Brian Gray
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Brian Gray
@brianinroma
🇨🇦🇺🇳 🇯🇴 Networks instead of hierarchy; HIIT & deadlifts instead of machines. I used to be disgusted, but now I am just amused. Tweets not endorsement.
Amman Katılım Mart 2009
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Whatever you incentivize, you get more of…..
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"It sounds crazy to say, but there is, there is a homeless industrial complex." @CityJournal reporter @kennethschrupp just wrote a piece where he found 64 percent of the LA street homeless were from outside LA. "Why is this still happening? How does the city of LA benefit from this? "The answer is that there's a lot of funding at stake. There's a lot of federal, state, and county funding that the city gets for providing services to homeless individuals." "There's a large array of nonprofits and they're very politically connected. The more money they get, the more politically powerful they get." "These kinds of interests dominate city politics, and more and more money goes to these groups, even at the expense of regular everyday citizens or just small businesses that want somewhere safe and clean to do business, a place where women and children are safe to take public transit, let alone, like, walk on the streets."
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theguardian.com/world/2026/may… The @guardian tells the story of how @UNRWA staff spent 10 months rescuing millions of Palestinian refugee records from Gaza and East Jerusalem — registration cards, birth and marriage certificates, testimonies from 1948. Without them, the evidence of a people’s displacement disappears
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Analysis: Jordan’s strikes in Syria are not mere raids but a warning: Amman will defend its border, reject Sweida-based smuggling, and signal that neither Druze autonomy nor Israeli involvement can override Jordanian interests.
Reporting by @sfrantzman
jpost.com/middle-east/ar…
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عملية الردع الأردني.. القوات المسلحة الأردنية تستهدف مواقع لتجار الأسلحة والمخدرات على الواجهة الشمالية وتدمر مصانع ومعامل ومستودعات تنطلق منها عمليات باتجاه الأردن
#الأردن #الجيش_العربي #القوات_المسلحة_الأردنية #هنا_المملكة
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After my meeting with President Trump at Mar-a-Lago, the Middle East is entering a moment of decision
By #MariaMaalouf
I met with Donald Trump last night at Mar-a-Lago, his residence in Florida. It was not a ceremonial exchange. It was a strategic conversation — direct, unscripted and unmistakably focused on outcomes.
The takeaway is clear: Washington is moving away from managing crises in the Middle East and toward forcing decisions.
President Trump’s recent statements — including his early-morning warning that the era of being “nice” is over — are not rhetorical. They are calibrated signals, timed to shape both geopolitical behavior and market expectations.
Lebanon: appreciation, but no illusions
On Lebanon, President Trump struck a tone that was both personal and conditional. He told me he values the support and goodwill he receives from the Lebanese people — a recognition that matters in a country long caught between competing powers.
But he was equally clear about the path forward. In his view, peace between Lebanon and Israel is not only possible — it is achievable within his tenure. That is a bold assertion, but it comes with defined terms: sovereignty cannot coexist with parallel power structures.
This marks a departure from years of strategic ambiguity. The new framework is simple and uncompromising: one state, one army, one decision.
Under this approach, the issue of Hezbollah is no longer treated as a secondary complication. It is the central test of whether Lebanon can re-enter the international system as a fully sovereign actor. The window for gradualism is closing; the expectation now is measurable change.
Iran: compressed timelines, rising pressure
If Lebanon is about conditional opportunity, Iran is about urgency.
President Trump’s posture reflects a shift from open-ended negotiation to compressed timelines. The message to Tehran is direct: move quickly toward an agreement under clear parameters, or face escalating pressure.
What stands out is not only the substance, but the method. Delivering key messages before Asian markets open is a deliberate tactic — linking political signaling to immediate economic impact. It is pressure applied in real time, across multiple fronts.
Iraq: the end of the gray zone
Iraq, often treated as a secondary file, is in fact central to this strategy.
In recent remarks, President Trump offered a measured acknowledgment of Ali al-Zaidi following his political advancement — a signal that Washington is watching closely, but not extending unconditional support.
The direction is clear: Iraq will no longer be managed as a buffer space. It is being reframed as a decision arena. Reducing militia influence, restoring institutional credibility and tying economic engagement to sovereignty are no longer aspirational goals — they are benchmarks.
A region moving from ambiguity to choice
Across Lebanon, Iran and Iraq, a single pattern emerges: ambiguity is being replaced by binary choices.
State or non-state. Alignment or isolation. Decision or consequence.
Critics will warn that such clarity risks escalation. That concern is valid. But the alternative — indefinite ambiguity — has already produced prolonged instability, eroded institutions and strategic drift.
What I heard at Mar-a-Lago, and what recent statements reinforce, is that the next phase will not be about managing that drift. It will be about ending it.
The Middle East is not simply entering another cycle of tension. It is entering a moment of decision.
And this time, the margin for delay is shrinking.
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Documented how I built a self-maintaining knowledge base on ME security using Claude's Cowork mode: structured articles, scheduled web searches, token-efficient updates, and a "what changed and why" digest each week. Methodology here ---> github.com/brianinroma/Mi…
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"This arc — from cause to nation — is how former secretary of state Henry Kissinger liked to describe what was needed to stabilize Iran and the Middle East" washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…
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I wish everyone, including the haters and losers, a very happy Easter!
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In my final op-ed as I end my tenure as Commissioner-General, I warn about relentless efforts to destroy UNRWA, amid growing disregard for international law.
Read more in The Guardian ⬇️
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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“Strategy in war is not a checklist. It is not a fixed plan written on the opening day and executed step by step until completion. Strategy is the purposeful alignment of ends, ways, and means to achieve political objectives in conditions of opposition and uncertainty.”
John Spencer@SpencerGuard
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The military campaign in Iran has already delivered major wins for American national security—but something much bigger is starting to come into view, @mdubowitz and @rich_goldberg argue: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/…
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More grist for the AI mill ---> "You can’t be thinking about terms of service on the battlefield. It’s called the Department of War — not the Department of HR" piratewires.com/p/claude-anthr…
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