I also said that Moscow's demonstrative non-interference in Rosatom clients' politics was separate from Russia's efforts to access and influence these states' internal strategic decision making.
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Global Entry should be terminated. At Islamabad airport, personnel request baksheesh to let you jump the queue. At US airports, it's the federal government that asks you to grease their palm for that 'service.' DHS should staff up and put an end to this form of institutionalized corruption.
Ironically but, given the legacy of binary myopia in Washington over Iran, probably predictably, it was Trump's adversaries who, likewise for partisan reasons, beat this drum promptly after the air war. ("Iran has hidden assets... Iran will now race to the bomb... could be weeks or months")
FYI, the incoming and current CDU-led government relieved Kahl of his responsibilities in the national security area and appointed him as German ambassador to the Vatican.
How will Leafs receive Austin Matthews when he returns to Toronto ice? editorinleaf.com/auston-matth...
If Canada wins in Milan this afternoon, Trump will say: 1.) Canada stole the game from the US, and/or 2.) The referees were disloyal and unpatriotic.
Remember when back then campaigners believed that the DPRK would give up its strategic nuclear defense assets in exchange for 2 power reactors and some windmills?
German media on hand at MSC reporting Euros reacted w/polite restraint but dismiss Rubio's shmooz & line. MOD Pistorius reminded Rubio on stage that just days ago Trump claimed US would grab Danish sovereign territory.
Merz' message was inter alia to underscore that walking all this back to, say, the universe of Merkel/Scholz-Obama/Biden is neither feasible nor desirable: "We face committed and hostile adversaries."
As a frame, worth recalling that yesterday at MSC German Chancellor Friedrich Merz quoted the philosopher Peter Sloterdijk: The 5-decade "holiday from world history is over."
Chernobyl is a magic word in the attention economy, but there are no operating reactors with live fuel there, and there are other places in Ukraine which if directly attacked could unleash far more severe accident scenarios.
Good to see, thanks, also on the late and legendary Jacky Blot's fine unsung reds. Q: Why do I seem to be increasingly finding Bourgueil & other CFs that come out of the bottle tasting on margin like rusty blood? Because producers rushing to make bio wines don't know how to do it right?
Backstory to this is here: www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1219... French supplier's contract for Rosatom projects in NATO member state may be worth several USD billion.
No information here on who supplied the turbine generator equipment for A-2. France shipped it to Rosatom in a deal with Erdogan and Trump to brush off U.S. trade sanctions imposed after Putin's invasion of Ukraine?
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Appreciate your data on Pinon's Vouvrays. We popped open a '22 Les Déronnières, you called it right. That said, our bottle was 13.5% alc. The one you tasted was a whole percent less. What gives? Is the output a standard deviation where buyers must be careful e. g. to avoid hot wines--caveat emptor?
@ 17:25: L'objectif d'Ernest Chausson était-il de se "de-wagneriser" la musique du 19e siècle?
re Chinon: Read yr take on Couly-Duteil, also for me in 90s intro to appellation. C-D also had a grand tasting room near Gare du Nord. No more. C-D cld be exhibit A on wine-biz evolution--product differentiation aside, maybe today too many single cuvées, some as you identify having less quality.
Perhaps this incident will prompt Sánchez and his Socialist Party base to take seriously from now on what NATO is facing on its eastern border.
Maybe decant this and re-taste: by dinnertime 24 hrs later, recorked half approached softer trad Anjou reds, w/o losing contour, so it improved. 600 km from Haute-Loire to Fiefs Vendéen, w/every bottle you learn more & more; your notes are helpful, also in this case.
@chriswinedoctor.bsky.social U were generous in rating Ch. Plaisance Grand Lopin '21 at 87/100 but yr points still held in '25: Little sweetness, dense but opaque profile en bouche, thin, flat palette, sour finish. Nose improved since yr '22 tasting Their whites are better than this on average.
The IAEA contributed to what little is known about the impact of the June attacks on Iran's nuclear installations. But the challenges to the IAEA going forward in and with Iran will be mammoth. www.worldpoliticsreview.com/us-iran-nucl...
Here in Germany if extreme polarization prompted justices of the Constitutional Court to make such accusations, the country's leadership & everyone else would engage on how to avoid/prepare for a national state of emergency (Innerer Notstand/Notstandsgesetze)
Louis-Ferdinand Céline à Eugène Dabit, 1933: "La vie ne passe plus par la littérature. C'est une ville ancienne capitale comme Dijon abandonnée aux chats amputés...''
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For the IAEA for 3 weeks management of this issue wasn't trivial. When the 12-day bombing got underway, I heard then, there were personnel in Israel, also in Tehran and in a location between Natanz and Fordo.
As Nicole's good thread I believe implied, there is a reasonable probability that Iran's post-12-day-war timeline is neither 'never' nor is it 'months'
Read Nicole's thread on Iran timelines. What she was maybe too polite or politic to say is that many op-ed estimates are ultimately less driven by analytical assumptions and more by DC-routine binary myopia: Trump loyalists claim all was destroyed. Trump's foes say Iran can get the bomb in months.
Yes, what does noncompliance inspire? NPT includes reporting procedure, but no enforcement mechanism for noncompliance. That's ad-hoc. Absent common int'l resolve odds favor savvy, determined violator: 25 years and 80 board meetings of Iranian rope-a-dope with the IAEA board.
The NYT article is consistent with what I know. The IAEA's information pointing to this conclusion is of a quantitative and measurable nature. It isn't about wishful thinking.
Grossi isn't guessing. The IAEA in fact has some quantitative evidence permitting the conclusion that the centrifuges at Fordo are broken.
"Expert X says Iran could have nuclear weapons in a year." "Expert Y says Iran's nuclear weapons quest was set back between 2 and 5 years." "Expert Z says Iran's nuclear weapons program was virtually destroyed."
