Eric Terzuolo

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Eric Terzuolo

Eric Terzuolo

@terzuolo

Diplomat, educator, researcher. Interests include US-European relations, international security policy, and the future of higher education in the US and Europe

Washington, DC Katılım Ekim 2009
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Eric Terzuolo
Eric Terzuolo@terzuolo·
@slantchev Europeans have reached the conclusion that the US is an unreliable ally and that, broadly speaking, they need to be able to take care of themselves. The details and political will are tricky at this point. Trump has blown up NATO as we have known it.
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Eric Terzuolo
Eric Terzuolo@terzuolo·
@EdwardGLuce @marcthiessen I commented to Mr. Thiessen that I found it odd he had “helped bring” countries into NATO without understanding what NATO was.
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Edward Luce
Edward Luce@EdwardGLuce·
@marcthiessen Marc, Nato's purpose is not hard to understand; mutual self-defence. That obviously doesn't cover reckless wars of choice on which other members haven't been consulted & would never have advised.
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Marc Thiessen 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🇹🇼🇮🇱
Marc Thiessen 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🇹🇼🇮🇱@marcthiessen·
So many longtime NATO supporters saying the same thing right now. I helped bring Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic into NATO. But denying us basing and overflight is inexcusable, as is their failure to help with Strait of Hormuz. No one asking them to bomb Iran, just let us use our bases and help escort ships. If they can’t do that, NATO has no purpose.
Clifford D. May@CliffordDMay

I'm pro-NATO. But I can't think of a single argument to refute what @MsMelChen says here. Not one. If others can, please weigh in.

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Eric Terzuolo
Eric Terzuolo@terzuolo·
@marcthiessen How odd that you “helped bring” countries into NATO without understanding what NATO was.
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Eric Terzuolo
Eric Terzuolo@terzuolo·
@slantchev I’m seeing this as scrambling for a definition of “victory” that would allow Trump to pull out of the war with Iran. International legal definition of war crimes is nowhere on his screen and there is no foreign policy process at work where people could at least flag the problem.
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Branislav Slantchev
Branislav Slantchev@slantchev·
Note that what Trump odds threatening here — “blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!” — is a war crime. If he issues such an order and the Pentagon carries it out, it will cover our military with shame that would make My Lai pale in comparison.
The White House@WhiteHouse

“The United States of America is in serious discussions with A NEW, AND MORE REASONABLE, REGIME to end our Military Operations in Iran.” - President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸

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Eric Terzuolo
Eric Terzuolo@terzuolo·
@greggnunziata Killing the filibuster makes sense if Republicans don’t believe they’ll ever lose the majority in the Senate again.
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Eric Terzuolo@terzuolo·
@StateDept @de_f_t State Department-if you bothered to look at the NATO founding treaty, you would know it contains no obligation to support unilateral aggressive US adventurism far away from the territory of the NATO member states, which the Alliance was created to defend.
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Department of State
Department of State@StateDept·
PRESIDENT TRUMP: NATO wasn’t there for us. We send billions of dollars to them every year to protect them. We would have always been there for them. But based on their actions, I guess we don’t have to be, do we? Why would we be there for them if they’re not there for us?
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Eric Terzuolo
Eric Terzuolo@terzuolo·
@realJeremyCarl @juliaioffe @barnes_law If one seriously objects to a policy, they should resign rather than implement it. Otherwise it’s pure careerism. Colby is now at “Peak Colby” and doesn’t want to give it up. Fine. But it’s not a principled stance.
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Jeremy Carl
Jeremy Carl@realJeremyCarl·
@juliaioffe @barnes_law Senior government official understands that The President sets the policy and doesn’t work to undermine him. This is how government is supposed to work.
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Julia Ioffe
Julia Ioffe@juliaioffe·
For decades, Elbridge Colby wrote that attacking Iran was “a recipe for perpetual war” that would be pointless and counterproductive. It's how he made his name in DC. Now he's helping carry out Trump's second strikes on Iran in less than a year. puck.news/how-elbridge-c…
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Eric Terzuolo
Eric Terzuolo@terzuolo·
@JohnJHarwood By twice electing Trump, through his harassment of our best allies, and now with the unconsidered war against Iran and the dire consequences for our allies in the Gulf region, the US has shown it is not a reliable ally We’ll keep paying the price. Sadly.
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John Harwood
John Harwood@JohnJHarwood·
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Tom Santos@tommysantos14

When Trump leaves office: The Department of War will go back to being the Defense Department. The Trump Kennedy Center will go back to being the Kennedy Center. The Gulf of America will once again be the Gulf of Mexico. The unfinished East Wing (it won't be finished by the end of Trump's term) will be rebuilt by the next president, and it will not be a ballroom. Federal agencies packed with unqualified loyalists will fire those people and rehire the career experts Trump fired. The Department of Justice will go back to enforcing the law instead of protecting the president. Scientific agencies like NOAA, the EPA, and the CDC will go back to publishing research without political interference. The U.S. will re-align with its allies and not with its enemies. The presidential pardon power will stop being used as a rewards program for loyalists. Inspectors General will go back to investigating corruption instead of getting fired for it. The White House press room will go back to having briefings, with real journalists and not podcasters. U.S. foreign policy will stop revolving around flattering dictators. And the world will progress as though Donald Trump never existed.

