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@jahimes COHEN: Does the IC know where Iran's enriched uranium is? GABBARD: The IC has high confidence that we know where it is. [...] COHEN: We have methods of destroying it? GABBARD: This is a conversation for a closed setting, sir.

Hey @NYCMayor — what does your wife mean by "fgts" here?

Oh my god. On the radio, NRSC-endorsed Michele Tafoya says that gas prices are spiking because of the Iran war that she supports and that people should “take one less trip to Starbuck’s” and to “just try to be patriots” about it. #mnsen

China isn’t planning to invade Taiwan in 2027 and would prefer to take control of the island without resorting to force., the U.S. concludes on.wsj.com/4lAedlA

Until a few days ago, advocates for the Iran attack like @zriboua argued we should ignore pessimistic pundit assessments in the news. Instead, they pointed to the declining number of missile attacks from Iran as evidence that Iran’s capacity to launch retaliatory attacks was severely compromised by the US/Israel and argued that the war was enter a “de-escalation phase”. Now, focusing on the same line of argument, it seems that Iran may have been indeed conserving strength and re-consolidating attack plans. Their retaliatory attacks using both missiles and drones have both increased in intensity, going in the wrong direction, just like inflation trends in the US, putting enormous pressures on US policymakers. The Chinese idiom is 骑虎难下.