Watch closely. The Administration may seek to get in bed with the dangerous Iranian cult MEK. The MEK was tied to Saddam Hussein and was on the US terrorist list. Rudy Giuliani, Louis Freeh, Newt Gingrich and others supported and took money from them to get them off the list. Bad bedfellows!
“At a time when the Pentagon warns about competition with China, voluntarily pulling U.S. military officers out of the world’s most important research and policy institutions is not a show of strength. It is a strategic retreat.”
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
White House touts Markwayne Mullin's impeccable qualifications for the cabinet, citing his experience being bad at his previous jobs.
The nation’s dogs celebrate Kristi Noem getting fired.
“Mr. Trump even suggested that white South Africans now have it as bad as Black people did during apartheid…’I just thought that he is so uninformed, truly uninformed…’”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...
“Ukrainian defense is proving to be durable and it’s the Russian offensive that’s struggling. The way to end this war is not to rescue Putin from a failing campaign, but to help Ukraine make it fail faster.”
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“The Russian negotiating position is based on a bluff and a lie. The bluff is that the Russians will overwhelm Ukraine and take what they want anyway. The lie is that they will be satisfied with less than what they continually demand…”
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Just sent out a free piece to expand on my article in @theatlantic.com yesterday. The signs of rot in US military and diplomatic capabilities are real and even more extensive than I could say in that article. Here are more-and a gift link to the original article. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Envoy for the Shield of the Americas.
Excellent NYT video analysis finds that the bombing of scores of schoolchildren in Iran came amid other US strikes in the vicinity:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...
Over 97% of more than 35,000 comments sent to the National Capital Planning Commission are critical of the ballroom project.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
At the same time the Administration is helping Russia in Ukraine.
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“amid an unrelenting bombing campaign, the governance structure has largely stayed intact and continues to exert unilateral control, surprising seasoned Iran watchers in the region.”
Reminder: Israel took over 40,000 air strikes in Gaza without regime change.
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It would be more powerful and accurate if it ended with a strike on a girl’s school.
They think we are idiots.
I’m stumped. It totally depends on the success or failure of political pushback and whether or not there is a crisis event.
Because you thinks you’re negotiating and you instead get attacked
:-)
Don’t get
Actually, I don’t know. It was sent to me by someone else. I doing get FT
Why would anyone agree to speak with Witkoff?
It's always either corruption or incompetence with these guys (or both).
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a pack of kittens closes in a a large dog standing on a chair
David Attenborough [whispering]:
“As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”
Quickly becoming a single issue voters and that single issue is accountability.