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Eric Terzuolo
Eric Terzuolo@terzuolo·
@havivrettiggur @EylonALevy US conviction, for years, that there were a bunch of moderates in Iran, just champing at the bit to negotiate seriously and give us what we wanted, was never grounded in reality.
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Haviv Rettig Gur
Haviv Rettig Gur@havivrettiggur·
Indeed. Larijani was also a well-regarded professor of philosophy specializing in Kant with several books to his name. He really knew his way around the German philosophical bookshelf. And he was a key architect of the massacre of tens of thousands of his own people, and since Khamenei's death the de facto power behind the throne of a tyrannical regime that has systematically gutted Iran for 47 long years. He was the very thing that had to be pushed aside if we are to have any hope of a different future.
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Farah Pandith
Farah Pandith@Farah_Pandith·
@greenfield64 They meant to say S.H.I.E.L.D. (Marvel) or a coincidence? We may get Operation Guardians of the Galaxy next.
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Eric Terzuolo
Eric Terzuolo@terzuolo·
@hahussain @simonmontefiore International law has force only when the states in the international system apply said law. Internationally law is not self-implementing.
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Hussain Abdul-Hussain
Hussain Abdul-Hussain@hahussain·
If you’re an alien from space who just landed on Earth and started reading media and social media, you’d learn this: - When Bashar Assad uses sarin gas on Syrians, that doesn’t violate international law. Requires de-escalation. But if America punishes Assad by taking him out, that’s a violation. Requires vilifying America as a bloodthirsty empire. - When Palestinians kill 1,200 Israelis and kidnap 250, that’s not a violation. Requires de-escalation. When Israelis hit back, that’s a violation demanding Israel be isolated, delegitimized, dismantled. - When Khamenei kills 20,000 Iranians protesting his rule in less than a week, that’s not a violation of international law. But when America threatens Khamenei with war unless the crazy dude surrenders nuclear and ballistic missile programs, that’s a violation. What kind of law is this whimsical international law?
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Eric Terzuolo
Eric Terzuolo@terzuolo·
@allenanalysis And Norway acted against its ambassador to Jordan who was tied to Epstein. Good for them.
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Brian Allen
Brian Allen@allenanalysis·
🚨 Norway just did what the rest of the world won’t. Former PM Thorbjørn Jagland was taken into custody today after losing immunity over Epstein ties. First real detention linked to this scandal. Accountability isn’t impossible. It’s just been avoided by our officials here in the USA. 🇺🇸
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Nicholas Burns
Nicholas Burns@RNicholasBurns·
Agree NATO must survive and it will. But Washington needs to repair the ruptured trust with Canada and the European allies. @MunSecConf
Michael McFaul@McFaul

To those declaring the end of NATO because of Trumps horrific threats to invade Greenland, I agree that this moment is a major crisis. But bigger than our splits in 1956 over Suez? France’s departure from NATO military structure for a while? Divides over Pershings in the 1980s or Iraq war in 2003? Maybe, but if so, just barely. We can get through this.

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Eric Terzuolo
Eric Terzuolo@terzuolo·
@Scaramucci @MalcolmNance She was an adult a decade ago. She just hadn’t yet let self-interest drive her into publicly manifesting her true self.
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Anthony Scaramucci
Anthony Scaramucci@Scaramucci·
Years from know Pam Bondi will look at this testimony with great embarrassment. She will be thinking how did I allow myself to get manipulated into speaking like that and showing such indifference to the victims. She was a different person a decade ago.
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Eric Terzuolo@terzuolo·
@slantchev Russian info warfare proclaiming their invincibility has been damnably effective, despite vast concrete evidence to the contrary. Overestimation of great powers seems to be a systematic problem.
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Eric Terzuolo
Eric Terzuolo@terzuolo·
@slantchev @Bubblebathgirl Voting is, I would argue, a civic duty for all adult Americans. We already make it difficult for Americans to vote, as compared to those awful European countries that the Administration deems so deeply undemocratic.
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Branislav Slantchev
Branislav Slantchev@slantchev·
@Bubblebathgirl Voting is a right, driving is a privilege. You can restrict the ability to drive in all sorts of ways.
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Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸
Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸@Bubblebathgirl·
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) says he’s against voter ID because it makes it harder for Americans to vote. Driver’s licenses make it harder for Americans to drive. Where’s Kelly’s objection to that?
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