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Roundtable: War on Iran Was Easy to Start. It Won’t Be Easy to End. President Donald Trump decided to join Israel and attack Iran early on Saturday, February 28—a reckless move that positions the United States as a rogue

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So far, a combination of diplomacy and Houthi interest calculations have kept the Yemeni militants out of the Iran war, writes
@peterjsalisbury.bsky.social.

But if they enter the fray, it could have serious implications for global shipping.

Roundtable: War on Iran Was Easy to Start. It Won’t Be Easy to End. President Donald Trump decided to join Israel and attack Iran early on Saturday, February 28—a reckless move that positions the United States as a rogue

Read more from our fellows in our new roundtable on the Iran war. tcf.org/content/comm...

America won’t be able to control when the Iran war ends, writes @tcambanis.bsky.social.
But leaders should use all means to block funding for America’s continuing participation.

Meanwhile, the most vulnerable—in the US and worldwide—will suffer from eroded security and spiking energy prices.

Roundtable: War on Iran Was Easy to Start. It Won’t Be Easy to End. President Donald Trump decided to join Israel and attack Iran early on Saturday, February 28—a reckless move that positions the United States as a rogue

Read more from our fellows in our new roundtable on the Iran war. tcf.org/content/comm...

The "forever war" paradigm doesn't really describe the Iran war, writes
@abujamajem.com.

This U.S.–Israeli attack is something more acute, and immediate—this is a war of aggression, chaotic and wild.

Roundtable: War on Iran Was Easy to Start. It Won’t Be Easy to End. President Donald Trump decided to join Israel and attack Iran early on Saturday, February 28—a reckless move that positions the United States as a rogue

Read more from our fellows in our new roundtable on the Iran war. tcf.org/content/comm...

Israel has shifted from managed containment to comprehensive destruction writes @yaelmiz.bsky.social. Long-term consequences will be devastating.

Hezbollah escalated a war with Israel that had never ended, despite a nominal ceasefire.

Renewed fighting will punish Lebanese civilians, but will probably also further weaken Hezbollah.

@abujamajem.com in new roundtable

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The predictable regional fallout has begun from America's reckless war of choice against Iran.

New roundtable from @tcambanis.bsky.social @peterjsalisbury.bsky.social @sajadjiyad.bsky.social @yaelmiz.bsky.social @abujamajem.com

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Fossil Fuel Dependency Is the Real Cause of Lebanon’s Energy Crisis Lebanon’s energy crisis is nothing new. Intermittent blackouts and crumbling infrastructure have been a problem for decades. But with the total collapse

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Lebanon’s grinding energy crisis has benefited generator owners, smugglers, and large fuel importers. But in a new report based on three years of fieldwork, @charlielawrie.bsky.social identifies a more basic, root cause of the crisis: the country’s structural dependency on fossil fuel.

From Smugglers to Supply Chains: How Yemen’s Houthi Movement Became a Global Threat The Century Foundation The Century Foundation The Century Foundation

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Only int'l cooperation can stop the Houthi arms program. But US disengagement & regional tensions make a coalition unlikely. Now, there’s growing danger the Houthis are exporting their deadly capabilities to war zones in Africa. - @peterjsalisbury.bsky.social @veenaa.bsky.social + Henry Thompson

From Smugglers to Supply Chains: How Yemen’s Houthi Movement Became a Global Threat The Century Foundation The Century Foundation The Century Foundation

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In a decade, Yemen’s Houthis have transformed from low-tech insurgent group to regional power that can fire missiles up to 2,600km.

Our new report shines a light on the inner workings of the Houthis’ startling expansion. By @peterjsalisbury.bsky.social @veenaa.bsky.social + Henry Thompson

From Smugglers to Supply Chains: How Yemen’s Houthi Movement Became a Global Threat The Century Foundation The Century Foundation The Century Foundation

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No one has been able to constrain the Houthis. Why?

Using OSINT research, our report reveals how the Houthis built an astonishing arsenal in secret using a complex web of global supply chains.

