.S. strategic decline -- especially a decline in our ability to make sound national security decisions. But the Iran War could turn out considerably worse than Suez because the US has no one to check us from our own strategic excesses. This war will unfold as badly as Trump decides to make it, and the indications are that he intends to escalate, making it worse. Russia and China are sipping champagne while they watch the U.S. self-destruct from the sidelines. In 1956, both the U.S. and the USSR leaned heavily on Britain and France to withdraw. The Soviets even made blatant nuclear threats to compel UK/Fra to quit Suez. In 2026, there is no higher power. Only the U.S. itself can course-correct before making a bad situation even worse with further escalation. But Trump's impenetrable hubris and poor decision-making don't inspire confidence that the U.S. will retrench. @defpriorities @NewYorker newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…

Here's the problem. These are all "tactical" objectives. They are not strategy. Because there IS NO strategy. 1/ Let me take these "objectives" 1-4 to explain - based upon what I've learned in briefings - why we are badly and embarrassingly losing this war.

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@Trenchap Aviano può bastare

Non credo ai miei occhi.

KAROLINE LEAVITT: “[Regarding foreign diplomacy] If we don’t like the way you negotiate, we’ll kill you.” I’m sorry. What?!?!

They removed CD/DVD drives from devices. They made physical media harder to buy and use. They removed expandable storage from phones. They pushed us into streaming subscriptions. They made always-online normal. They made unlimited internet necessary. Then slowly raised the price of everything. Ownership quietly became renting.

I must qualify this statement in the interests of accuracy: Not even apartheid South Africa codified executions for only one ‘race group’. Israel is now the most racist state the world has known since Nazi Germany. As the son of a Holocaust survivor who lost dozens of her family, I say this cautiously & with extreme pain. But it is now fact!

1. Looks like Pete Hegseth might well be a crooked war profiteer. But that's hardly the worst thing about him....

Israele introduce la pena di morte per i palestinesi, voluta dall’ultradestra di Ben Gvir e sostenuta da Netanyahu: impiccagione e nessuna possibilità di appello. L’ultima conferma di un’apartheid conclamata. Inutili le flebili e tardive proteste delle cancellerie europee

Israel's conviction rate of Palestinians (in military courts) is 99.74% Israel's conviction rate of reported settler attacks on Palestinians is 1.8% Israel's death sentence will only apply against Palestinians not Israeli Jews It's not complicated. It's Apartheid!

Israel is brazenly granting itself carte blanche to execute Palestinians while stripping away the most basic fair-trial safeguards. The new law dismantles fundamental safeguards to prevent the arbitrary deprivation of life and protect the right to a fair trial. It further empowers Israel’s system of apartheid, which is maintained by scores of discriminatory laws against Palestinians. amnestyusa.org/press-releases…

Cari coraggiosi politici🇮🇹🇪🇺 Ora che hanno approvato la legge cosa facciamo con le vostre letterine di protesta? Il 1°partner commerciale di Ben-Gvir&co. avrebbe gli strumenti ma preferisce sanzionare a singhiozzo. Risparmiateci letterine e lezioncine.#PS:x.com/Sidi_Bou/statu…

Leggermente tediato dalle star dei vari sport che si fanno i pompini a vicenda.

I know the Nazi card is overused and almost never applies, but what the Israeli Knesset has overwhelmingly voted for today, a law to mass murder Palestinian detainees- prisoners who, inconveniently, cannot just be bombed in Gaza or shot in the streets- a law introduced by a genocidal minister with an international arrest warrant, is the most dystopian and evil shit perhaps any country has done since Nazi Germany.

🚨 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt today: “Our nation was founded, almost 250 years ago, on Judeo-Christian values.” The Treaty of Tripoli. 1797. Signed by Founding Father John Adams. Ratified unanimously by the Senate: “The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” Thomas Jefferson — who wrote the Declaration of Independence — was a deist who literally cut the miracles out of his Bible. James Madison — the father of the Constitution — explicitly warned against the “diabolical hell conceived principle of persecution” by state religion. The First Amendment’s opening words: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” They put it first.

Un pluripregiudicato, storico seguace di terroristi ebraici, che diventa ministro alla Sicurezza e brinda ad una legge che scolpisce l’apartheid contro i palestinesi nella storia

Questo è il giorno giusto per ricordare che tutto il casino nel centrosinistra sul leader della coalizione deriva dalla presenza di un soggetto politico che non esiste in nessun altro paese al mondo: le coalizioni. 👇🧵 1/20

Superato di slancio l'apartheid, verso nuove vette totalitarie.

Israeli kanagaroo courts have a 99% conviction rate against Palestinians. Now theyre imposing the death penalty as part of sentencing. It goes w/o saying this punishment won’t b applied to Jewish IsraelIs. But pls cut our mics again when we say apartheid. apple.news/A1B-1NQqBROWoh…