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Thanassis Cambanis Profile picture
Thanassis Cambanis
@tcambanis
Director of @CenturyIntl, senior fellow @TCFdotorg. Books: Iraq war (forthcoming), Once Upon a Revolution, Hezbollah, Hybrid Actors, Citizenship & Discontents.
Mar 8 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Short thread:

President Biden won't announce these simple moves in the State of the Union tonight.

But if he changes his mind, Biden has authority to do the right thing: stop the war in Gaza, send aid, and end US complicity with war crimes.

1/6 Stop the war: President Biden can order his ambassador to the United Nations to support a ceasefire resolution at the Security Council.

Once the US stops wielding its veto, the Security Council could approve a text within a day.

2/
Jan 29 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
THREAD

Here we are.

Rushing deeper into an entirely avoidable regional Middle East war. US already is fighting on multiple fronts.

On Sunday, resistance axis militants killed 3 Americans.

There's only one wise response to the crossing of this US red line: pull back.

1/16 TL;DR

America deescalates immediately (in Yemen, Iraq, region-wide); presses Israel to stop Gaza war now; endorses full regional climbdown.

Otherwise, Joe Biden will have ended one war in Afghanistan only to start a bigger one that stretches from Iran to the Suez Canal.

2/16
Jan 5 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
— Thread —

We’re squarely in the take-off zone for all-out regional war.

That terrifying conflagration we’ve been warning against — it seems to have arrived, but not yet irreversibly.

Now might be the last chance to draw back.

1/15

tcf.org/content/commen… Early in the war at @tcfdotorg we warned about the risks of a full-on regional war that includes the US.

2/15

@CenturyIntl with @AbuJamajem
tcf.org/content/commen…
Jul 12, 2021 • 28 tweets • 18 min read
I’m going to share a few snapshots and moments along the way during my visit to Iraq, to provide some color.

I’m reporting for a forthcoming book that asks: What happened in Iraq after America invaded in 2003, and what broke around the world as a result of that war. #Iraq The last few days I visited Najaf and Karbala. Here some pilgrims rest in the plaza outside the Shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf at midday, with the temperature at 117 degrees Fahrenheit. #Iraq #Najaf Image
Sep 18, 2019 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
1/THREAD ON IRAN & US: We’re now in a security crisis entirely the result of unforced errors by the United States. Trump refused to have a strategy, and chose to destabilize the region with maximum confrontation. 2/Along the way, the Trump administration has squandered huge reservoirs of credibility.