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Dec 22, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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We got a light dusting of snow last night on our hilltop in Istanbul and the day came up bright and sunny. An early stroll round Bebek produced this pictures.
A 19th century palace owned since Ottoman times by the Egyptian government. Now the Egyptian consulate (recently restored).

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Oct 21
🧵Consider, please, the plight of poor Donald Trump. He’s told everyone he’s a great deal maker (wrote a book about it !), and he’s hot for the Nobel Peace Prize (because Obama). He’s simply *desperate* to claim credit for ending Russia v. Ukraine (“9 wars I’ve stopped !”).
But, there’s a problem: Trump has NO LEG TO STAND ON ! He’s got *no* leverage on EITHER of the combatants:

(1) He’s shot his bolt with the Ukrainians, cutting off all military and financial aid and slow-rolling a G-7 effort to give Putin’s frozen assets to Ukraine.
Sure, Zellensky would still happily take whatever he might be able to get from the U.S., but the U.S. is no longer central to Ukrainian (or European) war planning. Trump made sure of that.
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Oct 20
🧵On Sept. 2, 1987, exactly two months after returning from his first ever trip to Russia (arranged by the Russian Ambassador to the UN), Trump spent over $100,000 to publish a full page ad in three major U.S. newspapers.
The ad, a letter to Americans, inveighed against the 'unfairness' of disproportionate U.S. spending on multilateral defense structures. He said our allies, a bunch of free riders, were taking us to the cleaners, and that the U.S. needed to 'show some spine' in dealing with them.
This intervention, from someone not then in public life, came out of the blue. He had no history on the issue, and almost no profile on any other issue of national significance (other than having put himself forward to Reagan as a candidate to lead nuclear disarmament talks !).
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Oct 19
🧵MEMO
To: @realDonaldTrump @SecRubio
Copies: @LeaderJohnThune @SenSchumer @SpeakerJohnson @RepJeffries
From: A Lot of Americans

There is no precedent in our history for abetting an aggressor’s demand for territory seized in an illegal war.
Backing Putin’s demand for Donbas, and inhibiting Ukraine’s legitimate self-defense, would betray our deepest held values as a people, and do serious damage to our national security. It would be strenuously opposed by the majority of Americans who side with Ukraine.
You are bound by oath to protect the national interests of the United States, not those of any other country. Our national interests are in Ukraine’s independence and territorial integrity. We expect you to act accordingly.
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Oct 15
🧵I was active in the anti-South African apartheid movement as an undergraduate at Oxford (1970-73). The post below brought back a memory.
In those years, we held many large, noisy protests in Trafalgar Square, opposite South Africa House. Image
At one of those protests, I was standing next to a dear friend, an American Jew. He started talking about his experience of working on a kibbutz the previous summer. Surveying the scene around us, he concluded: “And you know what ? Israel’s as apartheid as South Africa.”
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Oct 13
🧵My read: GM's pressuring Trump, as I wrote she would. If she were quiet and happy in the cushy digs she negotiated w/ Blanche, they'd leave her be, at least till after mid-terms, and there'd be no need to parlay with her. That they're meeting w/ her suggests she's got demands.
From GM's pov, there's no upside in delaying her power play: (i) she knows Trump's a treacherous jackal whose promise of a pardon can't be trusted, (ii) even if Trump could be trusted, his shelf life (physically and politically) is probably short, and (iii) she's impatient.
Also: (iv) she's leveraging the feverish interest in the 'Epstein Files.' With the battle over the discharge resolution (w/ stakes so high that Trump's ordered Johnson to keep Congress on shutdown), does Trump really want GM leaking more stuff like the 'birthday book' ?
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Oct 12
🧵My take on the Homan story and a general problem in our laws:
Homan's obviously dirty. There were undoubtedly more of these 'transactions' (that's how FBI got onto him originally). He's been revealed as a slimy, dishonest person and a betrayer of the public's trust. But ...
The Vance/Bondi line that Homan 'did not commit a crime' and didn't take a 'bribe' rests on the fact that the payoff occurred during the campaign and *before* he held an official position. He was soliciting money in *anticipation* of being in a position, later, to bestow favors.
On its face (putting aside that it was a sting), the $50,000 was a 'bet' that Homan would take office and then be able to perform the services he was advertising. It was a 'bet' because his taking office wasn't certain. Can you 'bribe' a private citizen ?
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