@ghoshworld

"Was the Iranian regime bad?"

And

"now that Trump started a regime change war in a country the size of Iraq and Afghanistan combined, without getting congressional approval or doing any planning at all, should we just kind of roll with it?"

Are different questions.

But you'd hardly know it.

I’ll be on @cnn.com at 10:30pm ET, to discuss the latest developments in the war against Iran, with Polo Sandoval.

Detainee says guards bet on suicide Like other detainees, Ramsingh said that between cleanings the rooms, restrooms and showers were often filthy and infested with insects. He said detainees stole others’ food because everyone was hungry due to the small and sometimes inedible meals, which led to fights, and the conditions took a toll on his mental health. At one point he said he overheard a security guard talking about bets made among the staff over which detainee would be next to die by suicide. The guard said he had paid $500 into a pool, with the total pot riding on the outcome. The talk was particularly jarring, he said, because he had contemplated suicide himself.

This is a sign of the complete moral failure of our society. AP report. apnews.com/article/suic...

US judge voids 2025 actions taken by Kari Lake as Voice of America CEO, including job cuts A federal judge ruled on Saturday that Kari Lake's leadership of the U.S. Agency for Global Media for much of last year violated federal law, invalidating a ​sweeping series of actions she took to cut staff and end many operations ‌at its Voice of America unit.

US judge voids 2025 actions taken by Kari Lake as Voice of America CEO, including job cuts reut.rs/4soGuh6

Western automakers are chasing rare earth-free motors but China’s cost advantage remains difficult to crack https://restofworld.org/2026/chinas-rare-earth-dominance-is-hard-for-ev-makers-to-escape/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1772936460

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Now comes the ritual humiliation of NFL players. Just a few people speaking out in defense of their own dignity would make a big difference here.

When a Warehouse Goes Dark in Dubai It's not just about hydrocarbons: The war against Iran has knocked out a logistics nerve center that quietly underpins humanitarian aid, manufacturing, and everyday trade from Africa to Asia.

My latest: It's not just about hydrocarbons: The war against Iran has knocked out a logistics nerve center that quietly underpins global manufacturing, trade and humanitarian aid.
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What have I ever done to deserve… Oh, wait.

Iran War I "Beat To Hell"- Trump's New Threat as Iran Vows No More Attacks in Gulf, If..I Barkha YouTube video by Mojo Story

I joined former Ambassador Arun Singh on ‘Bottomline with Barkha Dutt’, to discuss the latest developments in the war on Iran:

www.youtube.com/live/cP-yZJ8...

Could say the same to the British.

Not exactly… more like taqaza, in the Lucknowi sense.

Trump: "The president of El Salvador, another friend. Nabe -- Bookeli"

Trump is taking this as a sign that his bombing campaign is working. But the fact that the apology comes a day after reports that the UAE was thinking of freezing Iranian assets is… indicative.

They like to call it “tarouf.”

A Big Chance For the Kurds? They’ve Heard That Before Every outside power that has ever armed them has treated them as expendable. The CIA's latest operation follows a pattern that stretches back 80 years — and the Venezuela playbook suggests how it ends

Latest reports suggest the Kurds are resisting US pressure to launch attacks in Iran. I explain why 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
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Opinion | Trump’s mini-me ambassadors are insulting and alienating U.S. allies Save the undiplomatic diplomats. The president does enough damage to America’s reputation all by himself.

Though their offensive antics might delight Trump, these Ugly Americans further alienate vital allies. Even in Poland, one of the most pro-American nations in the world, a majority of respondents in a recent poll said the U.S. is no longer a reliable ally. wapo.st/3OQYwu8

Don't make your U.S. foreign policy contingent on the average American's ability to tolerate material deprivation. That's been a losing proposition since the 1960s, despite all the rhetoric to the contrary.

I sense that somewhere, somebody is creating a new version of the “Downfall” meme.

Intel report warns large-scale war ‘unlikely’ to oust Iran’s regime A classified U.S. report doubts that Iran’s opposition would take power following either a short or extended U.S. military campaign.

A classified report by the National Intelligence Council found that even a large-scale assault on Iran launched by the United States would be unlikely to oust the Islamic republic’s entrenched military and clerical establishment. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Specific targets, maybe not so much. But I’m very, very skeptical that the decision to bomb GCC countries was taken independently of the leadership. It’s too early in the war for the kind of chaos that would allow lower-level commanders to make those calls.

Iranian drones are causing a headache for America and its allies. Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, has promised to send military experts to help in the Middle East: econ.st/4leWxvB

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Tom Stevenson · Iran, Week One It is tempting to frame the attack of 28 February as a spectacular aberration, an act of criminal aggression that could...

‘Claims that Iran must be prevented from having a nuclear weapon can have nothing to do with the rationale for war except as emotionally potent misdirection. A more plausible immediate motivation for the war was vulgar opportunism.’

@tomstevenson.bsky.social on Iran:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘It means missile defence on data centres’: drone strikes raises doubts over Gulf as AI superpower Iran’s targeting of commercial datacentres in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfare

Drone strikes raises doubts over Gulf as AI superpower ... "It is believed to be a first: the deliberate targeting of a commercial datacentre by the armed forces of a country at war" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Sure, sure.

So let me get this straight ...

1. US bombs Iran
2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate
3. Russia gives Iran targeting info
4. Oil price shoots WAY up
5. US unsanctions Russian oil

this isn't just a MAGA thing, it's a cross-American one and *especially* a lot of people who came of age in politics or punditry in the 1990s. the idea that the news could happen to them - that the world might not be all going their way - is genuinely brain-breaking to a lot of them

You couldn't make this up

Putin is supporting Iran with intelligence in the war

Yet Trump is considering unsanctioning more Russian oil according to Bessent

A clueless US Administration, in way over its head

I can't believe the Armageddon military commanders story has gone viral based on one person's claims to have received complaints from servicemembers. That's it! That's all we know. Yet somehow it's gone viral and now Democrats are seeking a Pentagon IG investigation

Good post on the practical SOF challenges of securing Iran's HEU stocks. Doesn't mean Israel and the US won't try it.