How is POTUS a gift to the Kremlin, the "wise" people ask?
With one event, the death of Soleimani, which we are now clear was planned, the impact list includes:
-Putin in region to offer goodies for alliance. Syria & Iraq deep in nonlinear conflict, he is focused on Libya
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With one event, the death of Soleimani, which we are now clear was planned, the impact list includes:
-Putin in region to offer goodies for alliance. Syria & Iraq deep in nonlinear conflict, he is focused on Libya
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-China right behind Putin, offering slightly different tactical alliances
-Region-wide protests against corrupt regimes -- protests we should be supporting, protests Putin always fears -- lose momentum
-once again our allies pissed because no one talked to them
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-Region-wide protests against corrupt regimes -- protests we should be supporting, protests Putin always fears -- lose momentum
-once again our allies pissed because no one talked to them
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-Coalition forces including NATO partners also being targeted by Iranian counterstrikes; will add pressure on European govts to end/scale down deployments, as Germany has already done
-this will enter POTUS feedback loop of whining allies don't do enough, worse relations etc
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-this will enter POTUS feedback loop of whining allies don't do enough, worse relations etc
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- Iraqi parliament votes for US troops to leave. POTUS bluster re sanctioning another allied nation
- US left & right alike now arguing US should leave ME, stay home, deal with own problems. Isolationism/"America is the worst" thinking that echoes Kremlin narratives
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- US left & right alike now arguing US should leave ME, stay home, deal with own problems. Isolationism/"America is the worst" thinking that echoes Kremlin narratives
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- Iran which is in no way a normal regime now looks comparatively rational despite NO. Everyone stop retweeting their propaganda, it's no accident they suddenly let western press in to amplify
- Now easier for lame Euros and others with investment to normalize Iran
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- Now easier for lame Euros and others with investment to normalize Iran
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- Iran nuclear breakout again a headache we have to follow
- no one is fighting regional terrorism at the moment. This doesn't help us but Assad is fine w it 🙄
- Erdogan leveraging all parties for additional gains, esp Russia
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- no one is fighting regional terrorism at the moment. This doesn't help us but Assad is fine w it 🙄
- Erdogan leveraging all parties for additional gains, esp Russia
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- Americans on four continents have to worry re Iranian/proxy attacks
- while we are deploying more resources to ME and against these threats, we aren't paying attention to real strategic threats -- like Russia and China
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- while we are deploying more resources to ME and against these threats, we aren't paying attention to real strategic threats -- like Russia and China
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- don't forget SecState recently repeated "we have to work with Russia to contain China" garbage and ACK. He did not mention Russia at all in Iran diatribe, which is astonishingly ignorant of regional reality
- sh*t stirred back home. What impeachment? We're in a crisis! 🙄
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- sh*t stirred back home. What impeachment? We're in a crisis! 🙄
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- becomes obvious, to our adversaries also, there is no one home in key natsec jobs, Trump appointees not up to task
- More POTUS secret meetings with foreign creeps. Everyone knows by now Kushner isn't solving sh*t
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- More POTUS secret meetings with foreign creeps. Everyone knows by now Kushner isn't solving sh*t
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All these stresses were exacerbated by one deliberate action. POTUS thought this was strategic. This is not a judgment of the act itself -- but the peripherals around it show no ability to think or act strategically in best interests of America and our alliances
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Behold the gift that is reinforcing Kremlin objectives and narrative everywhere
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Even if this all ends tomorrow — Iran says retaliation done, Iraq goes quiet, POTUS goes back to regular obsessiveness — most of this damage remains.
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