🇮🇷🇮🇱 - Multiple explosions heard near Iran's Natanz Nuclear Facility - Reuters
🇺🇸 - Federal judge orders California National Guard, in effect, returned back to Governor Newsom's control.
🇮🇷🇮🇱 - CNN says all senior officials of Iranian military killed, including nuclear scientists.
🇮🇱🇮🇷 - Better translation (the previous news was brought to my knowledge in French)
Intel suggests all of Iran’s general staff, including the head of the military were eliminated in tonight’s strikes by Israel, per CNN
Intel suggests all of Iran’s general staff, including the head of the military were eliminated in tonight’s strikes by Israel, per CNN
🇮🇷🇮🇱 - Iranian sources claim that the Arak Nuclear Complex has been struck by Israel and is now burning.
🇮🇱🇮🇷 - Iranian TV reports that the Revolutionary Guards headquarters in Tehran was attacked, and smoke is still rising from the building.
🇮🇷🇮🇱 - Iranian media confirming some leadership losses, notably Bagheri and Salami.
🇮🇱🇮🇷 - Iran reports IRGC headquarters in Tehran has been hit by Israel - Reuters
🇮🇱🇮🇷 - The city of Tabriz in northwestern Iran is currently under attack with at least five explosions heard, according to Iranian media. - NYT
🇮🇱🇮🇷 - Uhhhhh I think that now is your time if you're anti-regime and apart of anything in Iran.
🇮🇱🇵🇸 - The Israeli army has decided to seal off the entire West Bank. Millions of Palestinians are now living under a complete military lockdown.
🇮🇱🇮🇷 - Still waiting for any serious Iranian retaliation, notably on the Hormuz thing people speculated on for years.
🇺🇸🇪🇺 - I think that we, the realists, remained for too long in a post-Iraq and post-Afghanistan mindset marked by US foreign policy failures, and we often don't see the many successes the US foreign policy had, and I think we often overestimate the military potentiel of US foreign adversaries.
🇪🇺🇺🇸 - My guess (or at least, what I'm feeling like at the moment) is that the West has reached a level of technological advance in military affairs that will be imposible for the third world and allies club to join within a few years, thus ensuring years of US dominance over global affairs.
🇺🇸🇫🇷🇨🇦 - Those in the West who are still loyal to liberal democracy, notably in Ottawa and Paris, will have to adjust to this new geopolitical reality. Military projection is back.
I think being a realist is
1) Realizing that nuclear deterrence is still a thing, notably for Russia, China and North Korea.
2) BUT, also saying that Western technological advance is increasing by the day so we could see some change on that front.
1) Realizing that nuclear deterrence is still a thing, notably for Russia, China and North Korea.
2) BUT, also saying that Western technological advance is increasing by the day so we could see some change on that front.