Mikhail Gorbaechev

It would be good if people made the difference clear because most of them don't seem to be doing so

"We decided to do it together" is very different than "those tricky Jews lied us innocent Americans into a war"!

His world is Christian nationalist, which is pretty distinct!

They may support Israel instrumentally or ideologically because it kills brown people and they like ethnostates, but they're not committed to Israel qua Israel.

No this shit from Gallego is very ugly

The information ecosystem where doing stuff to defend Israel is popular is 1) Christian Zionist world and 2) DC think tank world. Other than Rubio, maybe, none of the senior Trump people move in those spaces much. They're much more in more white nationalist ones.

it's fun to be a sacrifice zone I guess

I disagree, most of these guys aren't in that information ecosystem at all.

i am increasingly sympathetic to the position that QTing or RTing actual Nazis on Twitter doesn't mean you are aligned with those Nazis but this is (as Ian says) primarily an argument against being on Twitter

Could one thing not be Gender, just once

They’re replaced drinking and sex with hitting their faces with hammers and antisemitism

Hiring the dregs of Liberty Law School for the DOJ is the legal equivalent of drafting 13-year-olds into the infantry

Scenes from a personalist regime

They pretty straightforwardly decided to go in on this together, and now that it's turning into a shitshow want people to blame the Jews.

Ruben Gallego suggesting the US invaded Iraq in 2003 because the Israel prime minister gave a speech to Congress may work, politically, but it is also ahistorical — promoting a flattering myth of American innocence.

The constraints on how much individuals can change things for the better are real. They are much less real when it comes to changes for the worse.

I don't believe in the Great Man theory of history, but I do believe in the Big Wet Idiot theory of history.

This is also, in a more obviously insane way, Eric Adams

Incredible how "death to the tyrants, up with the people" is both incredibly obvious and morally consistent and an extremely uncommon foreign policy view.

when leftists treat the United States and Israel as the only global actors with agency they are going to get caught off guard when shit like this happens

I think the version of Jeffries that makes the most sense is "guy who believes conspiracy theories about Jewish power and wants in"

obviously the president of Ukraine could have no interest in Iran, now to take a big sip of coffee and look up what a Shahed drone is.

We also failed to include Russia at the table or get behind a UN mission in the country post-Gadhafi.

"This is practically closest to an achievable and tolerable resolution" is basically how I feel about it, although I don't know how much less of a fantasy it is now than a Bosnia federal type model.

Had we played things differently, I think Libya could have been a real success story.

I think Libya was morally defensible if a clusterfuck for practical reasons.

We are different groups of people! Even when Diaspora Jews have shitty nationalist opinions about Israel we are different groups of people. Nobody is particularly furious at the Serbian diaspora for having shitty opinions about the Balkan Wars.

I am a man. I have the right to freedom and dignity just like anybody else.

This is why I am simultaneously an anti-Zionist and extremely exercised about antisemitism, rather than being one of those people who says "how could you be concerned about antisemitism when ISRAHELL is KILLING CHILDREN??"

Anti-Zionism requires an alternative version of Jewish dignity and safety without a nation-state, otherwise it's just "rights for me and not for thee"