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Why am I so unimpressed by these strikes? Israel and the US have failed to target significant elements of Iran's nuclear materials and production infrastructure. RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER are tactically brilliant, but may turn out to be strategic failures. 🧵 1/17

The political dimensions of the US-Iran war in the US, the region and the world will also play a role in shaping how the conflict plays out.

I'll start with the US, where the political aspects present a far greater risk than the military aspects.

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In my latest piece, I unpack why Ankara is urgently pushing for an end to the Israel-Iran war — and why it’s especially anxious to keep the U.S. out of it.

🚩Among the most immediate risks is the possibility of Turkey becoming a target for Iranian retaliation, particularly because of the NATO 1/5

ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

MIT study found that AI overuse causes measurable brain damage. “Cognitive atrophy.. like a muscle that’s forgotten how to work” MIT Publication - arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Time Magazine - time.com/7295195/ai-c...

The implosion of Iran’s ‘no war, no peace’ strategy Hubris and miscalculation blew apart Tehran’s decades-old deterrence doctrine as Israel’s appetite for risk grew

“Soleimani ended up being the architect of a flawed strategy—first overstretching Iran by investing so much in Iraq and Syria and second by overstating the power of the network. The Iranians invested in virtually everything except in defence—and notably air defence.” @emile-hokayem.bsky.social

This is terrific

For all the millions of word that have been written about how LLMs work, this is the only thing about them that most of us need to know.

Very thoughtful, insightful and to my mind not mutually exclusive response to my earlier thread about Israel and the regional order.

To clarify one point, there's a meaningful difference between exercising a military veto, which I think Israel does, and being a regional hegemon, which I don't.

Short 🧵: Bibi encouraging the overthrow of the Khamenei regime in Iran will remind people (people of a certain age, anyway) of George Bush Sr. calling on Iraqis to rise up against Saddam Hussein after the first Gulf War. That didn’t go well. 1/10

The U.S. Pivot From the Middle East to Asia Is Still Wishful Thinking Israel’s attacks on Iran cement a hard truth for the United States: Pivoting away from the Middle East isn’t as simple as just ignoring it.

My latest in @wpr.bsky.social, gifted for you.

"Over and over, Washington’s efforts to disengage from the Middle East instead keep bringing the U.S. back into the region, with increasingly disastrous effects."

www.worldpoliticsreview.com/us-middle-ea...

Each of the unelected juntas in the Sahel have lost sovereign territory since seizing power.

Here is a look at the militant groups thriving in the region and now threatening the coastal West African countries:
www.washingtonpost.c...

Class photo from the 2024 G7 Summit showing EU Council President Charles Michel, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Candaian PM Justin Trudea, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Pm Giorgia Meloni, US President Joe Biden, Japanese PM Kishida Fumio, British PM, Rishi Sunak and EU Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen.

This photo is the political equivalent of a mass extinction event waiting to happen.

Sober thread on the mood among the Israeli political leadership and public so far.

It seems to lean toward optimism about what this campaign can achieve and what they can expect from the US, without much justification for either.

Seven Lies about Israel’s Attack on Iran I was a US intelligence analyst. Trump and Netanyahu are lying to you.

Seven Lies about Israel’s Attack on Iran
zeteo.com/p/seven-lies...

The Iranians just handed the excuse the Israelis were looking for to escalate further.

Any speculation about de-escalation is downright delusional

- The Prank -

Soooo… and who exactly did they prank? 👀😏😂

Team Angela 23 : 0 Team Chenford

#chenford #therookie #therookieabc #therookielego #lego #aprilfoolsprank #aprilfoolsday #lucychen #timbradford

The only people Tim & Lucy were pranking this episode was themselves 😂

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#therookie

BUSTED 🤣🤣

They even took off their body cameras 🤣🤣🤣

I can’t stop laughing 🤣

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BTS 🎥 | Melissa O’Neil & The Rookie via Instagram Stories [04.01.25]

— Q: Tim and greyyyy

walked in on richardtjones’ theories on #chenford

he’s explaining the lie detector moment and then ends his presentation with his interpretation of chen’s perspective. 🤣

I'VE NEVER SEEN #Chenford RACE OUTTA THE STATION LIKE THAT 😂😂😂

THEY ONLY HAD 55 MINUTES. HAD TO MAKE EVERY SECOND COUNT. 😏

#TheRookie

were we really fed all of that last night?? like it happened? 😏🤭🥰

#Chenford #TheRookie

More datapoints for chaos within the American state and economy turning the US into a paralysed geopolitical actor

Beefpup plushie on we’re soapy concrete getting sprayed in the face with the hose on her setting

Beefpup laying face down on soapy wet concrete being sprayed in his defined cheeks with the hose

YAMEROOO

Still here… #chenford #therookie

TATTOO IT ON ME!!

#Chenford #TheRookie

just very much here for tim always cradling lucy in times of need. It’s his way of showing her that she’s safe. #therookie #chenford

I will tell my kids this was my Titanic

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Me and my friend looking at this scene 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ #chenford #therookie