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#USpol #GeoPol #WarInGaza

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New perspectives on the conflicts in the #MiddleEast by Firas Modad, "...a Middle East analyst for 20 years."

Via @thehill

"The foreign policy establishment fails to see that the Middle East balance of power has shifted"

"#Arab leaders in #Syria, #Egypt, #Jordan and #Lebanon 👉never wanted #Palestinian radicals to wage insurgency against #Israel👈, not out of hatred of the #Palestinians, but out of fear of the consequences.
The...

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4492433-the-foreign-policy-establishment-fails-to-see-that-the-middle-east-balance-of-power-has-shifted/?utm_source=press.coop

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@thehill

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...balance of power was not in their favor. 👉The Arab states were too weak to
confront when it inevitably attacked them👈, rather than the insurgents, in response to Palestinian attacks. So it was, and remains, 👉smarter to keep the insurgency within the borders of Mandatory Palestine. That requires keeping the Palestinians where they are."👈

"👉The - conflict is first and foremost a war👈,...

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@thehill

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...in which leaders have accepted their weakness in material and military affairs and sought to normalize with a much more powerful, Western-backed .

By contrast, the , , , the and others chose a more religiously-sound approach. They accepted that the could overwhelm them with high-tech “shock and awe” aerial attacks. 👉They chose to focus instead on delivering...

HistoPol, (edited ) to internet
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The most important thread of the week.

Usually, I don't link to the corporatist surveillance sites. Today, I'm going to make an exception due to the gravity of this between and the

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Via award-winning investigative journalist, .

Read only, if you are not suffering from .

"’s campaign manager was a agent...

https://www.threads.net/@seth.abramson/post/C3s7QeCR9Y-

HistoPol, (edited )
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... and were “leading” for on collusion, which was true— was working with the to try to seal the real estate deal Trump wanted even as Trump was hiring a man he knew was a Kremlin agent () to run his [] campaign and do in that role whatever it was the was expecting (which, it turned out, was liaisoning...

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Proof-of-Collusion/Seth-Abramson/9781982116101

Beedge,
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@HistoPol that is an amazingly informative thread. I'm absolute going to read his book

HistoPol, to random
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#Z,

...") to run his campaign and do in that role whatever it was the was expecting (which, it turned out, was liaisoning with intelligence via Russian intelligence officer and Manafort partner Kilimnik). n as was hiring a man he knew was a Kremlin agent (Manafort) to run his campaign and do in that role whatever it was the Kremlin was expecting (which, it turned out, was liaisoning with intelligence...

HistoPol,
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#Z,

intelligence officer and Manafort partner Kilimnik).

after the success of Trump-Russia collusion in 2016 there was no doubt that the collusion would continue and that Putin expected Trump would win in 2020 with his assistance, after which he’d complete his invasion of . //

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