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WOW! Trump White House memo, whose origins officials can't explain though it's very similar to one written by Israeli intel firm Black Cube, pushes a crazy conspiracy theory linking Obama officials with outside commentators like Jeffrey Goldberg and myself newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
Earlier, a Black Cube whistleblower told NBC that the client of Black Cube was "Trump." The similarity between the White House memo and the Black Cube memo lends wredence to what this whistleblower was saying.
If established, it means that the Trump White House hired a foreign intelligence firm to collect intelligence and try to entrap former White House officials, journalist and commentators, in order to advance Trump's own political agenda.

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1. Willful blindness is needed to bemoan America's lessened footprint in the MidEast and claim it'll "destabilize" the region. In reality, the US's policy of primacy has encouraged US "allies" to be even more reckless and destabilizing.
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A few thoughts on Trump's new Iran sanctions and massive escalation:

There is little doubt Trump’s sanctions will hurt the Iranian economy. But it is highly unlikely that they will succeed in forcing Iran to capitulate to Mike Pompeo’s 12 demands. >>
Obama tried the same with his sanctions -and failed. He only got Iran to show flexibility after he offered concessions, such as accepting enrichment on Iranian soil. Sanctions alone did not break the nuclear deadlock under Obama and it is even less likely to succeed under Trump>>
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/THREAD/

Months ago I pointed out that if the EU didnt put down its foot and stop Trump from killing the #IranDeal, Trump would proceed to kill the next international agreement and then the next.

John Bolton's attack on ICC should be seen in that context.

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2. Trump seeks to destroy the entire international system to bring us back to the law of the jungle. In his primitive thinking, such an international (dis)order will be to the benefit of the US (and Israel) because of their military strength.
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3. That is utterly bizarre. Not only does this incentivize other countries to build up their militaries (making the world and the US less safe), but smart states use their strength today to establish rules that will protect them even when their relative strength wanes.
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<THREAD> CONFIRMED: The Israeli intel firm Black Cube used to go after Harvey Weinstein’s accusers also targeted me & @brhodes (& our families).

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