Remember all that mumbo-jumbo about a borderless world and globalization blah blah…well turns out that this is a world is walls and MORE walls everyday, and soon it will all be walls. A divided, totalitarian world is what this century brings. Boxes and more alertness. Bigotry
I had to sit through these ridiculous classes in university where people would talk about their world without borders….yeah it was tried in Schengen, I was there in HU in 2015 when it began to breakdown, also saw the border wall Ankara put up, I saw the one Israel built etc etc
When I was in high school people used to go leave water for migrants crossing from Mexico in Arizona…now there are walls and more walls…I think basically everywhere I’ve been I’ve seen the walls and fences go up. And then the pandemic and more CCTV etc etc
Thread: The whole story of how Syria is positioning itself to be an energy broker for Lebanon, either via Iranian gas shipments and/or via Jordan and Egypt natural gas and electricity has potentially HUGE implications.
The Syrian regime was isolated and under sanctions, but this enables it to play the "good cop" and help energy flow to Lebanon, thus aiding what the US thinks are its interests AND Iran thinks are its interests...Syria suddenly becomes key to Iran and the US, Jordan, Egypt
Syria can use this to get around sanctions and it can work closely with Jordan and Egypt, as it has wanted to do more work also with Iraq (via Albukamal) and Iran...and then to the Gulf, where Riyadh is now working with Iraq, and other Gulf states want Syria back in the fold.
The destruction of the middle class in Lebanon and the ruin of the economy to subvert the country to Hezbollah and Iran is the Iranian “resistance axis” model for the Middle East. There is no country Iran’s proxies got into that didn’t become economic wasteland. Shame
Unfortunately this is the goal. The Tehran goal and its proxies that divert the economy, hijack and mafia off it, then send the profits and grift back to Tehran, they turn countries into hollowed out carcass and then bring in parallel state. They never build anything
if you look at a swath of states that Iran’s regime is involved in over the last decades you won’t find the influence building highways and universities and water infrastructure. You will find that in areas outside the Tehran clutches, such as the Gulf or Jordan, Israel, Turkey.
The reports of an incident near Damman and/or Dhahran, Saudi Arabia this evening, here is the distance from Yemen where there have been growing tensions, escalation;
Israel's IDF: "The Historic "Noble Waters" Naval Exercise Between the Israeli Navy and the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet: The first exercise between the Israeli Navy and the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet was held today (Tuesday) in the Red Sea." (Photos courtesy IDF)
"During the exercise, the two navies practiced a variety of scenarios including defense and rescue operations. The exercise saw the two navies working side by side, learning together and strengthening the connection and familiarity of the two nations' fleets."
"The exercise marks the beginning of joint efforts between the Israeli Navy and the U.S. Fifth Fleet, as part of the transitioning of IDF matters to the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM). This is the first exercise of many planned to take place in the future."
🧵 We are trying our hand at beef chili at #chezfrantzman; the process is below
We are cooking #chili#chilipeppers at #chezfrantzman, we used beef chuck shoulder cut 🥩 and braised it with olive oil and salt and pepper and set aside. Then we added one onion and six garlic cloves and sautéed them; then we added a tablespoon of brown sugar
and several teaspoons of cumin, and added six 🌶 chili peppers that we had put dry into boiling water for half an hour and then blended with some of the water they were in; we added kidney beans and then the meat back in with one tomato chopped 🍅