You're missing the point arkadaşlarım. What Israel dislikes about Türkiye isn't whether it likes Israel, it's Türkiye's existence as a state capable of exerting its own sovereignty.
Trump wants to pick the next Supreme Leader
ie., there will be another supreme leader, ie. the Islamic Republic continues
Pahlavists and anyone else who thinks this is about freedom in shambles
It doesn't help that losing/not cultivating international knowledge and expertise only starts to hurt after a relatively very long timeline. So nobody really feels the loss because it happens slowly over decades.
Absolutely. I feel like the decade+ of propaganda about how area studies is woke and will make you unemployable certainly didn't help either.
The only force projection capability Iran *needs* to maintain is putting a drone or missile into an oil storage facility or tanker once or twice a day. That's what keeps the war's end state in their favor, every hit against Israel or US bases is lagniappe.
Israel planned a political war - to destroy Iranian state cohesion
US planned (lol) a military war - to destroy Iranian military capacity
Iran planned an economic war - to inflict as much economic damage on the world as possible, to force an end to the war
Only Israel and Iran's goals make sense
“Gulf states can no longer believe the United States can or will protect them from existential threats. And even as they are forced to openly cooperate with Israel in its war, they increasingly view it as a threat.” My new piece on the Gulf and the Iran war.
foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/05/i...
I don't doubt this is true, but how much do u think it has to do with cutting funding to language dpts and area studies dpts and not hiring tenured faculty in those areas? I know in my alma mater, a key feeder into the Gov FoPo blob, all of those got cut in favor of the business school
Or why not this banger? Is it because the music is complete dogshit or is it the extremely normal lyrics?
Videogame publisher: my game is a satire of individual acts of unquestioned violence and militarism
Andrew Tate: at long last, I will do the individual acts of violence and militarism from the classic videogame Spec Ops: The Line
An Afghan friend of mine once half-jokingly said that the Taliban eventually won because they were the only ones who actually wanted to stay in Afghanistan.
Weird that they used a classic American rock song rather than Israel's contribution to music, "May Your Village Burn"
There is also a small but growing subset of the most obvious case of "fell for it again award" folks who see the callous disregard for civilian life of the Israelis/Americans in this war and realize that they were wrong to call for American and Israeli military intervention.
I decided to psychically damage myself tonight and look at "Iranian opposition" Twitter, and it remains firmly entrenched in the idea that this attack was a misfired IRGC missile, also it didn't happen at all, and also that you're a Regime apologist for talking about it.
I may be crossing my wires here but it's my understanding that the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the initial shocks that caused to (mostly) grain exports is more or less what caused global inflation to skyrocket. It's probably good that no key exports flow out of the Persian Gulf.
The hits continue! Can one of these liberal media figures please ask literally any basic follow up questions, or is that a skill limited to Isaac Chotiner and Tucker Carlson?
As in June, I think the Iran Opposition Industrial Complex has sold both the US and Israel (and bad or perhaps incomplete intelligence assessments) an idea that nobody in Iran believes in anything anymore. That's true of some, but it's clearly not universal!
It's ok to simply condemn a military action as immoral without even questioning whether or not it's illegal. It can be immoral, condemnable, and unambiguously wrong without being illegal!
I mean after they booted us out the USAID HQ was just kind of left open with doors to SCIFs and other secured rooms propped open. If you could get into the building (relatively low bar of entry with human engineering) you could get access to TS/SCI level systems.
American newspaper advocates to "contain" arguably the most geographically and militarily important NATO member in order to benefit a non-NATO member
The wife of the Iraqi President (both her and the President being Kurdish politicians with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party), releases a statement saying "leave the Kurds alone" citing various historical events, including "we saw what happened . . . in Rojava"
USAID was always cucked to State it was humiliating. Every sync call with them was like talking to toddlers and holding their hands while teaching them to wipe their own asshole, except somehow while pretending they're better and smarter than us
There are/were people in the USG who knew basic facts about locations outside Falls Church but very few of them worked at State.
For those saying "thanks DOGE" or "this is what happens when you fire all the competent people" I need you to understand this is nothing new for the State Department
"can you spell 'Oman' for me"
common State Department L
Your average German or British politician is more obsessed with and cucked by the US than any gharbzadeh Pahlavist it's just harder to tell because their accents are harder to understand
Their fourth key value is being incapable of building a 5th generation fighter jet, let alone 6th, and blaming that on the French (the only European country with any dignity, but the bar is exceedingly low)
Europe's third key value is hating on America even as they do everything humanly possible to be completely dependent economically, politically militarily, and culturally on America
Europe's second most important civilizational value is Americanizing their culture as rapidly as possible (except in those areas in which the US is less Islamophobic, in which case those areas are Intangible Cultural Heritage protected by the government)
People keep saying that surely now Trump has alienated Europe.
But much like the US relationship with Israel, it's not rational.
Europe's primary civilizational value is Islamophobia, far more important to them than their own sovereignty or economic security.
