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Christopher Preble
@capreble
Sr Fellow & Director, Reimagining US Grand Strategy Program @stimsoncenter. Co-host of Net Assessment. Cheers for @Orioles @MNWild @Vikings. Views my own.
Washington, DC Katılım Ekim 2009
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I agree with Hegseth, it's terrible when a government driven by a radical ideology invests in weapons instead of its people.
Acyn@Acyn
Hegseth: Iran is an energy rich country. instead, like so many other places, driven by a radical ideology, instead of investing in their people… they invested in missiles, and they invested in launchers and UAVS.
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The war party insists that every modern geopolitical problem has WWII level stakes but doesn't require WWII level sacrifices.
Funny that.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Tom Cotton: "Anyone who says we're already losing or in a quagmire or the president can't succeed is akin to saying Eisenhower was losing because he hadn't made it to Berlin within two weeks of D Day. It's going to take some time."
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biden total spend on ukraine: $180 billion
the pentagon just asked for $200 billion for war in iran.
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“Escalating to deescalate” is something you hear a lot in strategic and military circles. Has a nice ring to it. It also almost never works. Escalation tend to lead to….escalation.
Alex Ward@alexbward
Trump knew of South Pars attack and approved of it. But now he's against strikes on Iranian energy sites, believing Tehran received the message that it must reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Trump open to future attacks on Iranian energy facilities depending on Iran's SoH actions.
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Obviously not all think tankers think the same. Straw man aside, when tens of millions of dollars are coming from Pentagon contractors into think tanks, it would be analytical malpractice not to look into the conflicts of interest that creates
Steven A. Cook@stevenacook
Yes, all Washington think tankers think the same things...
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Fair, but I've yet to hear a workable nearterm plan to fully reopen the strait with boots on the ground either.
ian bremmer@ianbremmer
i’ve yet to hear a workable near term (next 4-6 weeks) plan for how to open the strait that doesn’t involve us boots on the ground.
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“Every just view that can be taken of this subject, admonishes the public, of the necessity of a rigid adherence to the simple, the received and the fundamental doctrine of the constitution, that the power to declare war including the power of judging of the causes of war is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature: that the executive has no right, in any case to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war: that the right of convening and informing Congress, whenever such a question seems to call for a decision, is all the right which the constitution has deemed requisite or proper: and that for such more than for any other contingency, this right was specially given to the executive.
“In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department. Beside the objection to such a mixture of heterogeneous powers: the trust and the temptation would be too great for any one man: not such as nature may offer as the prodigy of many centuries, but such as may be expected in the ordinary successions of magistracy. War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement. In war a physical force is to be created, and it is the executive will which is to direct it. In war the public treasures are to be unlocked, and it is the executive hand which is to dispense them. In war the honors and emoluments of office are to be multiplied; and it is the executive patronage under which they are to be enjoyed. It is in war, finally, that laurels are to be gathered, and it is the executive brow they are to encircle. The strongest passions, and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venial love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace.
“Hence it has grown into an axiom that the executive is the department of power most distinguished by its propensity to war: hence it is the practice of all states, in proportion as they are free, to disarm this propensity of its influence.”
—James Madison
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We need to end prediction markets for government action. NOW.
This bone chilling story about a reporter’s life threatened bc he simply reported on Iran missile strikes:
“After you make us lose $900,000 we will invest no less than that to finish you.” timesofisrael.com/gamblers-tryin…
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Merz is right: “NATO is a defence alliance and not an intervention alliance.”
Going out of area can no longer be NATO’s business.
Clash Report@clashreport
German Chancellor Merz on Iran War: NATO is a defense alliance and not an intervention alliance. And therefore, NATO is not called upon here at all. I pointed out the risks from the first day, and the risks of this war are large, very large. There will be no military solution here, but there will only be a political solution.
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Iran’s missile and drone launches don’t tell the whole story @ka_grieco fills in the details. warontherocks.com/2026/03/dont-c…
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Rep. Adam Smith tells Martha Raddatz that “war is not always the answer to a problem.”
“Yes, Iran is a problem. A problem that needs to be contained. But what we should have learned from Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein and the Taliban is, you can have a threat and not have a military solution that’s going to make it better.” abcnews.link/1qNxdBT
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Over and over, we've seen U.S. troops risk or lose their lives in wars that have significant tactical success but murky longterm outcomes, at best.
Any journalist not asking repeatedly about what comes next and how we get there isn't doing their job. The stakes are too high.
Ari Fleischer@AriFleischer
Today’s media cheer against the US, overstate enemy abilities, understate ours and paint a picture that the US is losing, while we’re winning. It’s more true today as they cheer against Trump in Iran. Within 10 days weeks of this 2001 NYT doozy saying our military efforts in Afghanistan were bogged down, the key city of Mazar e Sharif fell to the US and our ally the Northern Alliance, and Kabul fell days later. This story was written a mere three weeks after our counter-offensive against Al Qaeda began. But that didn’t stop the NYT from saying we were already in a quagmire. The media are doing the same thing today in Iran. From a military point of view, Operation Epic Fury has been a huge success. We don’t know yet about who will run Iran, but the press will always see America’s cup as 1/10th empty. If today’s press covered WW II, they would have written mostly about civilian casualties, friendly fire, and failed missions, downplaying the overwhelming allied victories against the Nazis.
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Did the WH Press Secretary really retweet a poll showing 27% support for the war among Independents ahead of a midterm election?
My God.
Curt Mills@CurtMills
Leavitt reposting Dubowitz now. Also this poll is bad for the White House, as is this asinine and evil war they undertook at the urging of figures such as Mark Dubowitz
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If you aren’t following @ka_grieco’s🧵🧵🧵you’re missing out. Read and learn.
Kelly Grieco@ka_grieco
Today's SecW and CJCS briefing contained some notable internal contradictions worth unpacking. A 🧵. war.gov/News/Transcrip…
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As with Iraq, the problem is not the strategy or tactics of the Iran war. It's the decision to fight an unnecessary war in the first place.
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Understanding Iran’s military strategy in response to Operation Epic Fury. stimson.org/2026/iran-isnt…
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Politico: “The Pentagon chief last year slashed offices that didn’t contribute to his goal of “lethality,” including the group that assists in limiting risk to civilians, known as the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence. Around 200 employees who worked on the issue, including at that office, have been reduced by about 90 percent, according to two current and former officials and a person familiar with the effort. The team that handles civilian casualties at Central Command, which oversees the Middle East, has dropped from 10 to one.”
POLITICO@politico
Hegseth gutted offices that would have probed Iran school strikes dlvr.it/TRQ8DY
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