




Cyril Gelibter
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@Winpac89
Docteur en histoire. Parle français russe et anglais. Renseignement, relations internationales, histoire. https://t.co/rZSWLOc6gC














3 weeks have now passed following the start of the US 🇺🇸-Israeli 🇮🇱 operation to topple the regime in Iran 🇮🇷 🔸The Islamic regime is still holding 🔸The Hormuz Strait is closed 🔸Iran continues to retaliate 🔸No new protest in Iran 🔸US/ISR operations continue 🧵THREAD🧵1/20⬇️

@WhiteHouse Maybe you shouldn’t have started the war first on false pre-tenses

En sciences sociales, généraliser à partir d’un ou deux cas est extrêmement compliqué. Cela dépend de nos connaissances causales préalables, de nos connaissances préalables sur les populations de cas et sur la fréquence des variables contextuelles qui activent ou inhibent les mécanismes causaux, des données issues de l'analyse des processus dans les études de cas, et de la manière dont ces données actualisent nos connaissances préalables sur les mécanismes causaux et les contextes dans lesquels ils opèrent ou non. Et cela pose un pb bcp plus général pour la théorie militaire 👇





🇺🇸🇮🇷After three weeks of war, Trump's team is currently trying to answer two key questions: Who in Iran is the best point of contact for negotiations, and which country is best mediator. @MarcACaputo and I write for @axios axios.com/2026/03/21/tru…

Khamenei’s killing has effectively buried the doctrine of “strategic patience”, long defended at the top, but increasingly contested within sectors of the IRGC. - For years, a younger generation of commanders argued that recent calibrated, symbolic responses - from Soleimani’s aftermath to strikes in Syria and beyond - were read in Tel Aviv as hesitation, not restraint. - After the June war, that internal shift became visible: a more hardline, operationally assertive cohort emerged, convinced that deterrence had been eroded, if not outright dismantled. In their view, “patience” didn’t prevent escalation- it enabled it. - Israel’s targeting of senior figures, culminating in Khamenei and Larijani, has now removed the last political brakes on that thinking. What remains is a command layer that sees escalation not as a risk, but as a necessary reset. - From their perspective, this is a rare strategic window: rebuild deterrence decisively, restore credibility, and close the chapter on years of perceived hesitation. - As I’ve argued before, many within the IRGC had long been anticipating- and quietly preparing for-exactly this kind of confrontation. #Iran #IranWar

Stanley Kubrick predicted Pete Hegseth and a bald president back in 1964.




@citrinowicz I interviewed an Iranian scientist for my book and he gave me a response that ended up being one of my subheadings: “we started the [nuclear] program because we were all alone and nobody helped us- everybody was helping Iraq.” So critical .