By @peterjsalisbury.bsky.social @veenaa.bsky.social and Henry Thompson & w support from @XCEPT_Research

Sanctions Can’t Solve the Israeli Settlement Problem Burned houses and mosques, kidnappings, pogroms, masked thugs attacking unarmed olive harvesters: in the last few years such Israeli settler violence has

To stop settlements, sanctions need to address state and institutional support.

Otherwise, the settlement enterprise will continue to expand and foreclose the possibility of equal rights for Palestinians in a Palestinian state.

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Sanctions Can’t Solve the Israeli Settlement Problem Burned houses and mosques, kidnappings, pogroms, masked thugs attacking unarmed olive harvesters: in the last few years such Israeli settler violence has

Settlements aren’t a sideshow. They’re the centerpiece of Israel’s policy to control Palestinians and make a Palestinian state impossible. (4/5)

Sanctions Can’t Solve the Israeli Settlement Problem Burned houses and mosques, kidnappings, pogroms, masked thugs attacking unarmed olive harvesters: in the last few years such Israeli settler violence has

@yaelmiz.bsky.social argues that current sanctions misdiagnose settler violence as a matter of individual accountability.

Sanctions fail when they treat settlements as an aberration rather than what they are: a project of state policy. (3/5)

Sanctions Can’t Solve the Israeli Settlement Problem Burned houses and mosques, kidnappings, pogroms, masked thugs attacking unarmed olive harvesters: in the last few years such Israeli settler violence has

Many policymakers in Europe and the US have called for sanctions on “extremist settler violence” in response to ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the West Bank.

But sanctions, as currently conceived, haven’t worked, and probably aren’t going to. (2/5)

Sanctions Can’t Solve the Israeli Settlement Problem Burned houses and mosques, kidnappings, pogroms, masked thugs attacking unarmed olive harvesters: in the last few years such Israeli settler violence has

The settlement enterprise is not separate from the Israeli state—it is the Israeli state.

So argues @yaelmiz.bsky.social in a new commentary. (1/5)

Sanctions Can’t Solve the Israeli Settlement Problem The Century Foundation The Century Foundation The Century Foundation

@yaelmiz.bsky.social argues that current sanctions misdiagnose settler violence as a matter of individual accountability.

Sanctions fail when they treat settlements as an aberration rather than what they are: a project of state policy. (3/5)

Sanctions Can’t Solve the Israeli Settlement Problem The Century Foundation The Century Foundation The Century Foundation

Many policymakers in Europe and the US have called for sanctions on “extremist settler violence” in response to ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the West Bank.

But sanctions, as currently conceived, haven’t worked, and probably aren’t going to. (2/5)

Century’s New Democracy Meter Shows America Took an Authoritarian Turn in 2025 At a time when experts are warning of unprecedented democratic backsliding in the United States under the second Trump administration, how should people

Elections remain mostly free, though there are storm clouds on that horizon, as well.

But the study results indicate that voting still offers Americans an escape hatch from an antidemocratic nightmare.

Full report: tcf.org/content/repo... (5/5)

But civil society, higher education, and rights also severely suffered in 2025—especially because of immigration enforcement that violated rights and due process. (4/5)

The core problem is an all-powerful executive branch, made worse by a pliant Congress, a compromised judiciary, and grand corruption. t.co/4ykYgUCz0O (3/5)

TCF’s new US Democracy Meter uses 23 indicators and a 100-point scale to analyze the erosion of American democracy in 2025. The results: American democracy is now at greater risk than at any time since Watergate, & may even be approaching its pre-Civil Rights Movement low. (2/5)

Century’s New Democracy Meter Shows America Took an Authoritarian Turn in 2025 At a time when experts are warning of unprecedented democratic backsliding in the United States under the second Trump administration, how should people

In the first year of Trump 2.0, the United States went from being a passing if imperfect democracy to sliding into authoritarianism: new Century Foundation findings from @nateschenkkan.bsky.social @tcambanis.bsky.social tcf.org/content/repo... (1/5)