Rima I Anabtawi

For Netanyahu

War is the worst of human endeavors, but the reason militaries do not fight by pure thuggery, as the United States now does, is that it ultimately puts us more at risk and defiles us as a country. What are we even fighting for if we are nothing but the biggest bully on the block?

In addition to common decency. Leaving sailors to drown is outlawed by the Geneva Convention.

The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
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~ 25% world seaborne oil trade, transits the Strait – 80% destined for Asia.
~ 93% of Qatar’s and 96% of the UAE’s LNG exports transit through the Strait, representing 19% of global LNG trade.

No ships at all going through the Strait of Hormuz

All the polls on the U.S. war in Iran so far According to a simple average of new high-quality surveys, 38% of Americans approve and 49% disapprove of U.S. military action in Iran. When ignoring "don't know" respondents, 56% disapprove

"The takeaway from these numbers is that the new war in Iran is very unpopular...Worst-ever-support-for-war-when-it-started unpopular. With just 38% of Americans in favor, support for bombing Iran is lower than retrospective support for the war in Iraq was in 2014."
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...

Israel’s long penetration war pays off Its killing of Iran's Supreme Leader shows how patient recruitment and mapping created an opportunity for a decisive blow

Israel’s long penetration war pays off

Its killing of Iran's Supreme Leader shows how patient recruitment and mapping created an opportunity for a decisive blow

@michaelhorowitz.bsky.social

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Not just to attack Americans, btw, others, as well. Be sure of it. It’s their playbook.

The production is fantastic! Top notch stuff! I love the song. Kudos!

My university received a few years ago the promise of the largest single gift to a public university in U.S. history. It was equivalent to 12 hours of bombing Iran.

Everything about this is brilliant. She’s so good!!

Windmills!!

The original title of Tolstoy’s book was “War, What is it Good For?”

Edwin “Tolstoy” Starr.

Trump, the, bankruptcy king and genius:

“Everybody that has ​not called for force majeure we expect ⁠will do so in the next ​few days that this continues. All exporters in ​the Gulf region will have to call force majeure," Kaabi told the FT."

Qatar warns war will force Gulf to stop energy exports ‘within days’ Gas producer says it will take ‘weeks to months’ to restore deliveries after Iranian drone strike

Qatar will not restart production until there is a complete cessation of hostilities: “the signal is when our military says there is a complete stop of hostilities and we are not being attacked anymore. We are not going to put our people in harm’s way.”

www.ft.com/content/be12...

Dissin’ - apparently autocorrect has real contempt for this word.

OpenAI to work with Pentagon after Anthropic dropped by Trump over company’s ethics concerns CEO Sam Altman claims military will not use AI product for autonomous killing systems or mass surveillance

Its principal investors include Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia and SoftBank.

Wannabe peace negotiator Jared Kushner is also involved, recently investing $1 billion through his equity firm Thrive Capital.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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OK, as the actual journalist who has been unwittingly caught up in the Claude rumor this morning (who also covers AI disinformation) let me clear this one up for the record.

To recap: Claude kind of implicated itself in the Iran school bombing citing (in part) my reporting...

Delighted to have Emile on. Nobody better to discuss all the implications of this war.

I know it is hard to believe, but people stuck in a conflict can be angry at the various sides at the same time and resist any alignment.

So you can be Lebanese, hate Hezbollah and have zero illusions about Israel.

So much of this, habibti, is our hyper resilience, one if the reasons we’ve admonished others to rethink ascribing it as some super power. Internalized and as a, natural progression, it is a double edged sword. I hope you’ve heard something, I’ll be holding you all in my thoughts.

Adding Qatar’s energy minister to the list of oil and energy market types beginning to really freak out.

www.ft.com/content/be12...

Genuinely fascinating divergence.
Oil and energy market types: really beginning to freak out.
Global macro types: mostly relatively calm and expecting this to all blow over.

Ten years ago, Cambridge Analytica was the dominant narrative. Now it’s which company is going to kill our democracy with maximum efficiency.

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