Do we even have a proper analytical term to describe what has happened to Hizbullah? Traditionally, when we are talking about decapitation of organizations, the reference is to removal of the very top leadership, not the entire command structure, from the head all the way down to the waist
I have a dream that some day one could say: military HQs under residential buildings are bad and indiscriminately bombing civilians is bad, Nasrallah is a mass murderer and Bibi isn't a good guy either and they wouldn't sound like a hopeless mental case. But I doubt I will live long enough to see it
I am going to frame this. The funny thing is that I haven't taken even a single history class in my entire life. Not in undergrad, not in MA and not during the doctorate. Like, never.
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Exploding pagers might be captivating to watch, but at the end of the day, no amount of technical and tactical brilliance can compensate for and save from strategic nutjobbery
OK, a serious question. Who is this Taylor Swift person and why does Trump hate her?
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A strategic military object de-militarized and de-Nazified by Russia last night in Lviv. My school. Somehow, when you know the place, it hurts differently. Not more, just differently
The Kremlin took a kid from the provinces, taught him Portuguese and English, paid for his fake documents, multi-year upkeep and tuition at Trinity and Johns Hopkins, made him suffer through my classes just so that he could infiltrate the mighty, scary ICC. What a waste of public funds
The Russian president is making a state visit to a country that is heavily dependent on Moscow for oil.
The trade unions are going to announce a general strike in Israel tomorrow (ok, not 100% general, but close). This time it *is* different, many months and deaths too late. Looks like the only thing that is left is a serious--for once--push from the US, though Biden might squander this chance as well