Eugene Finkel

Btw, can someone please check on Elbridge Colby, I am curious how his strategy of denial is doing.

"I am ready to make a deal with the regime which I also simultaneously want to change" is a novel, original, unorthodox, maverick way to do either. Well, at least it is reassuring to know that the administration has a clear endgame in mind

That's a good one

Yes, but he doesn't like the idea of dead dictators in general. Or of regime change, unless he is the one doing the changing

I didn't think he fears being killed by the US. But he is terrified of regime change projects and of what happens to dictators during/after this process. And probably doesn't like the idea of dictators being killed in general, by anyone and doesn't want folks to get ideas

Most importantly, he is a neighbor, a dictator, and someone who used violence to put down protests and seemed poised to rule until he dies.

And all of this is done by Trump, whom Putin so much wanted to have elected and for whom he had so high hopes.

It must be confusing to be Putin right now.

We also know that he is very concerned with his own mortality. And mind you, Gaddafi was pretty much no one to Putin and Russia.

Khamenei is an ally, they signed a strategic partnership treaty just last year (yet another indication how much strategic partnership with and being Russia's ally worth)

Lybia solidified his antagonism towards the US and sent it through the roof. It made him fear for his own life; before he presumably believed that autocrats are, if not immortal, at the very least unkillable. Libya, it's argued, was the tipping point after which he decided to return for a third term

I would be really interested to know what's going on in Putin’s head right now. Yes, it's a dark and scary place and normally I wouldn't want to go there, but still.

According to Putin and other Kremlin insiders he was absolutely shaken by the US intervention in Lybia and especially Gaddafi's death

Everyone, including Israel itself, would be so much better off had Israel traded a truckload of its short-term tactical brilliance for an ounce of long-term strategic wisdom. Or at least understood that they are not substitutes and that abundance of one cannot compensate for the lack of the other

שמרו על עצמכם, מקווה שהטירוף הזה יסתיים בקרוב

Israeli media is abuzz with news that Khamenei has likely been killed or severely injured. If true, Moscow's chances of becoming the exiled dictators hub have just gotten somewhat lower

Don't they all know that this all violates the international law and therefore they should immediately stop? Oh, if only they knew...

With future historians possibly calling it Operation Epic F for shorts.

Page 1 ad in Haaretz today: Settler pogroms against Palestinians in WBank are war crimes. Prime minister responsible for not stopping them. Orders to army officers to allow these actions are illegally & must be refused.
Among those signing: Former Likud justice ministers Dan Meridor & Meir Shitreet

Do you see a word here about when the war started?

Four years. Four fucking years. And counting. Because we all know that five years is the really important anniversary number, and we can't skip that, right?

Maybe not, but "Year of the Fire Horseshoe" sounds majestic nonetheless

The Year of the Fire Horseshoe strikes again

They don't comtrol the means of production, so...

Opinion | Netanyahu Plays Trump and American Jews for Fools — Again

Friedman is right

Just checked. Yes, we are. Though they misspelled our name because of course they did

Maybe it is a sign that you should write it. After all, it's already being cited

Yeah, but then again, they aren't going to read anything else either

Baltimore is too dangerous for them anyway

Yes. I am equally alarmed that this is what our students will get when they inevitably ask those questions for their papers

I have to check, but I doubt

My school, a top research university, gives us access to an institutional AI bot, HopGPT. As an experiment, I just asked it for the most important *academic* works on WWII. It gave me a list of 8 books. The first was Churchill, followed by David Irving, then Primo Levi. We are so, so screwed

I hope you would forgive me and we could still be friends, all Žižeks notwithstanding.

Endless scream