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The closest case is Libya, but that was providing air support to organized rebels, not bombing in hopes of a mass uprising. Also, didn’t turn out great.

This is actually genuinely very much not good for stability and not-killing

“Let them eat liver” is a good slogan. They should run with that. 🙄

Some people see “those who forget history are bound to repeat it” as an opportunity.

In a statement to The Crimson, Summers wrote that the decision to leave was “difficult” and that he remained “grateful to the thousands of students and colleagues I have been privileged to teach and work with since coming to Harvard as a graduate student 50 years ago.” “Free of formal responsibility, as President Emeritus and a retired professor, I look forward in time to engaging in research, analysis, and commentary on a range of global economic issues,” he added.

When academia's stars mistreat people, they're "punished" with relief from teaching, mentoring, and service responsibilities. This frees them to spend more time on the more valued work of research. And dumps less valued responsibilities onto colleagues, making it harder for them to become stars.

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI

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Specifying a limit to the punishment the US is willing to dish out makes it much easier for Tehran to decide if it's worth making the concessions or taking the (limited) blows

If you want to make a national security argument, maybe don’t send the Secretary of the Interior, whose job includes managing resource extraction on public lands.

Three angles on the statue of Carlos III in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol. 📷

Section 8 The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

The tariffs were obviously blatantly unconstitutional from the moment that they were imposed. If the Supreme Court is going to have a shadow docket and make emergency orders, it's absurd that they let these tariffs stand for a year.

Reminder that if Trump thinks tariffs are so important, he could work with Congress to pass legislation authorizing him to impose them.

Keep in mind:

1. You're not getting your money back. The corporations that made you pay tariffs will pocket any refunds.

2. The Supreme Court did not (and cannot) invalidate other countries' tariffs on US products, which they can continue to use.

Trump has unequivocally screwed Americans.

Exclusive | Trump Weighs Initial Limited Strike to Force Iran Into Nuclear Deal The president was considering a range of military options but has said he still prefers diplomacy.

This sounds like the graduated pressure logic that guided the initial U.S. air campaign in Vietnam, Operation Rolling Thunder.

It was tactically impressive, lasted three years, and totally failed to achieve U.S. strategic objectives.
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“This course does not violate discrimination against students.” 😐

Bet a bunch of countries are kicking themselves right now for not shelling out $1 billion to be on the Board of Peace. 🙄

Isn’t this the strong, sovereign, self-confident Europe that Rubio wants?

A belli in search of a casus.

Yeah, that’s about as far as I got. I really need the announcers to draw some arrows to explain the strategy.

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US-Iran war(?)🧵

Over the last few hours there are so many signs of iminnent US strike in Iran that one would be forgiven to think someone in DC wants us to think it's coming. There's already more aerial capabilities in the area than back in the 12 day war in June (see INSS map). 1/

This makes perfect sense. The current crisis started with Trump threatening Iran not to shoot protesters and telling protesters that “help is on the way.” Why wouldn’t Tehran think that disarming will only make it more vulnerable to US intervention?

Thanks. I get the basic rules—and it looks like it would be fun with sufficient alcohol—but I can’t understand the strategies because even in English the jargon is impenetrable.

One nice thing about living in Switzerland right now is that I can watch Swiss, British, German, French, and Italian Olympics coverage. Turns out that curling is incomprehensible in any language.

Scatterplot of changes in UN ideal points from 2024 to 2025. Salient feature is the U.S. shooting away from most other countries.

Good Authority's Erik Voeten used country-level UN vote data to create ideal points, similar to how political ideology is measured. It shows the massive shift in U.S. foreign policy in 2025, relative to the rest of the world. goodauthority.org/news/the-wor...

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Regulating the media consumption of minors would seem to be a legitimate exercise of sovereignty, something the US has demanded Europe do more of.

The other batsh*t insane thing is that we *had* an informal confederation built around "western civilization," one made through the defeat of Nazism and the containment of Marxist-Leninism. It worked! What made it durable was the liberal internationalist ideas and institutions, *not* the racism.

Rubio came back from Europe and all I got was this lousy brownshirt.

"The aggressor is always peace-loving ... he would prefer to take over our country unopposed." -- Clausewitz

Trump threatened to strike Iran if it killed protestors but then was told the forces weren't in place to do that, so Iran killed protestors and now that forces are in place, Trump is threatening to strike unless Iran gives up its nuclear program which we obliterated last year. Do I have that right?

The original quote you pulled out. “Military offers shouldn’t learn about politics, but they should make strong claims about the cultural underpinnings of liberal democracy.”